UC Santa Barbara vs. UC Irvine

The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.

All-Time Record vs. the Anteaters: 67-33

Last Meeting: Jan. 16, 2020: UCSB 65, at UC Irvine 61

 

UC Santa Barbara vs. Hawai'i

The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.

All-Time Record vs. the Rainbow Wahine: 16-29

Last Meeting: Feb. 13, 2019: at Hawai'i 72, UCSB 49

 

The Gauchos' games against UC Irvine and Hawai'i will be livestreamed on BigWest.TV, produced by Fall Productions. Gerry Fall will handle play-by-play duties, while former UCSB men's basketball assistant Louis Reynaud provides analysis. Both streams are linked above and are also accessible on the women's basketball schedule page.

 

A ceremony recognizing head coach Bonnie Henrickson's 400th career win will take place after the UC Irvine game, while the Hawai'i game will feature a halftime ceremony recognizing UCSB's 2004 squad that made it to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

 

G20: UC Davis 66, UCSB 63 - UC Davis defeated UCSB for the sixth-straight time in a game that had it all - 10 lead changes, 10 ties, a Danae Miller buzzer-beating three-pointer, and seven combined players in double-digits. Davis erased a five-point Gaucho lead by closing the third quarter on a 9-0 run, but UCSB battled back in the fourth. Ultimately, a MacKenzie Trpcic triple gave Davis the lead late and the hosts were able to keep the lead.

 

UC Irvine snapped its three-game losing streak with a 77-53 win at UC Riverside in its last outing. The loss of Jordan Sanders and the accumulation of injuries to other key players has the Anteaters holding a 6-15 record and 2-5 mark in league play. In their last game against the Gauchos, Sophia Locandro lead the 'Eaters with 20 points and eight rebounds. Haleigh Talbert dropped 16 points, and point guard Lauren Saiki had 10 assists.

 

The Rainbow Wahine have been on a roll lately, winning their last three in a row and five of their last six heading into this gameweek. Most recently, Hawai'i defeated Long Beach State at home, 68-44. Julissa Tago has received two of the last three Big West Player of the Week awards and leads the team with 14 points per game. Amy Atwell brings down 5.4 rebounds per game, giving her the team lead in that category.

 

A pair of Gauchos rank in the top 30 in the NCAA across several statistical categories. Coco Miller has the seventh-best assist-to-turnover ratio in the country with a 3.08 mark. Ila Lane has the second-most total rebounds in the country (251), second-highest rebounds per game average (12.6), third highest defensive rebounds per game mark (9), thirteenth-most double-doubles (10), and the 27th-best field goal percentage (57.3%).

 

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.

 

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.

 

Coco Miller is one assist away from 300 in her career and four triples away from 200. Tal Sahar scored her 500th point as a Gaucho in UCSB's loss to UC Riverside on Jan. 18 and Ila Lane achieved her 200th rebound of the season in the win at UC Irvine on Jan. 16.

 

UCSB has the second-most rebounds in the Big West with 715, averaging 40.6. On average, UCSB outrebounds opponents by a +4.85 margin. The Gauchos have the second-best defense in the league, allowing just 62.15 points per game. On the offensive side, Santa Barbara dishes out the third-most assists, averaging 14.3 for a total of 286. That also helps out the assist/turnover ratio, which stands at 0.98 through 20 games.