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On the way to helping the Chico State women's basketball team to the NCAA Division II West Regional, junior point guard Jade Smith-Williams established herself as a California Collegiate Athletic Association ...

Molly Goodenbour came to UC Irvine to embrace a challenge and the Anteaters' newly hired women's basketball coach said Wednesday her players should expect to be challenged by her and her future staff.

The on-again, off-again courtship of recent Corona del Mar High graduate Joe Eberhard by the UC Irvine men's basketball program accelerated greatly Tuesday, when Anteaters coaches offered him a scholarship that ...

UC Irvine went to a notorious college party school to find its next women's basketball coach.

Chico State head women's coach Molly Goodenbour has been named head women's basketball coach at UC Irvine, announced by athletic director Mike Izzi on Monday.

Bob Olson, the associate athletics director at UC Irvine, told the Enterprise-Record this evening that Molly Goodenbour, head coach of the Chico State women's basketball team for the past two seasons, has ...

UCI head coach Pat Douglass is the program's career leader in wins. July 23, 2008 The UC Irvine men's basketball program and Panera Bread are teaming together for the first annual "UC Irvine Men's Basketball ...

UCI head coach Pat Douglass is the program's career leader in wins. July 23, 2008 The UC Irvine men's basketball program and Panera Bread are teaming together for the first annual "UC Irvine Men's Basketball ...

Darren Fells , who led UC Irvine in rebounding the past three seasons, has signed a professional contract to play in Belgium.

Patrick Sanders , who led UC Irvine in scoring as a senior this past season, is on the Sacramento Kings roster for the NBA Summer League that starts this weekend in Las Vegas.

LSU's SEC record 23-game winning streak is over and a loss today will end the Tigers season.

UC Irvine men's head basketball coach Pat Douglass announced that three student-athletes signed national letters of intent with the Anteaters during the spring period.

Molly Tuter resigned Wednesday as women's basketball coach at UC Irvine, Athletic Director Mike Izzi said.

“But I just felt comfortable there. I met the players and the coaching staff and they were great.”

Adam Folker took a cross-continent trip to Irvine, Calif. Although his visit to the city just south of Los Angeles lasted just a weekend, the 19-year-old Markham resident enjoyed his time. via Vaughan Citizen

“You're not accustomed to missing layups, and I think part of it was the jitters, and we got sped up”

Photo courtesy of Alex Pavlovic Head Coach Bob Williams, senior guard Alex Harris and junior guard D.J. Posley face the media in the press conference following UCSB's 55-50 loss to UC Irvine in the Big West ... via The Daily Nexus

UNMASCOT-LIKE CONDUCT The Big West may take a back seat to the Pacific 10 Conference in basketball , but its mascots may be a match for anyone. via The Morning Call

“That's been plaguing us all year.”

The junior point guard turned his eyes upward with focus, solemnity and a look of assuredness that Pacific coach Bob Thomason would like to see a lot over the next three days. via Stockton Record

“For a good portion of the year, we were one of the top free-throw-shooting teams in the country.”

UC Irvine upset UCSB in the Big West basketball tournament for the second straight year, frustrating the Gauchos by a 55-50 score in the men's semifinals Friday night. via Santa Barbara Independent

Josh Akognon had 23 points and Cal State Fullerton beat UC Irvine 81-66 Saturday night to win the Big West Conference championship and advance to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1978. via Los Angeles Times

Big West first team selection was held to just four points, but had ten rebounds and made two free throws with three seconds left for fifth-seeded Irvine. via Fox Sports