Box Score SANTA BARBARA, Calif.– The UC Santa Barbara Men's Basketball (6-4) won its third straight home game Sunday night defeating Florida A&M (2-9) 73-62. Outside of a medley of highlight plays, the headline of the night was senior center Amadou Sow becoming just the fourth Gaucho to ever reach 1300 points and 700 rebounds in a career.
ON THE STAT SHEET
- A nine-point, 10-rebound performance from Sow now has 1,351 points and 706 rebounds in his career and joins Alan Williams, Doug Rex, and Chris Devine in the 1300 point-700 rebound club
- Four Gauchos notched double figures with Ajay Mitchell leading with 13 points and Miles Norris, Ajare Sanni, and Sekou Touré all scoring 10
- Touré's scoring line is his best performance since the 2019-20 season going 4-for-5 from the field, and his seven boards are a season-high
- Calvin Wishart added seven points and led all players with eight assists and Robinson Idehen had eight points sending down a pair of highlight alley-oops shown below
- UCSB outrebounded FAMU 41-30 and remain undefeated when winning the rebound battle
HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half (41-23 UCSB)
- The Gauchos outshot the Rattlers 60.0% to 42.3% in the opening period making 18 total field goals and holding the lead for over 15 minutes
- UCSB was hot out of the gate jumping out to a 9-2 lead but FAMU was quick to mount a run of its own and even take a 15-13 lead with 11 minutes to go
- That would be the final time that the Rattlers led in the Sunday evening battle as the Gauchos won the final 10 minutes of the half by a wide margin
- UCSB rattled off a 28-6 run and stretched the lead out to as many as 20 to go into the locker room up 18 at 41-23
Second Half (39-32 FAMU)
- The visiting Rattlers won the second period but it was not enough to overcome the first half deficit that the host Gauchos put in play
- FAMU cut the lead to single digits with under a minute to go but the Gauchos managed to make a bulk of their crucial free throws including their last nine-straight
- Sanni made four in a single trip thanks to a Rattler technical foul and he also led the half in scoring for the Gauchos with eight
UP NEXT
UCSB now closes out the non-conference season at home Wednesday afternoon when the Gauchos host Idaho State (2-8) at 1 PM. Big West Conference play begins on the road on December 30 at UC San Diego.
