May be a good thing. Ailene Voisin wrote two pieces on the men's team and they lost a first round NIT game. She wrote one on Nevada and they lost their next game in the NCAA's. Maybe we don't want an article.

Seriously, the state of print journalism is deteriorating rapidly, and the Bee might even be ahead of pace. The cost goes up as the paper gets smaller, and most of the articles are provided by wire services. When they do cover local colleges the article is usually buried in a "Regional" column, and somewhere in the article are the words, "according to a UCD/CSUS website."

Women make the final eight of the WNIT and all they get is a score in the fine print summary.

Trivial pursuit....Other than BlueGoldAg's support, what is the connection between UCD women's basketball and Indiana women's basketball?

Jorja Hoehn, UCD head coach from 1988 to 1996, was the head coach at IU from 1985 to 1988.

I knew you would want to know.

Go Ags!

I looked at the WNIT bracket early this morning (Friday). They already had Indiana hosting the UCD/KSU winner.

The WNIT website already has the next round "at Indiana."

Let's just make sure we get there!

Slack finished third and UCD fourth in a "quadrangular" meet last night. Running Causeway Cup score is now Davis 27.5, Slack 17.5. The softball game scheduled for today as part of the NorCal Challenge has been postponed due to weather and will "likely be rescheduled." Pending that calendar issue, the next scheduled event is men's tennis in Sacramento on April 11th.

Regarding seeding and the whole WNIT format.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest money. I didn't know until I started looking at the websites this year that the WNIT has nothing to do with the NIT other than some commonality of name and initials.

The NIT was founded in 1938 and was owned and operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Ass'n. In 2005 the NIT was sold to the NCAA which has operated it ever since. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Invitation_Tournament

The WNIT began with the National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT) which operated from 1969 to 1996. Wikipedia's cannot come up with a sponsor for the original NWIT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Invitational_Tournament In 1994 a business called Triple Crown Sports in Ft. Collins, CO, created a pre-season women's tourney called the WNIT. As noted above the NWIT folded in 1996. In 1998 Triple Crown Sports resurrected the NWIT post season tournament and the following year changed the name to the WNIT. The WNIT is still run by Triple Crown Sports, not the NCAA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Invitation_Tournament

I suspect that the WNIT doesn't have the funds yet to do a lot of seeding, and still has to consider travel, the ability and willingness of schools to host games, etc.

In response to your comment on increased travel in the NIT this year. While Davis is traveling to Salt Lake City to play Utah, BYU is coming from Provo to the Bay Area to play Stanford. There is some logic in that however as BYU and Utah played each other in the regular season. (Cougars won by 12.)

I am afraid this is my fault. I changed my regular coffee cup to one with a UCD logo on it.

Dissappointing result at the Big West Tourney, but we probably shouldn't have been where we were once Chima was suspended. Team has a lot of heart.

Let's get some wins in the NIT!

Haven't been there in many, many years. Used to love it.

Old Sac has suffered over the years, including its restaurants. Even with Golden 1 just a few blocks away.

Frank Fats is still going strong...the third house of the legislature.

Hong Kong Cafe on Broadway was my budget Chinese restaurant from Davis days until they finally retired and closed the business a few years ago.

Chando's Tacos and the related businesses as well as a food truck.

Valentine's, anniversaries, going to pop the question: The Waterboy or Ella. [$$$]

Fancier Mexican: Cielito Lindo.

Old time ice cream: Vic's in Land Park, Gunther's in Curtis Park, Burr's (kind of a Vic's east) in East Sac, Leatherby's in Arden area.

Old time classic Italian: Biba's.

Short bench and three games in three days if this goes the way it should.

Not to look past this weekend, but St. Mary's lost in the WCC semi-finals and by some predictions that loss took them out of the NCAA bubble and into the NIT. Ags mantra for this weekend could be "win or go to Moraga."


Update: However an ESPN bracket this morning has St. Mary's still in it. - And has UC Davis in as a 15 seed, playing a first round game against North Carolina in a West Region game in Nashville.

"...we are the Big West Champions in both Men's and Women's basketball."

Great accomplishment for the school in a league where I think at best we have been seen as a middle of the pack team in most sports.

[Don't tell anybody but we were men's and women's champs in swimming and diving in 2010. The next year Davis dropped men's swimming and diving and the conference dropped both.]

"This entire situation is strange."

In the post-Katehi scrub-the-internet world we live in, you'd think the school would be very careful about honoring him if they thought the investigation was going to turn up something nasty.

Still, we don't know what we don't know. Curiouser and curiouser.

I have mixed reactions to the way this whole matter has been handled. I wish it went faster, but on the other hand I am glad to see that it is being handled through proper administrative channels, (or so it seems.) I have never been a fan of seeing matters like this - criminal, administrative, or whatever - tried in the press. There are interests at stake that are more important than media coverage.

My two cents.

"The original building was built in 1912. It was owned and used by the University at Davis as an agronomy laboratory to test the ground for farming."

http://theclubpheasant.com/our-story-2/

Used to be on the south edge of West Sac. It hasn't moved but a whole lot of West Sac has grown to the south of the Pheasant Club* now. Heck, they paved the parking lot!

*AKA The Club Pheasant.

The Pheasant Club is a very popular place place for office luncheons - retirements, promotions, etc.. Rule in our house was that if someone went to a lunch there they had to buy two sandwiches on the take out menu to bring home for dinner that night. 1) It's a great meal, 2) needed to equalize the garlic breath in the household.

From the Bee:
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/ailene-voisin/article202683109.html