Gooood morning Wildcat fans (and GNAC basketball masochists, reading after your team lost), today our humble Wildcats of Central Washington take on the pretentious Cougars of Azusa Pacific in California.

People act like SoCal is so cool… We’d take the 5-0-9 any day!

No, one of the more interesting things about the Regional is noticing how different the SoCal accent is from the pacific Northwest accent. You think it’s all west coast and we have on the whole a pretty neutral accent across the board, but… The stresses on certain syllables are very different -most notably, people from SoCal pronounce ‘LA’ as essentially ‘allay’ as one syllable, whereas people from the GNAC footprint pronounce it as ‘Ell-ay,’ with a slight separation between the letters. PNW’ers also put a directional stress on the ‘ay’ that SoCal folks don’t -though whether that stress goes up or down, depends on the context of the sentence.

Interesting stuff if you’re grammar/syntax nerd.

As for the game… We love Azusa like our own, it’s literally the sister school of SPU, we play two pre-season tournaments a year with them on back-t0-back weekends and have for several years now, as such… We feel just fine critiquing them and yesterday was. not. good.

Azusa was up 35-23 at the half, which admittedly halftime means nothing, but… They were outscored horrendously in the second half and it was bone headed play after boneheaded play.

Numbers we don’t like… Ken West went 4-11, but he played 40 minutes so that’s excusable; he’s their workhorse. The biggest one though is turnovers. Azusa had a whopping 18 turnovers.

Admittedly other than that… The numbers look fine. Bryce Sloan still managed to have a positive A/TO despite six turnovers because he had eight assists, which is kind of insane. George Reidy, formerly of NNU, had a similar line with 7 assists and four turnovers.

Honestly… There’s a lot we like, and it’s going to be a tall order for CWU to beat these guys. They’re on an insane hot streak, barreling through their conference tournament to get the autobid. Their non-con is impressive. The played Chico State, Cal State LA, and actually have a loss to CWU a whopping 47-81 at NNU -we forgot about this one.

Interesting… The minutes distribution looks comparatively insane to what it is now. It looks like they weren’t even trying to win this game, but they were only down 13 at halftime, which is totally doable. Literally the minutes high of the previous match-up was 28 and they had 11 guys play nine minutes or more. Not sure what to think of their non-con… But yeah, judging by the numbers of prior non-con games, the Cougars wrote it in for the game against the Wildcats, but why is anyone’s guess.

What’s also a guess is that this game’ll be different. Theoretically. Maybe. It looks Peter Bond has a high tolerance of letting guys shoot until the cows come home, which… There’s a time and place for that, and again: the only guy that did it yesterday was Ken, and… Provided it wasn’t a Tru Allen-esque performance (we’re gonna hold that grudge for a long time), we have no problem with it. Yet to be covered is NNU’s Tru Allen taking absolutely terrible shots with 15+ seconds left on the shot clock, just zero reason to be chucking, some of the lowest-basketball IQ stuff we’ve ever seen. But… Different story for a different day.

Can the Wildcats beat the Cougars? 100%. Will they beat the Cougars? TBD. Azusa is a Regional stalwart, they’re super experienced, their rotation has dropped down… If they can drop the turnovers, they have a very high likelihood of winning, especially if CWU comes back to earth and then panics over shots not falling.

The Wildcats are going to probably have to play our favorite form of basketball -relying heavily on Samaad, Maverick, Colby, and Mitch, just really fundamental players, Maverick shooting until the cows come home not withstanding. Every single guy needs to be on a tight leash, no risks, super aware assistant coaching staff of the mid-game stat sheets.

The thing is: Cal State LA is hosting, but they aren’t good. This upset wasn’t a mystery nor a surprise. And while we love Azusa… Signs the Region is terrible this year. They were able to upset the #1 seed, while it took a boneheaded coaching move in order for the #2 seed to win against the #7 seed… Then you have the 3 seed that got blown out by the 6 seed and it wasn’t even a surprise because again: #3 MSUB plays notoriously undisciplined basketball.

Chico, Azusa, and potentially CWU can play a very disciplined form of basketball that’s beautiful and technically sound, while also being aggressive and hungry. We’ll see what happens today.

We posted our real bracket on twitter without us just straight-up picking GNAC teams… We’ll post it here too:

The timestamp is to prove this was actually done ahead of time… On late Tuesday night.

We love Azusa, this game will likely be close, they’re so much more experienced than the Wildcats, buuuut… The game is at 7:30pm pacific.

Prediction: CWU wins. Let’s go guys!!

All of the love in the world and from your favorite blogger back home, and as always:

Be safe, have fun, and in this case: GO WILDCATS!!

Goood morning..

We have thoughts, lots of them, and so let’s dive right in.

#6 Chico State 78 vs. #3 MSU-Billings 64

Yeah, not the most surprising. Disciplined team vs. undisciplined team. We’re not particularly surprised with Famous Lefthand… Zharon Richmond can be really hot and cold, but that one is more of a genuine head scratcher. We’re pleased with at least being disciplined enough to go 0-6 and stop shooting? Better than what a couple of the NNU guys did last week… Not as good as what SPU’s Jake Anderson did in the ’11-’12 NCAA Regional (he went 0-3 and stopped). But honestly… Zharon deserves the dignity of going down with this ship. He’s been such a huge asset to them over the years.

Yellowjacket highlights: Famous Lefthand had five boards; Daniel Moody had 11 boards and five fouls; Steven Richardson had 11 points; Zharon Richmond had seven boards; and off the bench Emanuel Ajanaku had 12 points and seen boards among a full house of stats.

We’re glad Emmanuel is sticking around for another year… Feed. Your. Bigs. Emmanuel should have ate this game, but alas did not. While D2 has become somehow even more transient… The good news is that somehow the Tots are only juniors, along with Famous Lefthand, and Emmanuel Ajanaku. Yeah, losing Zharon and Steven is less than ideal, but… We really like this returning team.

Congrats to the Yellowjackets on a heck of a season, and good luck in your off-season endeavors.

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#7 Alaska-Anchorage 49 vs. #2 San Bernardino 52

We’re surprised that Rusty hasn’t yelled back to us… We’ve been screaming out our window ever since this loss happened. What on earth was he doing?! Let’s be real here: the man has as much job security as you can get, especially now that they finally made another tournament, but… Holy cow. If you want to know why they haven’t made a tournament in 12 years… THIS IS WHY.

For those that missed it: The Seawolves had the ball with 20.5 seconds left on the clock. The score was 49-50. They literally just needed a layup to win. And of course 12 million timeouts were taken, which… Seems like protocol, but… Why not just go for it? Get it over with. Rip the bandaid. Get the dang bucket. According to his bio this is his 20th year as head coach and he was an assistant at Anchorage for 13 years before that, so… 33 years and you can’t come up with a dang play when you’re in possession of the ball, there’s a whopping 20 seconds left, and you only need a deuce to win?

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That is what we have to say. Angry keyboard mashes.

What’s interesting about this one though, is that usually we’d take the stance of “it doesn’t all come down to one bucket” and there were plenty of mistakes before that, buuuuut: 20 seconds and only needing a two pointer to win. That. is. coaching. And it’s situations like this that in hindsight… Team captains really should prepare for a the call of mutiny if it arrives. Mutiny doesn’t have to last long -you can commit mutiny, win the game, and go back to normal (theoretically) because everyone’s happy they won. Or maybe we’re just trying to re-write history so the Seawolves did win. *Doofenshmirz voice* CURSE YOU RUSTY OSBORNE!!!! These guys SO deserved a win:

Seawolf highlights: Sawyer Storms was off in terms of shooting but he stayed within himself and got five boards and two blocks -he also made all four free throws; Tyson Gilbert had 15 points and five boards; Dathan Satchell seemed off but still had nine points and five fouls; Dillon Barrientos was quiet; Sloan Lentfer only saw 16 minutes but grabbed three boards and went 2-3 from the field, but ooooof went 0-4 on free throws. It’s okay Sloan… The blog favorites are almost always power forwards, so… Blog favoritism incoming.

Congrats  to the Seawolves on honestly shocking the Region and getting an at-large bid -wholly deserved with the wins at the end of the season- and good luck in your off-season workouts!

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#5 Central Washington 110 vs. #4 Dominguez Hills 90

It’s always weird to us that when games are anywhere but on campus, the fan support drops precipitously. Dominguez Hills is a whopping 40 minutes away when factoring in traffic (18 miles straight-up) and yet… Only the families showed up.

Actually, a major notable moment from the Anchorage game was when the San Bernardino commentator decided to complain about San Bernardino’s travel schedule, noting that they’d been to Hawaii in non-con, and then during conference play a majority of their schedule is NorCal, which is just sooo much travel.

We understand that California is 800 miles long, but… YOU’RE PLAYING FREAKING ALASKA ANCHORAGE. And Anchorage also played in Hawaii! Except for them it wasn’t a simple five hour flight. It was a 1500 mile flight to Seattle, then a five hour flight to Hawaii. They have one in-state opponent and guess what?! It’s an hour long flight away. Every other away game they play in the conference season is 1500 miles by air minimum… That’s just to Seattle. They take two planes to get to most of their games. They cross a freaking international border for one of their road games. Okay, it’s less drama than you’d think and as someone that grew up in Seattle, we’ve been to Canada more than Oregon, but still: INTERNATIONAL BORDER. The GNAC guys are all required to have passports going into their careers. In fact, our conference travel schedule regularly leaves guys in Bellingham for the day, because a lot of passports aren’t eligible for VISA-free travel to Canada -a notable recent one is Serbian and UAA alum Oggie Pantovic..

Sooo yeah. A play-by-play guy complaining about a CCAA’s school’s travel schedule while playing one of the Alaska schools. It’s funny… Maybe we needed to hear it, because we were kind of getting fed up with the Alaskas ourselves. The first year you head up there, it’s cool; every year after that, you’re like “whyyyyy.” But now we’re like “HEY, HOW DARE YOU NOT RECOGNIZE THEIR INSANE TRAVEL SCHEDULE.” Friendship with the Alaska schools re-activated.

Okay, meanwhile back at the CWU/Dominguez Hills game… It was nothing to write home about and in that it was everything to write home about. This game was never in doubt, although credit to the Dominguez Hills coach to finally get it between 12 with three minutes left. We were like “Ohhhh… Did we truly get too comfortable?” But nope they made a bunch of stupid errors promptly after that, and all was well.

We freaking loved this game. What we didn’t love was watching it. So yeah, the NCAA is doing their sponsored broadcast so they make the money rather than the conference/school that’s hosting it… The thingamajig did say that our payment was going to  Cal State LA, but… Who knows.

What we can assume though is that this is the typical CCAA broadcast, and… Keep in mind, the CCAA makes you pay to watch their regular season games remotely, and it’s not cheap; it’s like $200/season, and…. The broadcast was quite frankly terrible. Like the camera guy didn’t know what he was doing, there was no on-screen score board, and… Hi, we’re from the GNAC where watching games online is free and on youtube. We can also easily re-watch whenever we want. The switch over to youtube started a few years ago, with SFU and SPU being the first schools to do it, and… The Portal was fine to watch a game, it was free; it was just hard to look for specific moments. Now we can peruse for technicals or injuries or whatever with ease both because it’s on the Youtube infrastructure, AND there are on screen scoreboards and clocks at all times. So yeah… We’ll probably be sticking with SideArm for the game today because we know what these guys look like when they play basketball.

And when they do play basketball… At least last night they shot lights out. It’s funny, they were chucking up threes early and missed several and we were facepalming like “typical undisciplined CWU team,” and then they all started going in and… We still feel very 50/50 on shooting. Like yes, collectively they shot 56.6% from the field, 63% from 3, and 82.5% from the line, buuuuut Jello Lloyd was 1-7, meanwhile all of his teammates were hot. Just why? He’s a senior. He should know better. Do you think a Chico State senior is doing that garbage without getting reamed out? Nope.

Wildcat highlights: Jordan Clark had 18 points; Bradley Swillie went 7-8 from the line and finished with 13 points and six assists; Samaad Hector only had to play 27 minutes (woo!) and had a double-double with 15 points and 10 boards; and Maverick Sanders had a full house. Off the bench Seth Dawson had 11 points; Cavin Holden had five points; Camron McNeil went 5-6 and finished with 15 points; and Colby Gennett had 18 points while shooting a whopping 14 free throws.

What we can’t figure out about the highlights is how Mitch Brizee didn’t have more. He was in for 13 minutes and made Dominguez Hills look like a complete and total joke during that time frame, but… Two rebounds and four assists along with four points is good, but… It felt like more. We’re wondering if it’s a stamina issue -he’s a big guy, and so why burn him out in a blow-out, knowing you’re going to have to play immediately the next day? Probably-wise. And it can be rough adjusting to California water (we always buy a gallon of distilled water first thing when we get down there), so… We both hope and don’t hope he plays a lot tonight. We hope he plays a lot because we know he’ll be great, but we hope he doesn’t play a lot because CWU is making mincemeat of Azusa.

Sooo… Really great game, we’re super proud of all of the guys (even you, Jello Lloyd), and… Excited to see y’all do work against a cluster of an Azusa team. That game preview’ll be up in an hour.

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Once again: our hugest congrats to all of the guys on making it this far. Our deepest sympathies to the Anchorage guys -we’ll cover your amazing conference tourney run soon, and other than that…

Be safe, have fun, and go GNAC!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! Again. Because we felt it would be unfair to wish people Merry Christmas just before the MSUB game… UAA and CWU fans also deserve the good tidings.

All times pacific.

#2 San Bernardino vs. #7 Alaska-Anchorage @ 2:30pm

Okay, so… Yeah. Everyone’s aware that San Bernardino is good, but… Why can Alaska-Anchorage beat them? Because UAA’s beaten everybody… Except SPU, but the Falcons aren’t in LA, so… The Seawolves are safe. Loss to CWU in the conference tournament? Please. That was a home game for CWU. This is a neutral site game. As long as Azusa upsets Cal State LA, Alaska-Anchorage has little to worry about. But first UAA has to get through San Bernardino.

And okay… it’s a 2 vs. 7, buuuuut… You know what our most memorable 2 vs. 7 is? SPU getting upset by #7 Stan State in OT our senior year coincidentally in San Bernardino. Miserable. But no reason that UAA con’t provide that misery to the Coyotes.

Prediction: Seawolves get it done.

Note: this is another game that has free audio, and it can be accessed here.

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#4 Dominguez Hills vs. #5 Central Washington @ 7:30pm

The always insane 4-5 game. Common opponents… DH lost to WWU 58-81, and then beat SFU 82-60. Common CCAA opponents… CWU has a win over Cal State LA, which looks very decent now, and their blow-out against San Bernardino looks a lot better.

The reality is… We like this CWU team a lot, but we don’t trust them. The relatively calm win against UAA was nice, but… Jello Lloyd going 2-8 less so. That was literally the only display of undisciplined shooting in that entire game, and we get it: of all players on this CWU team, Jello Lloyd absolutely has a green light and maybe deservedly so (he needs it more than Samaad because guard vs. forward things), but… There were so many hot hands in that game. We just don’t trust it. Not that we would probably trust Dominguez Hills any more, but still.

Because it’s the 4-5 game, we’ll say:

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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It should be a great rest of the day of games. We’ll be honest: our incisions are bugging us a lot and after an amazing first week… The second week of recovery is not going well, but… That’s what happens when you’re cut from one side of your sternum to the other.

If we find any source to listen to the CWU game, we’ll let you know.

Otherwise: Be safe, have fun, and go SEAWOLVES + WILDCATS!!!!!!!!!

Goood morning. Post was delayed because what even is this bracket?

We’ve never gotten a bracket so wrong before and we don’t know how to feel about it. Not because we mind being wrong, but just because… We so firmly don’t agree with the teams selected it’s insane and it’s quickly turning into a grudge match that shockingly doesn’t include us starting beef with Alaska-Anchorage.

Here’s the bracket:

1. Cal State LA
2. San Bernardino
3. MSU Billings
4. Dominguez Hills
5. Central Washington
6. Chico State
7. Alaska-Anchorage
8. Azusa Pacific

Academy of Art and Point Loma both had their bubbles burst despite winning the Pac-West, which… That happens to the GNAC champion. It doesn’t happen to the Pac-West champion. It really doesn’t happen to Point Loma.

Maybe this is the other side of their 2018 selection? In 2018 there were 7 deserving teams and eight spots. PLNU was chosen to receive that leftover spot.

We’ve made the argument for ages that the Pac-West is usually the weakest conference because in any given season they really only have three or four competitive teams and then the rest you can sleepwalk through, and… Guess the Committee finally realized it.

The GNAC has long been a gauntlet, but we’ve been the Pac-12. Everyone assumes we’re mid because no one makes it through unscathed. And truth be told this year we are mid -it does check out that the CCAA is the strongest, GNAC is in the middle, and Pac-West is the weakest, but…

Holy cow. The parity on the west coast is real. We kept trying to figure out some loop of non-con wins and losses that makes sense and there just isn’t one. Literally the only team in the Regional that didn’t play a non-con game against someone else in the bracket is Billings… And yeah, we’re judgey about it. Go join the RMAC or the NSIC or whatever -West Region schedules West Region.

And maybe with three fanbases that all haven’t made the Regional since 2011 and 2012 respectively… That might be good cultural information:

While a couple of other Regions count toward strength of schedule… Scheduling within the West is simply better for several reasons:

1. You only see a non-west region team in the post-season if you make the Elite Eight, so there’s not any real advantage to going outside the Region, unless you have a team that could project higher and you schedule non-Region teams that all project to win their respective conferences and/or make their own Regional.

2. The west coast is so off in a corner that much like the rest of existence in the USA… We all we got, we all we need. Especially because there’s no Nevada nor Arizona D2 teams, so we really are off all the way over here.

3. There very much is a common thread of having played West Region basketball. MSUB is the only school in the West that doesn’t schedule themselves that way, so for any guy that doesn’t intend to be a Montana-lifer, it is a networking disadvantage vs. alums from other D2West schools that have those shared experiences and memories. And attending the Regional itself is great, but… As is the case with CWU, UAA, and MSUB: You can go a decade+ in between Regional tournament appearances, whereas everyone plays non-con… Except not MSUB.

But what do we know? Genuinely. The reality is that most of the guys from Montana will stay in Montana, and so do they truly need those Regional connections? Probably not.

Anyway… Usually we don’t fill out a Regional bracket of who we want to win/think will win, but this year we’ve decided to do two of them… One that’s got our biased picks and one that’s unbiased, so… We’ll post those images tomorrow and go over what we like/dislike about each team. The reality is that the best teams is coming in with six Regional losses, and so… There isn’t a true top dog.

