Davis, Calif. - The Aggies' long and often challenging road to the Big West Conference Tournament is finally at a close. No. 7 UC Davis will face No. 10 Cal Poly on Tuesday, Mar. 8 at 8:30 p.m. at The Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nev.
Scott Marsh will have the home radio call on Sports 1140 KHTK. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
A win on Tuesday would send UC Davis to the quarterfinals to play No. 2 Cal State Fullerton on Thursday, Mar. 10 at 6 p.m. UC Davis enter 2-3 over its last five games, two of those being a pair of three-point losses to No. 1 Long Beach State and No. 2 Cal State Fullerton to close the regular season.
UC Davis led the Titans in the regular season finale by nine with 4:01 to go and led Long Beach State 32-25 at the half.
The Aggies have advanced to at least the quarterfinal round in every Big West Tournament it was qualified for since 2009, the first year UC Davis competed at the tournament. The 2022 tournament marks the eighth straight that the Aggies will play in.
BIG WEST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT - FIRST ROUND
WHAT: UC Davis (12-10, 5-6) vs Cal Poly (7-20, 3-12)
WHEN: Tues, Mar. 8, 2022
TIME: 8:30 p.m. PT
WHERE: Henderson, Nev.
ARENA: The Dollar Loan Center
WATCH: ESPN+
LISTEN: Sports 1140 KHTK or on the Varsity App
STATS
GAME NOTES
Series Record vs. Cal Poly
- Cal Poly leads 29-36
- Last Cal Poly win: 1/15/22 - H, 82-74
- Last UC Davis win: 2/27/21 - A, 68-66 (OT)
- Series Streak: Cal Poly +1
CAREER WATCH LISTS
Manjon surpassed 1,000 career points in Saturday's regular season finale and now sits at 1,007 points.
24 Aggies have reached the 1,000 point milestone with the last before Manjon being Siler Scheider with 1,440 from 2015-19. Manjon is one of just five Aggies to reach 1,000 points or more in their first three seasons.
Pepper is the next Aggie in line to join the 1,000 club with 879 career points to date.
DYNAMIC DUO
Pepper and Manjon are the two highest ranking teammates on the Big West scoring list with Pepper fourth and Manjon fifth.
Feb. 19 marked the second time this season that both have scored at least 20 points.
They're also one of just three pairs of teammates in the Big West to win Big West Player of the Week.
CAL POLY AT A GLANCE
The Mustangs sat in the lower half of the standings for much of the conference season but ended the season winning back-to-back games.
The teams only met once this season with the second being canceled due to COVID-19 concerns in February. In the first meeting on January 15, Cal Poly won 82-74, carrying a 10-point halftime lead. UC Davis opened the second half of that game on a 17-3 run to pull within two points and later tied it at 52 with 8:26 to go. A 10-1 run by Cal Poly regained the lead for the Mustangs and Cal Poly led the rest of the way.
That game was also the last time a UC Davis opponent had four players in double figures scoring.
The Mustangs finished the season with the lowest scoring offense in the Big West at 61.8 points per game and the lowest turnover margin at minus-2.89.
