STANFORD ONLY BAY AREA MEN’S TEAM NOT IN POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT – Stanford is the only one of the Bay Area’s six men’s Division I basketball programs not playing in a postseason tournament.   On the other hand, the Stanford women are the only Bay Area Division I basketball program that is playing in the NCAA Tournament. ...

ST. MARY’S LOSS TO SAN DIEGO DOOMED GAELS ON SELECTION SUNDAY – You can read the minds of the selection committee members when it came to evaluate St. Mary’s for the NCAA Tournament: “How in the world can we let this team into our tournament if it lost to San Diego?” Most people on the ...

CAPSULES ON ALL 68 NCAA TOURNAMENT TEAMS – Here are the teams, listed in alphabetical order, with each team’s record,  and mention of its conference if it won a low-profile conference tournament, and how far the team is likely to go in the NCAA Tournament: AKRON (23-12, MAC tournament champ) The Headliner: Forward Nikola Cvetinovic – 12.1 ...

WCC ROUNDUP: ODD SITUATION FOR ST. MARY’S — The West Coast Conference tournament is in the books, but the WCC season is far from over as four teams besides conference tournament champions Gonzaga are awaiting postseason bids.   St. Mary’s finds itself in a weird situation, as we take a team-by-team look at where all eight ...

 Craziness enveloped  West Coast Conference basketball in recent weeks, changing the outlook considerably.   Here is a rundown of all eight teams heading into the conference tournament, which starts Friday in Las Vegas.  (Teams are listed in the order of their seeding): SAINT MARY’S    St. Mary’s finally played a good half of basketball in its final regular-season conference game, ...

For one weekend, at least, California will be the focal point of college basketball.   Well, maybe it won’t be, but it should be, gosh darn it. West Coast basketball reaches a crescendo this weekend.  (Cymbals crash sound effect, please.) The West Coast Conference regular-season championship is up for grabs when Gonzaga plays St. Mary’s in ...

It’s almost impossible to overstate how devastating Wednesday’s loss to San Diego was for St. Mary’s. The mere numbers tell you it may have been the nation’s biggest upset this season, with San Diego being 5-21 overall and 1-10 in the West Coast Conference and the Gaels coming in at 22-4 overall and 10-1 in ...

An update of all eight West Coast Conference basketball teams at the midpoint of February. ============= SAN FRANCISCO ============= Now comes the tough part for San Francisco.   The Dons were at an emotional high heading into the Feb. 12 home game against St. Mary’s, knowing that a win would move them into a tie for ...

Only one team in the country is averaging at least 119 points, and only one team had a crowd more than twice the capacity of its arena in its most recent home game. That’s West Liberty University, a Division II school of about 2,600 students in a town (West Liberty, W.Va.) of about 1,200 people  ...

“Delicious” typically does not apply to basketball games, but it describes this Saturday’s game at Pauley Pavilion between UCLA and St. John’s. St. John’s is in position for its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2002 after its blowout victory on Sunday over then-No. 3 Duke, the last of the Red Storm’s eight straight games against ...