Men's golf placed 5th in their own tournament, well ahead of Slack who finished 11th (of 13). With the higher placing, the Ags earn 5 more Causeway points. That brings the running score to UCD 32.5, Slack 22.5. Next event on the schedule is the first of two baseball games, to be played this coming Tuesday evening in Davis.

Go Ags!

Thanks for the information. Obviously I had no idea that the home school provides horses for visitors. I will have to read up a bit. How are horses distributed for the event? Is there some sort of drawing or lottery? It would seem to be a home-turf advantage if the home riders had horses with which they work everyday and the visitors are riding unfamiliar mounts. But as is apparent, what do I know?

Many, many years ago the UCD horse polo club won a national club championship, largely with the support of a rancher/horse breeder from the central valley. Pattern story for a made for TV movie...the rough unpolished kids from the west beat the refined blue-bloods from the east coast. Coincidentally it was the backdrop for a movie for TV with John Ritter titled "Leave Yesterday Behind." Ritter plays a polo player and vet student who is paralyzed in a riding accident.

And speaking of equestrian events, and with a John Ritter tie-in, I have two words in support of an equestrian team: Kaley. Cuoco.

I am for any sport...but really don't get equestrian (and field hockey) in the California valley. Racing shells are expensive and you have to transport them, but you don't have to feed them or stable them, or stop every few hours to water them...and at the end of the meet you wash them off, not brush them down.

Boise State has beach volleyball. They play their first home games next week. http://www.broncosports.com/sports/w-svolley/bosu-w-svolley-body.html

It's all a matter of perspective. As I recall, when the Ags went to the Boardwalk Bowl in the early 70s some UMass fans displayed a sign that read "Beach Cal Davis." They were playing on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City with the Atlantic Ocean in plain view. Amherst, MA is about 90 miles from Boston, only slightly farther than Davis to San Francisco.
Beach volleyball has been played in the Olympics in notable seaside retreats like Atlanta, Athens, Beijing and London.
I think they have to call it beach volleyball because in this enlightened age we can't call it "another reason to watch women run around in bikinis."

Other than being an ag school with a premier veterinary school I don't get adding equestrian.

Look at Fresno State's schedule: http://www.gobulldogs.com/schedule.aspx?path=equest
The season started in September with three home events over two weekends. Then they travelled to South Dakota in October and to Tennessee for two meets in November. Then a break, followed by two events on a weekend in Texas and two home events two weeks later back in Fresno. In March they traveled to South Carolina and Alabama. That month ended with the conference championship in Dallas. Next weekend they return to Texas for the national championships, a four day event. Transporting, boarding and feeding horses can't be cheap. And, according to the press release, the school is building ($$$) an equine facility.
At least with a team in Davis, visiting teams can get two events on their west coast trip.

Men's tennis lost a close one to Slack yesterday, 4-3. Running score is now UCD 27.5, Slack 22.5. Next up is a men's golf tournament (The El Macero "Classic") this weekend.

I frequently tried to invoke something like that when it came to divulging my grades to my parents.

Would this be him?

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/alex_trautner_1067015.html

I think that rowing is like cross country. Pick a spot and sit, the action comes racing by, and you're done....Not even like the Tour de France where idiots run out onto the course waving flags and almost knocking the cyclists down. As I recall the few times I have seen rowing in the Olympics there are often bike lanes on the shore and you can see cyclists following the boats.

(HIPPA, or to be an attorney, er, jerk, about it, HIPAA, has to do with privacy of medical information. Not sure if medical issues ever came up, but there are probably some rules or regulations providing for confidentiality of student disciplinary matters.)

Didn't Chima graduate at the end of the winter quarter? If he has graduated, does that put an unceremonious, and unresolved end to the matter?

WNIT Final: Indiana 65-Va Tech 57 in front of 13,000 (!!) in Bloomington.

Penn State defeated Utah for NIT championship.

Indiana continues it's roll through the WNIT, defeating TCU by 13, 71-58, in front of 7,800 fans in Bloomington. They will host Virginia Tech in Saturday's final.

Just as in the men's NIT, the Ags lost to a finalist, and played them as well as any other team has in the tournament(s).

Utah State hired Craig Smith from the University of South Dakota as their new head coach.
http://www.utahstateaggies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/032618aad.html

They will be playing Penn State.

Well if you go by the Big Ten rule it might be Flagstaff.

Maybe the Big West could be like the 14 teams in the Big Ten and have their tournament in Madison Square Garden, smack dab in the geographic center of the conference? Or like the "faith-based" schools of the West Coast Conference and have the tournament in Las Vegas.

To twist an old journalism adage, "it's woman bites dog" news.

I grew up in Iowa City, IA. I think Iowa City and Bloomington could pass for twin cities. Basketball is not quite the event in Iowa that it is in Indiana; substitute football and wrestling. I swore I was watching Iowa City when I saw "Breaking Away." College sports are a whole different thing in that area. Think Big Game...that's the atmosphere when a Big Ten school plays their season opener against some patsy directional school from a smaller conference. By the time you get to the conference schedule the whole state shuts down for the game. It's a different world. I am here to stay, but have great memories of growing up in Big Ten country.