Joe Pasternack didn’t mark his 45th birthday with a big party on Saturday, preferring just a quiet family dinner. What he really wanted was his UC Santa Barbara basketball team to age a little more. “I spent most of the day working the phones, trying to recruit some transfers,” the Gaucho coach said. “In college basketball now, you’ve got to get old ... and stay old.” One of Pasternack’s biggest birthday wishes was granted a week earlier with the happy return of star forward Miles Norris.
