SANTA CLARA, Calif. – In the final nonconference game of the regular season, Santa Clara women's basketball topped UC Santa Barbara 66-48 on Friday night. With its ninth consecutive win, the team is on the longest winning streak since also winning nine in a row during the 2005-06 season.
Santa Clara's nine nonconference wins are the most in a season since winning 11 against nonconference opponents in 2007-08. That year the Broncos finished 20-11, the last season they won 20 or more games.
"We didn't have a great start but in the end we did a good job of executing towards the end of the third quarter and in the fourth," said Santa Clara head coach JR Payne.