Santa Barbara 72 Fullerton 62.

The Gauchos pulled away in the final 5 minutes. Ajay Mitchell, who was the BW Player of the Year, is a sensational player and he's only a sophomore. The Gauchos are going to the Big Dance for the second time in 3 years.

Hawaii came back from 15 down at the half to beat Santa Barbara 61-59 for their second BW Title in a row. Daejah Phillips hit a layup and got fouled for an and one with 3.4 seconds to go to take the lead and Santa Barbara missed a long 3 at the buzzer.

Thanks for your post, user1. I couldn't agree with you more. We're lucky to have Les here.

We don't often get the most highly touted players coming out of high school or the transfer portal that some of the top teams in the Big West often get but Les does bring in kids with great potential and a hard work ethic. They're also high character kids who do well in the classroom and are highly coachable. The players you named in your post are great examples of this.

You should drop Les and Vogt an email. I'm sure they would love to hear from you. Here are their email addresses:

Jim Les: aggiebasketballatucdavisdotedu
Kyle Vogt: kvogtatucdavisdotedu

It would be great if we could schedule a home and home with Bradley in the near future too.

Good for Ezra! I'm really happy to hear that he continues to grow and is playing at such a high level. I sure wish he hadn't left but it's good to know that he's being successful.

Jim Les certainly has and great eye for recruiting players who are diamonds in the rough. Ezra was completely overlooked by everyone except Les and look at him now.

Santa Barbara 92 Riverside 87

Fullerton and Santa Barbara play for the title at 6:30 pm tomorrow on ESPN2

Riverside 42 Santa Barbara 39 at the half in another really good basketball game.

Aggies lose their first game at Arizona State 7-1.

Fullerton 83 Irvine 80 in a great basketball game. I don't think I've ever seen such even stats.

Both teams shot 52% and both teams had 29 rebounds.
Fullerton was 10-17 from 3 and Irvine was 9-19.
Fullerton was 19-26 from the line and Irvine was 19-28.
Both teams had 13 assists, both had 24 points in the paint and both had 14 TO's.

Irvine and Fullerton are tied at 39 at the half. Both teams are playing at a very high level...the best half of basketball that I've seen in the Big West this year.

#5 Santa Barbara 75 #9 Bakersfield 66
#3 Hawaii 67 #2 Long Beach 62

Santa Barbara and Hawaii will play for the title.

Two names consistently linked in recent weeks to the Cal opening are UC Santa Barbara's Joe Pasternack and San Jose State's Tim Miles, sources told ESPN.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/35822282/cal-fires-men-basketball-coach-mark-fox-four-seasons

Jim Les is a class act as well as an outstanding basketball coach. I love that he always gives credit to our opponents win or lose and it's specific and genuine too. Many coaches can barely utter a perfunctory word of credit about their opponents when they lose and only talk about what their own team did wrong that "allowed" their opponent to beat them.

Anigwe came here a couple of years ago but the rest is correct, Toke.

I hope not. Other Big West programs thrive on it.

Unfortunately, both the men and the women saved their worst for the last. I feel for the players. It's tough to lose like that. Even though we shot ourselves in the foot over and over you have to give credit UCR as well. They beat us soundly on both ends of the floor.

Pepper is the #4 leading scorer in the nation. You really have to wonder if we've now seen him play his last game as an Aggie. You know that there are a lot of bigger programs who would love to have him and the transfer portal seems to be a way of life now in D1 basketball.

Just about as ugly as it can get...

12 TO's! That's killing us.

I hope TY keeps his cool. I noticed that a Fullerton fan was giving him an earful as TY was walking off the court and it looked like TY mouthed something to him.

The Ags are totally out of sync. 9 TO's already and only 11 points. Ugly so far....

#2 Santa Barbara 64 #9 Cal Poly 54

And the abysmal tech problems continue on the ESPN feed. I imagine it will continue to be terrible for the Aggie game as well.