It's playoff time! I looked over the conference and NCAA playoff schedules and standings for Cal South college teams ("Cal South" defined on a line to include CSU Bakersfield and Cal Poly SLO, but not San Jose State or Pacific), and here it is arranged by conference.
Big West -- playoffs started last Wednesday, with UC Davis winning 3-2 at Northridge and Fullerton drawing 1-1 at UCSB (Fullerton won the kicking show 5-4). In the semi-finals Saturday night Davis will play at Irvine and Fullerton at Riverside. Final game will be held at Irvine, Riverside or Davis depending on semi-final results. The tournament winner will get the conference auto-bid to NCAA tournament. Irvine's RPI is high enough that they will probably get an at-large bid no matter what happens, and Davis is in the borderlands, where a win over Irvine would get them an at-large even if they lose the final. From a conference standpoint, the best result would be Fullerton winning the Final at Davis, which would put three conference members in the NCAA tournament.
Pac 8 --no conference tournament, so the final games of conference play will settle the championship slot and any possibility of at-large bids. With 2 games remaining, San Diego State is out of it and UCLA is within striking range of conference-leaders Stanford and Oregon State, and should be expecting an at-large bid anyway with their current #21 RPI position.
West-Coast Conference - also no conference tournament. And no hope for San Diego or LMU.
WAC - the Cal South members are Bakersfield and Cal Baptist. Bakersfield is having a bad year and is next-to-last in the conference table, and Cal Baptist is new to DI and not eligible yet this year.
Big West -- playoffs started last Wednesday, with UC Davis winning 3-2 at Northridge and Fullerton drawing 1-1 at UCSB (Fullerton won the kicking show 5-4). In the semi-finals Saturday night Davis will play at Irvine and Fullerton at Riverside. Final game will be held at Irvine, Riverside or Davis depending on semi-final results. The tournament winner will get the conference auto-bid to NCAA tournament. Irvine's RPI is high enough that they will probably get an at-large bid no matter what happens, and Davis is in the borderlands, where a win over Irvine would get them an at-large even if they lose the final. From a conference standpoint, the best result would be Fullerton winning the Final at Davis, which would put three conference members in the NCAA tournament.
Pac 8 --no conference tournament, so the final games of conference play will settle the championship slot and any possibility of at-large bids. With 2 games remaining, San Diego State is out of it and UCLA is within striking range of conference-leaders Stanford and Oregon State, and should be expecting an at-large bid anyway with their current #21 RPI position.
West-Coast Conference - also no conference tournament. And no hope for San Diego or LMU.
WAC - the Cal South members are Bakersfield and Cal Baptist. Bakersfield is having a bad year and is next-to-last in the conference table, and Cal Baptist is new to DI and not eligible yet this year.