In a battle between Big West Conference heavyweights, the UC Santa Barbara women’s basketball team delivered a first-round blow that Cal Poly never fully recovered from.
Falling behind 9-2 early, Cal Poly trailed throughout, struggling to find a rhythm offensively in a 75-58 defeat Saturday afternoon at Mott Gym.
Mere weeks remain until the NBA All-Star break. Nearly halfway through the season, here is a breakdown of every team in the league, ranked from first to worst.
1) Boston Celtics – Three All-Stars, 10-0 against their division, 11-0 against the Western Conference, 7-3 in their past 10 games, and an overall record of 33-6.
“Lots of energy today!” shouted head coach Justin McGrath as his Cal Poly men’s tennis team took the court for its first dual match of the season.
The young Mustangs took the advice to heart as they rolled over Westmont 7-0 Saturday afternoon at Mustang Courts.
Women’s tennis team loses at top-25 opponents The Cal Poly women’s tennis team had a busy holiday weekend, traveling south to take on two ranked teams, No. 18 Pepperdine and No. 3 UCLA. The Mustangs suffered their first loss of the young season on Sunday, falling 5-2 to Pepperdine.
With the bittersweet taste of almost grabbing the Big West Conference Tournament title still lingering in the mouth, the Cal Poly men’s tennis team is hungry for another chance at the trophy.
The Mustangs made school history last spring as they rounded out the year holding the Big West Conference title after an undefeated regular season.
“We want our rivalry back. Cal Poly won’t do anything, so we did. Cal Poly spirit is slipping down the drain,” read an ominous sheet of paper anonymously posted at the Mustang Daily newsroom Wednesday morning, accompanied by a CD of photographs detailing UC Santa Barbara’s briefly green-and-gold, graffiti-garnished campus earlier this week.
The phrase “best of all-time” should not be used lightly in any situation. But that is the phrase being flung in the general direction of the New England Patriots these days.
Sporting an unblemished record in a 16-game season for the first time in league history, a feat nearly unimaginable, the Patriots have laid the groundwork to be put among the all-time elite teams in professional football.
It is very seldom that an article I’ve read in the Mustang Daily irks me to the point that I feel I need to write a rebuttal.
Most of the time I shrug it off as either na’ve or poor writing not justifying a response.
But not this time.
After reading in Jan.
With both the Cal Poly men’s and women’s basketball home games against rival UC Santa Barbara just days away, the UCSB campus was vandalized Tuesday night by Cal Poly students, the Mustang Daily learned Wednesday.
The vandalism included several graffiti tags, the largest of which being “Cal Poly Rules,” painted in green and gold on a planter outside the Thunderdome, the Gauchos’ basketball arena.
Well, I must start this column by uttering words that I never thought would leave my mouth, let alone be written in this newspaper. I must swallow what’s left of my pride and face the music.
I must apologize to San Diego Chargers fans. I really blew that one – that’s the bottom line.
So the football nation is in the midst of the playoffs. Well, most of it, anyway.
Some people may be stuck in the past, when the other playoffs – the fantasy football playoffs – happened a few weeks ago.
Symptoms of this keyboard-locked affliction continue to be exhibited: gleefully counting winnings or cursing statistical outcomes, bragging about fifth-round gems no one else believed in, compulsively checking the waiver wire, and so on.