UC IRVINE MEN’S BASKETBALL

UC IRVINE AT CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO

WHEN: Tonight, 7:05

WHERE: Mott Gymnasium

RADIO: KUCI/88.9; Sirius/channel 125

BREAKDOWN: UCI Coach Pat Douglass is one win away from tying Bill Mulligan atop the school’s career coaching victory list. Douglass, in his 11th season, is 162-150, while Mulligan was 163-156 in 11 seasons from 1980-1991 … UCI (9-12, 4-4 in the Big West Conference) has won two of its last three, including its first conference road win Saturday at Long Beach State, when it used its seventh different starting lineup of the season … UCI senior guard Chuma Awaji’s career is over due to academic ineligibility. Awaji averaged 7.5 points in 11 games, one of which he started … UCI is led by seniors Patrick Sanders (15.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game) and Darren Fells (13.9 ppg, 6.2 rpg) … Sanders has scored in double figures his last 14 games and Fells, who posted his fourth double-double of the season with 17 points and 11 rebounds against Long Beach, leads the Big West in field-goal shooting (59.4%).

— Barry Faulkner