CSUN Today https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu California State University, Northridge Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:03:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 Aspiring Creatives Hear from Black Professionals Who Bring Music to TV and Film https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/arts-and-culture/aspiring-creatives-hear-from-black-professionals-who-bring-music-to-tv-and-film/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:18 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55369

On Feb. 15, a panel of Black creative professionals who work at the intersection of music and film and television shared their experiences and passion for the industry with the CSUN students working to become the next generation of creative voices. 

The panelists, who have won awards for their work as they collaborated with some of the biggest names in entertainment, also discussed why it’s important to include a diverse group of voices. 

“It makes projects better, it makes art better, because diverse people and voices naturally enhances whatever story you are telling, because at the end of the day, we as humans, we all have fear, hopes and dreams,” said KAVOS, who has worked with Taylor Swift and TV creator Seth MacFarlane.

The panel, called “Harmony in Diversity: Celebrating Black Voices in Film and Television Scores,” featured accomplished musicians such as Keith Wilson, Taura Stinson and panel moderator DeMarco White. Cinema and Television Arts department (CTVA) majors from a wide range of interests — including producers, directors and composers — came to the Armer Theater to learn about possible career paths from an accomplished group of industry professionals.

Each of the panelists discussed their experiences entering the film and music industries as well as the obstacles they faced when starting their careers.

Keith Wilson, director of music creative production at Netflix, stated how his passion for music drove him to success in the industry regardless of the challenges he faced along the way. “I enjoy music, I enjoy being in the studio,” he said. 

Taura Stinson, who wrote songs for television shows and movies such as “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” and “Carmen,” discussed how her passion continued to inspire her to pursue her dream of having a music career and talked about her passion for making music for movies and television. 

“Score speaks to me like a story, the feeling it gives you, that’s part of the story. Having your story drives you as a creator,” she said.

The panelists also discussed diversity in their industries and the importance of adding different perspectives and experiences into stories. 

“We can’t truly be united in the world if we aren’t sharing our stories through different perspectives,” said White, client services manager for the Recording Academy, an academy for musicians, producers and other musical professionals, most known for the Grammys,   “There are different perspectives of each story. So not one person or one group should have the jurisdiction to tell a story in a certain way.”

Nate Thomas, the CTVA professor and head of the film production option, said it is important to highlight the need for diversity in the music and film industry.  

“For the last hundred years, this industry has not matched the diversity of this country,” Thomas said. “In all aspects of the job market, the workplace and of society, you have to respect the people, and we are a diverse nation.”

Jaylin Young, a freshman CTVA student pursuing a career in production, expressed his desire to tell stories and his appreciation for diversity in the music and film industry. 

“It helps us to see other types of stories, between different households and cultures,” he said.

The event was organized by California State University Entertainment Alliance and CSUN’s CTVA department, and was sponsored by Starz.

 

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Tyler Yamauchi
Nowruz Mobarak! Persian New Year Celebrates Spring and New Life https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/arts-and-culture/nowruz-mobarak-persian-new-year-celebrates-spring-and-new-life/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:40:45 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55446

Nowruz, which means “new day,” is the Persian New Year. It’s celebrated at the Spring Equinox (Vernal Equinox) — which happens around March 20-21 annually. This year, the equinox occurs at 8:06 p.m. PDT on March 19. Nowruz is celebrated all over the world, particularly in countries with significant Persian cultural influence, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Turkey. The holiday, which celebrates spring and new life, is observed by some as a religious event while for others, it’s secular. The traditions include a good “spring cleaning” of homes and donning new clothing and shoes. A Haft-Seen table is set with an arrangement of symbolic items, all beginning with the letter “S” and all having to do with nature.

At CSUN Today, we celebrated a little early with alumna Nazanin Keynejad ’95, M.A. ’16 (English). Keynejad serves as the communications associate for the Alumni Association and as adjunct lecturer in the Department of English. She set a traditional Haft-Seen table to show us how it’s done. Check out the photos for the explanation of the items.

