Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Big West conference tournament preview

This is part 32 of a 32-part series.

Standings:
UC Irvine 15-1
UC Santa Barbara 10-6
Cal St Fullerton 10-6
Hawaii 9-7
Long Beach St 8-8
UC Davis 7-9
Cal St Northridge 7-9
UC Riverside 4-12
Cal Poly 2-14

Format:
March 14-16, neutral site in Anaheim.  Bottom team is ejected.

Matchups:
1) UC Irvine vs. 8) UC Riverside
4) Hawaii vs. 5) Long Beach St
3) Cal St Fullerton vs. 6) UC Davis
2) UCSB vs. 7) Cal St Northridge

The stakes:
UC Irvine is sitting there with a NET of 76.  Let's investigate.  A quality road win at St Mary's, a road win at @A&M....and that's all for the top 2 quadrants.  Only two bad losses on the board though.  A poor SoS.  Feels like a borderline 13-14 seed to me.

UCSB probably has a fair chance at avoiding the 16 line, but that's about it.  No one else in the conference is really in decent position to avoid the 16 line, though.  They're buried in the low 20s in CNET.

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