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New Santa Clara athletic director keeping close eye on basketball

The West Coast Conference basketball regular season ends Saturday, and the Santa Clara men are on a path to their 20th consecutive year without a bid to either the NCAA tournament or the NIT.

This will be the ninth season of that drought on coach Kerry Keating's watch.It's not the picture first-year Santa Clara athletic director Renee Baumgartner envisions for the Broncos."I would like to compete for (conference) championships and be a program that has aspirations to play in the NCAA and the NIT," she said Monday.While acknowledging injuries on the team, Baumgartner said, "We were hoping to be more competitive.