Beyond that… Congrats once again to Alaska-Anchorage, MSU-Billings, and Central Washington on their bids. We’re stoked for you guys.

As always: Be safe, have fun, and go GNAC!

Hooooly cow. What an insane three days. We’ll dive into the ins and outs of the conference tournament and our thoughts on it in a different post, but right now, first and foremost: let’s project the bracket.

This is the first time CWU has won the conference and/or made the regional in our 13 years, but that’s a coincidence; we literally just missed them winning and making it, because it last happened in the 2010-2011 season.

It’s slightly weirder that in all that time they didn’t make it as an at-large -literally every other team in the conference, with the exception of Simon Fraser, has, but… The GNAC is a one bid league somewhat regularly.

It’s because the Pac-West is usually really stratified so they distinctly have a few teams that separate themselves record-wise, and then the CCAA is notably always bigger than we are and so their teams end up with more conference wins.

Like this year -their top five teams are 17-5, 17-5, 16-6, 15-7, 14-8, then drop way down to 11-11.

This vs. the GNAC which is 14-4, 13-5, then 11-7, 11-7, 10-8, 10-8, 9-9, then drops to 6-12.

You know when you have a feeling in the pit of your stomach and you feel so ill-at-ease, but you can’t figure out why, because rationally you know the conference tournament has gone better than it has on multiple fronts in the entirety of your 13 years?

We may have just found the reason.

We didn’t realize that there was a two game conference gap between #2 NNU and #3 SMU, and in the Pac-West that usually spells a Regional berth, but guess who’s not on any type of bubble watch?

Yeah. There’s no way. Everything in us wants to be like “Academy of Art and Point Loma are in, as are San Bernardino and Dominguez Hills, of course there’s a way!”

Academy of Art and Point Loma, and San Bernardino and Dominguez Hills both shared regular season titles. Had NNU won one more game… Maybe someone else’s bubble would have burst and it wouldn’t have been ours.

Can you imagine that? Nine teams for eight spots, with three auto-bid necessary teams winning the three conference tournaments.

We still feel like the GNAC would have drawn the shortest straw because that’s how things seem to work in this Region, but oh man… Nine teams for eight spots… The Committee could feel like throwing up instead of us.

But… That’s only one conference fanbase. There are two conference fanbases celebrating today and so let’s take a look at the potential bracket.

The basic parameters: Eight spots including three auto bids.

The teams involved:

The Pac-West:
Point Loma
Academy of Art
Azusa Pacific (autobid)

The CCAA:
San Bernardino
Dominguez Hills
Cal State LA (autobid)

The GNAC:
MSU-Billings
Central Washington (autobid)

With the host site though… That’s oddly up in the air.

For everyone involved, we hope it’s sent to Point Loma because… Do you want to go to San Bernardino or do you want to go to Point Loma? It’s not even close.

And both have hosted the Regional recently (PLNU last year, San Bernardino the year before).

This year, both hosted and lost in the championship game of their recent conference tournament (PLNU by 12, San Bernardino by 11). Had Billings beat Central and then gone on to beat UAA, despite dropping their final regular season game they still might have gotten the nod just due to being a tiebreaker and wanting to send the Regional somewhere different.

So close, yet so far.

They’re not going to do it, but at this point we’d love to see The Committee just say ‘whatever’ and send the Regional to Billings anyway. Teams have lost in the second round of their conference tournament in the past and still hosted, so there is precedent, but… Yeah no. It’s unfortunately not happening this year.

And so… Here’s our bet for the bracket:

1. San Bernardino (host).
2. Point Loma
3. Dominguez Hills.
4. Cal State LA.
5. Academy of Art
6. Central Washington
7. MSU-Billings
8. Azusa Pacific

Justifications:

Point Loma hosted last year. Otherwise we’d think it was going there. We still hope it does get sent there because the tournament atmosphere is a lot better, the campus is better, the staff is better, but San Bernardino won their head-to-head match-up, and so… While in everything else it’s a push, it seems like that should get them the nod.

One variable we could maybe see what happened to San Bernardino last time; they were the #2 but hosted two years ago. We also like avoiding conference match-ups in the first round, and so… Maybe make Bernardino the #1 seed but send it to Point Loma anyway? That could be a good option.

-Dominguez Hills over Cal State LA because Cal State LA got the auto bid and Cal State LA vs. Academy of Art is the most intuitive match-up for either team.

Central Washington over MSU-Billings because Billings has the worst non-con of any team in the tournament. We haaaaate when teams don’t schedule D2West dominant non-con and it just in our opinion goes against West Regional cultural norms. We truthfully think that the two teams could be swapped, but…

Billings beat CWU twice in the regular season. CWU beat Billings by one in the second round of the conference tournament. But CWU beat UAA comfortably while Billings lost one week earlier, and Billings has just faded down the stretch.

For those visiting us from the CCAA/Pac-West, the gist is that for most of the season 9/10 GNAC teams could not get shots to fall -the one team that could was Billings. But then in the final stretch, Billings finally started having issues with shots falling and all of a sudden they look very much the same as the rest of our league. It’s just a timing thing.

Azusa as the 8th seed because they’re the lowest finishing of the autobid only teams.

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And so… The selection show starts in an hour, but usually the West Region is done last, so expect to find out in just under 90 minutes, and then our analysis will likely be up by around 10pm PDT.

Goooood morning and welcome to the second day of the GNAC tournament. Before we discuss today, we need to discuss yesterday, so… Let’s jump right in.

#6 UAA 81 vs. #3 SMU 76

Apparently Aaron Landon (the SMU coach) is still pissy at us for calling for mutiny, and at first we felt bad, but then we realized:

a. Duuuude. You’re too new to know the mutiny stories about SPU, but long story short: a player tanked a season, an AD was fired, and then a couple of years later the admin was worried it was about to happen again and so they put that player on our coaching staff as a compromise to try and prevent it.

b. We are 100% pro-player. If you’re not, you deserve mutiny. Because quality coaches know when they’re in over their heads and how to ask for help and this SMU season epitomizes a coach having a reaaaally good team and being in over their head. They’re better than their record. Alex Pribble would have made the Elite Eight with these guys.

c. Yeah, we’re back to thinking that there needs to be a come-to-Jesus moment with the AD. We don’t want Aaron Landon fired, but his coaching needs serious help and he has a lot of off-season work to do on himself, and judging by him being pissy at us calling for mutiny… That self-reflection probably isn’t going to happen, and their AD is too new to really do anything about it.

RIP Bob. Bob we miss you so much 😭

Beyond that… The actual game… Once again: Rusty Osborne’s team mantra for the season seems to be “anything worth doing is worth half-assing,” but we don’t mean that in a derogatory way. It’s more “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” That’s a better way of putting it.

This Anchorage team is never great, but they’re okay with that and that’s really powerful, especially in a season when honestly no conference team is great. Even MSUB eventually got really cold, and so… Being able to just say “this is what it is,” and “the only way out is through,” is actually surprisingly amazing. Rusty is one of those coaches that we’re pretty neutral with; we don’t like nor dislike him -because they’re not in the I-5 corridor, we don’t spend too much time with him. He’s a fellow English major with a propensity for losing his mind, so bonus points there #Relatable.

Getting into the numbers…

Seawolf highlights: Sawyer Storms had eight boards; Tyson Gilbert had 19 points and five boards among a full house of stats; Dathan Satchell  had 15 points; Sloan Lentfer had six boards; and off the bench Jaron Williams had 23 points.

Saints highlights: Tyke Thompson had eight boards; Kyle Greeley had a nice bounce-back game with 23 points; and Jaden Nielsen-Skinner had five assists. Off the bench Kaden Hansen had 11 points, five boards, and five fouls; Myles Samuels had 10 points; and Jayshawn Moore went 5-5 and had 13 points.

On the whole this wasn’t a bad outing for the Saints, per se. Their bench play was better than it’s been in quite a while (no offense to said bench) and so that was great to see, but… The Seawolves did a great job at containing Tyke; and then Nathaniel Stokes, who was brought in to replace an injured Shakeem Alcindor, was fine at defense but had no offensive game what-so-ever. Except you can’t be like “oh if the Saints had Shakeem they would have won,” because these teams have played twice already this year and he played in both of those games and the Saints didn’t win.

It’s funny… Ask anyone in this tournament and they’ll tell you they’d rather play UAA than SMU, because SMU’s kryptonite is this UAA team. And again: we know how good these SMU players are, and so… It has to be coaching. To take a team ranked #1 (which: admittedly, we don’t believe in, but teams like this contribute to why) and fall on your face SO badly is horrifying. Again… We don’t think Landon should be fired, but the personal improvement plan needs to be made of iron because as we always say: college careers are incredibly finite, and it’s such a special time in an athlete’s life -both for good and for bad- and to waste talent like this is absolutely unacceptable. We’re livid on behalf of these players and families.

And honestly… These are OUR little brothers.

How dare he do this to them. How dare he waste them this way and get mad at us for calling him out on wasting their careers. Guess what?! You did. You wasted this year, a year that could have been SO special, and that’s not okay. And we don’t care if you’re mad at and hate us. Whatever. We clearly care about them way more than you do and it is obvious and it wholly unacceptable. *folds arms*

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#5 SPU 76 @ #4 CWU 90

If this loss gets Keff fired it’ll be worth it. Talk about another coach that completely wasted a year -in particular, Shaw and Maui’s senior year. Shaw is one of the best players to pass through the GNAC since Trey and Daulton at WWU. Maui is arguably the best pure point guard we’ve had in our 13 years with SPU, and definitely top five of our 10 years in covering the GNAC -though where he lands, we have too much other stuff to deal with right now to figure that out.

We knew going into this game that we were likely to lose. Partly because CWU is good, partly because there is a little bit of extra motivation. You have this person that comes and roots against you every game and now you’re playing their school and it’s finally like “yeah, we’re gonna show you that you should be rooting for us, not them.”

Honestly, we have a massive affinity for both schools. One thing that came up was how much the three GNAC private schools love playing each other, but we’d make the argument that CWU also slides in there as well. The four schools we had during the COVID season -SPU, SMU, CWU, NNU- are just such a dynamic quad. We love WWU and SFU as well, but… That four school block is so sacred to us.

And so at the end of the game we had to pretend to be sad because the careers of the seniors were over and it sucked, but… Honestly: we were mostly just relieved it was over so we could stop watching another coach wasting guys talents. SMU we’re pissed. SPU we’re numb because we’re so angry there aren’t words and it just bottoms out.

Falcon highlights: Maui Sze had six assists and 11 boards; Trace Evans played well and had 11 points, six boards, and four assists; and SHAW ANDERSON had 28 points and nine boards. Off the bench Kyle Luttinen had eight points and eight boards; and Jonas La Tour had five points.

The Falcons shot 100% on 10 free throws, so nicely done there.

Wildcat highlights: Jordan Clark had nine points; Jello Lloyd had a nice game with 13 points; Samaad Hector had 24 poitns and eight boards; and MAVERICK SANDERS naturally chose this game to bounce-back and had 17 points while shooting 8-10. Off the bench Cavin Holden 13 points, five assists, and four steals; and Camron McNeil had six boards and four assists.

Honestly… It’s hard to say about this Wildcat team. The good teams in the conference this year… It’s like being the fastest snail. Because we know SPU is bad, and so beating them by 20 should be standard but this conference is… Questionable right now. And we have the means of converting past numbers to current numbers and contextualize and so… This ain’t it, chief. This CWU team isn’t bad, but we’re not convinced any GNAC team would match-up well with their non-west region equivalents.

And so… Congrats Wildcats on the win and taking care of business and doing what needed to be done. We have no idea why we’re so cliche heavy this morning.

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Now… getting into today’s games…

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#6 UAA @ #2 NNU @ 5:15pm.

We don’t think we’ve ever been more stressed about a non-SPU involved game. We finally feel like we cracked the code with Anchorage’s MO and… The team is terrifying. Especially being the 6th seed. They literally have nothing to lose. Whatever happens is gravy, because they upset a team yesterday, and then if they win… If the GNAC is going to be a two-bid league (opposed to only the auto-bid) if Anchorage wins today, on paper they have as good of a resume as anybody. But honestly depending on results things could get really questionable. We’re of the opinion that the GNAC is an autobid only league this year, but whether The Committee agrees with that is a whole other issue.

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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#1 MSUB @ #4 CWU @ 7:30pm.

