Under the Radar – Feb 8th

This week’s featured conference is the Big West, which as it is most years has been hugely exciting all year long.  UC Santa Barbara has been the frontrunner for most of the year, and we thought they might actually be able to get a serious look from the committee if they were able to win out, but they suffered a very surprising loss to Cal State Northridge this week.  UC Irvine, UC Riverside, Hawai’i and Long Beach State are other teams that are right up there in the conference race.

After that, we move on and look at the other 22 UTR leagues and start off with a rather bizarre night in Maine as their game against Vermont was delayed because the floor was crooked and needed to be re-laid.  Teams like Oral Roberts and Colgate are getting very close to clinching first place bids, the Ivy League and SWAC races are heating up both at the top of the standings and to make the cutline for the conference tournaments.  Hofstra is actually tied with Charleston in the Colonial, and although their season profile isn’t as strong as CofC’s we feel that they may actually be more dangerous right now.  We discuss all that, and more.  And, as we do every week, we close with this week’s UTR Top Ten.

And for all you radio lovers, below is an audio only version of the show…