Oddsmakers have this as irvine 2.5 point favorites. They are more optimistic than I am at how we’ll match up, especially if we’re missing Nils.

I’ll have to miss this one in person - granddaughter has a play.

I suspect that they will increase softball scholarships (I think they are now allowed 30) to match title 9 requirements, which has to be cheaper than hosting another sport.

I haven’t seen them play. They are 13-5 with some nice wins. Their coach left and a bunch of players left. According to AI:

‘ The UC San Diego (UCSD) men's basketball team experienced a massive roster overhaul in the 2025 offseason after former coach Eric Olen left for New Mexico, leading to almost the entire roster, including starters like Chris Howell, Nordin Kapic, and Hayden Gray, entering the portal and many landing at New Mexico, while UCSD hired Clint Allard and brought in key transfers like John Camden, Milos Ilic, and Chris Bell for the 2025-26 season. The team effectively reset, bringing in new talent alongside incoming freshmen to rebuild under new leadership after a significant exodus. ’

Hawaii, I thought, was heads and shoulders above the other 5 teams we played. Poly wasn’t as talented as last year, and Santa Barbara doesn’t seem as good. The other 3 were really flawed.

If you go back into the archives, they announced the transfers (JC and portal) as part of the late signing in February. There's a couple names on the transfers that I don't remember hearing during the season:

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2025/2/5/football-introduces-latest-signing-class-19-incoming-freshman-and-nine-transfers-make-up-aggie-class.aspx

Sign up here:

https://paybee.io/quickpay.html?handle=ucdfootball#campaignList

I’d strongly encourage those who are planning to attend to sign up soon. There are blocks of rooms now at both the Palace and Hyatt Regency, both short walks from event. If you haven’t received a flyer with information, I’ll post here

I was told that we can’t officially announce transfers until signing day. Of course, there’s no stopping the players from spilling the beans.

Hopefully Cooper is at 100%. He returned but wasn’t moving too well. Offense really stagnsnted without him down the stretch.

intersecting. I was wondering why the cheerleaders left early. That seemed really odd.

Call me an old fart, but it bothers me when members of the band don’t stand for the anthem.

I was listening to Les on the postgame on the ride home - sounds like the flu has had a big impact this week. Probably why no Stokes tonight, and perhaps some of the reason for the early turnovers (they struggled to have enough players at practice)

Sluggish game up 32-24 at half. 13 TOs for us, 22 for them. Not much flow. Feels like we should be up way more. Pace of the game has taken a lot of the crowd energy away

3.5 point favorites which surprised me a bit. I thought we’d be solid favorites. I’m seeing predictions in the 83-80 range. Big game with league favorite Irvine on deck

makes no sense, i agree. might as well go with the 5/5 idea.

49ers play the late game I believe. 5:00

pretty sure they were all clustered around the kicker.

this is a team that i penciled in for the bottom 3 (the guys that miss the tournament), so this one is critical. The other 2 on my list were Bakersfield (who has a road win over us) and LBSU.

That was with Cherry playing and contributing 20 points, 9 rebounds. That has been a big loss for them.

even when we play fast on offense, we rarely rush up to the line and snap quick. It just never made sense to have the protection rush up there before we set up for the kick. Did it for both FG and PAT, where the play clock shouldn't be an issue. I think it was all strategic - a way to get the opponent off guard in case we run a fake.

in their defense, they’ve not had Cherry for the last 7 games (all loses). He was pretty good vs us.