It’s Matadors vs. UC Santa Barbara, people

By Alonso Tacanga
March 13th, 2009
Section: The Matador Score

The Gauchos beat Cal State Fullerton, 73-64, on Thursday in the second round of the Big West Tournament and advanced to the semifinals. Their rival will be your Matadors, the conference’s regular-season champions. Game starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center and can followed here.

Quick Notes:
- UCSB has won four straight games and eight of its last nine.
- The one game the Gauchos lost in that nine-game span was against the Matadors, 62-57, on Feb. 25.
- CSUN swept the season series from UCSB, winning both at the Thunderdome and at the Matadome.
- The Matadors were thankful with UCSB on the last day of the season. The Gauchos’ game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer against Long Beach State on Saturday clinched the top seed in the tournament for CSUN. The 49ers are No. 2 and face No. 3 Pacific tonight.
- The game will be televised on ESPNU.
- The Gauchos were the top seed in the tournament last season but were knocked off by then-No. 5 UC Irvine.
- The Matadors haven’t won a tournament game in four years.

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  • Jake

    Good luck guys…you can do it.
    Forget about what you have heard and read(Daily Sundial and Daily News…just two more wins) – just focus on tonight’s game first.

    Go Matadors!

    (oh yeah…game starts in 40 minutes…thanks Matamaniacs for cheering the team on to victory, I’m sure you wanted a big turnout and see a sea of red at Anaheim, but had Associated Students, CSUN Athletic Department and Daily Sundial really promoted this tournament there’d be hundreds of CSUN fans – not just students but the community also…shoulda put the word out on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter)