1) Pacific – 72 (T-102, 101)
2) UC Santa Barbara – 38 (T-142, T-138)
3) Long Beach State – 6 (T-175, T-181)
T-4) Cal State Fullerton – 2 (T-226, T-221)
T-4) Cal State Northridge – 2 (T-226, T-225)
T-6) California Polytechnic– 0 (T-273, DNQ)
T-6) UC Davis – 0 (T-273, DNQ)
T-6) UC Irvine – 0 (T-273, T-221)
T-6) UC Riverside – 0 (T-273, T-DNQ)
Like the Ohio Valley, this is another top-heavy conference. UC Santa Barbara does have a tournament win, but Pacific is really the pride of the Big West.
Pacific has two tournament wins, both coming in back-to-back seasons. They defeated No. 5-seeded Providence as a No. 12 seed in 2004, and then beat No. 9-seeded Pittsburgh as a No. 8 seed in 2005. Despite no tournament appearances before 1997, the two tournament wins easily put Pacific atop the Big West.
The ESPN rankings and my rankings agree very closely with all the teams in this conference. UC Irvine had a few good seasons with losses in the conference tournament, and so they are rated a little higher in the ESPN rankings.
While the Big West may not turn out serious upset threats every year, low seeds usually don’t get easy blowouts when they play the representative from this conference in the first round.
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