We're a first round exit in the conference tournament, as expected. Final standings:
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2013 Big West Conference Standings
TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 16 2 .889 29 4 .879 86 47
UC Riverside Highlanders 16 2 .889 26 9 .743 62 45
Long Beach State 49ers 12 6 .667 17 14 .548 154 10
Cal Poly Mustangs 11 7 .611 16 14 .533 170 33
UC Davis Aggies 11 7 .611 19 12 .613 191 39
Pacific Tigers 6 12 .333 9 21 .300 265 8
UC Irvine Anteaters 6 12 .333 8 22 .267 219 12
Cal State Northridge Matadors 5 13 .278 7 23 .233 297 2
Hawaii Rainbow Wahine 4 14 .222 6 23 .207 279 17
Cal State Fullerton Titans 3 15 .167 6 23 .207 292 15
We avoided last place. Good enough for both me and the AD.
Gunther Hasenkopf commits!
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#24 SG Gunther Hasenkopf
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Height: 6-3
Weight: 190
High School:
Hometown: Tubingen, Germany
GPA: 2.36
Test Score: 1000
Rating: **
Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 11 54 48 67 11 36 28 39 44 26 72 21 81 39 94 58
Potential: F B C A C C C B B C B B
Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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26.3 2.6 8.1 3.2 2.2 1.45 3.4 0.7 2.5
Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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10.0 18.3 .545 4.8 7.4 .646 1.6 4.0 .400
Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Cal State Northridge
Rankings: Foreign #36 Overall, Foreign #3 SG
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Cal State Northridge, Mississippi State, Minnesota, VCU, Kansas State
He brings some desperately needed 3-point shooting so teams don't just pack the zone against us. Awful handles and superior post defense, so I might just shift him to SF. Like our other two recruits, he's listed as having high upside (Red/Green).
UC-Santa Barbara wins the conference tournament and promptly bows out 71-78 in a tough game as a 14 seed against
Fresno State.
UC-Riverside is a 2 seed in the NIT and makes it all the way to the regional final, where they lose handily to 5 seed
Arizona State.
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1 seeds Baylor and Maryland advance to play against 2 seed Rutgers and 4 seed North Carolina respectively. LSU beats Virginia 69-59 in the NIT final. The margin of 10 continues as Baylor tops Rutgers 66-56 and UNC upsets Maryland 85-75. Sorry,
terpkirstin! Taking home the championship is
Baylor in a thrilling 74-72 game that instantly rates as an NCAA Final Classic.
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2013 BIG WEST AWARDS
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Player of the Year:
SR PG Floyd Sarmiento UC Santa Barbara 12.9 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 5.9 APG 1.1 SPG, 0.1 BPG
Freshman of the Year:
FR SG Aldo Tucker Cal State Northridge 7.6 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 1.3 APG 0.4 SPG, 0.2 BPG
Coach of the Year:
Damian Coffman Long Beach State 17 - 14 (12 - 6)
All-league 1st Team:
C SO Jesus Dragon UC Riverside 11.3 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 1.1 APG, 0.8 SPG, 0.3 BPG
PF SR Galen Callihan Cal Poly 8.2 PPG, 9.5 RPG, 1.3 APG, 0.2 SPG, 0.4 BPG
SF SR David Plumb UC Santa Barbara 10.0 PPG, 5.8 RPG, 1.3 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.6 BPG
SG JR Jamaal Eddings UC Santa Barbara 13.0 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 2.7 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.2 BPG
PG SR Floyd Sarmiento UC Santa Barbara 12.9 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 5.9 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.1 BPG
All-league 2nd Team:
C SR Kerry Sikes UC Davis 6.7 PPG, 5.8 RPG, 1.2 APG, 0.5 SPG, 0.7 BPG
PF SR Richard Collins UC Riverside 6.8 PPG, 6.0 RPG, 1.0 APG, 0.5 SPG, 1.8 BPG
SF SO Sheldon Hake Cal Poly 7.9 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 1.7 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG
SG SR Brian Ung UC Riverside 15.7 PPG, 3.9 RPG, 2.0 APG, 1.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG
PG SR Leo Swanner Long Beach State 17.0 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 1.6 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.0 BPG
All-freshman Team:
C FR Bernie Cummins Hawaii 5.2 PPG, 6.2 RPG, 0.9 APG, 0.3 SPG, 0.2 BPG
PF FR Tony Mattox Long Beach State 1.2 PPG, 1.0 RPG, 0.3 APG, 0.1 SPG, 0.0 BPG
SF FR Thomas Rowland UC Davis 6.6 PPG, 3.6 RPG, 1.4 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.2 BPG
SG FR Aldo Tucker Cal State Northridge 7.6 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 1.3 APG, 0.4 SPG, 0.2 BPG
PG FR Ward Parker Cal Poly 9.3 PPG, 2.4 RPG, 1.6 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.1 BPG
Aldo Tucker, who I had rated as our second best player, wins Big West Freshman of the Year. Too bad we recruited over you, Aldo!
Our prestige bumps up to 5.
Recruiting Rankings come in...
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2013 Recruiting Rankings
# Team Conference Best Player Rtg 5* 4* 3* 2* 1*
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54. UC Riverside Big West PG Jesse Reyes *** 0 0 3 1 0
107. Cal Poly Big West SF David Montes *** 0 0 1 2 1
122. Long Beach State Big West PG Dominique Larsen *** 0 0 2 2 0
158. UC Santa Barbara Big West C Larry Sherlock *** 0 0 2 0 1
171. Cal State Fullerton Big West PF Dexter Coon *** 0 0 1 2 1
172. Hawaii Big West SF Dietrich Hirschmann *** 0 0 1 2 0
201. UC Davis Big West C Americo Alvarez *** 0 0 1 0 2
223. Cal State Northridge Big West SG Angel Moore *** 0 0 1 2 0
308. UC Irvine Big West SF Erick Henry ** 0 0 0 1 2
322. Pacific Big West C Toby Shiver * 0 0 0 0 3
Excellent recruiting year for the conference overall. I feel like our class was better than that, but what do I know? What I do know is that the road just got tougher.
And then I look at our recruits.
Marlin Chevalier looks way worse than I thought,
Angel Moore slightly underwhelms. The good news?
Gunther Hasenkopf looks somewhat better than advertised.
Conference Movement
North Carolina A&T moves from the MEAC to the Big South, while
Presbyterian suddenly finds itself in an HBCU-dominated conference. I uh, also realize that it's still using the women's file, so for example, we have the Wyoming Cowgirls and UNLV Lady Rebels. Another oops on my part that I'll need to fix before we proceed.
Oh, and some scrub center transferred, so we have a scholarship open