Ooh, beating SD a third time is going to be tough, but I guess it's better than being on the same side of the bracket as the team that swept you the whole season.

Still on the same side as a team that swept us...UCSB. And the long minutes for Ryann, Nya, Megan & Avery are exacting a toll on their shooting. For the season, we shoot just under 31% from beyond the arc; last 3 games: 20.3%. Tired legs IMHO.

Santa Barbara has the best 3-pt defense in the conference, holding opponents to 26.1%. They've held us to 16.8% in the 2 games this season. Assuming UCSB beats Riverside, we'll play them on 1 day less rest than we're used to. Definitely don't like that matchup.

Also, not real optimistic about us playing games on consecutive days at this point. Not that Gross had an alternative to the long minutes if we were going to stay in contention, which we did until the last game.

All true!

Conference awards just got announced:

Player of the Year: Hunter Hernandez, UC Irvine
Freshman of the Year: Bailey Flavell, Hawai’i
Newcomer of the Year: Jada Wynn, UC Irvine
Coach of the Year: Tamara Inoue, UC Irvine

Specialty Awards
Best Sixth Player: Ritorya Tamilo, Hawai’i
Best Defensive Player: Makayla Rose, UC San Diego
Co-Best Hustle Player: Cristina Jones, Cal State Fullerton
Co-Best Hustle Player: Makayla Rose, UC San Diego

First Team All-Conference:
Erin Condron UC San Diego
Hunter Hernandez UC Irvine
Cristina Jones Cal State Fullerton
Megan Norris UC Davis
Makayla Rose UC San Diego
Hannah Wickstrom UC Riverside
Jada Wynn UC Irvine

2nd Team All-conference
Ryann Bennett UC Davis
Zoe Borter UC Santa Barbara
Bailey Flavell Hawai’i
Saniyah Neverson Hawai’i
Imani Perez Hawai’i

Nya Epps made it to the Honorable Mention list.

Epps and Norris also got spots on the All-Defensive Team.

Looks like Riverside just took down Santa Barbara.

Good game to watch. The Ags are going to have to shoot well and quit going around screens and fight through them instead. Do the women have the energy in their legs? It's been a long season with the starting five taking the vast amount of the minutes.

The energy in the legs is the question, 100%. Davis has 4 players in the top 25 in the BW in minutes played; Riverside has 2. Bennett (#2) and Norris (#4) have the most. For Riverside, Wickstrom (#7) is up there as well, with Kaylani Polk (#16) comparable to Epps (#14) and Sussex (#21). Offensively, I think it's affected Sussex the most as her shots come largely from beyond the arc. Oddly, I think her defense has been better over the last part of the regular season.

Riverside leads the Aggies 33-32 with 5:44 to go in the 3rd. So many TO's by the Ags.

45-39 Ags at the end of the 3rd quarter.

Norris and Baker have both fouled out. This officiating crew is unbelievably bad. Ags lead 57-53 with 3:30 to go.

Aggies move on to the semis 70-59. Player of the game: Avery Sussex.

I think Hannah Wickstrom is the player of the game.

Davis vs. UCSD Round 3.

The more important game might be Irvine vs. Hawaii on the other side of the bracket. An Anteater victory pretty much locks up a bid from the WBIT or WNIT for the Aggies.

This officiating crew is unbelievably bad.

I only got to see the stat sheet--looked like they were pretty whistle happy given that two Highlanders also fouled out (and two more had four fouls). Wacky.

If Riverside was following the recent script against the Aggies of aggressive, physical play, maybe it backfired?

The Hawai'i game was just the opposite where it devolved into tackle basketball. Q4 was really physical with no calls.

Lame.

Possibly contributed to UCD - UCR being called more closely? Which would benefit the Aggies.

I actually think that calling so many touch really hurt the Aggies since Baker and Norris both fouled out halfway though the 4th and Norris got her 5th quickly after having to sit for quite a while with 4 fouls. They gave her the 5th foul just seconds after she reentered the game and it was a ridiculous touch foul where the offensive played barely bumped into her. These officials had quick whistles. Of course, when Riverside began fouling in the final 2 minutes, the quick whistles benefited the Ags with made FT's.