Blue Ribbon Forecast No. East Division Team  '01-02 Conf. Rec. (Overall) 1. UC Santa Barbara  11-7 (12-16)  2. Utah State  13-3 (23-7)  3. Cal State Northridge  11-7 (12-16)   4. UC Irvine  13-5 (21-10)  5. Pacific  11-7 (20-10)  6 Cal Poly  9-9 (15-12)  7 Idaho  6-12 (9-19)  8. Long Beach State  9-7 (20-12)  9 Cal State Fullerton  9-9 (13-17)  10. UC Riverside  5-13 (8-18)

All-Conference Team Did You Know? G: Branduinn Fullove JR, UC Santa Barbara F: Pape Sow JR, Cal State Fullerton F: Mark Hull SR, UC Santa Barbara F: Desmond Penigar SR, Utah State C: Adam Parada JR, UC Irvine Player of the Year Desmond Penigar SR, Utah State Newcomer of the Year Shane Schilling JR, Cal Poly Top Backcourts 1. UC Santa Barbara 2. Cal Poly 3. Utah State Top Frontcourts 1. UC Irvine 2. Utah State 3. Cal State Fullerton 2002-03 Conference Tournament March 13-15, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA 2001-02 Champions UC Irvine and Utah State (Reg. season) UC Santa Barbara (Conf. tournament) 2001-02 NCAA Tournament Postseason Record 0-3 (.000) NCAA UC Santa Barbara NIT UC Irvine Utah State No guards from the All-Big West first or second team return this season. Only two All-Big West first team selections return from 2001-2002. ... Just two league schools, Idaho and Utah State, are located outside the state of California, with five of the 10 conference schools (UC Riverside, Northridge, Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine and Long Beach State) within a few minutes' drive, depending on L.A. traffic, of course. Five conference coaches lead teams for which they once played. They are Donny Daniels (Fullerton '77), John Masi (Riverside '71), Leonard Perry (Idaho '95), Bob Thomason (Pacific '71) and Bobby Braswell (Northridge '84). A sixth, Irvine's Pat Douglass, played in the Pacific backcourt alongside Thomason in the early '70s. A seventh, Long Beach State's Larry Reynolds was a conference most valuable player at UC Riverside in the '70s. Reynolds is the only new head coach in the Big West. He is making the jump from Division II, where he coached at Cal State San Bernardino. Utah State's Stew Morrill has been selected the conference coach of the year twice in only four years at US. Irvine assistant coach Len Stevens has previously been a Division I head coach at both Washington State (1983-87) and Nevada (1987-93). UC Irvine has two of the three 7-footers in the conference in Adam Parada and Ryan Codi. Long Beach State's Alex Graham is the other one. Only one Big West team has won a national championship -- UNLV in 1990. The Big West has sent just one representative to the NCAA Tournament each of the last nine years.