Standings as of 2/14:

Irvine 86 Fullerton 65
San Diego 72 Riverside 66

CSUN 84 Hawaii 60 Final

I hadn't thought of that.

The Big West is living up to it's Wild, Wild West reputation! Now we need Fullerton to knock off Irvine and Riverside to upset San Diego tonight as well.

The race at the top could be tightening up a bit:

Poly 89 Santa Barbara 79
CSUN leads Hawaii 53-37 with 15:44 to go.

From Gauchodan's Big West Substack column:

2:00 PM: Long Beach State at UC Davis — The Beach (8-17, 4-9) have lost 6 straight games to fall 2 games out of Big West Tournament qualifying position. Freshman Gavin Sykes made his return to the Long Beach starting lineup, scoring 12 points but turning the ball over 3 times (vs. one assist) in 32 minutes of action. Petar Majstorovic has averaged 20.3 points over the last 3 games, making 19 of 39 shots from the field (.487) and 24 of 28 free throws attempts (.857). The Aggies (15-10, 8-6) saw their 3-game winning streak swatted away in a 68-51 loss at UC San Diego. UC Davis fell out of a 4th-place tie with CSUN and into a 5th-place tie with Cal State Fullerton. Davis couldn’t hit shots from any distance on Thursday…the Aggies were 38.1% from two, 30% from three and just 1 for 7 (14.3%) from the free throw line, failing to take advantage of 21 takeaways.

https://bigwesthoops.substack.com/p/road-show?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2973109&post_id=187884117&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Current standings as of 2/12:

Jumping right into the fire opening the season at Texas. It would be amazing to snag a win against one of the best baseball programs in the nation.

I don't like Chappell and Cooper coming off the bench. I'd rather see them starting with Daughtery, Fagbemi and Stokes getting solid minutes off the bench.

Well, on a brighter note, the Aggie women beat UCSD 88-80 in triple overtime. San Diego came into the game with on one loss in conference and that loss was also from the Ags. This was the first 3 OT game in Aggie women's basketball history. Megan Norris broke the single game rebounding record with 29 rebounds for the game. Amazing!

I switched over to watching the Aggie women at halftime. Great game heading into triple overtime right now.

SD shooting 59% to our 27%...that won't get it done...

Another QB.

From Gauchodan's Big West Basketball Substack column:

[quote]7:00 PM: UC Davis at UC San Diego — GAME OF THE NIGHT.

The Aggies (15-9, 8-5) are on a 3-game winning streak to move into a tie with CSUN for 4th place in the Big West. UC Davis is just one game behind UCSB and 1-1/2 games behind UC Irvine and Hawai’i in the nip-and-tuck Big West race. UC Davis is 2-3 vs. Quad 2 or better schools but lost to UCSD at home on Jan. 22. Guard Marcus Wilson is the reigning Big West Player of the Week after averaging 24.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists in wins over UCSB and Cal Poly. The Tritons (16-9, 6-7) lost a tough one at Hawai’i last Saturday and have now seen defeat in 4 of their last 5 games. Emanuel Prospere II is currently out with an injury with an exact timeline for his return unconfirmed, but head coach Clint Allard has indicated that he will be back this year. The Tritons have been relying on freshman guard Hudson Mayes to fill in during Prospere’s absence.[/quote]

Other games here: https://bigwesthoops.substack.com/p/on-the-road-again?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2973109&post_id=187755726&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Signed Steph Curry jersey is bound to be a hot item also.

[quote]Student athletes sue UC Davis after equestrian team demoted to club level[/quote]

The Abridged version:

Four current and prospective UC Davis equestrian student athletes filed a lawsuit against the school after it decided to discontinue the Division I program.

The suit alleges that officials knowingly continued recruitment and fundraising even as they planned to end the program.

All of the plaintiffs said they would have considered going elsewhere if they knew the team was going to be dissolved.

Whole article here: https://www.abridged.org/news/uc-davis-equestrian-lawsuit/

Details from UC Davis' heavily redacted membership agreement to join the Mountain West

https://nevadasportsnet.com/newsletter-daily/details-from-uc-davis-heavily-redacted-membership-agreement-to-join-the-mountain-west

https://www.scribd.com/document/814204891/UC-Davis-Mountain-West-membership-agreement#from_embed

From a post on the Hornets Forum:

Some information I’m getting from a internal source says : in regards to stadium they are cookin and that as alumni we will be very proud with the upcoming reveal..in their words very very soon for the reveal.

I know it’s vague but there is some excitement that they couldn’t get into with me.

https://bigskyfans.com/threads/the-pac-mwc-dominoes-begin-to-fall-conference-realignment.29863/page-71