This game is kind of confusing to us because it seems mentally weird that the #1 team has to play the #4 team, while the #2 team gets to play the #6. And with this game, you also have the home court advantage factor, which was pretty darn nice. Once again: We miss the CWU band being good. They sound so awful this year, and they know it. Everyone knows that they’re bad and it breaks our heart and there’s genuinely just nothing that can be done about. Music programs won’t recover from COVID until 2030, because so much of what you become as a musician comes from the upperclassmen above you being good, and so… For a process that starts at 10 and goes through age 22… Yeah. It’s a deep recovery.

As for the actual game…

We don’t know what to think. MSUB has hit a MAJOR slump, they’re going to be starving to bounce back, but they have to do it in such a hostile environment. It’s a tall order. They’ve got the pieces, they won at CWU comfortably back in early January and then by seven at home in early February, but… The Wildcats no doubt are thinking “we just demolished SPU, who beat MSUB two weeks ago, we’ve got this.”

And so…

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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We honestly don’t feel great about either of our picks because there’s so many directions that these games could go. We could absolutely see UAA blowing out NNU, same with CWU blowing out MSUB, but at the same time… We love and believe in the NNU and MSUB players too.

One of the best things about this blog being a hobby project is that we just get to love and appreciate and start beef with whoever we want meanwhile overanalyzing the crap out of everything. And the conference tournament has always been sacred to us because D2 is small and that’s why we love it so much. Even in undergrad we loved reuniting with friends that we saw and met at other schools during the season, and now having written this blog for 10 years…

We love you guys so much. Players, families, coaches, support staff, officials. It’s also so nice being at home this year. Reminder: there’s a reason we have CWU season tickets and it’s because they have the best athletic staff in the GNAC, bar none. It’s not close. They’re amazing.

So today… Come say ‘hi,’ hug us gently because we’re recovering from surgery, and as always: Be safe, have fun, and go GNAC!

Gooood morning and welcome to the first day of the conference tournament, hosted at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA.

In case you’re new (or from a different conference): It’s a six team tournament with the 1st and 2nd seeds receiving a first round bye.

This year MSUB and NNU received the first round byes, and so tomorrow they’ll play the winners of tonight’s games.

Speaking of which…

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#6 UAA @ #3 SMU @ 5:15pm

UAA is coming off of a nice upset of MSUB, while SMU suffered an OT loss at NNU to end the season. In the regular season, SMU lost both games to UAA by a combined four points. Yeah, absolute heartbreakers, even factoring in that it’s just plain hard to win in Alaska. That said… It’s also hard to be a team three times in one season, and so that likely looms large for both teams going into this game.

Our instinct is that SMU should win, because they’re definitely the better team mano y mano, but… SMU has already lost twice, so… Basketball is a team game. The big thing that needs to happen in order for SMU to get the dub is that Jaden Nielsen-Skinner and Kyle Greeley both need to warm up and FAST. They were ice cold on Saturday, which admittedly has been a problem for literally every GNAC team throughout the season, but… It’s almost like UAA doesn’t expect to be warm, so they’re much better at dealing with it when they’re cold vs. SMU that always expects shots to fall.

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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#5 SPU @ #4 CWU @ 7:30pm

Every team’s most dreaded game of the tournament -having to play the Wildcats in Ellensburg. It’s going to be difficult, but could be doable. Potentially. The teams split during the regular season, with CWU winning in the ‘Burg in a snow storm and SPU winning in Seattle in perpetual drizzle (TBH we don’t remember the weather that day, but one can assume). Difficult isn’t impossible. Shaw Anderson had a bad shooting game in Fairbanks, but now he’s got the record, the individual pressure is off, and now it’s just a matter of everyone doing their best and playing the team game SPU is known for; that’s all they can really do -but whether or not it’ll get them a ‘W’ is a whole separate thing.

Prediction: Wildcats win.

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It should be a great night of hoops.

The big thing to know about the gym as a fan is that the benches are swapped. The ‘away’ bench is on the side closest to the jumbotron/furthest from the doors, while the home bench is closest. That’s backwards as to how it is during the regular season.

We’ll talk more about the Nicholson remodel after the tournament is over and we’d loooove to hear your thoughts, so be sure to come and tell us. During the conference tournament our seat swaps around a lot, so not sure how to give you directions there, but eh. If you ask anyone wearing SPU gear to point out the blogger, they’ll point you in our direction. How about that?

As always: Be safe, have fun, and go GNAC!

AND A CONFERENCE TOURNEY BUBBLE HAS BURST! R-I-P WWU.

Beyond that… What a seriously amazing final day of games. From an outside point of view, it could not have finished any better. From a WWU point-of-view, there was heartbreak, but… The question is: if everything was the same except MSUB beat UAA, would WWU have made the conference tournament?

Honestly, we’re not sure. We don’t remember what the tertiary tiebreaker is. It might be highest ranked win? We’ll figure that out another time . It was used recently, we know that, but… Not this year, because UAA won.

And so… Let’s talk about the games because they were AMAZING.

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WWU 89 @ SFU 74

Don’t let the final score fool you -this game was on the whole really close, and there were several times when WWU went up by a fair bit before SFU got right back in it. WWU’s substitutions were really funny to watch from that perspective. Tony would pull Kai thinking everything was under control, only for SFU to immediately go on a run and Kai to immediately get pissy at Tony. Being pissed off at Tony is something we strongly identify with, so… We feel you Kai.

Viks highlights: Kai Johnson had 18 points, eight boards, and five assists among a full house of stats; Jonathan Ned had 16 points and five boards; Nic Welp had 12 points; and WILL WILSON had a whopping 26 points. Off the bench BJ Kolly (!!) had five points; and Louis Grante-Halliday also had five points.

Clan highlights: David Penney had 24 points; Immanuel Oludele started and had 17 points and six boards; and Sasha Vujisic had five boards. Off the bench Irish Coquia had a full house; Elliot Dimaculangan had 14 points and seven boards; and Georges Lefebvre had 11 points and four boards.

Interesting. WWU shot 16 free throws compared to SFU’s mere six, despite the fact that there was no end-of-game fouling. Hmmm. While we get that teams play differently stylistically, whenever there’s a large discrepancy it always still makes us go “hmmm…” because with these teams… We really like both of them, we spend a bunch of time with both of them, and so there’s really not too much bias… Arguably we’re biased about both of them, and so… Hmmm.

Congrats to the Viks on doing what needed to be done, alas coming up just a hair short, and congrats to the Clan on a hard season well fought. Finishing in 9th and with four wins, SFU actually had a rather successful season for themselves and terrified the vast majority of conference teams. Moral victory, eh?

