Big West 2020 Stephen Tsai, the Honolulu paper's chief sportswriter covering the Big West had a nice sketch of the upcoming conference play. His predictions are much more realistic than pre-season polls since it is based on the teams' records so far. He picks the Aggies to finish 5th and Hawaii 3rd. He does state, quite rightly I think, that there is a lot of parity in the conference this year, so... I wish I could post the article here, but I have to get past all the current obstacles they put on newspaper websites these days. Here is his overall ranking:
1. UCSB
2. UCR
3. Hawaii
4. UCI
5. UC Davis
6. CSU Fullerton
7. CSUN
8. Long Beach
9. Cal Poly