UC Santa Barbara def. UC Riverside 3-0 Volleyball (Oct 16)

FinalFri, Oct 16, 2026ESPN+

0:3

RallyIQ pre-match: UC Santa Barbara 97.5% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Oct 16, 8:56 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

UC Santa Barbara beat visiting UC Riverside 3-0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-22) on Fri, Oct 16, 2026. UC Santa Barbara's Auburn Tomkinson led with 15 kills, and Milan Rex added 8 digs.

Data through Nov 4, 2:50 PM CT · final Oct 16

Set	1	2	3	Sets
UC RIV	18	13	22	0
UCSB	25	25	25	3

Match story · written from the play-by-play

Auburn Tomkinson hit .750 with 15 kills as UC Santa Barbara rolled past UC Riverside.

No single rally moved win probability more than 0.6 points. UC Riverside peaked at 3% in Set 1. These are the stats that built the gap. RallyIQ gave UC Santa Barbara 98% before first serve.

UC RiversideUC Santa Barbara

Break %+19.4 pts
32.752.1
38 of 73 on serve vs 18 of 55, so UC Riverside's sideout was 47.9%.
Hitting+.192
.130.322
43 K / 15 E against 24 K / 14 E.

UC Santa Barbara above 50UC Riverside belowMax swing 0.6%

UC RiversideUC Santa Barbara

Aces: UC Riverside 2·UC Santa Barbara 7
Serve err: UC Riverside 6·UC Santa Barbara 10
Blocks: UC Riverside 9·UC Santa Barbara 61 BS · 16 BA vs 0 BS · 12 BA
Digs: UC Riverside 24·UC Santa Barbara 34

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

UC Santa Barbara above 50 · UC Riverside below

No single rally moved win probability by a full point: UC Santa Barbara stayed the heavy favorite throughout.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

UC RIV 2.4%97.6% UCSB

UC Riverside wins

3-0

0.2%

3-1

0.6%

3-2

1.6%

UC Santa Barbara wins

3-0

64.8%

3-1

26.2%

3-2

6.6%

UC RIV break %: 35.4% vs this opp
UCSB break %: 50.5% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Box score

Official NCAA box

UC Riversideaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
12Malia TanksleyOH	3	2	3	11	-.091	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	3	5
15Evelyn HendrixMB	3	3	0	5	.600	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	5
4Zeynep BelgutayMB	3	0	0	6	.000	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	2	2
11Elena KasavicaS	3	0	0	1	.000	12	1	1	4	0	0	1	0.5	1.5
1Madison PulsipherOH	2	2	4	10	-.200	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	2
20Andrea BrewerOH	2	1	3	15	-.133	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
13Nicole HughesOH	3	7	1	8	.750	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1.5	8.5
22Maya BarronS	3	2	0	2	1.000	7	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	2
5McKenna GilesL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	1	0	1	8	1	0	0	0	0
9Casi DollOH	2	4	1	12	.250	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
19Misu NguyenL/DS	2	0	0	0	–	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
14Juliette D'EliseoOH	1	2	0	4	.500	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
3Sariah JohnsonOH	1	1	2	3	-.333	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Team totals		24	14	77	.130	21	2	6	24	7	1	16	9	53

UC Santa Barbarahome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BA	BLK	PTS
1Auburn TomkinsonOPP	3	15	0	20	.750	1	0	1	1	0	4	2	17
18Gabi MartinezOH	3	9	6	22	.136	2	2	5	7	1	1	0.5	11.5
13Bella MathisMB	3	5	1	6	.667	0	0	1	2	0	6	3	8
2Sandrea ThomasMB	3	5	1	10	.400	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
8Milan RexS	3	0	0	1	.000	19	3	1	8	0	0	0	3
10Kate MartinOH	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12Avery GibbsOPP	3	5	2	11	.273	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5
33Emma McDermottOH	3	2	5	14	-.214	1	1	0	3	0	1	0.5	3.5
11Ava ZamoraS	3	1	0	1	1.000	13	0	2	3	0	0	0	1
4Bianca NistorDS	3	0	0	0	–	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
9Cortni YoungbloodDS	3	0	0	1	.000	1	0	0	5	1	0	0	0
15Reilly GouethMB	1	1	0	1	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Team totals		43	15	87	.322	38	7	10	34	2	12	6	75

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

UC Riverside vs UC Santa Barbara

Season series · UC Santa Barbara leads 1-0

Fri, Oct 16, 2026UC Riverside at UC Santa Barbara · UC Santa Barbara won 3-0This match
Sat, Nov 21, 2026UC Santa Barbara at UC RiversidePreview →

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 4 UC RIV · UCSB 6

Set 1

18-25

Longest run 4 UC RIVUCSB 5

Set 2

13-25

Longest run 3 UC RIVUCSB 6

Set 3

22-25

Longest run 4 UC RIVUCSB 4

Bars above the line = UC Santa Barbara leads, below = UC Riverside leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

UC Riverside

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	18%2/11	0%0/3
2	100%2/2	33%1/3
3	100%2/2	50%2/4
4	100%2/2	60%3/5
5	40%2/5	0%0/2
6	100%2/2	0%0/2
All	50%12/24	32%6/19

UC Santa Barbara

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	100%3/3	0%0/2
2	67%2/3	82%9/11
3	50%2/4	0%0/2
4	40%2/5	0%0/2
5	100%2/2	0%0/2
6	100%2/2	60%3/5
All	68%13/19	50%12/24

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (1 of 3 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

128 rallies

#	UC RIV-UCSB	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	0-1	UC RIV	UCSB×5	Bad set	Malia Tanksley
2	0-2	UCSB	UCSB×5	Ace	UC Santa Barbara
3	0-3	UCSB	UCSB×5	Ace	UC Santa Barbara	aced Andrea Brewer
4	0-4	UCSB	UCSB×5	Bad set	Evelyn Hendrix
5	0-5	UCSB	UCSB×5	Ace	UC Santa Barbara	aced Andrea Brewer
6	1-5	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Andrea Brewer	set Elena Kasavica
7	2-5	UC RIV	UC RIV	Blocked	Gabi Martinez	blk Evelyn Hendrix, Malia Tanksley
8	2-6	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
9	3-6	UCSB	UC RIV×3	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
10	4-6	UC RIV	UC RIV×3	Blocked	Emma McDermott	blk Malia Tanksley
11	5-6	UC RIV	UC RIV×3	Kill	Madison Pulsipher
12	5-7	UC RIV	UCSB	Serve err	UC Riverside
13	6-7	UCSB	UC RIV	Bad set	Milan Rex
14	6-8	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Emma McDermott	set Auburn Tomkinson
15	7-8	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
16	7-9	UC RIV	UCSB×3	Attack err	Andrea Brewer
17	7-10	UCSB	UCSB×3	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Emma McDermott
18	7-11	UCSB	UCSB×3	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Ava Zamora
19	8-11	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Maya Barron	set Ava Zamora
20	8-12	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Ava Zamora
21	9-12	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes	set Maya Barron
22	9-13	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Avery Gibbs	set Ava Zamora
23	9-14	UCSB	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Gabi Martinez
24	10-14	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Evelyn Hendrix	set Elena Kasavica
25	10-15	UC RIV	UCSB	Attack err	Madison Pulsipher
26	11-15	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
27	11-16	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
28	12-16	UCSB	UC RIV×4	Blocked	Emma McDermott	blk Malia Tanksley, Zeynep Belgutay
29	13-16	UC RIV	UC RIV×4	Kill	Madison Pulsipher	set Maya Barron
30	14-16	UC RIV	UC RIV×4	Attack err	Bella Mathis
31	15-16	UC RIV	UC RIV×4	Blocked	Emma McDermott	blk Zeynep Belgutay, Nicole Hughes
32	15-17	UC RIV	UCSB	Attack err	Madison Pulsipher
33	16-17	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes	set Maya Barron
34	16-18	UC RIV	UCSB	Serve err	UC Riverside
35	16-19	UCSB	UCSB	Bad set	Maya Barron
36	17-19	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes	set Maya Barron
37	17-20	UC RIV	UCSB	Serve err	UC Riverside
38	18-20	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
39	18-21	UC RIV	UCSB×5	Serve err	UC Riverside
40	18-22	UCSB	UCSB×5	Attack err	Andrea Brewer
41	18-23	UCSB	UCSB×5	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set McKenna Giles
42	18-24	UCSB	UCSB×5	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
43	18-25	UCSB	UCSB×5	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Milan Rex
Set 2
1	1-0	UCSB	UC RIV	Blocked	Gabi Martinez	blk Evelyn Hendrix, Elena Kasavica
2	1-1	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
3	2-1	UCSB	UC RIV×3	Bad set	Emma McDermott
4	3-1	UC RIV	UC RIV×3	Blocked	Emma McDermott	blk Evelyn Hendrix, Malia Tanksley
5	4-1	UC RIV	UC RIV×3	Ace	UC Riverside	aced Cortni Youngblood
6	4-2	UC RIV	UCSB	Serve err	UC Riverside
7	4-3	UCSB	UCSB	Blocked	Madison Pulsipher	blk Bella Mathis, Auburn Tomkinson
8	5-3	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Evelyn Hendrix	set Elena Kasavica
9	5-4	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Bella Mathis	set Milan Rex
10	5-5	UCSB	UCSB	Bad set	Elena Kasavica
11	6-5	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Malia Tanksley	set Elena Kasavica
12	7-5	UC RIV	UC RIV	Blocked	Avery Gibbs	blk Zeynep Belgutay, Nicole Hughes
13	7-6	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Bella Mathis	set Ava Zamora
14	7-7	UCSB	UCSB	Kill	Avery Gibbs	set Ava Zamora
15	8-7	UCSB	UC RIV	Attack err	Gabi Martinez
16	8-8	UC RIV	UCSB×4	Kill	Bella Mathis	set Ava Zamora
17	8-9	UCSB	UCSB×4	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Ava Zamora
18	8-10	UCSB	UCSB×4	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Zeynep Belgutay
19	8-11	UCSB	UCSB×4	Kill	Sandrea Thomas	set Maya Barron
20	9-11	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes	set Maya Barron
21	9-12	UC RIV	UCSB	Attack err	Andrea Brewer
22	9-13	UCSB	UCSB	Attack err	Nicole Hughes
23	10-13	UCSB	UC RIV	Blocked	Gabi Martinez	blk Evelyn Hendrix, Nicole Hughes
24	10-14	UC RIV	UCSB×6	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
25	10-15	UCSB	UCSB×6	Kill	Bella Mathis	set Milan Rex
26	10-16		UCSB	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
27	10-17	UCSB	UCSB×6	Ace	UC Santa Barbara	aced McKenna Giles
28	10-18	UCSB	UCSB×6	Bad set	McKenna Giles
29	10-19	UCSB	UCSB×6	Attack err	Malia Tanksley
30	11-19	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Malia Tanksley	set Elena Kasavica
31	11-20	UC RIV	UCSB×3	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Milan Rex
32	11-21	UCSB	UCSB×3	Blocked	Madison Pulsipher	blk Auburn Tomkinson, Bella Mathis
33	11-22	UCSB	UCSB×3	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Gabi Martinez
34	12-22	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Sariah Johnson	set Elena Kasavica
35	12-23	UC RIV	UCSB	Blocked	Sariah Johnson	blk Auburn Tomkinson, Bella Mathis
36	13-23	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
37	13-24	UC RIV	UCSB	Blocked	Sariah Johnson	blk Emma McDermott, Bella Mathis
38	13-25	UCSB	UCSB	Kill	Avery Gibbs	set Ava Zamora
Set 3
1	0-1	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Cortni Youngblood
2	0-2	UCSB	UCSB	Kill	Sandrea Thomas	set Milan Rex
3	1-2	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Casi Doll	set Elena Kasavica
4	2-2	UC RIV	UC RIV	Kill	Casi Doll	set McKenna Giles
5	2-3	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
6	2-4	UCSB	UCSB	Kill	Sandrea Thomas	set Cortni Youngblood
7	3-4	UCSB	UC RIV×3	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
8	4-4	UC RIV	UC RIV×3	Blocked	Emma McDermott	blk Malia Tanksley, Zeynep Belgutay
9	5-4	UC RIV	UC RIV×3	Attack err	Sandrea Thomas
10	5-5	UC RIV	UCSB×3	Kill	Sandrea Thomas	set Milan Rex
11	5-6	UCSB	UCSB×3	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Bianca Nistor
12	5-7	UCSB	UCSB×3	Ace	UC Santa Barbara	aced Casi Doll
13	6-7	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Casi Doll	set Maya Barron
14	6-8	UC RIV	UCSB	Attack err	Malia Tanksley
15	7-8	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
16	8-8	UC RIV	UC RIV	Attack err	Avery Gibbs
17	8-9	UC RIV	UCSB×3	Kill	Emma McDermott	set Ava Zamora
18	8-10	UCSB	UCSB×3	Blocked	Malia Tanksley	blk Bella Mathis, Gabi Martinez
19	8-11	UCSB	UCSB×3	Ace	UC Santa Barbara	aced Misu Nguyen
20	9-11	UCSB	UC RIV	Attack err	Gabi Martinez
21	9-12	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Avery Gibbs	set Ava Zamora
22	10-12	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes	set Elena Kasavica
23	10-13	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Gabi Martinez	set Ava Zamora
24	11-13	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
25	12-13	UC RIV	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes	set Elena Kasavica
26	12-14	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Sandrea Thomas	set Milan Rex
27	13-14	UCSB	UC RIV	Serve err	UC Santa Barbara
28	13-15	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
29	14-15	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Maya Barron	set Misu Nguyen
30	14-16	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
31	14-17		UCSB	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
32	15-17	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Juliette D'Eliseo	set Maya Barron
33	15-18	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Avery Gibbs	set Ava Zamora
34	16-18		UC RIV	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
35	17-18	UC RIV	UC RIV×4	Attack err	Gabi Martinez
36	18-18	UC RIV	UC RIV×4	Kill	Juliette D'Eliseo	set Elena Kasavica
37	19-18		UC RIV	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
38	19-19	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Bella Mathis
39	20-19	UCSB	UC RIV	Kill	Nicole Hughes
40	20-20	UC RIV	UCSB×4	Attack err	Nicole Hughes
41	20-21	UCSB	UCSB×4	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson
42–45	22-23		UC RIV 2 · UCSB 2	NCAA feed gap4 points not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.
46	22-24	UC RIV	UCSB	Kill	Auburn Tomkinson	set Milan Rex
47	22-25	UCSB	UCSB	Blocked	Casi Doll	blk Bella Mathis, Auburn Tomkinson

Score shown after each rally, UC Riverside first.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

UC Santa Barbara def. UC Riverside 3–0

Auburn Tomkinson hit .750 with 15 kills as UC Santa Barbara rolled past UC Riverside.