I agree that it seems reasonable that some under-the-table deal was made so Chima had an idea of where he stood with possibly getting reinstated (or not), but I don't think it's disgraceful that the team picture didn't include him. The school has a lower threshold of required evidence for disciplinary action than the legal system, which means that they could be much closer to resolution than LAPD and be reasonably sure of the outcome already. It's also kind of hypocritical to suspend someone then still use his likeness as a promotion.

Also if Chima leaves the team or hires an agent that could mean he regains control of his image. I'm not entirely sure how the rights work in that scenario.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how Chima's role gets remembered in the annals of Aggie history. (Of course the results of the investigation will play a huge role in that.)

Can't take away from the fact that he's one of them most talented players the team ever had and was the star during 1.75 out of the 3 most exciting seasons of D1 MBB. If he's innocent people will remember him for that hopefully. And if it turns out he's guilty of something very bad then the suspension will be an example of the standard the program holds itself to in both conduct and on-court performance.

And someone on the Big West Boards even pointed to the short Aggie bench about why rest can be critical for the 1 seed.

Not looking forward to playing Riverside, Fullerton, and Irvine consecutively after the series with CSUF and how close we came to losing against the other two. Come to think of it I'm terrified about every team in the bracket.

The thing too about the Hawkins team was that we knew roughly how high its peak could be, even before the season started. (It was always a question of who was healthy) And we were so dominant in conference play that about halfway through it was pretty clear what the most likely outcome was.

This season though. . . Well, I woke up this morning and still couldn't believe it. This might have been one in a thousand considering everything that happened. So many things had to go right to set us up for this, and even then the team had to play the game of the decade to pull it off.

I wonder if the decision-makers at ESPN feel regret about not picking up an Aggie home game this year?

Ha!! I was just thinking about that the other day, if I could have any Aggie player's career I might want Michael's. He also has far and above the best W/L record during his tenure of any Aggie D1 player (something like 70-20) although unfortunately he only played in probably a third of those. It's been really fun to see him turn into a solid player this year.

Correct. No way we get an at-large bid with this record.

Having the NIT to fall back on is nice though

ESPN3 has it up on their website. You may need to log in with your cable account to see the replay, or if you don't have one you can get a trial with https://www.sling.com/ that will provide credentials to log in

Joe Pasternack (spelling?) is going to get looks for CoY because of how bad UCSB was expected to be. But Les taking a team with so many stars from last year gone to the championship is a tremendous accomplishment.

Can't see Gross and Bertsch failing to win the awards.

I can't believe it!!!

Two championships and three postseason bids in four years!

Ags are guaranteed third seed now I believe. A UCSB loss will make that 2nd

I love how on Reddit these days the popular narrative among the fans of major progrms is now "everybody cheats", to which I get to respond ".... yeeaaahhh pretty sure we don't." There are problems with UCD ICA but integrity is generally not one of them.

On the subject of everybody cheating, SDSU also had our star player sit out recently -- he was implicated in the FBI-investigated scandals for being on a list for receiving loans from an agent. The school preemptively suspended him while the investigation was underway but reinstated him after a game because he was cooperating fully and there was no other evidence aside from a single reference.

The purported loan amount? $1400. Man the NCAA is picky.

Really feels like a dynasty is brewing at this point. The last few games show that the whole starting lineup can turn over and Davis is still potentially the best team in the conference.

Dang, the game summary is quite something. Bertsch had the best single-game offensive performance of the D1 era (34 pts, 14 FGs), which are both D1 records. She's probably going to set the all time UCD season scoring record this year because there are at least three games left to get 39.

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/030118aab.html

If the other three win then I believe UCI would have a better record and UCSB, CSF, and UCD would be in a 3-way tie; UCD would lose the h2h tiebreaker with CSF for being swept and lose the next-level tiebreaker with UCSB for having a worse record vs CSF.

According to his thread from before this week's games that's still a strong possibility if Irvine, SB, and CSF all win on Sat

LBSU pulled off the upset!!

took a 6 second coast-to-coast drive to retake the lead, very reminiscent of TJ's heroics the other day.

I **think** the Ags control their own destiny now. Just win baby.

Yikes I'm seeing a lead for LBSU on Google.

Good job Aggies starting a new home streak! The home win-loss count over the last four years is mightily impressive

The "throw out threes until a few of em go in" strategy is bringing back fond memories of the wild ride we had in 2015

Ma Jong's next to the Capitol