LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Tiger Tales is a new weekly series, highlighting the previous week in athletics and looks ahead at the current week and landscape for each of the Tigers' 20 programs.
 
A look back (December 29-January 5)
 
Men's Basketball
Clotfelter repeats as Defensive Athlete of the Week
Men's hoops falls in high-scoring affair
Luna's last-second fadeaway jumper propels men's basketball to 71-70 win over Whittier
Men's basketball defeats ETBU 69-58 as McCleery Brown shines with 26 points
Men's basketball holds on to defeat MSOE to wrap up D3Hoops.com Classic
Men's basketball's 6-game win streak ends vs. Central College
 
Women's Basketball
Women's basketball drops SCIAC opener on the road in Whittier
Ko's 21 points lead the way as women's basketball defeats St. Joseph's
Yasukochi scores 30 points, women's basketball falls in OT
Women's basketball falls to Gettysburg at D3Hoops.com Classic
 
Swimming & Diving
Swim & Dive takes on Division II Fresno Pacific, women take home victory
 
A sneak peek (January 7-11, 2026)
 
Men's Basketball

• The Tigers are off to their best start, 9-2, since the 2018-19 campaign
• The Tigers are top 40 in the country in (scoring offense, rebounds per game [5^th], assists per game, field goal percentage and scoring margin)
• 1/7 at No. 11 Claremont-M-S – the Stags have consistently climbed the national leaderboard and remain as one of five unbeaten teams in all of Division III
• 1/10 at Caltech – Oxy opened the season back on 11/8 with a 32-point win over the Beavers

 
Women's Basketball

• The tale of two Tigers – Oxy is 5-1 when scoring 60 or more points this season
• Ainsley Shelsta has been stellar since returning from injury, averaging 12.7 points and 8.5 rebounds in just 19.8 minutes per game.
• 1/7 vs Claremont-M-S – the Athenas have impressed to open 2025-26, going 10-2 and 4-0 in SCIAC play
• 1/10 at Caltech – Caltech is 2-8 on the season, most recently losing back-to-back contests with CMS

 
Swimming & Diving

• Eight Tigers won events in the Tigers' meet with Division II Fresno Pacific on January 5.
• Connor Grant and Amanda George lead the Tigers' respective squads, Grant ranks 35^th in the SCIAC and George ranks 33^rd.
• 1/10 vs Claremont-M-S – the Stags and Athenas are historically two of the top programs in the conference. The Stags have won six-straight SCIAC titles while the Athenas were runners-up a season ago.
• 1/11 vs Colorado College – The Colorado College Tigers have traveled all across the nation for their meets this season. Their lone Division III victory came against Augustana (Ill.) back in October.

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