UCR Athletics looks back on historic season and ahead to 2023-24

UCR News — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0700

March 2, 2023, marked a symbolic milestone for UC Riverside Athletics. The Highlanders men’s basketball team was competing for first place in the Big West Conference in front of an electric crowd at a sold-out SRC Arena. It was one of the biggest games in the program’s history at the conclusion of its most successful season at the Division I level.

How UCR student-athletes, coaches, and athletics staff have responded to a shortened spring season

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0700

On the morning of March 12, head men’s basketball coach David Patrick was at an Anaheim hotel preparing his team to take on UC Santa Barbara in the first round of the Big West Tournament. But he didn’t really expect the game, which was scheduled to take place in only a couple hours, to take place. In the middle of the team’s pregame walk-through, he got a call from UCR Athletics Director Tamica Smith Jones confirming his fears: the tournament, and indeed the rest of the season, had been canceled in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.