Originally Posted by
HeeluvaGuy
There was more going on in the UCSB than you might have picked up on from the box score. There's no way this one was fixed because it would have been too obvious, if so.
Jordan McLaughlin had 19 assists - tied for the Pac 12 record for a game. Enfield started emptying the bench shortly after the 20-point lead, but he left McLaughlin in to get the record. Apparently this didn't sit well with UCSB so much so that at one point just under a minute they intentionally fouled McLaughlin as he crossed half court so he couldn't get an assist. This was under 1 minute to play when the Gauchos were down 16. Because of the McLaughlin thing UCSB didn't empty its bench and was able to score pretty easily. The 3 missed USC FTs did suck though.