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I think what we are seeing now is the less experienced teams catching up with the more experienced teams. It makes perfect sense to me that a team returning everyone from the previous year will start out strong and look better than the rest, until everyone catches up.

We have had a rocky start and so have some others in our league. I think it's great for us to start the league at EWU. We have, traditionally, played well up there and, win or lose, it will be a great barometer for where we stand at that point. We also finish the season with them on our home floor. That game could be huge.

So far the league has a few good D1 wins and a few bad D1 losses. Over all, I think the league is stronger this year than last.
 
Jon @bigskybasketball provides a current look at BSC team power ratings that's interesting...re: NAU, he states they have been playing good defense, but are struggling offensively (like some other team we know very well) & made a player change, game before last that could be working out. :twocents:
 
That was a very good win at St Mary's. They don't lose much on their home floor. It's a little like a small HS or JHS gym. They pack it with 3 to 4 thousand fans and it gets loud. It's certainly a pit. Not as nice as the old Swenson Gym, but just as much of a pit for visiting teams. That community and campus are quite well to do. I don't know why they can't build a better facility.
 
oldrunner said:
That was a very good win at St Mary's. They don't lose much on their home floor. It's a little like a small HS or JHS gym. They pack it with 3 to 4 thousand fans and it gets loud. It's certainly a pit. Not as nice as the old Swenson Gym, but just as much of a pit for visiting teams. That community and campus are quite well to do. I don't know why they can't build a better facility.
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Have sweet memories of the old Wildcat Gym, where many sweet victories over nervous (and harassed !)visiting teams occurred. Wish somehow that could've been transplanted to the DEC (like it has at the Spectrum). Good, fun times, you just can't replicate in these newer, bigger arenas...can't blame them for wanting to hold onto that.
 
oldrunner said:
That was a very good win at St Mary's. They don't lose much on their home floor. It's a little like a small HS or JHS gym. They pack it with 3 to 4 thousand fans and it gets loud. It's certainly a pit. Not as nice as the old Swenson Gym, but just as much of a pit for visiting teams. That community and campus are quite well to do. I don't know why they can't build a better facility.
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A couple of interesting notes on St. Mary's: they have played only one road game so far this season. So they're obviously using their funds to buy non-conference home games. And any they only average 2,559 fans per home game. (Last year, Pacific was third in the WCC in average attendance -- at 2,800 a game.)
 
Conference now 32-59 (.352) vs D1.
17-9 (.654) at home.
12-46 (.207) on the road.
3-4 (.429) at neutral sites.
15-0 vs non-D1.

Was 24-66 (.266) last season.
 
sacstateman said:
You can only cram 3500 sardines into McKeon Pavilion at St. Mary's.....
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Does anyone else find it amusing that a Sac State fan is talking about another schools gym being sardine can?
 
St. Mary's is a perfect example of a program that utilizes game revenue for additional home games. Interesting...if only our marketing guru's would understand that. Instead of making everything free, cut prices! Instead of $9 a game for the nose bleeds, make it $5 or even $2.50. Heavens...more revenue coming in means that the program can do more things and hopefully use that money to get more home games.

As for St. Mary's...they owe us a game at the Dee. We saved that crap tournament of theirs three years ago.
 
SWeberCat02 said:
webergrad02 said:
sacstateman said:
You can only cram 3500 sardines into McKeon Pavilion at St. Mary's.....
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Does anyone else find it amusing that a Sac State fan is talking about another schools gym being sardine can?
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When I visited the Hornets Nest, at first I thought I was in a large LDS Stake Center sans a church. Forget my high school, my middle school gym was bigger. Sacstateman you can mock a lot of things, but not a gym that is bigger than yours.
 
I actually feel bad for the fans that so desperately want upgraded facilities. The students don't care at all. We think of Weber being a commuter school. Sac is worse than we are. When I lived out there, sports at Sac State were not relevant at all. The 49ers held fall camp at Sierra College and I remember it being way more exciting to watch the 49ers practice through the fence than going to a Sac State game.
 
I was in Moraga for that tournament at St Mary's. They put some extra folding chairs in to bring it up to about 4,000 seats. It is smaller than my Jr High gym, but they seem to make the most of it. Every JC in Utah, and most of the HSs and JHSs have better facilities. However, by California standards it's OK. When the WCC brought YBU into the mix it pushed all but Gonzaga down a notch. St Mary's has tried to hold on to what they had, a second rate program in the conf., but have not been able to do it. They will find it hard to get into the post season as long a YBU is in the mix. Gonzaga will dominate, in basketball, for the foreseeable future.

My feeling is that we should be courting all of the WCC schools for home-n-home contracts. I know that many of them don't want to come here because they see it as an automatic loss, but we need to keep after them and many others who are on or near our level. :coffee:
 
Some ignore the fact that BB interest in CA never will be the same as Utah, except for the you-know-who colleges. 'Sacstateman' & 'bengalvisitor' are making that valid (& welcome) point, I think, here. St. Mary's must be charging big $ for tickets, if they're using "game revenue"...with an average of only 3K attendance? I think it's the donors, etc. Too bad that Sacramento State can't find a deep pocket alum/fan to help finance a new facility, cuz it looks like the studentbody surely will not on their dime. :twocents:
 
Not a good last few days for the Sky.

Montana drops one to South Dakota at home.
NAU gets swept by a few MEAC teams.
Sac State gets dominated by Seattle.
Idaho State loses to Bakersfield at home.
 
SWeberCat02 said:
According to RealTimeRPI.com, the conference is currently 21 out of 33 conferences in RPI. Last season they finished 25th.
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I wouldn't trust realtimerpi.com anymore. The site has been basically abandoned by it's owner (on auto-pilot now). Numerous errors over the past couple seasons that go without correction even after being reported :(

As for the Griz loss to South Dakota, the Griz are without 3 of their starters. No Breunig (injured), Weisner (injured) or Edmonds (grades?). Also had a few players (4 or 5 allegedly) recovering from the flu still. So they played 7 players that game and built a 10 point lead before running out of gas, losing their legs on shots and it slipped away. As bad as that loss looks I'm not too concerned about it due to being short handed & sickly for the game. Looks awful though still on paper :(

Sounds like Breunig should be back (if it was indeed a slight ankle injury) by beginning of conference and Weisner hopefully will be too. No idea if Edmonds grade issue was more of a message by Coach DeCuire sent to someone who barely made it, or if he's going to be ineligible and have to go to winter classes keeping him out until around February.
 
Conference finishes 36-79 (.313) vs D1 (one more game on March 3, Omaha @ UND).
19-12 (.613) at home (only 27% of D1 games were played at home).
13-60 (.178) on the road.
4-7 (.364) at neutral sites.
21-0 vs non-D1 (one more game on Jan 13, MT Tech @ UM).

Went 24-66 (.266) last season.

Still a poor record but considerably better than last season.
 
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