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Monday, May 6, 2024
Rhode Island and Saint Mary’s are two teams who were on nearly everybody’s hot sleeper lists entering this season, and both had significant early-season chances yesterday to show they are worthy of the relative buzz that has built around them. Both teams passed their tests on Saturday with flying colors. […]
We continue our preseason quick glance at the conferences by checking in with the MAC, MEAC, MVC and Mountain West.
Hawaii was a fortuitous-and wise-addition for the Big West Conference when the school joined in 2012, and it took just a couple years for the league to see a significant payoff.
In truth, USC probably should’ve been being taken seriously even before its 103-101 four-overtime thriller over Arizona yesterday, but you can be sure the Trojans are now.
The Big West entered 2014-15 poised for a very good year, and it eventually got there, albeit in a very roundabout way.
The Big West was a four-team race last year. And a very good one at that. UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Long Beach State and Hawaii staged a spirited battle for the conference title in a league that refreshingly still decides a true champion through a double round-robin schedule.
