12/19 games:

CSUN 76 UCLA 72 - Another great win for the Big West. CSUN led by as much as 19 in the second half and hung on for the upset win.

Long Beach 107 Cal State Dominguez Hills 78
Bakersfield 96 South Dakota 76

12/20 scores:

Cal 71 San Diego 68
New Mexico 78 Irvine 65
Fullerton 67 Pacific 66
Santa Barbara 94 Howard 81

12/21 scores:

Riverside 82 Idaho 67
Cal Poly 66 Omaha 53
Hawaii 69 Portland 56

Seems like we are going to be near the bottom of the league this year based on preseason scores for the other teams.

12/22 scores:

CSUN 82 Montana State 70
Georgia Tech 73 Hawaii 68

12/24 game:

TCU 65 Hawaii 51

12/28 scores:

Aggies 76 UCSB 62
San Diego 76 Bakersfield 64
Irvine 73 Riverside 66
CSUN 83 Cal Poly 73
Long Beach 81 Fullerton 71

12/30 games:

Aggies 71 Cal Poly 46
Irvine 75 Bakersfield 56
Riverside 79 Santa Barbara 77
CSUN 84 Long Beach 68
Fullerton 63 Hawaii 61 in OT on the island

Wow, Gauchos drop another one.

So Aggies are 2-0 along with CSUN and UCI at the top of the Big West.

Current Big West Standings:

Wow, I see that the Gauchos lost to UCSD and have slipped to 0-3. I wonder what's wrong with them?

1/04 games:

Aggies 83 Riverside 63
San Diego 79 Santa Barbara 72
Hawaii 78 Bakersfield 67
Long Beach 89 Cal Poly 82
Irvine 75 Fullerton 67

Big West standings after the 1/04 games:

1/06 games:

Irvine 74 Aggies 71 in OT
Long Beach 83 Riverside 75
CSUN 76 Hawaii 66
San Diego 75 Fullerton 58
Santa Barbara 61 Cal Poly 52

Big West standings after 1/06 games:

1/11 scores:

Aggies 95 CSUN 75
Riverside 71 Cal Poly 56
San Diego 84 Long Beach 74
Santa Barbara 66 Bakersfield 64 in OT
Irvine 60 Hawaii 50 on the island

Was just thinking how much I miss the Big West when it had Utah State and UOP. They were occasionally nationally ranked and brought some excitement to the conference.
The Big West tourney championship used to draw 4,000-5,000 in Anaheim. Now we are scraping together 1,800 in a fancy Vegas multi-use room.

1/14 scores:

Aggies 78 Bakersfield 71 in OT
CSUN 76 Fullerton 71
Santa Barbara 85 Long Beach 76
San Diego 85 Cal Poly 61
Hawaii 63 Riverside 56

1/18 games:

Aggies 67 Fullerton 65
Irvine 76 San Diego 65
Santa Barbara 97 CSUN 69
Long Beach 79 Hawaii 71
Bakersfield 80 Riverside 56

Looks like UCSB has righted their ship, but Hawai`i fans are wondering what's wrong.

Here's the current Big West standings heading into the games on Saturday 1/20:

Just looking at the next three games, it strikes me that this stretch coming up is a crucial one: UCI, UCSB and UCSD.

Three tough games in a row!

1/20 games:

Aggies 54 Irvine 52
Bakersfield 65 Cal Poly 53
San Diego 67 Hawaii 61
Fullerton 73 Santa Barbara 69
Riverside 82 CSUN 63

Aggies take over sole first place after their win over Irvine:

1/25 scores:

Bakersfield 64 CSUN 56
Fullerton 54 Cal Poly 51
San Diego 66 Riverside 65
Irvine 72 Long Beach 61
Santa Barbara 78 Hawaii 61 (UCSB had a 26-0 run in the first half when Hawaii didn't score a single point for over 10 minutes.)

Current standings:

Sets up another big game on Saturday. Of course, UCSD is not eligible for the BW tournament, but still you want to beat the other top teams

I hope we have another good crowd for the San Diego game Saturday. Even though SD is not eligible for the BW tournament, I'm sure the Aggies are hoping to win a BW regular season title and securing the top seed in the tournament.

Unfortunately, my wife and I are out of town so we won't be able to attend. I'll have to settle for watching the ESPN replay Saturday night.

We had 8 coming to Saturday’s game. Then i came home from a trip with Covid. First timer for me. I’ve been able to dodge it up until now.