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[MissoulaMarinerFan]

Weak post. EWU gave Kansas all they wanted in their first round matchup in 2021. The BSC is rated in the middle of all D1 conferences this season and EWU, they went down to Lubbock in December and only lost 77-70 to TTU.

The conference isn't amazing, but it doesn't suck like you say. Most of the teams in the BSC have excellent guard play, but not the size needed to compete against the P5 schools. If Eastern or the Cats make it out of Boise, there's a puncher's chance that either of them could give the right team a scare, but unlikely due to size matchup issues that they'll see with a 1, 2 or 3 seed in that first round game.

As far as your complaint about the reffing in the BSC, those guys are the same refs that call MWC, Pac 12, WAC, and every other game out West and through the Rocky Mtns. So it is actually you that don't understand college basketball dynamics.

The entire West Coast has a rotation of refs, HOWEVER, the entire West Coast region has the most fouls and free throws by far. Of any region. Are you making the argument that west coast basketball is rougher and more aggressive than SEC? Big 10? Big 12? Our entire reffing pool out west is by far the most incompetent and weak. And the entire west coast usually gets blistered in the tournament because no one is used to playing tough basketball after the regular season. Our refs do not allow tough basketball to be played.

Yeah - on the rare times they DO, it is usually only for a half, or most of the game, then the last few minutes are called totally different than the earlier flow of the game.