Thanks for the thoughts and wishes. I have family roots about halfway between Peoria and the Quad Cities and have one neighborly request of Bradley fans. Tell the folks on the blog site (http://www.pjstarforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=100824 ) that it's UC Davis, not Cal-Davis. I think Cal Davis sells cars on late night broadcast TV.

USC has a graduate program offering a masters degree in public administration in Sacramento. Something like that or a political science school makes sense with the proximity to the Capitol.

On the other hand the Department of Corrections (or as they call themselves, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,) actually runs two separate facilities in Folsom. Folsom State Prison and California State Prison-Sacramento. Let's not go there.

USA Today has Ags in a play-in game against New Orleans for a 16 seed, with the winner to play Duke.

As an aside, why aren't all the play-ins for a 16 seed? Hardly fair to lose a play-in for a 11 or 12 and go home while several teams seeded lower get more rest and get to play on Thursday or Friday. I'm going to guess money and getting a few more people in the seats and motels in Dayton.

There's a bracket on ESPN with UCD a 15 playing Arizona in Salt Lake City.

SI has UCD as a 15 playing Kentucky.

(Can I breathe now?)

Main campus website is still using the two-font logo and copyrighted emblem. www.ucdavis.edu

But on to more important things, just win baby! Beat the Titans!

We didn't even host a game when we did go two years ago. Not sure what other west coast schools might be considered for the NIT, but I bet a Pac-12, MWC, WAC or WCC school would get the nod to host the first round game over a BWC runner-up.

As I recall, back when we played Slack in FB in the D-II playoffs, we hosted because we had the application in order and Slack didn't, even though they had won the regular season streak-ending game. 'Course I think the fact that we hosted didn't get lost on the Hornets and their coaches when it came time to firing up the team. Ugly year. Ugly.

Bruce Gallaudet still pushing the NIT fall back theory: http://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/let-the-magic-carpet-ride-continue-for-aggie-hoopsters/

Interesting comment as he gets sidetracked on comparing his high school dating history to post season collegiate basketball. "...but I felt like a human NIT." Maybe it was intentional.

Never liked the two font logo. Looked temporary and unfinshed. I'm OK with the horse and horseshoe, but can't disagree that it is busy and probably doesn't work well on caps, helmets and team uniforms.

That being said, I am old school and not excited about the new font itself. Looks like someone took nail clippers to the upper left corner of each letter, or like the dog-eared pages of used text books and magazines. I can see that font changing every 2-3 years when uniforms need to be replaced, just because....

So there's a "UC bracket" and a "CSU bracket."

Guess we'll just have to win the conference tournament!

When you see where UCI is seeded in people's brackets, (14? 16? play-in?) it is unlikely that a team they beat by 30 points is likely to go to the NIT.

I think there may be a super-secret rule that provides for an auto-bid to the NIT for the team with the greatest time of possession.

Neither is Bruce.

One of the bracketology sites had E. Washington in the NCAA for the Big Sky and regular season champ North Dakota going to the NIT.

I don't think the NIT has auto-bids for anyone except the regular season champs who failed to win their conference post season tourney. (I read something about auto-bids to the "First Four Out" of the NCAA, but I think that's a given...) There are even "bracketology" predictions for this year's NIT. They don't have any BWC teams.

http://bracketmatrix.com/nit
http://www.dratings.com/predictor/bracketology/
http://www.nycbuckets.com/current-nit-bracketology/

One of them has NIT 'bubble teams' and 'teams given serious consideration." UCD is not listed in any of them.

Maybe CBI, CIT, Vegas 16? A tournament yet to be named?

One Hornet fan already has:

Re: Move from the Big Sky
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Post by josephpoint » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:48 pm

And UC Davis also continues to roll in the Causeway Cup.

Other then a tie in women's soccer and one win in the two match ups in men' soccer Sac State has lost to the Aggies in

Cross Country
Football
Men's basketball
Women's basketball
Volleyball
Gymnastics
Men's tennis
Women's tennis
Softball
and perhaps another sport that I am forgetting.

in the 2016-17 competition .

Can't recall a year like this.

So the 2016-17 Causeway Cup has already been captured by Davis in a run away .

And now it has been years since Sac won the Cup and
this year was not even competitive like the past few years where we lost it as well by a game here or there.

What has happened?

Sac State has hit rock bottom in the Causeway Cup competition so there is no where to go then up from here.

And there is always next year.

http://www.bigskyfans.com/hornets/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2613

Aggies complete the sweep in gymnastics tonight to bring the running score to 55-5.

I don't feel bad for them. I recall a long, long time ago when they moved to D1 and D-1AA before the Ags did so, and got a bit of a run going in football, some Slack coach, possibly Mattos, said something like there may come a time when we can't play Davis anymore.

Running score is now 52.5 - 5. Too close for comfort.

Ags swept softball for the first time in 6 years.