HENDERSON, Nevada. (KEYT) - UCSB is considered to be one of the top men's basketball programs in the Big West.

But over the past three seasons this has not been the case, far from it.

The Gauchos are just average.

Head coach Joe Pasternack and his Gauchos overpacked for their trip to the Big West Championships in Nevada, losing 79-73 to UC Davis in the first round of the conference tournament.

Carl Doughtery Jr. scored a game-high 24 points for the Aggies who built up a ten point lead with 8:15 left in the game and they were in control the rest of the way.

Freshman CJ Shaw scored a team-high 20 points for UCSB.

The Aggies completed a 3-game sweep over UCSB this year and have won 7 straight overall in the series that is ending as UC Davis leaves for the Mountain West Conference.

The Gauchos were just 5-of-26 from three-point distance against Davis, a fitting end to a season that certainly missed the mark. A preseason pick to finish in the top two in the league, the Gauchos were the #7 seed out of 8 teams in this tournament.

Coaches always want to be playing their best ball in March but Joe Pasternack saw his Gauchos lose six of their last seven games to finish this pedestrian season 18-14.

Injuries to Jason Fontenet II and Miro Little certainly affected this season but this not a one year slide back to the middle of the pack in the Big West.

Over the last three seasons in league, UCSB is 31-29 and 2-3 in the conference tournament.

The Gauchos fancy themselves as a top two program in the Big West but the recent league standings suggest otherwise.

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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN

Paris (CNN) — At the Paris fashion shows that wrapped this week, there were luxuriously plain black dresses and coats of the kind favored by Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, models strutting down runways with theatrical flourishes, and in some cases, no cellphones in sight. Gen-X icons, including actress Chloe Sevigny and supermodel Kristen McMenamy, walked the runway at Miu Miu — with a special appearance by star of the 1990s hit show “X-Files,” Gillian Anderson.

This is Paris Fashion Week circa 1998 — in 2026.

If brands spent the last few years plumbing the looks and vibes of the early 2000s — Miu Miu’s low-rise waistlines and Abercrombie’s prep and all that — ‘90s fever has now taken hold. Like much of social media and pop culture, fashion designers are enraptured with the style and culture of what’s been dubbed “The Last Great Decade.” — or at least the last one before smart phones and the internet took over our lives. Now we have “Love Story,” fictionalizing the star-crossed romance of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette and the fabulous office politics of Calvin Klein; Gwyneth Paltrow is back on screen in Oscar-nominated “Marty Supreme”; and women are still rehashing the escapades of Carrie Bradshaw and her “Sex and the City” posse.

Rather than simply feeding the ’90s beast with subdued tank tops and pencil skirts, though, designers this week seemed more eager to recreate the feeling of the decade on their runways. It was a time when what happened on the runway, not the celebrity and influencer frenzy outside, was the big news, and when fashion houses offered distinctive looks rather than competing to make the most viral version of the same kind of dresses and bags.

At Junya Watanabe, models walked with a sense of performance rarely seen today except in old videos of couture shows from the 1990s, wearing gowns assembled of athletic equipment and tacky leopard and faux fur fabrics of the kind idolized by Limited Too shoppers.

Other creative directors packed their show spaces, recalling a bygone frenzied atmosphere wheren attendees craned their necks and squeezed into standing room spaces not to get that perfect iPhone shot but because the ideas were so exhilerating. Pieter Mulier’s final outing as the designer of Alaïa (before he heads to Versace) crammed guests onto benches pitched so close to the clothes you could almost smell the calf hair on bottle green and fire engine red coats. Schiaparelli’s creative director Daniel Roseberry put his models up on a raised, glossy black runway platform — an affectation rarely seen in the 21st century — and sent his spotlights spinning to a Janet Jackson soundtrack. “I wanted to do a show,” Roseberry said backstage. “I wanted it to be evocative of an era of glamour that was not referencing couture.”

The muses of these two shows felt titillatingly out of reach, an arch if mischievous contrast to the many designers droning backstage about wanting to dress real women (and then giving them completely boring clothes). “She is that bitch who is living that life,” said Roseberry of his Schiaparelli customer. “She doesn’t want boring. She doesn’t want classic.”

Indeed, the 1990s were a time when women could expect more variety and risk from their designers, which may be why so many creative directors are pushing in this direction. Provocative Paris-based brand Matières Fécales throw back to the era when cutting a mean skirt suit could be a subversive act, a la Alexander McQueen or John Galliano, by painting models’ faces white and styling them with such gimmicks as a ball gag made of enormous pearls. And Jean Paul Gaultier, showing its second collection designed by

* WHAT…Temperatures of 85 to 95 expected.

