If I'm remembering right, weren't we 80 or so in RPI during the Hawkins season? And we didn't really sniff the bubble.

Plus from what I've read it looks like the B1G and Pac are poised to put most of their teams in the tournament. There won't be a lot of spots that the committee would want to give to mid majors with that kind of crop in contention

that looks like the parking lot next to Hickey, so I assumed the Pelicans were using the normal ICA basketball facility.

As far as I know the revenue sport teams train primarily at hickey or -- in the case of football -- the stadium and IM fields

The crazy thing about this photo is that it's hard to tell in isolation how unusually tall the WBB players are, and yet Zion makes them look very average.

Super excited to see him play on Wednesday (though I'll be cheering for the Kings of course). I've been holding on to these tickets since September or so.

The crazy thing is that despite how much this was a rebuilding year for us the gap between Gross' program and everyone else may have actually grown a little. The next closest teams were three games behind.

Insanity.

Big West TV is starting to be very picky about what browser and settings I'm using. On my PC, Edge shows it just fine but with Firefox I have to disable some of the tracking blockers

Regarding my earlier frustration with letting the other team take the last shot, I just saw UCLA and SDSU (my other two schools) both lose in the same fashion today back to back by just sitting there waiting for the opponent to make the final shot. (in fairness SDSU was actually tied but the same principle still applied).

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw this actually work out for team playing defense at the end. It's infuriating.

It's really confusing to see a Colfax reference on this forum and it not referring to the Norcal foothills Colfax....

(sorry for making the thread go on even longer)

Playing for not-getting-injured and potentially NCAA seeding now.

If I'm remembering right that the womens tournament factors in regionality more heavily in determining seeds, it looks like there's still a path to get better than a 16 seed. Looking at other West Coast conferences, it would really help us if Saint Mary's or Santa Clara -- who both won today and have worse records than us -- won the WCC tournament. Similarly, it would help if anybody but Kansas City won the WAC. MWC already had their two seed win unfortunately, and I'm not sure the committee would seed a Pac-12 team below us on principle.

Edit: also anyone outside of top 2 in Big Sky winning their tourney next week would be good

I don't understand why, WHY, teams with 1-possession leads always give the other team a chance to take the final shot. If you're up two with 40 seconds left, go for a two-for one or -- on the opponent's final possession -- try to nab the ball and get a strip or foul with <30 seconds left.

Maybe there's advanced analytics I'm not privy to, but it honestly seems like a 50-50 game at best if you have the lead by 1 or 2 but the other team has the last shot. It's so annoying how many times I've seen "comebacks" end out of that situation.

First few rounds are hosted by one of the Socal schools, but we haven't played in those in a long time thanks to the Women's tournament bye structure.

I interpreted it as whenever he would normally say "Long Beach ball" or " 49er ball" during an inbound he said "Beach" instead

Did Squire foul out? Not that we were doing much better when he was in.

it's confusing and recent but according to wiki a person affiliated with the school is a 49er, but the team name is the Beach. Except for baseball, which are the Dirtbags. The new mascot is a shark.

Utter collapse as soon as the predatory fish hit is with the press

I think now the team name is the Beach but the mascot is a shark. Not unlike our Aggie/mustang setup

don't need offensive rebounds if you hit your shots

I knew they had a new mascot but I didn't realize they moved on from the 49er name entirely. Feels weird

Who needs the paint?

Almost ten minutes into the game and our only 2 pt FG was a jumper from a mile away. No points anywhere close to the paint.

Oh and we're up ten. What a weird half.

The magical ride continues