I assume Utah is a higher seed than us. If we knock them off, would we possibly get a home game round 2?

And we're still getting $$$ from Cal Poly's play-in win three years ago. Maybe even wins more than that; the 6-year time range stretches back to before I knew what "Big West" meant.

My understanding and calculations put the figure about at that as well. Winning the play-in game ~ funding half a scholarship for the next six years. (Assuming it stays with the basketball program.)

Joined! Thanks for putting this together!

Hmm... apparently ESPN's database has us listed as "California-Davis", because that's the only way UCD and UCLA could be in between Butler and Cincinnati on their list.

The committee ranks every single team from 1-68, in addition to the regional distributions. The last 4 teams get play-in games for 16-seeds; we were #65, 4th from worst, so we're the home team at our game.

The 11-seed play-in games represent the last four at-large teams.

KenPom has them at 152, better than 218 for the Ags but worse than 138 for Irvine. Totally winnable by the standards of March Madness games.

The seed list from the March Madness Twitter has us as the 65-seed, ahead of NCC and the best 16th-seed play-in team.
https://twitter.com/marchmadness/status/841051821279989762

That was Hawaii and yes they did. UCI got something like a 12 seed the year before.

Let's not kid ourselves: by the numbers the conference is somewhat worse than previous years, and this UCD team is not as good as the one from a couple of years ago. Davis and Irvine were pretty much the only teams that didn't have anything particularly wrong with them, but we're not a good team from a national perspective and a play-in game is very fair.

We were going to face a juggernaut anyway, I say better to build momentum with an even matchup first and rake in money for the conference before that.

Same disappointment happened to me 2 years ago when I was watching hoping for an at-large.

UCI, which had about our RPI (and with two losses against us) had a 12-seed that year IIRC -- had we won the tournament (beating UCI again in the process) I would guess 10-12 if the Committee makes sensible decisions.

More well-rounded. By the numbers the 14-15 team was better, but it was more of a glass cannon. This team doesn't have to live or die by a single stat (3-pt %).

WE WANT ZAGA

WE DID IT WE DID IT WE DID IT

Use Sling TV or Playstation Vue's 7-day trial

24-16 at the half!!

Good defense, meh shooting by the Ags

Start time might be a little late, or stream-only at first. The game in the time slot before on ESPN2 started at 6:40, running slightly behind schedule

and @ anybody: You can stream it using Playstation Vue's free trial. (It's an internet streaming service that competes with cable -- you don't need to own a Playstation to access its website.)

Go to https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/channels/ and create an account, selecting the cheapest package that has ESPN2. It allows you to get your first week free before they start billing your credit card. From there you can either log in to their site to see channels or go to the ESPN website and log in with your Playstation password.

Re: the NCAA tournament, if you keep your subscription and pay I think $40 for March, you can get all 4 channels March Madness is on: CBS, TBS, TNT, and TRU. (CBS might be market dependent; check first.)

If you don't care about having every March Madness game you can go through a similar process on www.sling.com instead that gives you ESPN2, TBS, and TNT for $20 I think.

WE DID IT

Returning all of our starters and and getting one of the top HS centers next year really takes the sting out of it a little. Let's go win the WNIT.

Still though, I have 3 semifinals to watch today and this was supposed to be the easiest W. Might end up being a rough day...