Oddsmakers have us as 1 1/2 favorites. He shoot really well last time vs CSUN and need to replicate that, especially early - can’t dig another double digit hole.

went back to the box score for the first meeting. this was the game we had 3 20-point scorers (Milling-27, Pepper/Johnson-20). Shot 15-34 from 3! We really need production tonight from MIlling, Adebayo and DeBruhl.

Les was harping on defensive miscues, but we held them to 66 points and a low shooting percentage. We were a desperation 3 from a 18% shooter from having a shot to tie of go ahead. We got nothing from the bench. The rotation was different to say the least. Almost no Borra and Tomba, but 11 minutes from Sevilla. A couple secondary players really struggled, one for third game in a row (I don’t like to call out players here)

The beach looks to be rolling tonight. I’m hoping we can get a top four seed now.

yep

Just a bitching aside - these TV reviews are really effecting the games. It seemed like in the fairly recent past, games clocked in at just under 2 hours. This was was over at closer to 8:20. I get it was a tight game with both teams using up their time outs BUT the reviews just seem to add some like 10 minutes to each game. Thankfully we didn’t have our normal assortment of clock mishaps!

When you’re facing a 80 minute ride home that gets closed considerably by the perpetual I80 construction starting at 8:00, that extra time can be a real drag

Big game today with a tough road trip coming up. Need to be big Northridge fans today
as they take on the Beach at home.

I was listening to the post-game driving home from the game, and Les mentioned some talk in the locker room and how they needed to move on from that.

I’m guessing the collapse of the pac 12 is affecting things. Those schools are having to schedule an extra non conference game (Pac12 played one more conference game than other P5), and they must be leading to a lot of shuffling of existing dates. For example, San Jose is hosting Stanford next year - they had to drop someone to fit that in.

The beach went to box and one on Pepper after his last 3 which really disrupted our offensive flow. I believe we had 3 turnovers down the stretch and no ‘easy’ buckets. They had 2 or 3 guys who can credit a shot and had no hesitation taking the big shot.

I’ve never seen Pepper that riled up. He blasted a guy on a break away layup during their surge. Snapping at Les, and was yelling at Rocek before his free throws. I think he wanted Nicko to throw the ball out to the perimeter down 3 instead of taking the very contested put back. They need to regroup - home stretch is very tough! We’ll need to be at our best or look at something like a 12-8 record

Oddsmakers have us as 3 1/2 favorites. Gotta win these home games - we have some tough road trips ahead.

the two home games this week are really big in terms of getting a top-2 seed. we're 2 1/2 ahead of Long Beach, with two games remaining against them. if we sweep the home games, we're at least 3 1/2 games ahead with 3/4 games remaining. lose Thursday, and its pretty tight, especially with us having to travel down there later.

Pardon my math…20 game schedule so there will be 5/6 games remaining after Saturday

are they still reviewing the goaltending call?

The Beach seems the only threat to us landing a top 2 seed, since they still have 2 games with us. Have to be big fans of whoever they are playing, and make sure to at least split with them.

On Facebook, both he and Adebayo were dressed and taking part in practice/shoot-around. So hopefully that’s a good sign.

6 1/2 favorites tonight. I got my free pizza guy pizza thanks to some poor free throw shooter, so I’m ready to roll!

Apparently Zach Kennedy is back. Good news

Speaking of UOP (sorta), they host St Mary’s tonight and are listed as 21-point underdogs! Seems really high….until you notice they are 0-9 in WCC play and lost to St Mary’s a couple weeks ago 76-28!

in the not so distant past, when UOP was part of the 8 team big west, we partnered with the Tigers, Poly-UCSB, Irvine-beach, and CSUN-UCR. Made for a nice schedule. Hawaii mucked up everything!

We still get an occasional central coast trip (those two visited us in December). Else, the schedule seems random. Leading to us being finished with Irvine, SB and Poly, before we see Hawaii or Long Beach!

UCSD lost to the Beach. I guess we should be rooting for the Tritons since they can win the title, and any win helps keep us in top two tournament slots. The beach is 3 behind us with 2 head to heads. Others are starting to fall back too far to catch up

They don’t have many scorers. A lot of games in the 50’s. If our offense plays well, I think we pull off the central coast sweep somewhat easily. That being said, seems like we struggle a bit at luxurious Mott Center

only thing I can think of is they don’t want schools making a jump just to take in NCAA payouts. Else it makes little sense

I was talking about the double technical they whistled after the last 1st timeout on Mitchell and Leo. The was Leo’s 3rd, Mitchell’s 2nd but he picked up 2 fairly early in the 2nd half. He single-handedly got them back in the game, but had to change his game after the fourth. Also TY didn’t get any more so he could get aggressive later in the game.

Both guys were jawing but it didn’t look to be aggressive - both had a smile. I think the ref from behind overreacted. Helped us!

Don’t want to play them again in the tournament