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Irvine plays at Oregon on Wednesday, March 15th at 8 pm PT. Live on ESPN2.

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The Aggies got pounded by ASU today 17-4. The Sun Devils had 20 hits and had 10.

I agree with moving the tournament back to SoCal. Playing in an empty arena is not fun for the teams and isn't a good atmosphere for the few fans who attend also. It's not a good look for the Big West on TV either when the place is empty.

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be invited to any post season tournaments since we finished in 6th place in the BW and then lost big in the BW Tournament.

I don't understand your question, Mike? Can you elaborate?

Thanks for posting all this information. I'd heard that the administration was a nightmare for Les at Bradley but I never knew the details. I also remember reading that he had a tremendous amount of fan support and, like you've noted, the Bradley fans were really sorry to see him get fired.

I don't think there's any other coach in the Big West that gets as much from the talent they are able to get as Les does. He has a knack for developing players into overachievers.

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.