Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara vs. CSUN

The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.

All-Time Record vs. the Matadors: 46-20

Last Meeting: Feb. 15, 2020: UCSB 65, at CSUN 55

 

Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara vs UC Riverside

The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.

All-Time Record vs. the Highlanders: 27-24

Last Meeting: Feb. 13, 2019: at UC Riverside 66, UCSB 61

 

Both games this weekend at the Thunderdome will be livestreamed on BigWest.TV, produced by Fall Productions. Gerry Fall will have the play-by-play alongside analyst and former men's basketball assistant coach Louis Reynaud. Links to the streams are available above or on the women's basketball schedule page.

 

G23: Long Beach State 59, UCSB 53 - 23 turnovers hampered the Gauchos in their bid to defeat Long Beach State at Walter Pyramid, yet the Gauchos forced 17 of their own and held the lead for over 27 minutes before the Beach came back in the fourth quarter. Ila Lane had 18 points and 12 rebounds, finishing as the team's top scorer and rebounder. Coco Miller had 11 points and three assists, whereas Mira Shulman finished with a team-high four helpers.

 

G24: UCSB 65, CSUN 55 - The Gauchos rebounded nicely with a big road win at the Matadome, a game in which they were in control throughout thanks in large part to a 10-2 run at the end of the first half. CSUN creeped back into the game in the third quarter, but a flurry of Tal Sahar threes in the fourth iced the game for UCSB. Sahar had 18 points and seven rebounds, whereas Lane had yet another double-double with a monstruous 16-point, 17-rebound performance. Danae Miller scored 14 in a team-high 39 minutes.

 

The Matadors have now lost five in a row and six of its last seven, following the home loss to UCSB on Saturday. De'Jionae Calloway leads the team in scoring with 13.9 points per game, and she also has the highest rebounds per game average of 8.2 per contest. In the matchup between the two, Jordyn Jackson led the team with 16 points, the only Matador to score double-digit points.

 

Led by first-year head coach Seyram Bell, UC Riverside has lost five of its last seven games in conference play, and currently occupy the seventh spot in the league standings. The Highlanders' Jannon Otto leads the team with 16.6 points per game, and Marina Ewodo records 8.1 boards per matchup. Last time the Gauchos and Highlanders played each other, UC Riverside started on an 8-0 run, which ballooned to a heavy 36-24 halftime lead. UCSB closed the gap and got within one possession in the fourth quarter, but the Highlanders hit shots down the stretch to win.

 

A pair of Gauchos rank in the top 30 in the NCAA across several statistical categories. Coco Miller has the fourth-best assist-to-turnover ratio in the country with a 3.10 mark. Ila Lane has the most total rebounds in the country (315), second-highest rebounds per game average (13.1), third highest defensive rebounds per game mark (9.3), eighth-most double-doubles (15), and the 19th-best field goal percentage (57.6%).

 

In the game against Pacific on December 5, Coco Miller's triple with 7:39 left in regulation made her the 27th member of the 1,000-point club in program history in her 102nd career game. She became the first to surpass the mark since both Nicole Nesbit and Melissa Zornig completed the feat in 2014. In the Gauchos' game against UC Irvine on Feb. 5, she also cleared 300 career assists with seven in the matchup against the Anteaters.

 

With UCSB's 75-66 win at Fullerton on Jan. 25, head coach Bonnie Henrickson earned her 400th career win. Now in her 23rd season, Henrickson has enjoyed a successful career across three different schools and four different conferences.

 

Ila Lane was named the Big West Player of the Week for the second time in her career on Feb. 10, following a week in which she averaged 22.5 points and 17.5 rebounds per contest.