I believe we’ve been there. About 10 years ago, I umpired the Little League Senior division western regional in Salem. We took a road trip on one of the off days.

And I’ll use my United points to fly - 8 hours of driving is too much on this body .


Edit: wrong place. We hit Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Also ate at this gem

I think we are a tenative ‘yes’. Relatively easy one day drive up on Friday, back in Monday with a side trip to the coast

i was just seeking the Big West message boards, and guys are starting to hit the portal. UCSD, CP, CSUN and Bake have been hit hard so far, especially Poly and UCSD.

and non conference is much easier

The Princeton team doesn’t look like the old Pete Carill teams. Some real athletes on that team.

Looking for a #24 Mikey Henn sighting.

that was a term I saw in one article where they mentioned the Hawaii had the biggest fan base at last year’s tournament.

I watched most of the first half and Caleb was on the floor most of the time, although not much of the offense. Did he play much in the second? Seems like his stat line didn’t really change

gauchos, I think, will need to shoot well from the outside. I don’t think they’ll have their normal success driving to the hoop vs Bears

that's brutal. that similar thing happened to us this year, correct? in that milwaukee tournament? anigwe or ade grabbing a rebound and throwing out to midcourt to avoid a travel?

Vanderbilt won its NIT opener over Yale. Manjon had 18 points on 6-7 shooting, 2-2 from 3! Oddly enough, he had zero assists (team only had 8)

okay, I can still be ticked at the UOP home loss!

Eastern Washington beat Washington State. That was one of the two preseason losses that disappointed me; the other was UOP. Maybe EWU wasn’t that bad.

shoot, I can’t find the article I meant to post. This is interesting


https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/sports/2022/03/12/big-west-conference-encouraged-by-debut-of-basketball-championships-at-dollar-loan-center


I think they were/are hoping the city of Henderson would embrace it as their event and drive ticket sales.

This is an interesting article about the move. Sounds like they didn’t like the size and proximity of the Honda Center. This makes for a more nuetral true-tournament atmosphere. Not sure the attendance of the Friday-Saturday

an article I read stressed the smaller arena as a draw. I don’t think they drew that many folks to the Honda center which is twice the size of Henderson arena, so crowds looked really small.

Not to be cynical…..BUT…..I’d guess the move to Henderson was all about money for the conference (not the schools)

Irvine is in the NIT as the BW regular season champ. They play Oregon. Hopefully, for Russ Turner, the Ducks don’t have a player named King on the team again.

CBI costs a fair amount to enter ( I thought I read. something like $50k) so unless you host a game it can get costly to play in

sorry; I meant more athletic team

seriously. How many games in the Big West does it look like we have more athletes?

last year was weird. Manjon moved up. Murphy ended up at some tiny school with his brother. Not sure if McGill or Niles went back to JC. Murphy and McGill got time; maybe the academic fit wasn’t got them? Puzzling

Edit: McGill is at Metro St in Denver near his home town.