Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Pacific, Utah State, Fullerton Separate From the Pack The good, the bad and the ugly are starting to detach themselves, now. It took a few games, but it’s become clear. Pacific (3-0) remains the only undefeated team in the conference with Utah State […]

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan New Year, New Season As the new year began, so did a new season: the conference season. This is where the gloves are dropped and the teams with the smallest amount of blood on their jersey in the end are crowned kings. The […]

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Douglass Does it Again for UC Irvine In a classic example of why many consider UC Irvine head coach Pat Douglass the best coach in the conference, Douglass has recently gone to a new lineup that’s working well. The lineup features first team […]

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Gauchos Run Into Glass Ceiling The glass slipper has broken. It’s turned midnight. Last year, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos capped off a Cinderella season by winning the Big West Conference tournament and earning the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. It prompted […]

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Completely disregard my last column. I went out of my way to make it perfectly clear that Utah State was clearly the best team in the league. I went on and on about forward Desmond Penigar and the Aggies’ defense and ball control. […]

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Advantage Aggies Apparently, Utah State doesn’t need point guard Tony Brown after all. The Aggies have raced out to a 5-1 start in this 2002-03 season. The team has now reached one of their best starts in 33 years-and it’s come quite easily. […]

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan It’s no secret that the Big West struggles to gain the national publicity that bigger conferences such as the Pacific 10, Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference receive. And with a chance to change some of that, two Big West teams recently […]

Big West Conference Preview by Shaan Hassan The Big West Conference lost two valuable players in guards from UC Irvine, Jerry Green, and Utah State, Tony Brown, but the departure of those two leaders, along with some resurgence from unproven, young talent only paves the way for what should be […]

Big West Recap by Shaan Hassan Last season, seven of the ten teams in the Big West Conference finished with a .500 record or better (just Idaho, UC Riverside and Cal State Fullerton had a losing record) and that strong competition opened the door for a wide open conference tournament […]