This Week in the Big West - January 3-9, 2011

1/3/2011

The first week of the new year brings the second week of conference play for both men's and women's hoops, highlighted by a men's game televised on Fox Sports Prime Ticket this Saturday.

Men's Basketball

Long Beach State picked up two key road wins last week to move to 2-0 in the early portion of the Big West men's basketball schedule.  The 49ers look to continue the hot start in the friendly confines of the Walter Pyramid, hosting Cal State Northridge and UC Irvine.  UC Riverside will also host Cal State Fullerton on Saturday in a game televised on Fox Sports Prime Ticket.

For the sixth year in a row, all home and conference games will be broadcast by the institutions on BigWest.TV, the conference's video streaming initiative in partnership with CBS College Sports.

Men's Basketball Weekly Release #9


Women's Basketball

After the opening weekend of Big West play, this year's championship is definitely up for grabs after UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton both toppled preseason favorites in their opening contests. The Anteaters, winning nine of their last 10 contests, downed last season's Big West tournament champion UC Riverside, 53-46, to improve to 9-4 on the season. Lauren Chow's last minute heroics led Cal State Fullerton to a 58-56 win over preseason season favorite and 2009-10 Big West regular season champion UC Davis. Unfortunately the Titans couldnt pull out another last-second win and fell to Pacific 69-65 to drop to 1-1 in league play. The winless Cal State Northridge Matadors also notched their first victory of the season at the start of conference action, downing the Tigers 74-68 in overtime.

For the sixth year in a row, all home and conference games will be broadcast by the institutions on BigWest.TV, the conference's video streaming initiative in partnership with CBS College Sports.

Women's Basketball Weekly Release #8