“It’s the Green-Blue rivalry now that we’ve won,” Cal Poly Men’s Basketball Head Coach Mike DeGeorge said after his first win against Big West rival UC Santa Barbara. The Mustangs (10-16, 7-8 Big West) stormed past the Gauchos (17-8, 10-5 Big West) to claim an 89-79 victory and first win against their rival in just […]
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Cal Poly Men’s Basketball drop Blue-Green rivalry game Thursday night
Cal Poly Men’s Basketball is still searching for its first career Blue-Green rivalry victory under head coach Mike DeGeorge as the Mustangs fell Thursday to UC Santa Barbara. Cal Poly’s closest brush with the lead came early when the game was tied 2-2, but once UC Santa Barbara started scoring, Cal Poly never regained their […]
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Cap Poly Men’s Basketball drops crucial matchup to UC Santa Barbara
At the end of a practice before Cal Poly took on UC Santa Barbara Thursday, Head Coach Mike DeGeorge had his team in a huddle. He told them to be grateful that they’re playing meaningful games in March, a position the program hasn’t been in for years. “We’re trying to get something, not protect something,” […]
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Preview: Cal Poly Men’s Basketball hosts Blue-Green Rivals UC Santa Barbara
Still looking for their first regular season Big West Conference win since Dec. 29, 2022, Cal Poly Men’s Basketball plays host to rivals UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, Jan. 11 at Mott Athletics Center. The Gauchos (10-5, 2-2 Big West) have won their last three games, including two conference games against Hawai’i and CSU Bakersfield. […]
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Men’s Basketball falls to UC Santa Barbara 63-45 in Big West Conference opener
Cal Poly Men’s Basketball dropped its Big West Conference opener 63-45 against Blue-Green rival UC Santa Barbara Wednesday, Jan. 8 inside Mott Athletic Center. Freshman guard Colby Rogers matched his season-high performance of 16 points while graduate wing Malek Harwell added 11 points in the defeat. Video by Matthew Bornhorst UC Santa Barbara outshot Cal […]
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LIVE Mustang GameDay: Cal Poly vs UC Santa Barbara
Mustang Gameday anchors Sydney Brandt and Sydney Finkel have all the pregame coverage for the final home game of the men’s basketball season.
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LIVE: Cal Poly men’s basketball bounced in first round of Big West Tournament by UC Santa Barbara
The men’s basketball team looks to take down UC Santa Barbara in the first round of the Big West Tournament.
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Men's basketball wins in Santa Barbara for the first time since 2007
Led by junior walk-on Anthony Silvestri’s 17 points off the bench, the Mustangs defeated the Gauchos 72-64. Silvestri scored his points in just 15 minutes of playing time, hitting on 5 of 7 attempts from long range.
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Men's basketball looks to snap skid against Hawaii
The road hasn’t been kind to the Cal Poly men’s basketball team as of late. The Mustangs are coming off a four-game losing streak in their latest road swing, which featured two separate trips to the East Coast and a game with a Stanford team that knocked off then-No. 10 UCONN earlier in the season.
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Mustangs buck Gauchos out of Mott 67-49
Stephan Teodosescu steodosescu@mustangdaily.net By Friday, redshirt freshman forward Joel Awich knew he had been granted his first career start for the Cal Poly men’s basketball team. As if that wasn’t enough pressure, it would come in Saturday’s matchup against the Mustangs’ rival, UC Santa Barbara. Because of a lower leg injury suffered in a Feb. […]
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Men's basketball can't overcome slow start
The road woes continued for Cal Poly men’s basketball on Saturday night as the Mustangs ceded a 16-point lead to rival UC Santa Barbara in the first half and eventually fell 68-60. Head coach Joe Callero flatly took the blame for Cal Poly’s (15-14, 6-8) slow start. He said the Gauchos took apart their zone […]