In the 1968-69 basketball season, the song girls were particularly attractive and at one home game, the fans for the opposing team yelled, "send us your song girls."

I've heard three reasons for a coach intentionally drawing a T:
1. He sees his teams' morale lacking and he wants to fire them up.
2. He's trying to make a point with the refs about a call or their tendencies to call fouls.
3. He's trying to change the momentum of the game and does not want to use a time out.

The more I see of Mani, the less I'm impressed. His athleticism is not apparent. He looks lost on the court, especially on defense. And I agree that he seems out of shape.

Games of Feb. 8

UC Riverside (home, 16-9/9-4) 69, CSU Bakersfield (10-15/4-9) 64
CSUN (17-7/9-4) 81, Long Beach State (home, 7-18/3-10) 80
UC San Diego (20-4/10-2) 85, UC Irvine (home, 20-4/10-2) 67
UC Santa Barbara (home, 16-8/8-5) 76 , Hawai`i (13-11/5-8) 72

Can we call the Tritons thumping of UCI an upset? I’m going to say yes, because not only was the game in Irvine, but look at the score. San Diego ran out to an 18 point lead in the second half after a close first half. The thing is, it doesn’t matter much to the rest of the BW, because these two are likely to fight it out for the first seed. If they don’t win the tournament, Irvine’s shot for an at-large NCAA bid is diminishing The bad news is that the three teams that the Ags needed to lose, all won, albeit in close games. Thus UCD is as game behind both UCR and CSUN and tied with UCSB.

Titans still haven't missed a free throw. They have almost as many points there as from the field. Clearly the Aggies need to improve their D from the foul line.

A lot of phantom fouls both ways. Refs calling it too close.

Earlier this season, I made a point about how UCD was not dishing out enough assists. Of late, they've really improved there with 10 in the first half. They had 15 against the Beach on Thursday.

Good to see DeBruhl firing away, but the Ags are only 1 of 6 from the free throw line. Odd that they can shoot over 45% from the 3 but only 16% from the free.

The play-by-play guy has mixed up their #1, Richard, with Carl Daughtery, our #1. He keeps calling Daughtery "Richard."

The Fullerton TV guys make up in enthusiasm what the crowd lacks in numbers. My high school usually had a better turn-out.

Yes, I agree with you that Leo has seemed kind of gun shy in recent games and wonder why.

On the other hand, I just noticed that activity on the WBB site is very low even though the women are 8-4 and in third place.

Games of Feb. 6

UC Santa Barbara (15-8/7-5) 81, CSU Bakersfield (home, 10-14/4-8) 75
CSUN (home, 16-7/8-4) 82, CSU Fullerton (6-18/1-11) 63
UC San Diego (home, 19-4/9-2) 91, UC Riverside (15-9/8-4) 71
Cal Poly (home, 9-15/3-9) 79, Hawai`i (13-10/5-7) 63

No real upsets here, including Cal Poly’s win over Hawai`i. Those two teams are heading in opposite directions with the Mustangs having won 3 of their last 4 and Hawai`i having lost 4 of their last 5. We’re starting to see just a bit of separation in the standings between the top 2, the next 4 and the bottom 5 with Hawai`i being the only team with a realistic shot of making it to the top 4 if they can right their ship.

Well, if you're going to pull away, overtime is a good time to do it. Looking at the stats, it's amazing how close the two teams were in rebounds, assists, fouls, with the big difference being where it counts most: shooting percentage. A good, if tough win.

I don't know what it is about CSULB, but we just can't seem to pull away from them. Based on their record, you wouldn't think it would be that hard, but...only a 1 point lead with 11:17 to go.

Sevilla is 0 for 5, but I never saw him shoot so he must have stopped looking for the basket after the early part of the half, but the team needs him to look for his shot. I notice that the Aggies had as many assists as turnovers, which would be a better sign if they didn't have so many unforced errors.

TY making a lot of mistakes here: three in a row helping the Beach make a 10-0 run.

Lost 8 minutes.

Me neither but they have a monopoly.

Finally got it.