Box Score SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Irvine snapped a four-game winning streak with a 84-79 defeat to UC Santa Barbara inside The Thunderdome Saturday evening.

Guard Andre Henry poured in a season-high 18 points to lead the Anteaters. The graduate student came off the bench to go 6-11 from the floor, including three three-pointers and 3-3 from the line.

After trailing by as many as 21 in the second half, UCI rallied on a 15-3 run, nine from Henry, to close within five (75-70) with 42 seconds to play. The Gauchos were able to finish the game 8-10 from the line to seal the win.

Both teams shot 50.0 percent from the field with the Gauchos holding a 37-27 advantage in rebounds. Both teams are 16-8 overall with UCI at 9-3 in the Big West standings and UCSB at 9-4..

HEAD COACH RUSSELL TURNER SAID:
"We got out-played tonight by Santa Barbara and that's a credit to them. Our team was ready and had a good start, but when the game's physicality and competitiveness increased in intensity they were better than we were and that allowed them to build a big enough lead that we couldn't come all the way back from. I'm disappointed in our performance. I'm disappointed to have gotten a technical foul, I'm disappointed for getting ejected and I don't want that to reflect poorly on our program or UC Irvine. I'm sure we and I will respond well and be better."

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
>Forward Kyle Evans scored 17 points on 8-13 shooting from the floor with six rebounds and two blocks
>Guard Jurian Dixon had a team-high seven rebounds and 15 points on 6-14 shooting from the floor and 3-4 from the line. He also had two steals
>Harrison Carrington scored all 10 of his points in the first half with an efficient 4-5 shooting from the floor and 2-2 from the line
>Guard Jovan Jester Jr. added seven points, four assists, a steal and a rebound
>Guard Tama Isaac had a team-best five assists to go with four points, two rebounds and a steal
>Guard Derin Saran totaled six points, three rebounds and three assists
>The entire Gaucho starting lineup recorded double-digit points led by Aidan Maheney with a game-high 21 points. Zion Sensley grabbed a game-best 13 rebounds
>After shooting 42.9 percent (12-28) in the first half, the Anteaters shot 55.9 percent (19-34) in the second half, including five three-pointers

FIRST HALF
>UC Irvine won the tip-off and immediately went to Jurian Dixon, who hit a two-point jumper to begin scoring on the game's first possession (19:46)
>UCI and UC Santa Barbara played an even first portion of the matchup, but Dixon continued his strong start with a steal-and-score to give UCI a 12-8 lead with just under 14 minutes to go in the half
>Harrison Carrington came alive scoring six straight for the Anteaters, the last a pair of free throws to go for his ninth and 10th points of the night at 11:22 to put UCI up 20-13
>UCSB would out-score UCI 7-4 to close to 24-20 (6:51)
>A 6-0 UCSB run then gave the Gauchos their first lead of the game and put the score at 26-24 before a pair of Jovan Jester Jr. free throws stopped the momentum (3:49)
>A Derin Saran bucket ended a multi-minute scoring drought for UC Irvine, before a UCSB jumper at the buzzer sent the game into halftime with the Gauchos leading 34-28

SECOND HALF
>UCSB started the half on an 11-2 run, including seven in a row to open up a 15-point lead (45-30) at 16:23
>Jovan Jester Jr. ended the 2:49 long Anteater scoreless drought with two free throws (15:34)
>Andre Henry hit a layup to cut the deficit back down to eight for UCI, but a Gaucho 8-0 run immediately reextended the UCSB lead to 16 (11:31)
>UCSB's lead continued to swell to 21 (64-43) before UCI started to chip away on two free throws by Henry, a layup from Evans and two more free throws by Dixon 49-64 (6:49)
>A 15-3 Anteater run highlighted by nine points from Henry, including two threes cut the Gaucho lead all the way down to five (70-75) with 42 seconds left
>UCI was forced to foul and watched UCSB close out the game hitting 8-10 from the line to hold on to a 84-79 victory

NOTES
>UCI had a season-low two blocks, while their 27 boards are the second lowest of the season.
>The Anteaters 20 defensive boards are the fewest since UCI had 18 versus North Dakota State
>Evans jumps over Long Beach State's Joshua Morgan for seventh in the Big West season block list with 81

UP NEXT
UCI remains on the road traveling to Cal Poly next Thursday (Feb.  12) for a 7:00 p.m. contest at Mott Athletics Center.