agree. I think we had a good time last year.

if memory serves, it wasnt much of a ‘game’ last year.

he’s post COVID. 20 plus games at Cal over 2 seasons in addition to his 3 full seasons. Bizarre

how can Devin Askew still be eligible. One season at Kentucky, one at Texas, 2 years at Cal and one at Long Beach. That’s kind of ridiculous. Following the ex-Ag Mikey Henn career path.

irvine has been the standard to shoot for in the conference for awhile. They haven’t been dependent on transfers, rather getting good recruits and keeping them in the program. At the home game vs them I was looking at the game program hoping to see 5 senior starters; unfortunately, they have key returners (although Tillis and Bent will be tough to replace). They seem to be able to win with different offensive styles and their defense never seems to take a night off.

he’s finished. He was named all-academic WCC as a graduate student. Bright kid

I would imagine they’ll have their eyes on past recruits that slipped away who aren’t happy in their current spot. Robby Beasley fit that criteria.

A 100% Roberson would be a delayed impact transfer.

Two of our OOC opponents are playing today. Norfolk St is a 16 seed getting crushed by Florida. Grand Canyon got beat bad by Maryland.

One might infer that the level of compliance at Stanford is higher than his previous stops

Back to SJS - they have a NET ranking of 175 and get a bid AND a home game. CSUN was something like 105 and gave to play at a good Stanford team?

CSUN and UCR are both getting beat badly .



How did San Jose State with a losing record (15-19) get in?

on the men’s side, UCI got the #1 seed in the NIT and both UCR and CSUN got in.

I think what was frustrating about this season is that there were 5 BWC games that could/should have been wins : 2 v Bako, home v LB, home vs CSUN and road v UCR. Win 3 of those and 12-10 looks pretty decent.

Of course, I’m ignoring possible losses like home v Hawaii!

actually Les was fired at Bradley in 2011. I think we got him on the cheap because they still owed him money (there were lawsuits about how much they owed him). But I agree that this is where he wants to be.

I do think he is going to need help from the administration NOW to be competitive next year and moving ahead to the MWC.

oh I agree 100%

I would imagine many students of both sexes would feel more comfortable being able to dress in private.

My wife did okay. We planned our trip around the men, and I figured we would probably get to Thursday and lose a close one. I did have a plan to stick around if they won Friday (the Slot Queen was heading back).

I never made it to the Honda center, but i like the environment in Henderson. That's a perfect size arena for mid-major basketball, and the design seems to amplify the noise well.

that’s her husband, correct?

that’s a great point. Adding one or more that can focus a great deal of time/effort on the recruiting front would be big.

Might have to work with Mrak on foreign recruits. I’m not sure how scholarships for basketball get charged for out of state or foreign; for football, scholarship cost for out of state players reflects the difference in tutition.

Besides Irvine and, to a lesser extent, UCSB, we’ve been a bit above the average in the BWC over time. The UCR and CSUN hires have turned things around there, and Poly had a big jump (albeit only to the 7th spot) with a grad transfer/senior heavy team. The first two seem to be in good position to sustain it; jury is out on Poly.

Can we get back to a near 20-win, top 4 BWC level consistently?

Remember, we were about 3 minutes from another NCAA appearance last season so things aren’t desperate.

We don’t seem to be able to get quality players from SoCal; maybe that changes when we get out of a SOCal-centric league? We haven’t had a quality foreign player which seem so common in our league (Anyone see Caleb Fuller representing on Senior night). That seems to be the Irvine model for consistent high level play.

Les finds diamonds in the rough but we don’t seem to get guys on those ‘top 40 recruits’ list (Stokes is a top 5 NorCal but not on a state wide list). I think there were hopes that Roberson was a plug in impact player - that remains to be seen.

I don’t think so; from what I’ve heard, if we get a special admit they go to football. Some of our UC competitors (SB) can get guys in with help.

That’s just based on conservations where I’d asked ‘how’d the gauchos seem to be able to get so many P5 Transfers compared to us?’