Good start. Utah is ice cold

Interesting. Underwood is dressed

Without doing any research, I would imagine UW is another common opponent. Utah probably played them twice (I think Pac-12 teams play every other Pac-12 team home and away) and we lost a good game in Seattle. Regardless, hopefully this will be a close contest.

Go Ags!

It's the Thursday before finals so that might dampen the turn out.

I'm pretty sure this is our first.

Game Day! I watched the end of the USC NIT game last night. It took them OT to win at home vs UNC Ashville. The Trojans definitely didn't play with the same intensity as they did a few days earlier in Pac-12 title game. And one of their stars did sit out as not to risk injury before the draft. Hoping the Ags come out and play at 100% for 4 quarters!

yep me and my son are going for sure. Daughter is trying to get a project done early so she can go

Don't know if this accounts for all the 3-pt shooting issues, but the Honda Center seems to always be tough to shoot in. Schneider in particular seems to struggle there.

It's a small sample size, but last years NIT 1st round saw the 16 first round games split evenly between the higher and lower seeds, including 3 of the 4 #7 seeds beating the #2 seeds. Of course, part of that might be mis-seading (people complain about seeding in the NCAA tournament, imagine how hard it must be to seed in the NIT). Previous year saw 15 of the 16 higher seeds winning in round 1. As you said, talent usually wins out.

Let Go Ags!

11.5 sounds about right. As with secondary bowl games in football, I wonder how motivated a team that feels slighted by the NCAA is. Do they come out all hyped up ready to show that they belonged in the big dance, or slow and depressed that they are playing in "just" the NIT.

We'll need to stay out of foul trouble. We can not rely on Printup guarding any of their bigs.

Women get a home wnit game this Thursday against Idaho per https://www.womensnit.com/bracket.html

I would imagine we would try and push the tempo when possible, but we'll need to get stops and rebounds on the defensive end first. If the break isn't available, I'm sure we'll pull it out and use the clock. If we can keep the score in the 60's (not easy) we'll have a chance. Looks like the one common opponent, Hawaii, Utah beat by 20 in Utah.

Interesting rule changes. Obviously testing driving them to see if they want to implement season wide. I could see the 3-pt shooters having to really think about where they are on the court now, rather than it being "natural".

Should be a good game. Go Ags!

At least we are very familiar with Utah’s point guard. Former lbsu point Justin Bibbins. Go Ags

29-24 Aggies at half. Need to keep up the energy

I saw that too and I do think he didn’t hear tj.

Tough loss. Proud of the fight in the team.

we’ve gone to zone a couple of times tonight. Mixing things up

lots of talking on both sides. John and Goode can not pick up any early fouls

great Aggie d. Yes they did miss a few open shots but we are closing out hard

everyone should get the chance to sit near the Shorts family during a game. It is Very fun!