* WHERE…The coasts and coastal valleys of San Luis Obispo and
Santa Barbara counties, including the Santa Lucia and Santa Ynez
Mountain Ranges.

* WHEN…From 10 AM this morning to 8 PM PDT Friday.

* IMPACTS…There is a high risk for heat illness for sensitive
populations including the very young, the very old, those without
air conditioning, and those active outdoors.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Well above normal temperatures will continue
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* WHAT…Widespread temperatures of 90 to 100 expected.

* WHERE…The coasts and coastal valleys of Ventura and Los Angeles
counties.

* WHEN…From 10 AM this morning to 8 PM PDT Friday.

* IMPACTS…There is a high risk for heat illness for sensitive
populations including the very young, the very old, those without
air conditioning, and those active outdoors.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Well above normal temperatures will continue
well into next week, and additional Heat Advisories or Extreme
Heat Warnings may be needed.
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose
fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning
or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and
heat stroke.

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Por Will Ripley y Wayne Chang, CNN

Las fuerzas militares de Taiwán se han acostumbrado a la tarea diaria de rastrear los aviones de guerra chinos que vuelan cerca de la isla. Algunos días hay unos pocos. Otros, muchos más. Pero su presencia es casi constante.

Así que cuando los cazas dejaron de volar repentinamente durante casi dos semanas, el silencio fue al mismo tiempo sorprendente y profundamente desconcertante.

Ese hechizo se rompió el jueves cuando cinco aviones del Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL) operaron alrededor del Estrecho de Taiwán durante las 24 horas anteriores, según el ejército de Taiwán, y varios volaron cerca de la línea media que divide la vía fluvial.

Los analistas dicen que fue la pausa más larga en la actividad aérea china desde que Taiwán comenzó a publicar datos militares diarios.

“Esto es francamente diferente a todo lo que hemos visto en la historia reciente en términos de actividad del EPL alrededor de Taiwán”, declaró a CNN Ben Lewis, fundador de PLATracker, una plataforma de datos abiertos que rastrea los movimientos militares chinos alrededor de Taiwán, Japón y el Mar de China Meridional.

“Desde que el Ministerio de Defensa de Taiwán comenzó a publicar estos datos en 2020, la tendencia ha sido al alza”, indicó Lewis. “Y ahora, esta pausa, que quizá haya terminado hoy, quizá no, representa un cambio muy significativo en el patrón”.

A partir del 27 de febrero, Taiwán registró 13 días consecutivos sin aviones de guerra chinos volando cerca de la isla.

Una breve excepción ocurrió el 6 de marzo, cuando se detectaron dos aviones en el extremo suroeste de la zona de identificación de defensa aérea de Taiwán, pero los analistas dicen que el patrón más amplio todavía representa una ruptura sorprendente con los últimos años de actividad militar china en constante aumento.

El repentino silencio desconcertó a los analistas y planteó una serie de posibles explicaciones.

Una teoría es que Beijing puede estar tratando de evitar una escalada de tensiones antes de una reunión planeada a finales de este mes entre el líder de China, Xi Jinping, y el presidente Donald Trump, donde se espera que el comercio, la tecnología y Taiwán ocupen un lugar destacado.

“Si estuviera en Las Vegas, lo apostaría a la visita de Trump”, apuntó Lewis.

Otros han señalado la guerra que involucra a Irán y su potencial impacto en los mercados energéticos globales, aunque los analistas dicen que esa conexión es menos segura.

Algunos observadores también señalan que las reuniones parlamentarias anuales de China, conocidas como las “Dos Sesiones”, que concluyen esta semana, son un período en el que la actividad militar ocasionalmente se ha desacelerado en el pasado.

El ministro de Defensa de Taiwán, Wellington Koo, pidió cautela a la hora de sacar conclusiones de la pausa, señalando que la actividad naval china alrededor de Taiwán ha continuado durante todo el período.

“Existen muchas teorías”, declaró Koo a la prensa el miércoles. “Pero seguimos viendo buques de guerra chinos operando alrededor de Taiwán a diario, y estos esfuerzos por convertir el estrecho de Taiwán en aguas interiores de China no han cesado”.

De hecho, Taiwán siguió rastreando varios buques de guerra chinos que operaban alrededor de la isla durante todo el período, incluso mientras los cielos sobre ella permanecían inusualmente tranquilos.

Lewis señaló que el número limitado de aeronaves detectadas el jueves podría no indicar un retorno total a la actividad normal.

Los vuelos se produjeron el mismo día en que un avión de vigilancia P-8 de la Marina de Estados Unidos transitó el estrecho de Taiwán, en lo que la Séptima Flota dice que es una demostración del “compromiso de Washington con un Indo-Pacífico libre y abierto”, y