After losing a share of the Big West Conference regular-season championship on a 3-point shot at the buzzer at UC Santa Barbara a few hours ago, Coach Dan Monson's Long Beach State men's basketball team will not play again until Friday night in a semifinal of the conference tournament in the Anaheim Convention Center.
The 49ers are the No. 2 seed, behind Cal State Northridge's top-seeded Matadors.
Who will Long Beach play? That depends on what takes place during Wednesday's first-round games (No. 8 seed UC Davis vs. No. 5 UC Irvine, and No. 6 UC Riverside vs. No. 7 Cal State Fullerton) and Thursday's quarterfinals (when No. 3 seed Pacific and No. 4 UC Santa Barbara) hook up with the winners of Wednesday's games.
Regardless of who the 49ers play . . . and if the highest seeds win on Wednesday and Thursday, Long Beach takes on No. 3 UOP and CSN faces No. 4 UCSB . . . they will tip off at about 8 o'clock Friday night.
The championship game, with the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line, will tip off at about 9 o'clock Saturday night.
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