I understand the reason we went with Sevilla, I just can’t understand how he gets ZERO minutes especially in a game we’re getting killed on the boards.

And CSUN leads the league in rebounding

One thing that puzzles me: Lose went from a solid off the bench contributor last year, to a starter early this year to ….never getting on the court in meaningful minutes. Seems like we could get a good 6-8 minutes from him to give the starters a break

agree; I hope I don’t come across as a ‘they just didn’t want it enough’ type of fan. Basketball season is a grind, especially when we are as thin as we are. It can’t help them when they come off the road and see a small, quiet crowd….especially after getting beat up last Saturday in front of a raucous crowd.

Unfortunately I doubt we’ll be playing in front of big crowds down the stretch.

they weren’t good

That one hurt. I was listening to Les driving home and he was down on the lack of effort. I felt the same way. The rebounding and second chance points were due to then out working us most the time; their length did help to tip loose balls away from our shorter defenders.

I mentioned to AgAlum that we just looked slow and sluggish several times during the game. Except for Leo - he was diving for balls, getting physical down low, making that crazy hustle blocked shot. It seemed fitting that we get it down to one point….play great defense forcing them to throw up a lousy shot…..and they get the offensive board. Gut punch.

This felt like another doomed game like LBSU where they shot lights out for the only time all year. Runners had a guy score almost 20 who averaged 5 all year. Big dude make 3 3’s to make it four for the season. How many times did they score on a wild shot with 1 on the shot clock? And our free throws…when TY missed his first two, I was hoping that wasn’t an omen. When Sevilla misses the front end? Gonna be a long night.

That leaves us 9-6…..with 9-11 a real possibility. Ending on a 6-game lousy steak would be bad.

I was not aware of that. Makes little sense. I’m guessing Roberson could apply for a medical redshirt

How so? I thought it was similar to football and medical redshirts seem to be common.

I’m wondering if we might see Roberson down the stretch. He seemed to be moving well in the one cameo (vs Hawaii, I think). They might be holding him back for a (another) redshirt, or maybe the knee wasn’t as sound as they hoped. He could be a small jolt here

Montana 2018 was a big deal - we could okay with the big boys and could be a champion/playoff team. And, the stunning turnaround was something to behold!

Stanford was a blessing and a curse. Gave us incredible notoriety BUT left the program in a place where we couldn’t be a FCS contender -> I think the administration thought that game showed we could win at that level with brains and spunk and never funded the program like teams we needed to compete with. Took a decade and changes at Mrak and Hickey to put us on the right path.

6.5 point favorite tonight in what’s pretty critical game. Probably last game we’ll be favored, although CSUN Saturday might be. I doubt we’ll get much tonight (c’mon Fullerton!).

I believe my son and I were in front of you guys. Cold, wet night but a blast!

my seat mate (old teammate) left with a few minutes to go, turned his car around and ran back into the stadium for the finish!

not Harbaugh, his last game was at Toomey. That was just an exciting game in front of an enthusiastic afternoon crowd! Matt Engel saves the day. Beside MSU game this year, most exciting finish at Aggie Stadium.

Hail Bakari was great finish to a lousy game.


2018 vs Idaho State 44-37 in OT

And the two wins, especially the first, at Montana.

2007 San Diego at Aggie Stadium 49/46, last minute TD drive to bear an incredible Josh Johnson

I didn’t realize the dropoff, but in 15-16 they were at 10k a game. By 19-20, down to 5k. They had that stretch where they were briefly good under Counzo Martin ( I think Hawaii beat them in NCAA tourney ?)), then he bailed and they went to the basement under an overmatched assistant. Never recovered. COVID didn’t help.

There’s an article in East Bay Time (SJ Mercury) by Pac12 expert Jon Wilner about the new chancellor at Cal and his emphasis on athletics. Says the right things; interesting to see if they can pull things off. I believe it’s subscriber only unfortunately. I believe you can see it on X if you subscribe ( I do not)


https://x.com/wilnerhotline/status/1887648468384292981

This might not to relevant to the ‘will more recognized schools up out attendance ’ but here goes: Cal’s attendance went from 4600 in their last Pac12 year to 3800 in their first ACC year. Part of that is NOT getting UNC or Duke at home, the other part is losing USC/UCLA/Arizona as attractive games. I’m sure the Cal AD’s aren’t excited about that.

Again, for us it’s a move up in conference status, but still not sure that brings out fans from Woodland on a Tuesday night.

I thought the officials really let Bakersfield get physical that game which threw off our offense (granted, that doesn't take much). If they don't let them be so handsy and we can get to the line, that will really help. I wasn't impressed with their offense. They didn't shot real well, and didn't run many offensive sets - just alot of one-on-one, and trying to generate offense off turnovers.

don’t disagree. I’m nit sure how many in our fan base is looking to pay big bucks for a box. Unless, we can get corporate support

I would think it depends on who wins the BWC tour. Today, the NET rankings show UCSD at something like 43 along with some heavyweights, snd Irvine at 66 with borderline teams like USF. The strength of the BWC won’t do much for their rankings the rest of the season even if they both run the table. So, if someone other than UCSD wins the conference tournament, I think you’ll see 2 with the
tritons getting a pretty good seed. UCSD wins it? Gets a little dicey for Irvine. I’m not familiar enough with UCI’s body of work, but a quick glance doesn’t show any high level wins that would push them. Seems like, from a quick google, mid 60 NET is the cutoff, and those last schools in tend to be from power conferences .