WCC Non-Conference Results

DD mentioned at USF lost by 12 to Long Beach St. That was a home loss. Also on Friday, GU blasted Texas Southern at home 97-69. PU got blasted at OK St., 78-47. And SCU routed La Verne at home 120-70.

So it begins....

Just wanted to share this because it's awesome. Over in the College Football Reddit, a user has been making an imperialism map for college football. A school started out by possessing all of the counties nearest to it as it's territory. Then, every single game played was for territory: you gain another school's territory by beating them or lose your own if you lose.

Anyway, it got really popular and it seems to have spilled over to the college basketball Reddit. We started out with most of the northern part of Oregon. We won that by being closer to the geographic center of Multnomah County. Then, I guess from there we are closer to the geographic centers of all the other counties in our "territory." So, Portland State started out with nothing because of that. But, because we lost tonight, Portland State claims our territory (you can see what we used to possess in the white-ish grey area where the PSU logo is). We will likely not play game against a team for Territory until North Carolina. But, it's just a fun map game to follow.

You can see the updated map and follow the discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/7cdqia/college_basketball_imperialism_map_november_11/

SMC beat St. Francis (PA) 85-68.
LMU had a halftime lead, but lost at UT Arlington 85-80.
BYU beat Miss. Valley St 91-61.

San Diego beat San Jose State 81-64
Pacific tried to storm back from a 22 point halftime deficit at Stanford, but just fell short 89-80.

GU beats Howard 106-69
PU beats Cal Lutheran 107-82

BYU beats Princeton 65-56
SMC beats CS Fullerton 75-57
LMU beats UC Riverside 76-64
USD beats Robert Morris 65-53
Nevada crushes SCU 93-63
UC Davis edges UOP 62-58

Northern Colorado edges PU 84-82
USF beats Sacramento State 69-56

Almost chaos today in the WCC.

UT Arlington crushed BYU 89-75 (the gap was generally a lot bigger than what the final score suggests)
GU gets by Utah State 79-66. Utah State was neck and neck with GU at halftime but couldn't quite keep it in the second half.
Nevada handedly beat Pacific 89-74.
USD beats Norfolk State 71-62, escapes Norfolk State's 2nd half rush from a 38-16 first half.
Cal Poly edges Santa Clara 63-59.

LMU edged McNeese in OT 92-86
SMC beat SJSU 79-61

USD beat Little Rock 66-52. They are now the only unbeaten team in the WCC besides GU or SMC. They might be the unexpected dark horse this season.

PU lost to UCSB 92-84.

UOP is winless no more, beats Air Force 83-71
BYU rallies to beat Niagara 95-88 (they were down 34-31 at halftime)
USF crushes Sonoma St 78-55
PU narrowly escapes Oral Roberts 80-76

LMU edges Incarnate Word 91-87
SCU loses to Idaho 69-59

SMC easily handles Harvard 89-71.
Meanwhile, SCU continues to tumble, losing to Alaska Anchorange (a DII school by the way) 78-73 in OT.
Pacific transfer Maleke Haynes made the buzzer beater 3-pointer tie for UAA.

Sound Voltex wrote:....SCU continues to tumble, losing to Alaska Anchorange (a DII school by the way) 78-73 in OT.
Pacific transfer Maleke Haynes made the buzzer beater 3-pointer tie for UAA.

And one time UP recruit, and Pacific transfer, Jacob Lambkin scored six of his 22 points in OT and grabbed 11 rebounds.

Not mentioned yet, GU beat Ohio St 86-59 Thursday.

Friday games
SMC lost to Washington St 84 to 79. WSU was picked last for the Pac12 preseason poll.
BYU lost to no. 25 Alabama 71 to 59.
PU lost to no. 16 TA&M.

Florida holds off GU in 2OT to hand the Bulldogs their first loss 111-105.

San Diego is technically 1st by overall record and the only undefeated team left in the WCC right now.

UOP beat Ark-Pine Bluff 78-69.

Florida is a really good team. GU had them beat if Melson completes the and-one with under 2 seconds in regulation.  He missed. Florida traveled, and GU got the ball back with 0.7 left. Melson got an open look and missed that, too.

Perhaps calling the Gaels the favorite this year was premature, at least based on today's results.

BYU edges out UMass with a game-winning dunk, 68-66
Texas State holds off Pacific 85-78
LMU keeps it close with Boise State at half, but offense collapses in the 2nd half, 68-48 loss
San Diego with first real win over GCU 72-62, remains lone unbeaten WCC team
Santa Clara losing streak continues, loses to Sam Houston St. 73-59 (SCU only had 17 points in first half)

Gonzaga survives a scare from Texas in OT after leading by 20+ most of the game, 76-71.
SMC drops second straight loss against Georgia, all but ending any chances of an at-large bid, 83-81.
Pacific blows by Canisius 80-58.

UCSB holds off USF 79-72
LMU beats CSU LA 87-66

Zags blow out Incarnate Word 103-68
BYU beats Utah Valley 85-58
Southern Utah edges PU 88-82

Sound Voltex wrote:Southern Utah edges PU 88-82

There are some strong parallels between PU's struggles and those of UP.

In their loss to SUU, PU's Kameron Edwards scored 25 points to go along with 16 rebounds, and the team shot 52% including 7-14 beyond the arc....and as a team PU outrebounded SUU 42-29.

So why did they lose? Turnovers and free-throw shooting.  PU gave up 19 points on 16 turnovers and made only 13 of 26 free-throw attempts, and of course that does not include how many more opportunities they would have had if they'd made the front-end of one-and-one attempts.

In contrast, SUU up by only 2 with a minute remaining, made of 8 of 10 free throws in that final minute to seal the deal.  The one-time UP recruit that NPN mentioned recently, Jadon Cohee, the SUU leading scorer at 18.4 points/game, was held to 11 points, but led the team with 5 assists in the Thunderbirds win.

Note: According to KenPom, Pepperdine is expected to win only one WCC game, it's against UP in Malibu.

Yesterday
Pacific 57, UC Riverside 55
Santa Clara 89, Northern Arizona 57
San Diego State 66, San Diego 57

Today
Gonzaga 91, Creighton 74

Good chance to see WCC  teams on the Pac-12 Network today:

2pm LMU @ OSU (Beavers favored by 10, but this will be their first game without starting point guard Jaquori McLaughlin who was granted his release from the team yesterday)
6pm USF @ #20 ASU (Sun Devils favored by 16.5)
8pm SMC @ Cal (Gaels favored by 7)