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SPU 62 @ UAF 56

And SPU gets a sweep in Alaska… Doesn’t mean anything for their post-season prospects, but it is difficult to do; literally no other GNAC team did it this year. And SPU didn’t play well in this game, like yikes. But hey, a dub is a dub and Shaw Anderson got the record. Can’t ask for more than that.

Falcon highlights: Jadin Penigar grabbed seven boards; Trace Evans had 11 points and seven boards; and the man himself, Shaw Anderson had 16 points, seven boards, and a whopping five steals among a full house of stats. Off the bench Jonas La Tour had five points; and Theo McMillan had five boards.

Nanook highlights: Jaycson Bereal Jr. had six boards among a full house of stats; Bryan Nguyen had seven boards; Nick Hopkins had nine boards; Demarcus Hall-Scriven had eight boards; Mawich Kachjaani had six boards; and off the bench Abdul Mohamed had 17 points and five boards among a full house of stats.

On the whole both teams shot terribly, and it was yet another game with highly questionable free throw ratios. SPU shot 9, while UAF shot a whopping 25. Oh well. Is what it is. UAF was trying to play the spoiler, and while they put the fear of God into the Falcons, they couldn’t quite get it done. Congrats the Nanooks on an interesting season, and good luck in your off-season workouts.

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MSUB 78 @ UAA 84

What UAA almost did to SPU, they did in fact do to MSUB. This game started reaaaally late and it was tied at half time, but then MSUB went up and were almost looking comfortable -just like the Falcons on Thursday. But then UAA was like ‘No.’ And then they were like ‘No, again -we’ve been here before, we’re getting a different result this time.’ And that’s exactly what happened.

Jacket highlights: Jalen Tot had 23 points and six boards; Daniel Moody grabbed 10 boards and had five fouls; Steven Richardson had six assists and five fouls; ZHARON RICHMOND had a whopping 30 points on elite shooting -going 10 for 11- while also grabbing six boards; and off the bench Emmanuel Ajanaku had six points.

Seawolf highlights: Sawyer Storms had 15 points and nine boards; Tyson Gilbert had 17 points; Dathan Satchell had 13 points; Dillon Barrientos had 19 points on good shooting; and off the bench Jaron Williams had 15 points among a full house of stats.

There was a foul discrepancy, but there was fouling at the end and so it’s less concerning. We’re yet to look at what’s happened with the other conferences, but… MSUB dropping two of their last three could very well mean that if they win the conference tournament, the GNAC is a one-bid league. We’ll dive more into Regional analysis on Tuesday (or Wednesday) but it’s been a parity filled year up here and that strangely doesn’t get you the benefit of the doubt come Selection Sunday. You’d think it would mean that all of the teams are decent, but let’s be real here: every team has had shooting issues this year -they just finally started affecting MSUB, while for a good portion of the season they dodged them. And shooting issues does not a strong league make.

Congrats to UAA on procuring their bid to Ellensburg, and congrats to MSUB on winning the regular season title.

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SMU 59 @ NNU 68 in OT

Hooooly. This game. We were following it closely while up in BC and the Saints went up big early and we were like “holy cow, they did NOT come to mess around,” and we still think that SMU at its core is a really good team that is perfectly capable of blowing out a team like NNU, but… Nooope. With about 10 minutes left in the second half, NNU went on a run and finally barely went up with 7 minutes left. After that it was insanely back and forth and we were screaaaaming at our phone. It was 51-52 in NNU’s favor when Tyke Thompson went to the line to shoot two; he made the first, missed the second, and Gabe Murphy got the board, and the game was headed to OT. Before we look at that though…

Saints highlights: Tyke Thompson had 16 points and six boards; Kyle Greeley had five fouls; Shakeem Alcindor had 9 points and nine boards; and off the bench Nathaniel Stokes had seven points and seven boards.

Nighthawk highlights: Ryzin Bergersen had six rebounds and five steals among a full house of stats; Christian Rose had six boards; and Gabe Murphy had nine boards. Off the bench Rayzhon Bergersen shot well and had eight points; Aaron Murphy had eight boards; and Nathan Perez had nine points among a full house of stats.

Interesting dichotomy shooting percentages-wise. SMU shot 35% from the field, 35% from downtown, and made just 57% of their free throws; NNU shot 41% from the field, a mere 27% from three, and only 67% from the charity stripe. All to conclude… What’s our favorite saying? MAKE YOUR DARN FREE THROWS. Though admittedly in this game, both teams shot so few, while it did come down to free throws… It didn’t. Much like in football we’ll never blame a kicker, in basketball we’ll never blame missed free throws at the end. Missed free throws happen; it’s just part of the game.

As for OT… NNU finally went up 6 with two minutes left and never looked back. We’ve now watched these teams play a full season, and while we know they’re not bad… There’s definitely a piece missing on both of them, and we honestly couldn’t tell you what it is. With NNU, maybe an actual forward? Gabe Murphy is listed as a forward, but really plays as a center, and so if there was a true power forward, he could play center and it would make things easier? As for SMU… We feel like Shakeem’s [lack of] fitness kills them. Even in an OT game, he only played 24 minutes; in a regular game he typically plays 15, but… Yeah. Fitness. They need him on the floor more, because he can play bully ball.

On the whole an insane and great game. It sounded like it was a blast. Congrats to NNU on procuring the first round bye, and congrats to SMU on dodging playing CWU in the first round.

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WOU 81 @ CWU 97

The Wolves fought valiantly to play the spoiler, but alas it was not to be. CWU went up with two minutes left in the first half and never looked back. This is an oddly huge win because so many teams in this conference don’t take care of business when they’re supposed to, but that was not this Wildcat team in the slightest. They were hungry, and they feasted.

Wolf highlights: Kris Cook had 27 points and five boards among a full house of stats; Jason Gallant played 40 full minutes and had 27 points, six assists, and six boards; and Cameron Benzel had 16 points and eight boards among a full house of stats.

This Wolves team is funny. They distinctly have their good players and their not good players and occasionally the good players get it together and they all play well, but ultimately they can’t play 3 on five and so it is what it is.

Wildcat highlights: Jordan Clark had 14 points; Bradley Sillie had 12 points and six boards; Samaad Hector had 18 points and a whopping 15 rebounds for the double double amongst a full house of stats; and Maverick Sanders finally decided to function and had 12 points and six boards. Off the bench, Cavin Holden had 12 points; and Camron McNeil had 11 points.

