As recently as 2012, before they joined the Big West, Hawai'i was in the WAC with such schools as Boise State, Nevada and UNLV. Going back to 1999, the WAC also included Wyoming, Air Force, BYU and Colorado State. They were competitive back then and fans here thought Hawai`i was stepping down and would dominate in the Big West. Not so much.

In regard for the Aggies chances of getting a four seed the final schedules of Fullerton and UCBS:

Fullerton: Hawai`i, UCSD, @CSUN
UCSB: UCR, @UCI, UCSD

Looks like we'll be rooting for the Tritons (who are only a half game behind UCD), at least against Fullerton and Santa Barbara, but they also play Cal Poly and Bakersfield at home.

Saturday's games have shaken up the Big West, with UCI losing to UCSD and CSUN edging the Beach, those two teams are in a 3-way tie for first with Hawai'i which slipped past UCSB in OT. UC Davis is in a three way tie for fourth with UCSB and Fullerton only 1.5 games behind the leaders. UCSD is only another half game behind. Thus, any of seven teams could wind up at the top, especially with Irvine and Hawai`i struggling lately. Here are the game results.

Two points of interest about the game. First, the Aggies depth really helped in that the fouls were more distributed, whereas UCR had two players foul out and three of them had 4 fouls at game's end. Second it was interesting how for both teams, for both free throw and field goal percentage showed regressions to the mean. The law of averages shall not be broken.

Closer than it should have been, but a second game with a whole of fouls. A combined 98 fouls called in SoCal. Sevilla really came through in the clutch.

Hope Stokes is okay.

Some very questionable shot selections by the Ags. As the game gets tight they're rushing to put the ball up like they did at Fullerton.

Sloppy play from both teams.

Neither team is shooting well from the field. UCD at 38% but UCR at an atrocious 26%. Odds are that both teams will improve in the second half, but let's not allow the highlanders to score 50+.

Both teams are 100% from the free throw line and over half the points so far (17of 33) have been from the charity stripe. Maybe the refs should swallow their whistles for awhile.

Are these the same refs from the Fullerton game? They've called 8 fouls in the first 5 minutes.

Riverside is out? They split with Cal Poly, so does SLO own a tie-breaker over UCR?

Glad we don't have to play them again and hope we don't face them in the post-season.

I'm concerned that this kind of loss might create a big problem with the team's morale. I can't think of a worse way to lose a game than to lead all the way down to the last minute, but it's true that they have bounced back from other bad losses this year, just not like this one.This is where Coach Les faces a big challenge to get them to turn it around.

With Hawai`i having lost two in a row, the Anteaters are in the driver's seat. At rear of the car is Bakersfield which has been eliminated from the tournament. As far as the fourth seed is concerned, the Aggies are still in contention but are likely to finish 11-9 at best, so they have to hope one of the three teams above them falters down the home stretch.

I totally agree with you on both points. It was great to see Cooper back in form again. It's not usually fair to say that the refs cost us the game and in this case they called more fouls on the Titans (26) than the Ags (22), but they definitely affected the game. I've never seen so many blocking calls and so many ticky tack ones.

I would never have believed that the Aggies would score 92 and lose, especially with a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio. They played really well for 36 minutes but the game lasts 40.

Why do I think the commentators are the most biased in the Big West?

Titan's #99, Seaman, has nearly half of all their points on 6/7 shooting. Suljanovic is in double figures. I think that's a season high?

Ags hitting 9 of 15 from 3 point land. Almost reminds me of the Corey Hawkins/Tyler Les days.