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Jenny Omara-Steinbeck
CSUN’s Cinematheque Series to Host Hollywood Casting Director Deborah Aquila https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/arts-and-culture/csuns-cinematheque-series-to-host-hollywood-casting-director-deborah-aquila/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:11:13 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55370

California State University, Northridge’s Spring 2024 Cinematheque series will pay tribute to Hollywood casting director and producer Deborah Aquila, Executive Vice President and Head of Casting at Paramount Television Studios & CBS Studios, to mark the end of Women’s History Month on Wednesday, March 27.

Hollywood casting director and producer Deborah Aquila

Hollywood casting director and producer Deborah Aquila.

At the free public event, Aquila will share her journey as a casting director and some of her greatest challenges and successes in casting in Hollywood. The program will include clips from her iconic films— “Shawshank Redemption”, “La La Land”, “Primal Fear”, “Sex Lies and Videotape” and more.

“Our honored guest will share advice to young actors on honing their talent and audition skills. The event will be a great opportunity for Cinema & Television students and Theatre students but also for the public to have an intimate conversation with true a Hollywood mover -and-shaker,” said CSUN film professor Dianah Wynter, the Cinematheque’s curator. “She is legendary, and we are honored to be having her as our guest.”

Aquila’s credits include 2022 Academy Award Best Picture winner “CODA”, “Shawshank Redemption” and close to 200 films and series. Additionally, she is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Casting Society of America (CSA). She has been nominated 18 times for the Artios Award by the CSA, winning for the feature films “Red”, “My Week with Marilyn”, “CODA” and “La La Land.”

Aquila’s talk will take place at 7 p.m. in CSUN’s Elaine and Alan Armer Screening Room, in Manzanita Hall, located near the southwest corner of the campus near Nordhoff Street and Lindley Avenue.

Founded by the late film professor John E. Schultheiss, the CSUN Cinematheque is housed in the Elaine and Alan Armer Screening Room, a state-of-the-art 130 seat motion picture theater, and made possible through the generosity of The Elaine and Alan Armer foundation.

For more information about the Cinematheque series, visit https://www.csun.edu/cinematheque. The series is offered by the Department of Cinema and Television Arts in the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication.

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CSUN Men’s Basketball Wins First Big West Tournament Game in 10 Years https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/athletics/csun-mens-basketball-wins-first-big-west-tournament-game-in-10-years/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:04:16 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55407

[Update, March 15]

One of the most thrilling CSUN Men’s Basketball seasons in years came to an end last night as the Matadors fell to Hawai’i 75-68 in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Hercules Tires Big West Men’s Basketball Championship.

Before the season, the Matadors weren’t expected to make the eight-team tournament. Instead, the team earned its most wins in a regular season since 2008, upset UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, and on Wednesday won its first postseason game since 2014.

Now the future looks bright under new coach Andy Newman, who brought a running, attacking style of play.

Against Hawai’i, first-team All-Big West forward De’Sean Allen-Eikens scored a team-high 22 points and nine rebounds in his final collegiate game while All-Big West honorable mention guard Dionte Bostck added 18 points. Forward Keonte Jones tallied 15 points and 10 rebounds,

CSUN Athletics has a full recap of the game.


[Original post, March 14]

The CSUN Men’s Basketball team outlasted defending Big West champion UC Santa Barbara last night, 87-84 in overtime, to win a game in the Big West Basketball Championship tournament for the first time since 2014.

CSUN Athletics has a full recap of the game.

Under new coach Andy Newman, CSUN’s fast-paced style of play resulted in 18 wins during the regular season, the most since 2008.

The Matadors exciting season continues at 6 p.m. tonight against third-seeded Hawai’i in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Hercules Tires Big West Men’s Basketball Championship in Henderson, Nev.

The conference championship game is Saturday, March 16. The conference champion earns a spot in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament — known as March Madness.

How to Get Tickets

Tickets to the tournament are available online.

Fans can also buy tickets for a CSUN pregame rally at The Dollar Loan Center.

How to Watch or Listen

You can watch Wednesday’s CSUN game on ESPN+ or listen on SiriusXM channel 382 and online channel 972.

