they defend very well. Struggle to score.

we won’t hear anything officially

I think the travel requirements of bring the lone NC team in a 20-game conference schedule is taking a toll. No short bus rides for us

If Long Beach beats us next week, probably a moot point

We announced the no contest Wednesday around 10:30. Since we’ve had no word go we assume we’re playing?

In games played tonight;

USCB 78 Beach 73, we’re in 6th
UCSD 99 Irvine 91 (tritons up 14 with 3:00 to go, got down to 3 points)
CSUN 75 Bako 68

Hawaii and Riverside with the late game. Poly with a bye

still can't find a definitive answer to how many players a team has to have in order to use the no-contest rule. my google skills have not been up to the task. i read a COVID era article that the Big12 rule was 7 available scholarship players. No idea about the Big West

I thought I’m the minimum was based on availability of scholarship players, but I could and am probably wrong

yikes. i wonder how many athletes you need, or if its a matter of scholarship players available? we've been pushing guys hard the past two week (39 minutes for Pepper and Milling).

the 900 for CSUN seemed low. I’m guessing there’s something in how they count students that causes the oddness

considering they are playing three teams ahead of them in the standings, AND with injury issues (Beasley, Lose, and maybe Anigwe), I'd lean toward zero percent. And, I tend to be a very optimistic guy on here!

official attendance was around 1700, less than Hawai’i. That didn’t seem the case to me - thought crowd was bigger yesterday

I saw this graphic where NAU brought in 20(!) transfers

got no help from Gauchos! I think we need to focus on passing Long Beach

It seemed like there were 2 or 3 times we’d get to an 11 point lead and seem to be on our way to a big win……and then a couple lousy possessions, a couple 3 point plays and it’s a one-possession game! Grind is a good

Leo and Kane really showed up big. Leo went from a bit of a liability early in the season to a solid player. He hit some big buckets tonight!

Key stat: 8 turnovers! That’s been a big improvement.

Nice crowd - very pleasant surprise.

Scary to see Angiwe come off the court limping after 2 critical offensive boards. We’re getting thinner and thinner at a critical time

Triton’s defense did a great job on Pepper. You could see how frustrated he was from not getting open looks.

a ton of student athlete; many who just left after the halftime salute

we'll be there with a couple of the grandkids in two. Hope to see Johnson get back in a groove. Hopefully, we'll get a decent student turn-out despite it being a beautiful Presidents day afternoon

pretty sure the answer is no with regard to date/location. Maybe we have some input on game time but even that might be influenced by our opponents travel needs (getting out of Sac or into a SOCal airport before a certain time)

mid January we had a home Saturday, Monday in San Diago, and home Thursday and Saturday. That was a stretch!

not sure I’d classify anything as an upset win over CSUN. Matadors were really bad. But, this is a dangerous game as you point out especially when you add in a probable small Presidents’ Day crowd.