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Williams Ties UCSB Win Mark, Gauchos Travel to Washington

4-game road trip is off to a good start, will continue with two games vs. Pac 10 teams.

2011-12 Gaucho Record

5-2 Overall 0-0 Big West4-2 Home 1-0 Away 0-0 Neutral

2011-12 Schedule/Results

Date Opponent Time/ResultNovemberNov. 5 San Francisco State (exhibition) W, 67-51Nov. 11 Chapman W, 74-48Nov. 15 Santa Clara W, 89-56Nov. 18 Westmont College W, 82-61Nov. 22 Portland W, 83-69Nov. 26 San Diego State L, 76-75 (OT)Nov. 30 UNLV L, 94-88 (2OT)DecemberDec. 13 at San Diego W, 65-61

Dec. 16 at Washington 7:00 pmDec. 19 at Cal 7:30 pmDec. 22 at BYU 6:00 pm (PST)

January Jan. 2 at Cal Poly* 7:00 pm Jan. 5 Cal State Fullerton* 7:00 pm Jan. 12 at UC Riverside* 7:00 pm Jan. 14 UC Irvine* 7:00 pm Jan. 19 Cal State Northridge* 7:00 pm Jan. 21 Long Beach State* 8:00 pm Jan. 26 at UC Davis* 7:00 pm Jan. 28 at Pacic* 5:00 pmFebruaryFeb, 2 at Cal State Northridge* 7:05 pmFeb. 4 at Cal State Fullerton* 6:00 pmFeb. 11 UC Riverside* 7:30 pmFeb. 15 at UC Irvine* 7:00 pm

Feb. 18 ESPNU Bracket Busters% TBAFeb. 22 at Long Beach State* 8:00 pmFeb. 25 Cal Poly* 8:00 pmMarchMar. 1 Pacic* 7:00 pmMar. 3 UC Davis* 7:00 pmMar. 8 Big West Tournament TBAMar. 9 Big West Tournament TBAMar. 10 Big West Tournament TBA* Denotes Big West Conference

% - ESPNU Bracket Buster game

Home games are listed in boldish

All home games played at UCSBs Thunderdome

Big West Tournament played at Honda Center - Anaheim, Calif.

The ScheduleGame No. 8Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at University of Washington Huskiesat UWs Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson PavilionRadio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa BarbaraOn-Line Audio: UCSBgauchos.com

Game No. 9Monday, December 19, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal Golden Bearsat Cals Haas PavilionRadio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa BarbaraOn-Line Audio: UCSBgauchos.com

Williams Ties Pimm For All-Time Victory MarkOn Tuesday Dec. 13, UC Santa Barbara held on to win at the University of San Diego,65-61. The victory in the Gauchos rst road game of 2011-12 was also the 222nd ofhead coach Bob Williams tenure in Santa Barbara, tying him with Jerry Pimm for themost in school history. Williams, who now has a 222-172 record, is in his 14th seasonin charge of the program. Pimm achieved his wins over 15 campaigns.

The Gaucho RecordUCSB is now 5-2 after Tuesday nights win at the University of San Diego. The Gau-chos opened the season with a 4-0 record before losing consecutive games to San

Diego State (76-75 in overtime) and UNLV (94-88 in two overtimes). With the winover the Toreros, Santa Barbara has its best record after seven games since opening

the 2007-08 season with a 6-1 mark.

One Down, Four To GoTuesdays game in San Diego was UCSBs rst road game, rst game in Decemberand the rst game of a ve-game road run, four of which will take place on thecurrent road trip. The trip is the longest of the Bob Williams era. The Gauchos willremain on the road for a Dec. 19 game at Cal and a Dec. 22 game at BYU. When

they return on Dec. 23, they will have spent 12 days and 11 nights on the road. Afteropening Big West play on Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, UCSB returns home for a Jan. 5 gameagainst Cal State Fullerton, the rst home game after a 35-day break.

Gauchos Now At 14th In Mid-Major PollUCSB remains ranked 14th in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll. Creighton is

No. 1 in the poll while Murray State is now No. 2.

Gauchos Hold On To Defeat San Diego, 65-61 Jaim Sernas blocked shot of an attempted lay-up by the University of San Di-egos Christopher Anderson with 3.5 seconds remaining capped his career nightand helped UCSB hold on for a 65-61 win over the Toreros on Tuesday night. Sernanished with a career-high 22 points, including 14 in the rst half, and he matcheda career-high with ve blocked shots. The senior scored 14 of his points in the rsthalf, helping the Gauchos overcome a scoreless half by Orlando Johnson en route toa 32-30 lead. UCSB led by as many as eight points but were ahead just 63-61 whenSerna came up with his clutch block. Johnson was fouled intentionally and made twofree throws with 0.6 seconds left for the nal score. He ended with 12 points. JamesNunnally also had 14 points for the Gauchos who posted a win in their rst roadgame of the 2011-12 season.

