10/27/2026 10:00:00 PM | General, Men's Basketball
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Oct 30, 2026
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Oct 31, 2026 at M: 8:30 AM / W: 9:15 AM
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Big West Championships
THIS WEEK IN MUSTANG ATHLETICS
- The 2026-27 regular season kicks off for men’s basketball as they host Cal State San Marcos on Monday.
- Cal Poly women's basketball wraps up its preseason by hosting Cal State Monterey Bay for Field Trip Day on Thursday.
- Men’s soccer looks to punch their ticket to the Pac-12 Championships, facing UC Riverside at home with a win-and-in scenario on Saturday.
- Fighting for a spot in the Big West tournament, the Cal Poly women’s soccer team travels to UC Riverside on Wednesday and hosts Sacramento State at Saturday for its final two regular season matches.
- Soaring atop the Big West, Cal Poly volleyball seeks to extends its 10-match win streak in road matches at 3rd-place UC Irvine on Friday and 4th-place UC San Diego on Saturday.
- Football takes on the defending national champions Montana State Bobcats in Bozeman on Saturday at noon Pacific.
- The four-time defending Big West champions, the Cal Poly men’s and women’s cross country teams head to Riverside on Saturday looking to defend their conference titles.
- The Cal Poly wrestling team officially opens its 2026-27 season this Sunday at the Navy Classic in Annapolis, Maryland.
- The Mustang men's and women’s tennis heads to Palos Verdes this weekend to take part in the Dennis Rizza Classic to continue their respective Fall seasons.
#RIDEHIGH MOMENTS
WEEKLY SNEAK PEEK
- After their lone exhibition game against Westmont College, men's basketball hosts Cal State San Marcos to start the 2026-27 regular season on Monday.
- The Mustangs, who finished 10th nationally last season with 10.8 three-pointers per game, visits 2026 Final Four participant Arizona on Thursday, Nov. 5 after opening against the Division-II Cougars.
- Cal Poly welcomes back four starters and 10 of its top 11 scorers from last season – including 2026 All-Big West selections Hamad Mousa and Cayden Ward; they combined for 35 points per game last season.
- It will be the first matchup between Cal Poly and San Marcos. San Marcos won their lone contest over Cal Poly's new satellite campus, Cal Poly Maritime, 86-61.
- Mustang women's basketball is coming off a 70-38 win against their Cougar counterparts last Wednesday.
- After opening its 2026-27 preseason with a convincing 70-38 exhibition victory over Division-II foe Cal State San Marcos in Mott Athletics Center on Wednesday, Mustang women's basketball is back for a second a final exhibition against the Cougars' conference rival, Cal State Monterey Bay on Thursday.
- The game will tip-off at 11 a.m. for Field Trip Day, which will include multiple local school classes showing up for a thrilling morning of Mustangs on the hardwood.
- During the 32-point win last week, Maddy Tauro led the Mustangs with 17 points (8-of-15 FG) while Madison Butcher followed closely behind with 16 points, including three 3-pointers, and five rebounds. The duo combined for 33 of Cal Poly's 70 points.
- Cal Poly shot 28-of-53 (52.8%) from the field, but more impressively held a 34-27 rebounding edge and turned 29 Cal State San Marcos turnovers into 28 points. The Mustangs also dominated inside, outscoring the Cougars 40-16 in the paint.
- The visiting Otters went 14-14 (11-11 CCAA) last season and fell in the first round of their conference tournament to Cal State LA. CSUMB opened its season Tuesday night in Tucson, falling to Division-I Power Four program Arizona, 92-54.
- After a 1-0 loss to Gonzaga last Saturday, men's soccer hosts UC Riverside in a must-win game for both squads. Kickoff from Mustang Memorial Field is set for 7 p.m. on Halloween.
- With San Diego State and UC San Diego playing each other, one of those two teams will be left short of the eight max points that either the Mustangs or Highlanders could reach. Both teams need a win to advance to the four-team Pac-12 Conference Championship.
- Matthew Guerra's seven saves against Gonzaga is a new career high, surpassing his mark in the 2-1 victory at home against UC Santa Barbara.
- Locked in a five-way tie for fourth place in the Big West standings, Cal Poly will be aiming to secure a spot in the conference tournament when the team plays its final two regular season matches this week.
- First the Mustangs travel to UC Riverside on Wednesday for a 6 p.m. showdown against the Highlanders. Then Cal Poly returns home to close out regular season play against Sacramento State at 1 p.m. Saturday.
- Tickets to Saturday’s regular season finale at Spanos Stadium are just $5, and trick or treat bags and candy will be given to the first arriving kids while supplies last. You can purchase tickets HERE.
- Both matches will be streamed live on ESPN+. Links to watch both matches and follow live scoring can be found on the Cal Poly women’s soccer schedule page.
- Cal Poly, California Baptist, Long Beach State, UC Santa Barbara and CSUN all sit at 12 points in the conference table, putting them in a five-way tie for fourth place. Utah Valley, who is unbeaten in conference play, leads the way with 23 points. Cal State Fullerton is in second place with 20 and UC San Diego sits in third with 18. Six teams make the Big West Championships, which begin next Wednesday, Nov. 4 with first round matches.
- The Mustangs (6-6-5, 3-3-3 Big West) defeated UC Riverside 1-0 last year in San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly is 14-5-5 all-time against the Highlanders and has won six straight against UCR and is unbeaten in their last seven matchups with them. UC Riverside is 3-12-1 overall and 1-7-1 in conference play this season.
