"Come here for playing time!" Similar recruiting model for the FCS football schools, I guess.

I just wonder if Davis could have kept Hawkins or TJ Shorts in the current "market."

Will be interesting to see, after a few years of data, if the wide-open transfer portal help or hurts the little guys, i.e. are the low-/mid-majors losing or gaining more talent, on balance?

I like the Cal openers. It's too bad there aren't still four UCs playing football. Reading back through the band's historical files, we found out that there used to be an all-UC doubleheader held at Cal where UCSB and Davis would play and then Cal/UCLA would be the nightcap. Big four-band halftime show and all that jazz...

They are joining the Southland Conference in 2022.

https://lionathletics.com/news/2021/9/28/general-texas-am-university-commerce-accepts-invitation-to-southland-conference.aspx

One potential benefit of neutral site championships: random pro player encounters.

Disappointing end to a weird season. Congratulations to the seniors for a great 4-5 year run and best wishes in their future endeavors!

It seems like a cyclical thing: team gets pressed/trapped, turns ball over a ton, team relearns press/trap breaking, opponents stop because they are giving up easy buckets, team forgets press break, repeat...

Raise your hand if you had "starting PG collects 12 rebounds" on your bingo card.

Yup! 80-68 Irvine FINAL.

58-39 Irvine after 3Q.

Irvine leads 40-27 at half.

2Q going poorly for Fullerton.

Fullerton hanging with Irvine through 1Q.

Amy Atwell held to 6 pts by Bako.

Wow!

And survived the endless FTs and TOs stage of the game.

Gonzaga over #15 BYU 71-59 to win the WCC conference tourney.

Gonzaga finished the season with 6 losses: two to BYU in the conference season, two to Stanford, one to Wazzu, and one to....UC Davis. :strong:

Full list of BW WBB awards: https://bigwest.org/news/2022/3/7/the-big-west-announces-2021-22-womens-basketball-all-conference-team.aspx

Morgan Bertsch back on the Wings for training camp: