Humboldt State VS CSU Monterey Bay

Cal State L.A. VS UC San Diego

Cal State Dominguez Hills VS San Francisco State

Mon Bay gets another crack at Humboldt, WITH Joe Mitchell playing (AND Big CY)

Pomona gets their wish:
Playing Berdooo at "The Arena"

San Diego figures out how to lose to LA

No. 8 Cal Poly Pomona at No. 1 Humboldt State
No. 7 UC San Diego at No. 2 Cal State San Bernardino
No. 6 San Francisco State at No. 3 Cal State L.A.
No. 5 Cal State Dominguez Hills at No. 4 Cal State Monterey Bay

Cal State Los Angeles: 6-2
Cal State Monterey Bay: 5-3
Cal State Dominguez Hills: 4-4
San Francisco State: 3-5
UC San Diego: 2-6

Absoulte chaos to the nth degree. Enough said.

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Go Jacks!!!

I would like to know how we won the tie-breaker. If it was based on our performance, than ok. But if it was a coin flip or a calculated thing, than it can't really be called a "tie breaker", maybe an "executive decision".

Should be another great game, with the stakes raised even higher! Humboldt knows exactly what they need to do in this game, and we will all play our part!!

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Grand Canyon's coach Scott Mossman on Humboldt hosting the regional: “We’ve been treated like kings the whole time we’ve been here. Everywhere we went it was like a first-class operation. I wish the tournament was here every year. This is a college basketball atmosphere.”

"Its cute how they have Pack the Gym night. Up here, we just call that Saturday." - PosseBoy

Neither Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball coach Greg Kamansky nor Cal State San Bernardino coach Jeff Oliver liked the idea of a California Collegiate Athletic Association conference tournament when it was announced a year ago.
The first one is a day away and the two like the idea even less now.

Quarterfinal games will be held Tuesday at the sites of the highest seeded schools while Friday's semifinals and Saturday's championship games will be at Coussoulis Arena.

The No. 2 seeded Coyotes (22-6, 15-5) will open play at home at 7:30 p.m. against No. 7 UC San Diego (15-11, 11-9) while the No. 8 Broncos (11-14, 10-10) will play at No. 1 Humboldt State (20-7, 15-5), whom they played in their regular-season finale on Friday.

On the women's side, it will be the two local teams squaring off at 5:30 p.m. with the No. 2 Coyotes (21-6, 15-5) playing host to the seventh-seeded Broncos (11-15, 8-12).

Both Oliver and Kamansky have beefs with the conference brain trust.

Oliver is upset that the Coyotes - who finished tied with Humboldt State for first place - won't be considered regular-season co-champions by the CCAA, as has been done in the past.

In 2005, the Coyotes finished tied with Cal Poly Pomona and the two were declared co-champions. Both got banners.

Cal State has finished first or tied for first in seven of the last nine years.

"They're telling me I can't even claim a share of the conference and I have a problem with that. ... To say that we're not at least a co-champion is asinine," he said. "There will be a banner hanging in Coussoulis Arena, I guarantee that, even if I have to buy it myself."
The Coyotes had a better strength of schedule, better overall record and higher West Region ranking than Humboldt, but the teams split their head-to-head games.

The conference's criteria called for the first-place tiebreaker to be "finish against the third-place team" - a problem, because five teams finished tied for third.

After another tiebreaker to decide that, Humboldt came out on top because it swept Cal State Monterey Bay while the Coyotes split.

"As even as all these teams are it doesn't seem right it should come down to that," Oliver said.

Kamansky's beef is that he was never notified where his team was playing by a conference representative.

The Broncos knew they would play on the road Tuesday - either at San Bernardino or at Humboldt, where they played last weekend.

The team had plans to return home Saturday, unless their quarterfinal opponent was Humboldt again, in which case they were to stay in Arcata.

San Diego was in the same position, having played Friday at San Francisco and needing to know where to go next.

Both Kamansky and Oliver said they will take up their issues with the powers-that-be at this weekend's conference meeting.

"I might just have to explode. Friday night, we were sure we were playing San Bernardino. Humboldt was sure we were playing San Bernardino," Kamamsky said. "We should have just showed up at San Bernardino Tuesday night."

Kamansky's other issue with the conference tournament is the time it takes his players away from classes.

The Broncos were out of school all last week because of the road trip and now have to stay an extra four days because of the game Tuesday.

If the Broncos were to win the CCAA tournament, they would advance to the regional - which will likely be held in Alaska.

"We would have kids attending their classes for about three days in three weeks, right before finals," he said.

I absolutely detest the conference tournament...ALL conference tournaments actually, including division I. I hate the fact that a team from a low major conference can have a mediocre-poor season, but get on a run in the tournament and get into the field of 64 w/ a 12-18 record or something like that, screwing a more deserving team out of a spot. Who would get screwed in the west region if SF State or Monterey Bay wins the CCAA?

As far as the tournament, hardly any coaches supported the idea. Academics is always the "make us look holy" excuse, but finances and wanting to have a competitive advantage are the primary motives for all coaches and ADs. (My cynicism rears its ugly head). I agree completely with the idea that the whole season's accomplishments get watered down and that some deserving team could get left out.

March 4 (Tue) – At Campus Sites

Women
No. 1 Chico State 62, No. 8 Cal State Dominguez Hills 45 (Box Score)
No. 7 Cal Poly Pomona 57, Cal State San Bernardino 52
; (Box Score) ( Recap)
No. 3 UC San Diego 59, San Francisco State 56 (Box Score)
No. 4 Sonoma State 65, No. 5 Humboldt State 55

Men
No. 8 Cal Poly Pomona 73, No. 1 Humboldt State 70 (Box Score) (Recap)
No. 7 UC San Diego 63, No. 2 Cal State San Bernardino 59 (OT)
No. 6 San Francisco State 60, Cal State L.A. 57 (Box Score) (Recap)
No. 5 Cal State Dominguez Hills 56, No. 4 Cal State Monterey Bay 53 (Box Score) (Recap)

San Bernadino has a beautiful facility that can seat ~5,000, yet their average crowd was 795 for the year (this number is inflated, because it includes a "Pack the Gym Night" where they drew ~2,800 fans when they gave out roughly 50,000 free tickets). If SB made it to the finals, the CCAA semis and finals might draw 1,000 per game.

Without SB in the tournament, I don't expect the final three CCAA games to draw well.

Looking at last night's games, the attendance figures were:

HSU & Pomona 1,400
SB & UCSD 422
CSLA & SF 353
CSMB & DH 840

HSU had another sellout and Monterey had a nice crowd. I can't believe that only 422 people showed up for the SB/SD game.

My guess is the CCAA tourney will draw like the preseason tournaments (i.e. 100-400), which is a joke. It doesn't look like the CCAA tourney will be making money with crowds like that, and if that is the case, the CCAA should consider dropping the tournament in future years.