The Big West Conference website offers more details on how to watch or listen to all the games in the tournament.

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Jacob Bennett
Did You Know? CSUN VITA Clinic https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/business/did-you-know-csun-vita-clinic/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:20:36 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55401

Tax season often brings stress and anxiety, with concerns about correctly filling out forms, but did you know that CSUN’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Clinic can help smooth out the process?

CSUN’s VITA Clinic is part of a national network that provides free tax assistance for low-income individuals and families via appointment. CSUN students are also eligible for this service! Staffed by CSUN students, the clinic serves San Fernando Valley residents, as well as other residents of Los Angeles County. The location on campus in Bookstein Hall is open year-round, but during tax-season, pop-ups open at various locations around Los Angeles County.

“The services we provide are very beneficial,” said Areli Araujo, a coordinator at CSUN’s VITA Clinic. “Tax preparation fees have skyrocketed and having to pay them can definitely be a burden. You can see the excitement and gratitude on taxpayers’ faces when we tell them at the end of the tax process that it’s one hundred percent free.”

To take advantage of VITA’s services, taxpayers, including students, must meet specific income qualifications, though there are exceptions.

Araujo urged CSUN students to take advantage of the VITA Clinic.

“When you’re a student, you’ve already got to pay for tuition, housing and food, so why pay to get your taxes done when you could actually come to one of our locations and get them done for free? And you’d get an accurate return as well because all our student preparers are IRS-certified,” she said.

Last year, CSUN’s clinic was ranked first in the nation for the number of tax returns submitted. Nearly 300 student volunteers provided tax preparation and translation assistance for over 8,500 taxpayers.

To learn more about eligibility and other details, visit the CSUN VITA Clinic website. Translators for Spanish and ASL are available.

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Analisa Venolia
CSUN Community Gathers for Late Oklahoma Teen Nex Benedict https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/community/csun-community-gathers-for-late-oklahoma-teen-nex-benedict/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:37:31 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55387

Faculty, students and staff were invited to take part in a candlelight vigil for 16-year-old Nex Benedict, hosted by CSUN’s Pride Center at the University Student Union’s Plaza del Sol on March 5, 2024. The Oklahoma teen, who identified as nonbinary and often used they/them pronouns, died Feb. 8, 2024, a day after a fight took place in a bathroom at their high school, located near Tulsa.

According to the New York Times, Benedict told investigators that the fight began after three girls mocked them and a friend. The cause of their death is still undetermined and has prompted an investigation of the school district by the U.S. Department of Education. Benedict’s death and the subsequent questions have also renewed scrutiny of Oklahoma’s strict gender policies that require students to use bathrooms that align with their gender at birth.

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Jenny Omara-Steinbeck
CSUN Receives $1M Grant to Bridge the Divide Between Those Who Work with Young Children with Disabilities https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/education/csun-receives-1m-grant-to-bridge-the-divide-between-those-who-work-with-young-children-with-disabilities/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:59:34 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55345

An aerial view of CSUN University Library is photographed on California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Photo by Ringo Chiu / CSUN)

CSUN has received a $1.25 million federal grant to develop an interdisciplinary program to bridge the divide between those who work with young children with disabilities — educators, behavior interventionists and speech-language pathologists. Photo by Ringo Chiu.


California State University, Northridge has received a $1.25 million federal grant to develop an interdisciplinary program to bridge the divide between those who work with young children with disabilities — educators, behavior interventionists and speech-language pathologists.

The end goal, said psychology professor Debra Berry Malmberg, is to ensure that children, including those from traditionally underrepresented communities, get the best services by the three areas working together collaboratively.

“Educators, behavior interventionists, and speech-language pathologists are all professionals who make up the teams working to ensure that children succeed, but they don’t always work together as well as they could”, Malmberg said. “Each field has its own language and its own approach. We are hoping to build a bridge, a common language, among those professionals so that the children they are working with can succeed to their fullest.”

