I don't think Les should be fired but he needs to go back to the drawing board with how he coaches this team. We're always going to get some help in the Pavilion which is one of the better arenas in the conference and the longest mainland road trip for everyone else. But in order to win conference and win the tournament we have to be a road team.

Is it too late to drop back down to DII?

Remember this is the second-best and most well-rounded team UCD has ever fielded in DI that we're watching here.

I hate it when the opposing MVP basically becomes Steph Curry for a game.

I mean we benefited that for a whole season once but it stinks to be on the receiving end.

We've made comebacks like this before; this isn't actually impossible. We were playing UCI even for the last 6 minutes or so.

Still though, painful to watch.

Flashbacks to pre-2015 MBB season and, well, every football season

If anybody doesn't have a provider that carries it, you can get a 7-day free trial of Playstation Vue Elite Slim package that allows you to sign in to Fox Sports Go and watch.

Actually, pulled it off Twitter, supposedly it will be here:

http://www.bigwest.org/story.asp?story_id=16306

Anybody have a link to the Big West TV feed? Their website schedule hasn't been updated.

The boards he sits on are somewhat less conflict of interest-y than Katehi's boards. I think Sacbee did a passably honest reporting job by breaking the news (I think it was them) in the first place and examining how this is similar and different to Katehi's situation.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Aggies just clinch the co-championship?

Nobody's mentioned it and of course they're losing the tiebreaker to Long Beach St for the #1 seed, but the worst they can do is tie the 49ers at 13 wins right now.

Win 100!

Morgan Bertsch scores with 1.1 seconds left for the W. Hard-fought game by both teams.

In a down year for the conference, Aggies could have a case for sweeping the CoY, PoY, Newcomer, Hustle, and 6th Man awards with out it being hyperbole. I don't think that's actually what would happen of course but our players are playing the best basketball of their careers while everyone else is underperforming.

I expect Siler, Chima, and Brynton to get honored in some capacity and wouldn't be too surprised if Darius and Lawrence do as well. Chima seems to have all the PoY buzz and he could maybe cement it with double-doubles on Thurs and Sat. I think Newcomer of the Year is his for the taking if he doesn't get the top honor.

Also BGA I think I might have accidentally flagged your comment with an errant click. No idea what happens if I did. My bad if so.

Gianotti wins BWC Player of the Week.

Aggies are 1 game ahead in the title race but losing the tiebreaker with Long Beach really makes life difficult. The Ags will have to win out on the road in SoCal this week to clinch -- good practice for the tournament I guess.

I wonder how sustainable/useful the prior student ticket distribution is. On one hand anything to artificially increase demand and desirability should be a good thing; on the other it might dissuade the procrastinators from bothering to show. Maybe they should emphasize that tickets represent priority seating rather than guaranteed seating to make sure students still feel able to decide to go on game day.

SDSU gives out student tickets in advance like that for every game, and there's even a line with like 100 students in it at the ticket office on Mondays preceding a game. Really creates a buzz on campus. On the other hand, it seems like people often don't show; the student section seems only half full most of the time.

I don't think our dropoff will be as terrible as it seems on paper -- another year of experience for Goode to back up Moneke in the paint will make our post play satisfactory, and Schneider could be a beast of a PG. The 2/3 position is a ? but I think UCD could still battle for the 4th or 5th seed in conference.

I think you mean the Cal Poly game? Irvine wasn't ESPN but it still had a great atmosphere that year. I see the team pulling at least 3k for senior night -- there will be some serious buzz among the students who stayed until the end last night. Glad to hear the Pavilion was rocking on Saturday regardless of the numbers.

Congrats to the 5 seniors who will be graduating -- they've done a lot for the program, including several who started their careers in a really bad season and from there took us to the success we've had in the past several years.

I don't know if Davis can ever be perennially top-tier in the BWC but hopefully Les can get the program to the point where it's always in at least the middle of the pack -- with decent seeds in the BWCT -- and can push for a title every other few years. For that matter, it looks like we're close to that point already.

It looked like about 5000 to me from the feed, a full lower bowl = 3000 plus about half of the upper tier would put it around there. Official attendance was 5873 but I bet that counts every single student ticket allotted, not number distributed or number scanned. Really a crime that there were any empty seats at all in the place, though maybe some of that was by design for fire safety and such.

Hopefully sometime you can get to an ESPN game on campus when you're visiting California. The atmosphere there is just unbelievable -- better I'd say than San Diego State's 12k arena. I think the Pavilion has really been a factor these last few years, particularly on the TV games, and hopefully attendance growth starts to self-perpetuate as Davis gets known as one of the toughest mid-major venues.

UCI barely survives CSUN to win by 3. Looking like a 2-horse race in the last week.

Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how far this program has come, at least relative to the rest of the conference? The first-ever ESPN game was against conference-leading Long Beach St where the plucky Ags played their best game of the year to almost shock the perennial contenders.

This game was the conference-leading Ags fending off an upstart 49ers team that we should have beaten on paper but almost got us with their hustle and capitalization off mistakes. Seems small but I feel there's a whole different vibe consistently going into these games as the favorite compared to when we were the feel-good underdogs. What a difference 4 years makes.

Hopefully the most recent generation of students from the ESPN/Hawkins era will stay heavily involved. The current seniors are the only remaining class who have even seen a truly bad MBB season.

What a game.

Not pretty but we got it done when it was needed most. Graham came up clutch in the final minutes.