Fans of high-level college basketball get what they wished for in the Big West Championship tonight: a matchup between the two titans in the championship game, the UC Irvine Anteaters (28-5 ...

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) Bent Leuchten had 21 points in UC Irvine's 96-78 victory against Cal Poly on Friday in the Big West Conference Tournament semifinals. UC Irvine, the tournament's No. 2 seed ...

UC Irvine Anteaters (27-5, 18-3 Big West) vs. UCSD Tritons (28-4, 19-2 Big West) Henderson, Nevada; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tritons -5.5; over/under is 134 BOTTOM LINE ...

The UC Irvine men’s basketball team held down its end of the bargain on Friday night by pulling away for a 96-78 victory against Cal Poly in a Big West Tournament semifinal at Lee’s Family ...

UC Irvine took a 33-31 lead at intermission, but the Tritons took the lead in the third minute of the second half on a jumper by Tyler McGhie to start an 8-0 run for a seven-point advantage, 43-36.

The game will be played at 5,000-seat Bren Events Center on the campus of UC Irvine and tip off at 8 p.m. on ESPN+, the NCAA announced on social media Sunday evening. “It’s a great matchup,” coach ...

The UC Irvine men’s basketball team is headed to the NIT for the third straight season, but it isn’t the destination of choice. After failing to win the Big West Tournament for a fifth ...

The top-seeded Tritons pull away late to beat the second-seeded Anteaters, 75-61, reaching the Big Dance in their first year of eligibility and denying UCI, which was looking to make its first ...

INDIANAPOLIS — SMU, Dayton, San Francisco and UC Irvine highlight the 32 teams from 15 different Division I conferences that make up the National Invitation Tournament field released by the NIT ...