Post-Season for the Big West The game was a very dramatic overtime win for the Anteaters, 81-77, over UAB with their usual stars, Bent Leutchen and Devin Tillis leading the scoring and rebounding for UCI. Hope some of you got to see it on ESPN2. The Big West might get an NIT championship for the first time, I think, since 1983, when Fresno State won when it was in the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference. Irvine plays second seed North Texas State on Tuesday. The game will be televised on ESPN.