We don’t hear much from UC Santa Cruz, which hasn’t had much to talk about in basketball. (Perhaps if we covered soccer or tennis we might hear from the home of the Banana Slugs.) But another reason we don’t hear from them is that the department is extremely poorly funded, and is at the mercy of the student body. The students narrowly voted down a proposal to increase their own fees to better fund the department.

The local paper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, has written a couple of stories on the endangered species, first a news story, then a column. They’re worth reading, even if the columnist’s math is a little fuzzy, claiming the men’s basketball team pushed close to a .500 record (they finished 9-18).