“One of our goals,” said special education professor Zhen Chai, another lead on the project, “is to address the critical shortage of highly qualified early childhood special educators, behavior analysts and speech-language pathologists who are prepared to collaboratively serve infant, toddlers and young children with disabilities and their families, and to do so while being culturally sensitive to the needs of the people they are working with.”

The grant from the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education will fund “The Bridge Project: Transdisciplinary Preparation of Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Special Educators, Behavior Interventionists, and Speech-Language Pathologists to Serve Young Children with Disabilities.” The project is a collaboration between CSUN’s Department of Psychology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Department of Special Education in the Michael D. Eisner College of Education and the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences in the College of Health and Human Development.

A select cohort of master’s degree candidates from all three departments will be invited to take part in the project that will incorporate “culturally responsive, high-leverage, evidence-based practices in all facets of the program,” said co-principle investigator Vickie Yu, a professor of communication disorders and sciences.

Those accepted into the program, which starts this fall, will receive up to $27,000 to help them cover the costs of attending college, including tuition and living expenses, as well as funding to attend professional conferences in all three disciplines.

The students will take part in shared coursework and joint fieldwork experiences, all with the goal of building an understanding among the three disciplines to encourage stronger collaboration once they are professionals working with children.

To ensure their success, Malmberg said, the scholars will receive ongoing support and mentoring not only from project faculty, but community members.

“We’re training professionals who are going to go into the field with an understanding of what the other professionals they work with do and who can collaborate effectively as a team to best serve the children and families they are working with,” Malmberg said.

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Meet Maple Hall: CSUN’s First New Academic Classroom Building in 15 Years https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/university-news/meet-maple-hall-csuns-first-new-academic-classroom-building-in-15-years/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:00:15 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55339

Ah, that new classroom smell.

CSUN students and faculty will have a long-awaited treat when they return to campus after Spring Break. The recently completed, 62,474-square-foot Maple Hall will open its doors to classes and campus life on March 25. The sparkling new building is located south of Sierra Hall, adjacent to Manzanita Hall and West University Drive. It’s the campus’ first new academic classroom building since Chaparral Hall, home to the Department of Biology, opened in 2009, according to Division of Academic Affairs leadership.

The new building adds much-needed classrooms and lecture halls — including a 2,980-square-foot lecture hall, two smaller lecture halls and two seminar rooms — with flexible seating, the latest audiovisual (AV) equipment and energy-efficient design to the west side of campus, one of the university’s busiest areas. The $49.9-million project is financed by CSU state funds and took about two years to complete.

CSUN Today got a sneak-peek tour on March 11, with Callie Juarez, of CSUN’s academic resources and planning department, as well as a “hardhat tour” during construction in fall 2023 with Noah Rubin, campus architect and director of design and construction. Here’s the scoop:

What can students most look forward to inside Maple Hall?

Maple Hall’s best feature is the huge three-story atrium and common space filled with natural light, Rubin said. The brand-new, modern building features cutting-edge lecture halls and classrooms. It boasts some of the most (if not the most) air-conditioned student hangout spaces on campus, plus plenty of comfortable furniture, group study rooms and collaborative spaces — and a huge, multi-stall gender-inclusive restroom. There’s even a lactation room upstairs.

When will students be able to start using Maple Hall?

Juarez and team are working on the massive task of moving 433 classes from the 1960s-era Sierra Hall into Maple Hall. Students can enjoy Maple Hall’s many indoor and outdoor study and hangout spaces as soon as Monday, March 25, when classes begin there. More details about a grand opening or celebration in 2024 are still TBD.

What’s our favorite part of the new Maple Hall?

Rubin and our editorial team agreed: the three-story atrium, which features entrances from three sides of the building.

“We paid particular attention to building in student collaboration spaces into the lobby, the corridors, the waiting areas — we built in seating, so students aren’t sitting on the floor,” said Ken Rosenthal, associate vice president of facilities development and operations, when CSUN broke ground on the building. “These are inspirational rooms. They’re daylit, they’re flexible, they have the latest AV.”

