I think the tournament counts as one game, no matter how many you actually play

What’s sad was we were about perfect down the stretch to tie it up, except for the Fuller in-and-out 3 ball. Stiffened on defense and got the boards, hit some keys shots, get a shot clock violation, set up Pepper for a 3….and lose on a NBA 3 from an ice-cold shooter

That sucked. Lose at the buzzer on a LONG 3 after a solid comeback

Fouls might be the killer to a comeback. Fuller and Anigwe have 4 and we have 9 team with 4:30 down 3 with the ball

Down 60-53 with 4 to go. 16 turnovers hurt. Pepper is 2-10, Fuller 3-11and they are double bonus for the rest of the way. Their zone has really hurt us

They are on a 14-2 run, and up 7

47-45 at the 12 timeout. Feels like it’s slipping away. Their defensive pressure has ramped up and we’re struggling to get shots

44-39 at 14. Jones has hit 4 3’s out of the break so I don’t think we can count on 18% shooting again

Up 32-25 at the half, us.

Best comment by an announcer all year after Ba made a wide open 3 (they are 2-19 from 3):

Color guy: ‘do you see the difference in their deep shot compared to the Beach?’

Play by play : ‘ it went in?’

Up 25-22 at the 4 minute mark. They are 1-15 from 3 but keep firing them up. Our 8 turnovers are keeping it close.

Never mind, Anigwe is out there. Must have been an early substitution . 16-12 us at the 12. Have to handle their pressure better

I just turned on at the 15:00; no Anigwe?

I think this is the only conference game I didn’t see live or streamed so I have no feeling for this one. I know we were up in the first half, like v Fullerton, and it slipped away. Fullerton seemed like a better team once they got themselves in sync. Same with the beach?

Women's golf used to dominate but they've been down lately.

Looks like several conferences play on campus games, but I don’t see anyone that has a school as a host:


https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/page/bracketsticketspunched2022champweek/college-basketball-2022-conference-tournament-brackets-schedules-tickets-punched?platform=amp

i'm sure it al boils down to money. Henderson probably ponied up some bucks to host, whereas we probably have to pay a significant amount to get the Honda center for a week. ESPN probably likes it because they have multiple conference tourneys in one location. maybe the casinos give away tickets to fill the stands to compensate for the lack of fans from the teams.

I posted elsewhere that Angiwe’s sister, Kristine, was over there playing basketball. She’s playing for a team in Turkey who was to compete in the Euro championships in Ukraine. They moved it out of harm’s way but still scary to be so near.

I’m not sure why Vegas is much different than Anaheim for us. At least it’s a neutral site.

I think the fact that they jacked up the price of a tournament pass from $70 to $270 is a bigger slap to the fans. Conversation yesterday sounded like we’ve not sold our usual number of tickets. Not sure if that’s because we’d get SOCal alum who attended or if some of our more loyal (i.e. older) donors don’t want to risk travel to Vegas

I couldn’t agree with you more! Borra gets one at least once a game when he might move his hip an inch or two on a screen above the circle. Not only tacky-tack but has almost no bearing on the play. The one on CSUN was bad. Not even sure there was contact

always good to hang out with you and your better half!

1500 fans yesterday which might be our highest. I think the dead crowd was mostly in the second half when there seemed to be no suspense and the offense was clunky. In the first half they shoot 34%, with 0-8 from the arc (at least 2 air balls….they are bad), while we were 52% with 4-8 from the arc (including first shots by Angiwe and Pepper). Second half? They were even worse at 29% although they were 4-12 from the arc. We dropped to 31%, 1-8 from the arc. A couple threes may have perked up the crowd. Lots of fouls on them slowed the pace- our best burst was Pepper’s 4 FTs on 2 Ts!

All in all, a good time at the Arc