• MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    Says will tip at 6:34 on ESPN News. You should be able to stream it if you get ESPN2.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    Tough to shoot on tired legs. And if tired legs are going to show, it's going to be on 3-point shooting.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    Wonder if they're just running on fumes with this being their fourth game in four days.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    1-16 from 3 in the game. Very hard to win a game when you shoot like that.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    I'll take it. Only down 2 at the half as the underdog is perfectly fine. Obviously we'd all prefer to be up 15 but we're in the game.
  • Survive and Advance - Men and Women both advance to Big West Conference Finals
    Correct. Men only made it in 2017 and the women should have that year (was the first of our 3 year dominant stretch in the league) but they lost in the semi's as a 1 seed.
  • MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    KenPom ranks Irvine 77 and us 172. The NET rating has Irvine at 73 and us at 168. That's why there's the huge drop in terms of projected seed.
  • MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    The three at the end weren't due to not being aggressive. One was Johnson trying to dribble around right under our own basket when he could have passed to an open guy. The second was the pass to Pepper on the inbounds that he fumbled off his knee. The last we actually broke the press and our guy (can't remember who) tried to pass across the court and Hawaii picked it off.
  • MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    And at the end, three turnovers in the last minute or so.
  • MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    Yeah, too close for comfort right now.
  • MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    Second half started just like the first. If the second half wants to end like the first half did - with us winning - that would be swell.
  • MBB: 2024 Big West Conference Tournament
    I liked this game a lot better when we were up 16.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    Yep. If we make it I assume we'll be a 15 or 16 seed anyway so style points are irrelevant here. Winning each game by 20 or by 1 gets us to the same point.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    Yeah, not a great end to the quarter. Especially having the ball with 11 seconds left and letting Hawaii get a steal and a 3 pointer at the buzzer. If just that doesn't happen, we're still up 6 which feels much better.

    UCD's shooting splits are wild. They're 12-38 shooting overall and 9-18 from 3, which means they're 3-20 inside the arc.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    Yep. Survive and advance. You'd obviously love to win pretty, but winning is all that matters at this point.
  • Pepper Watch
    Looks like they switched the rules this year on the NIT so they're not guaranteeing spots to any conferences besides the big 6. So in he past, if you were the regular season champ but didn't win the conference tournament, you were guaranteed a spot in the NIT. So I'm guessing it's unlikely we get a spot in the NIT unfortunately, which stinks.
  • WBB: 2024 Big West Tournament
    Cal Poly shooting 2-18 so far today. I'm not opposed to that continuing for 4 quarters.
  • 2023-24 Big West MBB Scores Thread
    Anyone know the tiebreakers? On the women's side, UCR, CP and UCD are all 12-7 and one of the three will get stuck as the 5 seed and therefore have to play an extra game in the tournament. If it's H2H, UCD would lose a 3-way tiebreaker as they're 1-3. They'd also lose H2H straight up to Poly since Poly swept the season series. But I don't know what would happen if they finished tied with UCR since the two teams split the series.

    Hopefully UCD wins this weekend and at least one of the other two loses to make that moot.
  • WBB: Hawai'i (13-8, 10-2) @ the Aggies (12-10, 8-4) 2 pm Saturday 2/10
    Some pretty crazy parity this year. Two teams at 10-3 in conference and three others at 9-4. Usually by this point 1-3 teams have sort of separated themselves from the pack. Like on the men's side it seems like Irvine, Davis and San Diego are the top three and the winner likely comes from one of those.