Looking back over the years, our attendance was typically in the 1700/game range pre-pandemic; the past couple years were down in the 1300 range. 2014-15 was the outlier year when attendence was around 2500/game. That was the conference title team and we had 3 huge attended games (ESPNU vs Poly that drew 5300, ESPNU vs LBSU that drew 5300 and season ender vs Irvine that drew 4400).

Student turnout hasn't changed much over the past 10 or so years that I have been regularly attending. They fill the section up on a regular basis once the season rolls into January. Those ESPN games were always a big draw but those aren't happening anymore. Also, the band turnout this year has been bigger in number and in participation than it has for many years. It seems like the pandemic years took alot of steam away from the program.

at Davis, the Beach shot 65% from beyond the arc -> 30% above their season average. there's a big drop off in scoring from Askew's 21 point per game, so I will assume Les will design something to slow him down. This is a critical game for us. A win on Thursday sets us up for a possible sweep vs Fullerton on Saturday. A road sweep would put us in pretty solid position above the bottom half of the conference. A loss would put the Beach in a strong position to finish above us.

I think this is about par for the course although this year’s football success brought out a bunch more new posters.

don’t forget UCLA has to pay Cal $10M a year. There’s a story today by Jon Wilner about the ACC media deal snd the hosing that Cal and Stanford agreed to out of desperation. The unknown is that the ACC might pay out differently to FSU, Clemson, Miami and UNC due to their higher profile - more hosing!

Add to it the article earlier in the week about the grind the 4 cross country road trips are for basketball and this doesn’t seem sustainable.

if they can sign a deal with NBC, more power to them. UCONN and UMASS get decent basketball money, probably an order (or two) of magnitude more than Big Sky basketball money.

We just don’t match up with the eaters. Bigger, and deeper and they play as tough a defense as anyone. Wish we had that last 19 seconds vs Riverside back!

Feels like it slipping away a bit. Lax on defense and sloppy on offense.

Turner is SO MUCH MORE INTENSE vs us than any other team

If a team goes independent , do they get any media rights monies?

I’m watching in the background with a houseful of grandkids. Seemed like Irvine ramped up the defensive pressure after the T. 12 fouls for us vs their 5.

Vegas doesn’t like our chances - 12.5 point underdogs. Very tough matchup. I think I’d like to see Poly, Bako, Beach and Fullerton lose as expected to keep them below us (plus we have 2 win tiebreaker over UCSB)

we did have a TO; we used it after they hit the 3. By a guy who was scoreless up to that point!

I'm a big fan of Tillis. Just a real solid player. Not a tremendous athlete (a little pudgy, kind of a sleepy-eyed look), but he just seems to make big plays for them when they need it. It seems like he's been at Irvine forever.

i was telling my wife last night we really wanted LBSU to lose to make sure we get in the top 8, especially since the Beach already owns a victory over us.

That loss last night hurt considering the games we have left (2 vs Irvine, 2 vs UCSD, and this road gauntlet). i'd be feeling much better at 7-3 vs 6-4.

he was on the court at the end, right? I thought that’s who TY was throwing to

Well, that one hurt

he’s got a nice stroke.

Gotta stop their 3’s from the stretch. Up 56-55 4:00 to go. Not many fouls being called

He’s been a huge contributor

Finished on a run to end the half up 26-24. 1-11 from 3. Yikes

Defensive battle; 20-20 4:00 to go.

BTW - this might be the best announcing crew in the conference. Very knowledgeable

We’ve gotten sloppy and TY is ice cold; down 17-16 with 6:00 to go