UC-Irvine at a glance

[PonyPride]

Big West Conference regular-season champs finished 23-11 before falling in conference tournament final.

Balanced attack: five players averaged 8 or more points per game, but none more than 11.7. Guard Luke Nelson (freshman, 6'3") averaged team-high 117; 6'8" junior forward Will Davis and 6'4" senior guard Chris McNealy averaged 11.1 points each.

The bigger the better? UC-Irvine has a freshman center, Mamadou Ndiaye, who stands 7'6" and weighs 290. Averages 8.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Ndiaye is one of three seven-footers on the Anteaters' roster.

Ndiaye has blocked 99 shots this season — the rest of the team has blocked 115 combined.

Head coach Russell Turner is in his fourth season at UC-Irvine and has led the Anteaters to 21 victories in back-to-back seasons.

UCI outscored its opponents this season by an average of 71-63.6.

UCI is playing well down the stretch. Before falling to Cal Poly in the Big West Conference tournament, the Anteaters had won five straight, 10 of 11, 16 of last 19.

UCI season STATS

UCI ROSTER

[East Coast Mustang]

Gosh this is depressing

[Smu97186]

Seeing ndiaye and Nic Moore together will be the sight of the year

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Not much we can do about it. Embrace it and be at Moody Wednesday night!

[LHS81]

The bigger the better? UC-Irvine has a freshman center, Mamadou Ndiaye, who stands 7'6" and weighs 290. Averages 8.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Ndiaye is one of three seven-footers on the Anteaters' roster.


Andre Giant. . . Clap, clap. . . Clap, clap, clap>>>> chant?

[tristatecoog]

0-4 vs. RPI Top 100.
6-9 vs. RPI Top 200.

http://www.rpiforecast.com/teams/ct/UC%20Irvine.html

NIT likes conference regular season winners and UCI won their conference with a 14-4 record.

[sadderbudweiser]

<The bigger the better? UC-Irvine has a freshman center, Mamadou Ndiaye, who stands 7'6" and weighs 290. Averages 8.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Ndiaye is one of three seven-footers on the Anteaters' roster.>


Ummm…..about those outside shooters we wanted next year. Can we get 'em this week?

[ponyte]

Big West regular season winner and an auto bid of the NIT. Gonna be a tough game. We need to play hard to snap our losing streak.

[SMU 86]

Big West regular season winner and an auto bid of the NIT. Gonna be a tough game. We need to play hard to snap our losing streak.

Agreed.

[SMU 86]

<The bigger the better? UC-Irvine has a freshman center, Mamadou Ndiaye, who stands 7'6" and weighs 290. Averages 8.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Ndiaye is one of three seven-footers on the Anteaters' roster.>


Ummm…..about those outside shooters we wanted next year. Can we get 'em this week?

Looks like we might need them this Wednesday.

[jimhagle]

This team lost to a pathetic Cal-Poly team in their tourney. I doubt they will be a tough match for us.

[ponyscott]

This team lost to a pathetic Cal-Poly in their tourney. I doubt they will be a tough match for us.

With SMU running more of a half court offense set, this could be a tough match up frankly. If SMU was more of a run and gun/fast break team the bigs of UC Irvine couldn't set up down low in time..those guys have a lot of blocked shots this season.

[jimhagle]

This team lost to a pathetic Cal-Poly in their tourney. I doubt they will be a tough match for us.

With SMU running more of a half court offense set, this could be a tough match up frankly. If SMU was more of a run and gun/fast break team the bigs of UC Irvine couldn't set up down low in time..those guys have a lot of blocked shots this season.

They had a lot of blocked shots against whom-lesser competition. Have you seen them play?

[Rebel10]

This team lost to a pathetic Cal-Poly in their tourney. I doubt they will be a tough match for us.

With SMU running more of a half court offense set, this could be a tough match up frankly. If SMU was more of a run and gun/fast break team the bigs of UC Irvine couldn't set up down low in time..those guys have a lot of blocked shots this season.

They had a lot of blocked shots against whom-lesser competition. Have you seen them play?

Jim, have you seen them play?

[jimhagle]

Yes I have and was not very impressed