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This Week in the Big West - November 21-27, 2011
11/21/2011
NCAA action continues this week for women's soccer, while men's soccer enters its first week of postseason play. Women's volleyball winds down with the final week of the regular season, as men's and women's hoops start their second week of play. The first nationally-televised men's basketball games will take place this week as well.
Men's Basketball
The ESPN 76 Classic highlights the week, with UC Riverside representing the Big West in another challenging field. All three Highlander games will be broadcast on the ESPN networks. Meanwhile, a number of teams return home for games prior to the Thanksgiving break.
For the seventh year, all home and conference games, with the exception of ESPN and FOX Sports contests, 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 #3
ESPN 76 Classic Central
Women's Basketball
Cal State Northridge will host their Woodland Hills Holiday Inn Thanksgiving Classic for the second year in a row, with a tough field that includes UCLA and West Virginia. Meanwhile, Cal Poly will host their Thanksgiving Tournament against Austin Peay and San Jose State. For the rest of the Big West, home cooking starts off the week as teams ready for Thanksgiving action on the road.
For the seventh year, all home and conference games, with the exception of ESPN and FOX Sports contests, 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 #3
Men's Soccer
National No. 15 seed UC Santa Barbara will continue their quest for a second College Cup, heading to Omaha, Nebraska Sunday to face Creighton in an NCAA Round of 16 match-up.
Men's Soccer NCAA 3rd-Round Preview
Men's Soccer All-Conference Honors
Big West Men's Soccer Tournament Central
Women's Soccer
Another big 1-0 win has propelled Big West Tournament champs Long Beach State into the NCAA quarterfinals, becoming the first team from the conference to accomplish the feat. The 49ers will face national No. 2 seed Duke in Durham, North Carolina on Friday.
Women's Soccer Weekly NCAA Quarterfinals Preview
Women's Soccer All-Conference Honors
Big West Women's Soccer Tournament Central
Women's Volleyball
The Big West season is a wrap, but several schools will play non-conference matches this week, including Big West champs Long Beach State, who will head to the NCAA Tournament for the 25th-straight season.
For the seventh year, all conference matches will be broadcast by the institutions on BigWest.TV, the conference's video streaming initiative in partnership with CBS College Sports.
Women's Volleyball Weekly Release #14
Women's Volleyball All-Conference Honors
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This Week in the Big West is the one-stop listing of the top matches taking place across the Big West Conference! Each week, This Week in the Big West will highlight the games that fans won’t want to miss and critical match-ups home or away in one location. Keep in touch with the happenings around the conference!
Basketball rankings based on AP & ESPN/USA Today Polls.
Soccer rankings based on NSCAA Polls.
Volleyball rankings based on AVCA Poll.
[1] - ESPN 76 Classic (Anaheim, CA).
[2] - Great Alaska Shootout (Anchorage, AK).
[3] - Global Sports Cage Classic (Eugene, OR).
[4] - Las Vegas Invitational (Las Vegas, NV).
[5] - Hoops for the Cure Tournament (Dallas, TX).
[6] - Woodland Hills Thanksgiving Classic (Northridge, CA).
[7] - Aztec Turkey Time Tournament (San Diego, CA).
[8] - Cal Poly Thanksgiving Invitational (San Luis Obispo, CA).
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