Sustainability facts:

Maple Hall employs a “heat recovery chiller,” technology that’s fairly new to CSUN (this is the second building to use it, after Monterey Hall), Rubin said. A heat recovery chiller takes excess heat (that would otherwise be wasted) from the campus’ central chilled water system and uses it to provide the building with free heating, saving energy.

The building also takes advantage of natural light, LED lighting and drought-tolerant, native plant landscaping around its exterior.

What’s next?

Maple Hall’s opening clears the way for the renovation of its older counterpart, Sierra Hall — as classes there are shifted to the new building — but approval and funding for Sierra renovation is still pending, Rosenthal said. “As a building with general-purpose classrooms, all colleges may use the new rooms [in Maple Hall],” he said. “It takes all the [Sierra Hall] classrooms and frees them up to be used as ‘swing space.’ … We will be studying options for Sierra Hall renovations. Faculty offices, laboratories and administrative offices will remain in Sierra Hall.”

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CSUN Prof Confident Media Will Survive Recent Newsroom Upheavals https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/arts-and-culture/csun-prof-confident-media-will-survive-recent-newsroom-upheavals/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:47:24 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55319

CSUN journalism professor José Luis Benavides is confident that that the field of journalism will survive the recent spate of newsroom upheavals. Image by metamorworks, iStock.

Newsrooms across the nation. CSUN journalism professor José Luis Benavides is confident that that the field of journalism will survive the recent spate of newsroom upheavals. Image by metamorworks, iStock.



 

As political polarization threatens the foundations of American democracy, newsrooms across the nation — which have long played a vital role in checking political power and keeping the citizenry informed — are laying off staff or disappearing all together.

Those that remain are struggling to retain readers/viewers while trying to figure out how to successfully transition to the digital age. California State University, Northridge journalism professor José Luis Benavides is confident that they will figure it out.

“I am a journalism professor, so I kind of have to believe,” Benavides said, with a laugh. “But at the same time, if you look at what has happened in the past, when there has been a need, journalists have found a way to fill it, to let people know what is going on.”

José Luis Benavides

José Luis Benavides

Benavides admitted that journalism as we currently know it is in flux.

“I think that the size of the crisis in journalism is growing,” he said. “The industries that created journalism or have been creating journalism in the last century are in decline. ‘In decline’ is really a friendly way to say that they are going through a period in which they can’t find a way to sustain themselves as a business, which means that many of them are likely to disappear. That means a really uncertain future for those who are practicing journalism at the moment.”

Benavides, who teaches in CSUN’s Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication, pointed to a study by the Pew Research Center that said in 2008 there were 115,000 people producing news across a variety of platforms. Today, that number is about 80,000, he said.

“The decrease in newspaper employment is just dramatic,” Benavides said. “Broadcast news has remained slightly steady, but the numbers do seem to be going down. The only area where employment is growing is in digital platforms.”

He pointed to digital publications like ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism news site. Its reporting has drawn attention to political, health and public safety issues across the country and inspired policy changes.

 “It does a wonderful job, and is a successful nonprofit,” he said. “But as a nonprofit they can’t really employ as many people as a newspaper.”

Those newspapers that are succeeding, such as The New York Times, Benavides said, are doing so by positioning themselves as “global newspapers.”

“They are able to generate enough revenue that they can continue to grow,” he said. “They are doing significant, important work, but not everybody can work at The New York Times, nor is The New York Times able to tell the stories needed to be told in communities across the country.”

In the “old days,” Benavides said, reporters would start out a small community papers covering anything and everything and work their way up to important beats or editing positions, or on to bigger, more prestigious newspapers in their community or somewhere else.

 Today, he said, reporters must become “subject-matter specialists” and create a following of “readers” who respect their work and want more of it.

“They also need to be more versatile about all the forms of content creation that are not necessarily based on the written word,” Benavides said, pointing to the variety of digital platforms that are now available like podcasting.

Digital platforms, he said, are providing opportunities for communities not often covered by traditional media to get their news heard, particularly as that media continues to significantly cut their staff sizes.

