Bear-on-Bear Action

3:39 pm No matter what the pod system does, it's tough to really have a home court advantage when you're a top seed. The crowd in San Diego is really responding to Belmont - out of Tennessee - as they take it to local boys UCLA. Which they are, as with ten and a half in the first half it's 13-10 Belmont. Why? Poor shooting and sloppy play from the West Coast, the same things that hindered Nevada and Tennessee. Going into a UCLA timeout, it's 16-10 Belmont.
3:43 pm There's an entire empty section behind the left basket. I'm guessing Belmont didn't bring (or maybe even have) a pep band.
3:52 pm UCLA has turned up their perimeter defense and is running Belmont. They're still being sloppy in transition though, and Belmont's up 18-14 with six minutes in the half.
4:20 pm The local affiliate has no idea how to handle the delayed UCLA game. They keep cutting to screensavers during times when they should be providing commercials, programming, or something besides dead air. We just got three minutes of the Clearchannel logo before switching to Gonzaga-Xavier. UCLA had gone up twelve at the half and seems to be finding thier groove.