- Saturday will mark Cal Poly’s first against Sacramento State as a member of the Big West. The last meeting between the two programs was Aug. 29, 2024, when the teams played to a scoreless draw in Sacramento. The Hornets are 6-6-5 overall and 2-4-3 in Big West play. Cal Poly leads the all-time series 8-2-1.
- Junior midfielder Miah Thomas is responsible for six of Cal Poly’s 17 goals this season. Thomas is a perfect 4-4 on penalty kicks this season and her six goals are tied for fourth most in the Big West.
- 29 players have seen the field for the Mustangs this season with five starting in all 17 matches — senior Siena Urzua, juniors Miah Thomas, Mya Clarke and Shannon Porubski and freshman Kate Nunes.
- Protecting a golden ten-match win streak and five-match lead on the Big West Championship field, the Mustangs return to action this weekend at UC Irvine on Friday at 6 p.m. and UC San Diego on Saturday at 5 p.m.
- Breklyn Pulling helped Cal Poly double-sweep the Blue-Green series for a second time in the last three seasons, putting together a legendary performance at the net.
- Pulling, who missed the entire 2025 season due to a knee injury, delivered one of the most efficient performances Cal Poly volleyball has ever seen, recording 13 kills on 15 attempts with no errors for a .867 hitting percentage, resetting Cal Poly's single-match record set by Raeann Greisen against UC Davis on Sept. 19, 2017.
- Her mark leads the conference's 2026 match-high percentage list by 10 points and ranks as the 11th-best three-set match percentage in NCAA Division I volleyball so far this season.
- For just the second time in program history, Cal Poly has earned ten straight wins to start the Big West slate. The Mustangs are off to their best start in Big West play since 2017, when the program notched its singular perfect conference season (16-0) in its history, under now-associate head coach Sam Crosson.
- Still in the top half of the Big Sky standings, Cal Poly football travels to Montana to take on the defending national champions, Montana State. Kickoff is set for noon Pacific time, 1:00 p.m. local time in Bozeman.
- Tyrei Washington's one-yard plunge into the end zone was his first rushing touchdown this season, and Hudson Giarritta's first career receiving touchdown in the fourth quarter was also his first career reception.
- Despite missing last game, Jaden Green still leads the Big Sky in all-purpose yards with 1,308 this season.
- The Mustangs compete in the Big West Cross Country Championships on Saturday at the Ag/Ops Course in Riverside. The men’s 8K race starts at 8:30 a.m. with the women’s 6K to follow at 9:15 a.m.
- You can follow the live results HERE.
- Last year in Honolulu, Cal Poly achieved the first Big West four-peat in men’s and women’s cross country since the conference began sponsoring both sports in 1983, sweeping the Big West team titles for the fourth straight year.
- Eight men are slated to compete for the Mustangs — Rory Catsimanes, Miles Cook, Dheeraj Gurusamy, Devin Ibarra, Kyle Jakary, J.R. Lesher, Andres Lomeli and Ethan Miller.
- Nine women will take the start line for the Mustangs — Nikki Bridges, Tatiana Cornejo, Melisse Djomby Enyawe, Lianna Guerra, Brenna Mannion, Sydney Middleton, Isabella Ramirez, Avery Smith and Sydney Sundgren.
- The Cal Poly men's and women’s tennis teams wrapped up play at their respective ITA Southwest Regionals just over a week ago, and now travel as a program to Palos Verdes on Oct. 30-Nov. 1 for the Dennis Rizza Classic.
- Two pairs of doubles highlighted action for the Mustangs last time out, with Natalie Lynch and Jessica MacCallum advancing to the women's Round of 16 while Jovan Lubbe and Leo Matthysen advanced to the men's semifinals after upsetting Arizona's No. 4 seed duo.
- Announced on Tuesday, Lubbe and Matthysen were selected to represent the Big West at the ITA Conference Masters in Rome, Ga. from Nov. 3-5.
- Men's golf wrapped up their fall season with the Cal Poly-hosted Preserve Championship.
- Vidur Subramaniam used a six-under-66 second round to propel himself to a two-under overall total and the top Mustang finisher at The Preserve. Jack Jarvis finished at one-under with a strong three-under-69 second round.
- Men's golf will take a break for the winter before starting back up on Feb. 1 at the Bill Cullum Invitational in Somis, CA.
- The Mustangs open the 2026-27 season across the country at the Navy Classic on Sunday in Annapolis, Maryland.
- Action starts at 7 a.m. PT Sunday inside the Wesley A. Brown Field House.
- Koda Holeman (125), Arno Vardanyan (133), Joshua Requena (141), Aiden Simmons (149), Anthony Berg (157), Jagger French (165), Cash Stewart (174), Ceasar Garza (184), Levi Bussey (197) and Wesley Wilson (285)
- Cal Poly enters the season with five nationally-ranked wrestlers according to InterMat — No. 14 Koda Holeman (125 pounds), No. 18 Zeth Romney (141 pounds), No. 21 Ceasar Garza (184 pounds), No. 33 Anthony Berg (157 pounds) and No. 33 Jagger French (165 pounds).
- Following this season-opening tournament, the Mustangs welcome Big Ten foe Michigan State to Mott Athletics Center on Friday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. for their home opener.
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