The UC San Diego men's basketball team is 26-4 and 16-2 in the Big West Conference. The Tritons could make the NCAA tournament in their first season of eligibility.

Texas Tech plated five runs in the eighth inning, but it wasn’t enough in the 11-10 loss to UC San Diego on Tuesday, dropping the Red Raiders to 2-8 for the first time since 1955. Starting pitching struggles continued for Texas Tech.

Win Thursday, and UCSD can clinch a share of the regular-season conference title. The Tritons have already locked in a top-two seed for next week’s Big West Tournament in Henderson, Nev., ensuring them a bye into the semifinals.

After a weekend in Las Vegas at the College Baseball Classic, the Texas Tech Red Raiders will host the UC-San Diego Tritons in a midweek two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock.

UC San Diego entered Thursday’s game against CSU Northridge on a nine-game win streak, and the Tritons were able to hold off the Matadors all game long to extend that streak to double digits with a 77-71 road win.

Against Hawai’i Saturday in a game that was never quite close, UC San Diego got out to a blazing start as they went up 26-7 before the 10 minute mark in the first half in its 83-44 Big West win.

SAN DIEGO -- — Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones had 19 points and UC San Diego upped its win streak ... Tait-Jones also grabbed five rebounds for the Tritons (24-4, 14-2 Big West Conference).

In a season filled with impressive defensive performances, the first three quarters of Saturday’s game against UC San Diego stood out as arguably the Hawaii women’s basketball team’s best yet.

The last-place Titans are no match for first-place UCSD, which makes 18 3-pointers and dominates from wire to wire to hand Fullerton another lopsided defeat, 100-55.

SAN DIEGO — Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones’ 21 points helped UC San Diego defeat Cal State Fullerton 100-55 on Saturday night.

However, he struggled to shoot in the first meeting against UC-San Diego, making only one of his five 3s in the 25-point loss to the Tritons. To keep up this time around, Washington must keep up.