Lots of Wildcats ate, and this feels like a great win to have going into the conference tournament. This year CWU has home court advantage, and so… We shall see what kind of noise they make in the tournament.

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Again: An absolutely fantastic night of games. It was great to end the season where it started -with SFU and WWU, and then we had a blast following along with the rest of the games. Both the SMU/NNU and the UAA/MSUB were total agony, which is kind of the best part of college basketball.

As for this week… The plan is to put up a post analyzing the Regional, put up the usual preview post for the conference tournament on Thursday, and then we’ll see some of you guys in Ellensburg!

Until then… Be safe, have fun, and go GNAC!

Goooood morning and welcome to the final day of the 2023-2024 regular season! We have a lot to talk about and so… Let’s jump in.

Before previewing individual games, let’s talk about the current standings and conference tournament berth situation.

First: We believe mathematically SPU is 100% in due to tiebreakers.

Second: If UAA wins they’re in; they’ll be 10-8.

Buuuuut if UAA loses, there are some interesting numbers afoot.

If UAA, WWU, and SPU all end up at 9-9 (e.g. UAA loses, SPU loses, and WWU wins), SPU owns both tiebreakers due to sweeping UAA, and then splitting with WWU but having a win over MSUB.

If UAA wins and SPU loses, the Seawolves will be 10-8 and the 5th seed, while SPU will be 9-9 and the sixth seed. Even if WWU and SPU both end up at 9-9, as noted above: the Falcons own the tiebreaker.

Where things get interesting though, is if UAA loses and WWU wins, putting both at 9-9. The two teams split in the regular season, and then both got swept by Billings, and so it goes to who beat the next highest team, and… That’s TBD.

SMU and NNU face off tonight and if NNU wins they’re the #2 seed. If NNU loses, that puts both them and SMU at 12-6. The tiebreaker goes to Billings, but both teams split with Billings, and then… They are the 2 & 3 seed, so the tiebreaker proceeds to CWU as the 4th seed, buuuut both teams split with CWU, and if CWU loses tonight they’ll also end up at 10-8.

And so… Technically, we don’t know who the fourth seed is, and we’re realizing… It could be SPU. Because SPU also would own the tiebreaker with CWU due to splitting during the regular season and then the Falcons having a win over Billings. If UAA is also at 10-8, it continues to be weedy because of course: UAA and CWU split, and neither has a win over Billings, so it goes to the 2 seed and enter rabbit hole.

Meanwhile, back at the 5th seed, on the premise that CWU beats WOU…

If it’s SPU, then SMU is the two seed. If UAA is the 5th seed, then NNU is the two seed because SMU was swept by UAA, while NNU split.

And so, with a first round BYE on the line, if you’re a Nighthawks fan and things go wrong in  your game, you want SPU to win and UAA to lose, because if that happens: you’ll still get the first round bye.

If the Saints lose, it’s also surprisingly interesting. That’ll put them at the three seed, and they were swept by UAA in the regular season, while sweeping SPU, and so… Depending on the type of Saints fan you are, you’ll either:

a. be pulling for UAA to win so they get the 5th seed and you dodge a team that’s beat you twice already.

or

b. be pulling for SPU to win, so the Falcons get the 5th seed, and you get another crack at beating the Seawolves + dodge the Falcons getting a third crack at you.

There’s also the option of:

c. finding it all moot, because March is March and you have to beat everybody. Simple as that. Survive and advance. Git-r-done.

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We’re not even going to try to summarize that, because while we truly believe if you understand a topic well enough, you can explain it simply… There are too many variables. The only fanbase that truly needs a rooting guide tonight is WWU, and that can be accessed here and was published simultaneously.

As for an actual preview post…

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SPU @ UAF @ 6:15

This game is big for a few reasons. Currently the Falcons aren’t listed as qualifying for the conference tournament already, but as noted above: We’re pretty sure they are due to tiebreakers, so… A win is great because they could be seeded as high as fourth, but the real priority is getting Shaw Anderson at least six points.

He’s currently sitting at 1,943 career points -he needs five to tie the school record, and six to break it. Considering Shaw averages right around 20, it shouldn’t be a problem, but… Don’t count your Falcon basketball records before they hatch. And this record is nuts -it’s stood since 1955, and Shaw didn’t play the COVID season, so… It was achieved in four years. It’s real.

As for the Nanooks, of course they want to play the spoiler, but as an SPU alum… Genuinely all the best wishes and good luck to them. It would be nice for SPU to get a win on the night that Shaw breaks the record, but we really just want him to break it. That is literally all that matters. It would be different if there was Regional seeding on the line, but there’s not.

Prediction: Shaw gets the record, UAF gets the win.

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WOU @ CWU @ 6:15pm

The potential implications of WOU winning was actually something we completely missed above when trying to figure out the conference tourney seeding. WOU has a huge chance to send the seeding into chaos if they can get a win in Ellensburg. Will they? Probably not. But if they did… As much as we loooove the chaos that March brings, we’d still dislike it in this case because WOU plays with poor sportsmanship, which is something we don’t tolerate. We hope they get keelhauled.

Prediction: Wildcats win.

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SMU @ NNU @ 6:30pm

A lot depends on this game, but to make it simple: A first round BYE is on the line for both schools, and so…

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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WWU @ SFU @ 7:30pm

It’s win or go home for the Viks, while it’s a chance to play the spoiler for a rival-ish team for SFU. While in no universe do the Viks consider SFU a rival, there have been a lot of close games with a lot of meaning in the last several years, and so for SFU, WWU is probably their biggest GNAC rival.

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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MSUB @ UAA @ 8:30pm

If UAA wins, they’re in; if UAA loses, it’s complicated and they’re relying on other teams to keep them in. Truth be told, there aren’t a ton of paths to UAA missing the tournament, but… The WOU/CWU game will be over before this one starts, and so the Seawolves will know just how much they need the victory, by the time tip-off happens.

Prediction: Pick ’em.

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It is going to be a fantastic night of basketball. Every game has the potential for insanity, and in certain cases the insanity might not be obvious or even included in our preview. Like what if UAA blows out MSUB? That’d be nuts, but it could happen. It just depends.

We’re off to SFU for the third week in a row, so come say ‘hi’ and wish us luck -we’re headed in for surgery early Monday morning.

Be safe, have fun, and go GNAC!