UC SANTA BARBARA2011-12Basketball

Weekly Release #9December 16, 2011

On The RadioAll UC Santa Barbara basketball games are broadcast live

in Santa Barbara on AM 1290 KZSB and will stream liveonline at UCSBgauchos.com and NewsPress.com. Gerry

Fall is in his seventh year as the play-by-play voice of the

Gauchos. Former Los Angeles Lakers and UCSB star Don

Ford and Santa Barbara News-Press legend Mark Patton

handle the color commentary.

Talkn GauchosUCSB Athletics weekly radio show, Talkn Gauchos, airs ev-

ery Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. on AM 1290 KZSB. The show is

broadcast live from The Beachside Caf, located on Goleta

Beach and it features UCSB coaches and athletes. Hosted

by Gerry Fall, the voice of the Gauchos, and Matt Hurst.

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Probable Starters - Quick FactF 0 Jaim Serna - Had career-high 22 points and tied his career-high with 5 blocks at USD.G 1 Nate Garth - Equaled his season-high with seven points at USD.F 21 James Nunnally- Scored in double-gures in all seven games this season.F 24 Christian Peterson -Walk-on has just 12 eld goal attempts in 127 minutes.

G 33 Orlando Johnson-Was scoreless in the rst half at USD, a rst in his UCSB career. Probable Reserves - Quick FactF 5 Keegan Hornbuckle- Played nine minutes in last two games after missing rst ve.G 10 Kyle Boswell- Leads UCSB in 3-point percentage at 46.2%.G 11 T.J. Taylor - Scored a career-high 10 points before fouling out on 11/30 vs. UNLV.F 12 Lewis Thomas - Played season-low two minutes at San Diego.F 15 Alan Williams - Logged two minutes at USD after not playing in UNLV game.F 20 Shawn Moore - Walk-on from Butte College has yet to play.F 32 John Green - Injury to left foot could sideline him for most, if not all, season.F 35 Taran Brown - Is expected to redshir t the 2011-12 season.G 43 Duke DaRe - Walk-on from De La Salle HS has yet to play in a game this season.C 55 Greg Somogyi- His put-back at the buzzer to end regulation sent UNLV game to OT.

Finally, The Gauchos Get The BananaUCSBs win at the University of San Diego on Tuesday night came by the score of 65-61. Thegame was actually closer than that...sort of. Orlando Johnson was fouled intentionally with 0.6seconds left and made both free throws for the nal margin. The win was the Gauchos rst

close-call victory of the year and it came on the heels of consecutive heart-breaking losses whenthey were close, but didnt seize the banana. On Nov. 26, UCSB lost a 76-75 overtime gameto visiting San Diego State. On Nov. 30, UCSB lost to then-No. 18 UNLV in two overtimes94-88. The game against the Runnin Rebels was just the third multi-overtime game that a Bob

Williams-coached Santa Barbara team has played and the rst since an 89-80 win at Pepperdineon Nov. 21, 2006. On Dec. 6, 2000, UCSB defeated San Diego State in three overtimes, 80-67That game was the longest in school histor y. Others have seemed longer, but that one trulywas.

First Blowouts, Then Close CallsUCSB won its rst four games (Chapman, Santa Clara, Westmont and Portland) by a combined94 points, 23.5 per game. The last three games have been a different story. The largest marginof the three a 94-88 loss to UNLV came in double overtime. Overall, in the last three, thecombined margins of victory (two wins by the opponents and one by the Gauchos) was 11points, an average of 3.7 per game.

Playing The Percentages

UCSB had a better eld goal percentage in each of its rst four games this season. In games veand six, however, the Gauchos made just a total of 54 out of 135 shots from the oor, 40.0%and were outshot by San Diego State and UNLV. On Tuesday, they turned that stat back into aplus by making 24-of-48 shots, 50.0%, while the University of San Diego hit just 21-of-57, 36.8%.It was the fth time in seven games that UCSB has made at least 47.3% of its shots and, perhapsmore importantly, it was the fth time in seven contests that an opponent has been below the40.0% mark. In the other two games, Gaucho opponents made 40.5% and 45.8%.

