I sit in front of AgAlum and his wife, and across the aisle from Greg Wong. My soundtrack last night was :

(From behind) ‘Come in Connor……ugh’
‘Come on Leo…..damn’
‘That coach is nuts!’

(From Across) ‘Che with another; he’s 8-8’
‘Irvine 3….it’s good….that’s 5 in a row’
‘Che is superhuman tonight…that’s 31 points with one miss’

It was painful to watch live. After watching these seniors for several years, you just want to see them get something positive. Really tough ending for them.

and lack of depth. We had Leo coming off the bench. Now we need 30 plus minutes. No backup for Rocek. Nobody close to Adebayo as a defender/rebounder.

I think we were counting on Roberson to fill much of Eli’s scoring. We got none. I think we were counting on Borra to be a solid backup. Nothing there. We were desperate for scoring so Sevilla was elevated and was playing BIG minutes. To my eye, both he and Leo look physically worn down. I thought I heard commentators in the Oregon State game mention that he has to deal with knee soreness. Averaging 30 plus minutes against bigger guys can’t be helping that.

We need a BIG influx of experienced players and hope Roberson will be healthy next year.

The students were ready to cheer but didn't get many opportunities.

Irvine was confident and fired up. Turner was ranting and raving all night long, despite the large deficit. Che was 10-11 from the floor on route to 31 points (20 over his average....we seem to elevate guys to career games). Tillis was 6-8. Their size, spacing and passing led to open shots and they nailed them.

When we start like last night, missing open shots and giving up easy buckets, we're doomed. Just don't have the fire power and depth to make a comeback.

The team looks mentally and physically beaten. Heck, we even had Daugherty with a faceguard.

When Sevilla misses 2 FT's (he was around 95% before last night) its just not his/our night.

Unless Leo and Connor and find their shot before 8:00 on Saturday, its not going to be pretty.

TY plays his ass off despite the frustration you can see building in him. I feel for him.

Irvine shooting 63%, we are at 30%. Esters have incredible energy and confidence. We don’t

Just heard an ad on 1140

I found this on Wikipedia - the source of all knowledge. Looks like late semi and final on ESPN2. Not sure what the delay would be on the early semi (6:00 tip off)

I think I’d take my chances with Bakersfield. I don’t think we’ll stink 3 times vx them! Hawaii isn’t a great matchup - we were fortunate to beat them at home.

Going the free food route!

my wife mentioned that also

I’m afraid his knee issues are long term so time to graduate and move on with his life. From what I’ve heard from folks around the program, he’s a great kid - really sorry he wasn’t able to play this year.

Or, someone screwed up and put his pic instead of Niko.

Here is the Senior Night promo the department sent out. I see Borra but no Rocek. Does he have another year? A COVID thing?

Agree about the commentators. I thought almost all the BWC commentors were good this year. Can't remember the really bad team (Bakersfield?) but the rest have been very well prepared and didn't go too crazy for the home team.

agree completely - I hope I didn’t come off as putting this game on him and Connor. There was a point around midseason (I think going into Pepperdine) he was shooting 50% from the Arc. Since then, the basket has shrunk for him. Easy for me to say ‘it’s all mental’…but he seems to be pressing so much. His effort and intelligence has never waivered. Same for Sevilla.

If somehow that 1-13 was 5-13 (decent shooting) that’s at least 8 points.. different ballgame.

From the Big West boards. Note that Hawaii plays at Bakersfield and CSUN.

Unfortunately our collapse last home stand has made this last home stand irrelevant (except to possibly get a non losing record). There are 2 games of note this week : CSUN vs UCR, and Hawaii at CSUB.

First game could determine 3rd seed although I’m not positive about tie breakers. Poly has two easy games so should finish 8-12. I think Hawaii beats CSUB at Bakersfield to sneak in at 8-12, with CSUB on the outside at 7-13. UCSB should finish 11-9. I fear we’ll finish 9-11 with a 6 seed to take on whoever has the tiebreaker between Hawaii/Poly.

story of the season- our defense keeps us in games, and we win when we can squeeze out some offense. It seems like everyone is so much longer than us - takes away penetration and makes us rely on contested parameter shot. In the first half that I watched, their zone didn’t give us many good looks - I’m assuming the same was true in the second half? 1-13 from Leo and Sevilla isn’t a winning combo, nor is continuing to get beat in the boards

Down 35-29 at half. Offense is stagnant (Hawaii zone is effective). Rocek has 3 fouls which may play a big role in the second half.

I’ve been out at little league games all day so I can’t make it through the rest of the game. Hoping we can figure out a way to pull it out

2.5 point underdogs which is closer than I can remember a game at Hawaii.

Speaking of spreads: SsnDiego +26.5 over Fullerton. I’d take the Tritons to cover easily. They are trying to pad their NCAA resume

if we tie UCSB, we’d get the head to head tiebreaker. We are almost certainly 6 or 7, shouldn’t matter which.

Saturday’s game will say a lot about who’s in and the final 4 seeds. Bakersfield vs Poly, and our game. A Poly loss puts them with 13 losses; even with games vs the bottom 2, they’d be hanging by a thread, and Bako would be in. A Poly win….they’d probably finish at 12 losses with Bako (home vs Hawaii). A win by us put Hawaii on the brink especially with road games vs Bako and CSUN to follow. A win by them keeps them alive but that road trip will be tough. I think we’re in the 6/7 regardless of the outcomes - either Bako or Hawaii will have at least 12 losses.

My guess is we stay at 6 even with 11 losses, where an opening round win would give us a shot vs UCR. If Bako wins out, they’d be 6 since they beat us twice. Hawaii wins out? Not sure who wins that one.