Its Official... Pilots @ Pacific 3/18/09

http://www.collegeinsider.com/tournament/schedule.html

Its official we play at Pacific in the collegeinsider.com tourney on Wednesday 18th.

The link has a list of the other games too. All the teams seem to be mid-major teams.

Well for their criteria was that they take first precedence for teams whose conferences have less than 50% participating in the NCAA or NIT tournaments... And with only 4 at larges from mid majors to the NCAAs... That pretty much only leaves teams from smaller conferences...

University of Pacific Tigers

At any rate it's nice to see a tournament thinking of the little guys.

Interesting that we get to face a potential future member of the WCC...

I would guess the winner of our game would play the winner of Idaho vs. Drake.

Hopefully we could get across that 20-win mark...

DaTruRochin wrote:Interesting that we get to face a potential future member of the WCC...

From the looks of their non-conference schedule (see my previous post above), it looks like they may be trying to showcase themselves for the WCC.

I can dig it. Are the La Salle folks on here too old to be taught economics by distinguished Pacific alumnus Mike Doran?

You would almost have to give this tournament a little bit more credibility compared to the CBI considering they are letting OSU host a section.

At least all the teams have winning records

Glad to see we will be playing in the West... lets start our habit of beating Pacific!

I see on the Pacific web site that the game will be televised on Big West television; hopefully CSN NW will pick up the game?!

Anyone here going to be able to swing the game?

This isnt the most pretigious tournament, but I like that we will get post season experience on the road... and additional practice time, etc. Oh man, I would really like to see us get 20 wins...

630 miles, 9-3/4 hours. Don't think I can make it.

The Oregonian article announcement:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pilots/index.ssf/2009/03/portland_pilots_to_play_in_cit.html

Wow, there are some good match-ups and very good teams in this tourney. Evansville is very good among others, and Pacific has a nice basketball history of its own. A good showing would definitely allow us to get into the mid-major top 25 rankings going into next season and help us to build up some momentum.

Where the H,e, double Hockey stick's is Pacific Tigers Located at???WHAT TOWN and STATE. Nearest major airport. How far is drive from Phoenix. Their site is worthless...arena is Alex Spanos arena (rich patriachal constr. family head) from San Diego. Help the Mesa with particular's

How about Direct-TV or web streaming (Gosh please not Portland's idiotic weak Stretch-net...say it ain't so joe)hopefully it's wctv please''''.....

Stockton, CA, east of the bay area.

From what I can tell, the tourney may be carried on Fox College Sports, Mesa:

http://fcs.channelfinder.net/start.asp

I'm sure other PN people will fill in the details between now and Wednesday...

Or they could road trip like several PNers...

DaTruRochin wrote:Or they could road trip like several PNers...

For those road tripping, you could do a little winery tour...great area for that.

DaTruRochin wrote:Or they could road trip like several PNers...

Says the one who didnt make it to Vegas...

But Stockton is a much more desirable locale!

PilotNut wrote:
Says the one who didnt make it to Vegas...

I'm doing my penance... And Stockton is WAY cheaper...

DaTruRochin wrote:I'm doing my penance... And Stockton is WAY cheaper...

Cheaper than Vegas? You don't have to pay for drinks and you can get your room comped while you are there!

Hey, nice going getting to the new tourney. Good luck, and wish us luck vs Wazzu.
IMO, we got jobbed bigtime from the Dance. 30 of 34 at large from the 6 BCS conferences.
Hate to say it, but its just going to get worse. Its going to make coaches like Bennett and Reveno move on
purely out of frustration.
I like when Dickie V stood up for us and asked Jay Bilas "do you think SMC would beat Arizona if they played "
And Bilas' answer was " Arizona would beat SMC ..... IN TEMPE " Then Dickie V says ..... "yea Jay, Pac 10 teams are afraid of losing in WCC cribs" Bilas then shut his mouth.

Freak

MesaPilot1 wrote:Where the H,e, double Hockey stick's is Pacific Tigers Located at???WHAT TOWN and STATE. Nearest major airport. How far is drive from Phoenix. Their site is worthless...arena is Alex Spanos arena (rich patriachal constr. family head) from San Diego. Help the Mesa with particular's

How about Direct-TV or web streaming (Gosh please not Portland's idiotic weak Stretch-net...say it ain't so joe)hopefully it's wctv please''''.....

I thought you were headed to Wyoming.

The game will be streamed online here:LINK.

It doesnt look like we will get it on TV. CSNNW will be busy airing a "Before they were Blazers" game and "classic rollerderby" instead...