Our offense is tagged coming out of the break. Nobody is trying to get into the paint. Long possessions with not great shots at the end. Up 8 with 16

Up 40-30 at half. Unfortunately, Fagbemi missed two FTs there at the end. Good half on both ends. They can’t possibly shoot this poorly in the second half, so we’ll have to get the offense going again - I’m sure the bench will be shorter

part of that is horrible shot selection by Poly. If it weren’t for Erkel’s 2 3’s, their numbers would really look horrible. I think they are 2-16.

Omar has really regressed on offense. Like to see him get an easy bucket to take some pressure off him.

38-25 just under 2

he played about 15 minutes a game vs poly last year and never started. Offense is playing well. Poly’s offense is so ragged.

he kicked one year at DVC ; must be hoping that year won’t count.

It’ll be an interesting lineup Saturday, I suspect. Niko came off the bench all 3 games last year, playing about 15 minutes per game. I would imagine a combo of Daugherty and Stojes fills those minutes vx the guard-centric Mustangs. We ‘stopped’ them in both regular season wins, but they went off in the second half in Henderson

I’ve been a bit surprised that Omar has slipped almost completely out of the rotation but I suspect it’s due to defensive issues. Stokes is getting more snd more time, and he’s coming up big in assists/rebounds - still a bit of a lack of confidence on offense especially around the bucket (I know he can dunk!).

It’ll be interesting vs Poly how we play - last year, Niko hardly played vs them because of their guard-centric lineup. If that’s the case, someone from that short bench will need to play.

Holy crap - what a gut check victory. Needed that after the home stinker vs Bakersfield.

I made my reservations for Henderson today - feeling better about us being there after tonight!

we’re on a 2 minute drought

Still up 66-60 with 11 to go. Starting to rack up some fouls.

Up 57-51 15:30 to go. They’ve come back to earth shooting wise. This would be a BIG win

Got it down to 47-43 by holding them scoreless over last two minutes of half. Crazy stat - they have 18 baskets and 14 assists!

37-28 with 7 to go. We seemed to have settled a bit but gauchos still shooting at a high clip. 9-1 from 3, 80% from the field. We’re over 50% - gonna gave to figure out how to slow them down.

Just looked at live stats - down 16-4 after 4. UCSB is 4-5 from 3, 6-7 overall. Digging a big hole

i guess i missed the part that said 'According to Dr. Wood.....'

reminds me of a great classic from the Simpson's :

Marge : "Homer, that's the worst thing you have ever done!"
Homer : "You say that so often that it's lost all meaning."

For the moment, and i DO hope you guys get 12 games, I'll file it under the posts about the certainty of the Pac12 offer, the FBS acceptance, the MAC offer, , the construction kickoff of the on-campus stadium, the Cal Expo stadium in 2026.

I see us listed us 4.5 point underdogs with the Gauchos having a 67% chance of winning. For some reason, we’ve matched up well with them the past few years - our defense seems to fluster them

you’ll excuse us if we view this with a bit of skepticism. Your track record on proclamations hasn’t been great

what offers have you seen?

Its a head-scratcher, to be sure! I don't think the money is much more than we were offering, and the quality of the Pac-whatever is not a great jump. As you point out, will his QB skills improve there as much as he would here with (at least) another year.

I don't know if the rumors of Vargas' visits are legit (i trust nothing/nobody in this NIL arena), but if he's getting high level P4 interest, its surprising/disappointing that Pinnack is settled for WSU.

I believe the flyer says 'heavy appetizers', so an early dinner/late lunch is probably a good idea. They are working on hotel issues at the moment. The deal with the Palace, unfortunately, seems to have fallen through (the dude listed as the contact is no longer with the company and didn't seem to leave the group information with anyone!)