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2024–25 UC San Diego Tritons Men's Basketball Team
The 2024–25 UC San Diego Tritons men's basketball team represented the University of California, San Diego during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Tritons, led by 12th-year head coach Eric Olen, played their home games at RIMAC, LionTree Arena in La Jolla, La Jolla, California, as members of the Big West Conference. This was the first year that the team was eligible for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, as UC San Diego officially completed their transition to Division I sports. In their non-conference play, the Tritons won the Boardwalk Battle regular season competition. UC San Diego finished the regular season with a record of 28–4, and went 18–2 in conference play with losses to 2024–25 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, UC Irvine at home and 2024–25 UC Riverside Highlanders men's basketball team, UC Riverside on the road, giving them the Big West regular season championship. As the No. 1 seed in their first 2025 Big We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Olen
Eric Olen (born October 15, 1980) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of New Mexico. He was previously the head coach at UC San Diego from 2013 to 2025. Playing career Olen grew up in Mobile, Alabama and prepped at McGill–Toolen Catholic High School. Olen went on to play collegiately at Spring Hill College, where he was part of three straight NAIA national tournament appearances for the Badgers, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2000. Coaching career Olen joined his former college coach Bill Carr as an assistant at UC San Diego in 2004, and stayed in the role until 2013 before being promoted to head coach after then head coach Chris Carlson left for an administrative role with the West Coast Conference. Olen has since led the Tritons to three CCAA regular season titles and four consecutive conference tournament titles in addition to four NCAA Division II tournament appearances. He guided the Tritons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones
Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones (born 5 January 2001) is a New Zealand basketball player who will join the Toronto Raptors during the 2025 NBA Summer League. He played college basketball for the UC San Diego Tritons and the Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans. He previously played for the Wellington Saints of the NBL. Career Tait-Jones attended St Patrick's College in Wellington, New Zealand. After graduating, Tait-Jones played for the Wellington Saints for a season, before committing to play college basketball in the United States at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. After three seasons with Hawaii–Hilo, he transferred to the University of California, San Diego. In his second season with the Tritons, he was named the Big West Player of the Year and selected in the 2024-25 All Big West First Team. Professional career On June 27, 2025 after going undrafted in the 2025 NBA draft, Tait-Jones signed a NBA Summer league contract with the Toronto Raptors. Career statistics College , - , style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles
The Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles (also Cal State LA Golden Eagles) are the athletic teams that represent California State University, Los Angeles in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Golden Eagles compete as members of the California Collegiate Athletic Association for all 10 varsity sports. Cal State LA previously competed in Division I and was a founding member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association in 1969, leaving in 1974 but not before winning the conference's basketball title and participating in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Cal State LA's more than of athletic facilities is named the Billie Jean King Sports Complex. The sports complex—designation which was approved by the CSU Board of Trustees Sept. 21—features the Eagles Nest Gymnasium, the University Stadium, Jesse Owens Track and Field, Reeder Field (baseball), the swimming pool, and tennis and basketball courts. History The Eagles Nest is home to the Cal State LA basketb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during Elections in the United States, US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Chicago State Cougars Men's Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Chicago State Cougars men's basketball team represented Chicago State University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cougars, led by third-year head coach Gerald Gillion, played their home games at the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center, Jones Convocation Center located in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and competed as an NCAA Division I independent schools, independent with no conference affiliation. They finished the season 13–19. On December 13, 2023, the Cougars upset the 25th-ranked 2023–24 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team, Northwestern Wildcats 75–73 at Welsh–Ryan Arena, marking Chicago State's first-ever win over a ranked team. On April 12, 2024, head coach Gerald Gillion left the school to become the associate head coach at LIU Sharks men's basketball, LIU. The season was the Cougars' final season as an independent, with the university joining the Northeast Conference in July 2024. Previous season The 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Basketball Invitational
The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) is a men's college basketball tournament created in 2007 by The Gazelle Group. The inaugural tournament occurred after the conclusion of the 2007–08 men's college basketball regular season. The CBI selects sixteen teams that are not selected for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), and who are willing to pay a $27,500 entry fee to participate. In the CBI, prior to 2020 teams competed on home courts. After the post-COVID pandemic revival, the tournament has been staged at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. The CBI is a single-elimination tournament (prior to 2021, the tournament was single elimination until the final two teams were determined, after which the championship was determined by a championship series with a best two-out-of-three format). Since the tournament's 2021 revival and adoption of the single-site format, the championship is also determined by a single ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 College Basketball Invitational
The 2024 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination, fully-bracketed men's college basketball postseason tournament featuring 15 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams not selected to participate in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). The 16th edition of the tournament began on March 23 and concluded March 27. All games were played at Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida and the semifinal and championship games aired on ESPN2. The tournament was won by Seattle. Participating teams Teams in the CBI will be seeded 1–15. ''Note: Team records are before playing in the tournament'' Schedule Bracket References External links College Basketball Invitational official website {{2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament navbox College Basketball Invitational College Basketball Invitational The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) is a men's college basketbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UC San Diego Tritons
The UC San Diego Tritons are the College athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of California, San Diego. The Tritons compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Big West Conference (BWC). History NCAA Division II During UC San Diego's time in NCAA Division II and the California Collegiate Athletic Association starting in the 2000–01 season, UC San Diego placed in the top 5 in the Division II NACDA Directors' Cup standings nine times, including three 2nd-place finishes. National Collegiate Scouting Association Athletic Recruiting, NCSA Athletic Recruiting ranked the Tritons as the nation's top Division II program for eight consecutive years. Move to Division I In 2010, UC San Diego considered elevating its athletics to NCAA Division I for all sports. They were looking to join the Big West Conference. However, there were several problems. After the Big West added the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine, Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2024 Big West Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 13–16, 2024, at The Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The winner, #4 seed Long Beach State, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2024 NCAA tournament. Seeds In June 2023, the Big West Conference board of directors voted to reduce the tournament field from 10 teams to 8 teams. In the new format, the top two seeds would receive automatic berths in the semifinals, the next two seeds would be placed in the quarterfinals, and the remaining four seeds would play each other in the first round. Big West commissioner Dan Butterly stated that the decision was made to improve the regular season champion's odds of winning the tournament and thus receiving the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Of the 11 conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Division II and Division III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Division II
NCAA Division II (D-II) is the intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environment offered in Division III. Before 1973, the NCAA's smaller schools were grouped together in the College Division. In 1973, the College Division split in two when the NCAA began using numeric designations for its competitions. The College Division members who wanted to offer athletic scholarships or compete against those who did became Division II, while those who chose not to offer athletic scholarships became Division III. Nationally, ESPN2 and ESPN+ televises the championship game in football, CBS and Paramount+ televises the men's basketball championship, and ESPN+ televises both the women's basketball and women's volleyball championships. The official slogan of NCAA Division II, implemented in 2015, is "Make It Yours." The N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with the championship game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on April 8. Rule changes On May 5, 2023, the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee proposed a suite of rule changes for the 2023–24 season. These changes were approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel during its June 8 conference call. * A defender near the basket must be in position to draw a charge before the offensive player plants his foot to jump during a field goal attempt. If the defender arrives after the shooter has planted his foot, the officials are to call a blocking foul if contact occurs. * Prerecorded or live video can be transmitted to the bench area during the game, on an optional basis. This had been an experimental rule since 2021–22, but is now perma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