He noted that the LAist, Los Angeles’ largest National Public Radio station broadcasting at 89.3 FM, is successfully filling the gaps in the coverage of the city’s numerous communities left by the downsizing of the Los Angeles Times and the variety of newspapers — from the Los Angeles Daily News and the Pasadena Star-News to the San Bernardino Sun — that make up the Southern California News Group. He pointed out that it was a reporter with Knock LA, an online nonprofit community journalism project, that broke the stories about gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

“Public media and nonprofit media are creating viable media alternatives and still providing valuable information to the community,” Benavides said. “I think ethnic newspapers, which have been heavily hit by the current crisis in journalism may find that they can thrive in a digital environment.”

“The problem is that so much of the digital media is fragmented,” he said. “You like one news site, and the algorithm sends you a link to a similar site and soon you are just seeing content that has all the same perspective. That doesn’t mean that partisan journalism is not journalism. Then, it becomes incumbent on the consumer to seek out different news sources.”

But that doesn’t mean that important topics will not make it beyond new media digital platforms, he said.

 “While Knock LA may have broken the story about gangs in the sheriff’s department, the Los Angeles Timesand the other media in LA are now covering and monitoring the story,” he said. “If journalists are covering important news that impacts a community, the community will find a way to learn about it. And if there is important news that needs to be told, there will always be a journalist who will want to tell that community’s story.”

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Let’s Go! Matador Men Head to Big West Basketball Championship Tourney https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/athletics/lets-go-matador-men-head-to-big-west-basketball-championship-tourney/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:59:16 +0000 https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/?p=55341

Following one of their most exciting regular seasons in more than a decade, the CSUN Men’s Basketball team is off to Nevada for their conference championship tournament and a shot at March Madness.

The team won its most games in 16 years this season and pulled off a stunning upset of UCLA, its first since 2000.

The Matadors (18-14, 9-11 Big West) got a big sendoff from Premier America Credit Union Arena this morning before they headed to Henderson, Nev., for the 2024 Hercules Tires Big West Men’s Basketball Championship.

In the first round at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, the seventh-seeded Matadors will face sixth-seeded UC Santa Barbara (16-14, 9-11 Big West), the conference’s defending champs. The conference championship game is Saturday, March 16.

What’s At Stake

The Big West champion earns a berth in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament — known as March Madness.

CSUN last won a conference championship in 2009, leading to a hard-fought loss to Memphis in the NCAA tournament.

An Exciting Season

CSUN enjoyed one of its most accomplished regular seasons in more than a decade under new head coach Andy Newman. Its 18 wins were the most since the 2007-08 season, when they won 20 games.

Perhaps the team’s most impressive win was a 76-72 stunner over UCLA on Dec. 19, 2023, at Pauley Pavilion. CSUN’s win snapped UCLA’s 29-game home winning streak. It was the Matadors’ second-ever win over UCLA and their first since Nov. 21, 2000.

The Matadors entered the final days of the regular season bunched among five teams jockeying for position for the third through seventh seeds in the conference tournament.

Key players for CSUN include De’Sean Allen-Eikens, a graduate-student forward, who leads the team at 18.5 points per game. Junior guard Dionte Bostick is the second-leading scorer at 15.3 points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game. Junior forward Keonte Jones leads the team with 6.7 rebounds per game.

About the Game

The Matadors and UCSB Gauchos split their regular-season meetings, with each team winning on the road.

The Gauchos have made the NCAA tournament in two of the last three seasons, losing last year in the first round to Baylor.

The advancing squad gets third-seeded Hawai’i (19-13, 11-9 Big West) in Thursday’s second round.

The top seed in this this year’s Big West tournament is UC Irvine (24-8, 17-3 Big West).

How to Get Tickets

Tickets to the tournament are available online. Tickets are also available at the event venue, The Dollar Loan Center.

Fans an also buy tickets for a CSUN pregame rally at the Dollar Loan Center.

How to Watch or Listen

You can watch Wednesday’s CSUN game on ESPN+ or listen on SiriusXM channel 382 and online channel 972.

The Big West Conference website offers more details on how to watch or listen to all the games in the tournament.

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Jacob Bennett