11/5 games:

San Francisco 86 Cal Poly 78
Washington 79 Aggies 73

11/6 games:

CSUN 97 LeMoyne 75
San Diego State 63 UC San Diego 58

While UCD was defeating Idaho:

CSU Bakersfield obliterated NCCAA Bethesda 122-53.
Cal Poly lost to Cal 91-73.

11/08 games:

Stanford 80 Fullerton 53
BYU 86 Riverside 80
South Dakota State 80 Long Beach 79
Irvine 66 Loyola Marymount 51
Hawai'i 96 Life Pacific 61

11/09 Games:

Santa Barbara 94 Portland 53
UC San Diego 94 Pepperdine 76

Irvine 80 Northern Iowa 60

I watched some of this game and Irvine looks solid and poised. It's early but they're already in mid-season form.

Cal Poly 99 Menlo 66
Hawai'i 80 San Jose State 69

11/11 games:

Bakersfield 86 North Dakota State 81
Hawai'i 76 Pacific 66

I watched a good portion of the Bake game and the runners are very much improved over last year. They came back from an 11 point halftime deficit and beat a solid NDSU team. The Runners shot 58% from the field and they have a lot of quickness and length. They could make some noise in the Big West this year.

11/12 Games:

Riverside 80 Cal Baptist 79 - Great game and comeback by Riverside. These two schools are crosstown rivals and Cal Baptist won last year by the same score.

UC San Diego 64 Sac State 54
Aggies 80 Menlo 70 - the Ags escape the upset...

USF is up 21 on Long Beach right now. 10 minutes to go in the 2nd half.

Colorado 83, CSU Fullerton 53
CSUN 98, Nobel 50
UCSB 91, Fresno State 86
USF 84, Long Beach 54

Good win by UCSB and a really bad game by LB.

Gauchos almost blew it. They were up by 15 with 4 minutes left then Fresno State outscored them 20-10.

I think that game got a bit "testy" also since I saw that there were 4 technical fouls called in the game with 2 players on each team getting T'ed up. SB beat Fresno for the 6th straight time. Impressive!

Games of Nov. 14

UC Riverside 79, La Sierra 51
Cal Poly 75, Seattle 71

Nov. 15

Oregon State 70, CSU Fullerton 51

Fullerton led 32-25 at the half but got outscored 45-19 in the second half.

Games of Nov. 16, 2024

CSUN 79, Sac State 69
Portland 63, Long Beach State 61
CSU Bakersfield 74, Fresno State 56
Seattle 84, UC San Diego 71
UC Irvine 80, Pepperdine 62

Big West teams are now 25-16 in the preseason. Not bad.

Watch out for Bakersfield this year...

Games of Nov. 17

UC Santa Barbara (away) 64, San Jose State 59
Cal Poly (away) 82, Eastern Washington 78
Hawaii (home) 73, Weber State 68

Roadrunners are 3-1 so far as areis CSUN, but Irvine, Santa Barbara and Hawai`i are all 4-0.

One game for Monday, Nov. 18:

CSU Fullerton (home, 1-4) 62, Idaho State (2-3) 61

One game for Tuesday, Nov. 19:
Highlanders hammered
Santa Clara (2-3) 96, UC Riverside (away, 2-3) 54

Arizona State 93 Cal Poly 89
Gonzaga 84 Long Beach 41
UTEP 79 Santa Barbara 76

That Poly score is a bit of an eye opener!

Poly is the biggest surprise of the season so far...huge turnaround for them this year. Another team looking way up is Bakersfield. They brought in a bunch of new talent and are not going to be an easy out in the conference. Not surprisingly, the team that looks to be the team to beat at this point is Irvine. They are already playing in mid-season form.

UC San Diego 64 La Salle 57

Friday 11/22 scores:

Florida Gulf Coast 74 Bakersfield 54
UC San Diego 73 James Madison 67
Riverside 77 Colorado State 75 OT
Irvine 93 Weber State 87
UCLA 80 Fullerton 47
North Carolina 87 Hawai'i 69

Games of Nov. 22:

Florida International 76, CSU Bakersfield (away, 2-3) 73
Fresno State 72, Long Beach State (home, 1-5) 69
UC San Diego (home, 5-2) 80, Toledo 45
St. Mary's 80, Cal Poly (away, 3-4) 66

The San Diego win over Toledo by 35 points is astonishing! Toledo was on a 5 game winning streak and came into the game averaging 89 points per game.

Fresno State outscored LB 30-3 from the FT line in their 72-69 wind over The Beach. I don't think I've ever seen such a wide difference like that.