i cant imagine they would extend basketball eligiblity since they all played a full regular season. true, 64 teams didnt get to play for the championship and a bunch more didn't get to play in the other post-season events, but they were able to play in 30+ games. the sports that just started, like baseball and softball, are a different story.

there's gonna be a cost to the schools to deal with the extra scholarships. in addition, the NCAA is kicked back WAY less to the schools (down from $600M to $225M), which will impact all sports.

good one!!

Maybe it’s from Re-watching the ‘country music’ series on PBS (if you haven’t, watch it even if that’s not your genre), but my mental image was Porter Waggoner with that blonde pompadour. Rhinestone football jersey.

Porter and Rex? Sounds like a country western duo from the 60’s

In the San Jose Mercury, they are running a simulated March madness. #15 Irvine upset San Diego State in OT. Wonder if Russell Turner offended anyone with sexist comments this time?

I was wondering how this would effect incoming players. Coaches recruit x number of players to replace Y number of graduates. Makes sense they would raise the limit for a year.

Why do I think that the Sac QB will get another year of eligibility out of this?

sounds like what we/they were saying about us last year!

the header I saw on the article said ‘cancelled’ but article spelled it out. My wife thought the same as you when she saw it. Let’s hope it doesn’t head toward cancellation

article said suspended indefinitely, correct?

I hope this is a suspension and they’ll get back to it at some point soon. I wonder if they practice?

Feel bad that the players don’t get a final shot, but not surprised based on the recent NBA actions.

this is the guy i heard about at the football banquet. not sure what the transfer rules are, but he is a mid-season transfer (played in 13 games) so he might be eligible in the second half of next year.

i can't remember our RPI that season, but i'm pretty sure we were below 100. the NET seems to be the one that the committee follows these days. according to Jon Wilner in his Pac12 Hotline in the SJ Mercury, he thinks the Pac will get 5-6 teams depending on how tournaments go. Their NET is 77 (RPI is 61), and last season the lowest at-large was 73. So, Irvine is far below that.

They will probably practice there again today. Didn’t realize NBA teams used the ARC. This is a little unusual that they have a 3-day gap between games, so getting in a little extra work.

i doubt it. their NET ranking is 111. UCLA is 76 and they are considered an unlikely bubble team (assuming they don't win the Pac12 tourney)

we need upsets on the other side of the (original) bracket to avoid Irvine on Friday.

what was frustrating to me (from the boxscore since i wasn't able to watch) was that we 'let' UCR shoot lights out again in the first half and build a big lead -> just like we did at home. Gallant effort down the stretch to make it a game, but they shot 58% from 3 in the first half (compared to our 30%) to get to that 7-point lead.

need to get Manjon a few buckets early. seems like he gets a little frantic at the end in games he has struggled shooting. Gonzalez has been icy from the 3 line, and we need to get him going. Hawaii, followed by Irvine, followed by.....that's a tough stretch for a bid!

If CSUN wins (10 wins and second seed)and SB loses, we lose tiebreaker to SB cuz they beat Irvine. We’d be 4. We need a four way tie apparently and we somehow get the second tiebreaker. That’s based on the guy in big west boards who tracks this stuff.

Had we won Thursday and finished in 3way with CSUN and SB, we’d win that tiebreaker. We were 3-1 vs them

I forgot we lost at home to Riverside . They were lights out in first half and built a big lead. Late surge by us got us close. Need to defend much better than last matchup with them

Still options for us to finish 3-5. Win and we are 3-4. 3 would require a CSUN win over Hawai’i and UCSB loss at Poly. Could happen. Else we’re at 4/5 with opponent TBD by other two games. 3 seed and we would see Irvine until final.

4 point underdogs tonight which surprised me

I think putting the outcome on 2 extra FTs midway through the first half is a bit of a stretch. Maybe we got some calls out of his complaints that netted us a few points. Seemed like a non-issue