Urgh on the surface, this is the best 2-seed we could face. Experience against them, very close by, not an intimidating fan base, etc.

It's just terrible because it's unexciting and because it's crazy for us to even get the 15-seed

I'm seeing CSUN at Utah Valley?

Utah State is in the NCAA tournament

This is very doable for a UCI team that has tons of momentum. KSU fans should be worried right now

My jaw dropped at the heights of the OSU players. Our shooters could probably still make life difficult for them, but dang, I never thought I'd see a team that had 5" on Morgan

Search for it on espn.com/watch ; it should be available for replay

Up over 30 as of this comment. Wow. That's all I can say.

My understanding is that's impossible barring a ridiculously good seed -- like 4-seed good.

I haven't been keeping up super closely but apparently there's been a swath of upsets in conference tournaments. The field should be bottom-heavy which bodes well for Irvine getting a decent seed if they get things done tonight.

The ESPN commentators would tell you that it was just a matter of stepping up the intensity. They argued that there wasn't much technically wrong with what the Ags were doing; they just weren't playing with enough energy to challenge Hawaii.

Also, it looked to me that shots just started dropping for the Ags, while they also were reducing the amount of easy looks for Hawaii's shooters. I don't think that explains all of it though

As an SDSU guy, I did the opposite. Congrats to USU though, they looked really good out there

THEY FINALLY DID IT

Ags take the lead!!

Down by 14 at the half. What the heck.

Hawaii's doing better against us than they did against UCR

Down 12. Gross calls timeout. Yikes.

Isn't the offensive board comparison biased by how much better the Ags were shooting than UCI? I would guess that there were fewer -- and maybe far fewer -- balls to rebound in the first place

Conference wins in the tournament = more revenue and better exposure for the conference. I'm hoping Irvine makes it because they're the BWC's best chance of getting past the first round

Destruction. This Aggie team wants the tournament badly.

Incredible. Does 18-4 make this the best softball season in a while? I remember them struggling when I was a student.

A renovated stadium and promise of a new athletics center two blocks away probably helps a bit with recruiting.

It's puzzling because WBB uses byes and the system apparently works just fine. The conference has a model for how to implement byes right in front of it. Does it have to do with availability of the Honda Center? Unwillingness of ESPN/Fox to pick up the earliest games on TV?

Seems that any system that would work for the women would also work for the men, and possibly at a greater profit margin.

EDIT: I see you commented nearly the same thing on the WBB thread, whoops

I'm not disagreeing, maybe I should flesh out what I mean a little more. I think of the "profile" of the sports at Davis in popularity tiers with MBB and Football getting the most recognition and WBB at a slightly higher level of popularity than baseball and soccer. Totally agree that WBB is the first one of all those I just mentioned to build a consistently successful program.

I just also wanted to acknowledge some of the less recognizable sports for figuring out how to compete at the D1 level.