Let Freedom RingThe Gauchos are making a season-high 71.3% of their free throws this season. In Tuesdays atSan Diego, they made 12-of-14 shots from the line for a season-best 85.7%. After making 76out of 111 free throw attempts in the rst four games, UCSB has taken it up a notch in the last

three games as it has made 51 out of 67 attempts, 76.1%. In 2010-11, free throw shooting wasone of the teams real strengths as it made 459-of-610, 75.2%, a single-season gure that ranks

tied for fth in school history.

The OpponentsUCSB and Washington have played just twice and theHuskies won both games. The teams met on Dec. 17,1981 in Santa Barbara and the score was 71-62 and

then again in Seattle on Dec. 21, 1982 and the nalwas 76-55. The Gauchos and Cal have played sevengames since 1948 with the Golden Bears winningall seven. The last time the teams met was in thechampionship game of the Golden Bear Classic onDec. 29, 2009 and Cal won that one, 87-66.

The Gauchos On The RoadThe Gauchos opened their road schedule on Dec.13 with a 65-61 win at the University of San Diegoand are now, prepare yourself, 1-0 on the road thisseason. In 2010-11, they were 5-8 in true road gamesand 9-10 in all games away from the Thunderdome.UCSB lost its last three true road games last season,dropping decisions at Long Beach State, Cal StateNorthridge and UC Irvine.

BlockheadsThrough seven games, UCSB has 45 blocked shots,

an average of 6.4 per. Senior Greg Somogyi , who isverging on the No. 2 spot on the schools all-timecareer list, leads the way with 17, 2.4 per game. Infact, Somogyi has 17 in just 86 minutes this season.After four games, the Gauchos had 17 blocked shots,4.2 per game, but in the last three games they have

turned away 28 opponent attempts, 9.3 per game.They recorded a season-high 11 blocked shots in

two of the last three games, Nov. 26 vs. San DiegoState and Dec. 13 at the University of San Diego.The 11 blocks rank as the sixth most in UCSB histo-ry. In the game at USD, Jaim Serna tied his career-high with ve blocks. In 2010-11, The Gauchos seta school record with 133 swats, an average of 4.1per game. Currently, they are on pace to surpass

that mark.

A Historical Margin For WilliamsUCSBs 89-56 win over Santa Clara on Dec. 15 set astandard for a Bob Williams-coached Gaucho team.The 33-point margin of victory was the widest since

Williams arrived in Santa Barbara for the 1998-99season. Prior to the 33-point win over the Broncos,

the largest margin in the last 13 seasons -plus was32 in an 88-56 win at Montana State on Nov. 13,2006. The last time any UCSB team had a margin aslarge as 33 was on Dec. 6, 1997 in a 92-50 win overSan Francisco State, a Division II program. Againsta Division I opponent it goes back to Feb. 11, 1993when the Gauchos beat Nevada, 93-60. That sameseason, on Dec. 19, 1992, they blasted St. Marys on

the road, 79-37.

2011-12 UC Santa Barbara Roster

No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown/Previous School 0 Jaim Serna F 6-9 235 Sr. Laguna Beach, Calif./Santa Margarita HS

1 Nate Garth G 6-2 180 Jr. Sacramento, Calif./Univ. of New Mexico5 Keegan Hornbuckle F 6-7 205 So. Westlake Village, Calif./Univ. of Colorado10 Kyle Boswell G 6-2 180 So. Huntington Beach, Calif./Edison HS11 T.J. Taylor G 5-9 160 Fr. Oakland, Calif./Oakland HS12 Lewis Thomas G/F 6-7 210 Fr. Perth, Australia/Australian Institute of Sport15 Alan Williams F 6-7 240 Fr. Phoenix, Ariz./North HS20 Shawn Moore F 6-5 210 Jr. Chico, Calif./Butte College21 James Nunnally G/F 6-6 205 Sr. Stockton, Calif./Weston Ranch HS

24 Christ ian Peterson G 6-3 219 Sr. Carlsbad, Calif./Carlsbad HS30 Tyler Steinhause G 6-1 160 So. San Diego, Calif./Scr ipps Ranch HS32 John Green G 6-5 180 Fr. Oakland, Calif./Westwind (Ariz.) Prep33 Orlando Johnson G/F 6-5 205 Sr. Seaside, Calif./Loyola Marymount34 Prince Arceneux F 6-6 190 Fr. Los Angeles, Calif./Dorsey HS35 Taran Brown F 6-8 190 Fr. Gillette , Wyo./Campbell County HS55 Greg Somogyi C 7-3 242 Sr. Budapest, Hungary/Woodside (Calif.) Priory

Head Coach:Bob Williams, 14th Season Assistant Coach:Kevin Bromley, 2nd SeasonAssistant Coach: Matt Stock, 8th Season Assistant Coach:Ryan Madry, 1st Season