BIG WEST CHAMPIONSHIP: FULLOVE HELPS UCSB CLAIM NCAA BERTH.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer ANAHEIM Anaheim (ăn`əhīm), city (1990 pop. 266,406), Orange co., S Calif., SE of Los Angeles; inc. 1870. Anaheim was founded by Germans in 1857 as an experiment in communal living. - Unheralded UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. is headed for the NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
Branduinn Fullove, a Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. High graduate, sank a pair of free throws with five seconds left as Santa Barbara defeated top-seeded Utah State 60-56 on Saturday in the Big West tournament final at the Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. . The third-seeded Gauchos (20-10) won their first tournament title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament just hours after the women's team did the same thing. UC Santa Barbara hadn't qualified for the NCAA Tournament since the 1989-90 season. Santa Barbara upended No. 2-seeded UC Irvine 66-61 on Friday and then held off the Aggies, who won the tournament the past two seasons, in front of 3,020. ``It's been a long time,'' Fullove said. ``That was one of the things when I was recruited that I wanted to do - get this basketball program back to the NCAA Tournament. No one expected us to beat Utah State.'' Fullove had a team-high 12 points and center Adama Ndiaye and Nick Jones - the tournament's most valuable player - added 10. With six seconds left, Utah State's Tony Brown made a 3-pointer from the left wing to pull Utah State within two points at 58-56. But Brown fouled Fullove one second later and Fullove made both shots. Utah State swept Santa Barbara in two close games in the regular season. But Santa Barbara was hot to start and built an 11-point lead at 33-22 on an Ndiaye putback with 4:52 left in the first half. Then Utah State made its move. The Aggies went on a 12-0 run to take a 46-43 lead with about 11 minutes left. Desmond Penigar and reserve Mike Ahmad had 12 points for the Aggies,who are expected to earn an NIT A measurement of luminance. One nit is equal to one candela per square meter (1cd/m2). Ten thousand nits are equal to one stilb. See candela. bid. Santa Barbara is making its third trip to the NCAA Tournament. |
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