There was a peculiar saying that stood out for Vinnie McGhee during Thursday night’s Big West quarterfinals. “We had a real good talk with coach and basically we didn’t want to come out like grasshoppers because grasshoppers don’t eat grapes,” said McGhee drawing laughs from reporters at the Honda Center. CSUN coach Bobby Braswell interrupted, “don’t ask what it means because he won’t tell you.” Whatever the saying meant it worked as the No. 3 seed Matadors cruised by No…. Read more

No. 3 Cal State Northridge holds a 43-28 halftime advantage over No. 6 Cal State Fullerton in the quarterfinals of the Big West Tournament at the Honda Center. The Matadors jumped out to a 14-2 lead and when up by as much as 18 points. Matador Lenny Daniel led all scorers with 13 points and Vinnie McGhee chipped in 11 points. Jer’Vaughn Johnson scored seven points for the Titans. CSUN went 13 of 27 from the field (48.1 percent). The… Read more

One year ago today, the Matadors walked off the Anaheim Convention Center court with their heads down as they were eliminated from the first round of the Big West Tournament by Cal State Fullerton to cap off CSUN’s worst season since the 1995-96 campaign. Much like its season, it was a mess from the get-go for Northridge. The Matadors were without their best big man, were humiliated by a crowd-pleasing dunk that became a YouTube sensation, and fell to the Titans… Read more

The Matadors will have another tough schedule this weekend as they head down to San Diego for the Aztec Invitational. The CSUN water polo team will face No. 4 Hawaii yet again, San Jose State, UC San Diego and San Diego State in the two-day tournament. Last time, Northridge faced Hawaii it stayed close by trailing only by one at the end of the first period and were behind by three goals by halftime. At the start of the third… Read more

The first three-game winning streak of the season looks great, especially after looming around .500 for the first nine games of the year. Back-to-back road wins over the weekend and a victory over the San Diego State Aztecs, 12-9, at Matador Field suddenly have the Matadors as winners of five of their last seven games. The Cal State Northridge baseball team’s (8-5, 0-0 Big West) biggest problem from the start has been plate discipline, which has amounted to high strikeout… Read more

The Cal State Northridge men’s volleyball team will take on Loyola University Chicago tonight in its first non-conference matchup since Feb. 5 when the Matadors traveled East to face Penn State and Ohio State. The game will begin a season-long four-game homestand. Northridge has not been good at the Matadome this year, as the team has posted a 1-6 record. This season, the Matadors have struggled with consistency in their hitting percentage. The matchup against Loyola gives the Matadors an… Read more

Imagine this scenario. Your team is considered one of the top teams in the league and in your most recent game at home, the team leads for the majority of the game, outscoring your opponent by as much as 12 points. Then late in the game, the opponent manages to rally and take the lead. Remarkably, the game comes down to the final seconds with your team down one point. So what do you do as a head coach? You… Read more

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Coming off a tough invitational last weekend where they went 1-3, the Matadors came out more focused and went 4-0 in the Cal Lutheran Invitational. Saturday Matchup In the first game, the Cal State Northridge water polo team faced the Concordia Eagles and came out with the victory, 12-6. The game started off slow for both teams as the Matadors and Eagles could not score. “I think we came out a little sluggish. One, it can… Read more

Lenny Daniel was one of six players selected by the nine Big West men’s basketball coaches for the conference first team on Monday afternoon. Daniel, who averaged 16.3 points and 9.4 rebounds, became the fifth Matador to receive All-Big West First Team honors. Daniel led the Matadors in scoring and collected 16 double-doubles.