Very odd ending to this game. Ags up by 10 with 29 seconds to go, but the game goes down to literally the last second. Ags give up 8 points in 22 seconds?!

Good test for the Aggies composure.

I'm getting it streaming on ESPN3. Halftime now.

Mooney has range! He must have it a 3 from over 25 feet. If the Beach doesn't start playing better defense and stop turning the ball over, the Ags chances of winning are 100%

ESPN gives the Aggies a 56% chance of winning.

I give up. It must be something about my service today.

Do I have the right url? https://bigwest.org/watch/default.aspx?Live=2570&path=uc_davis

Thanks, but no luck.

The game should be starting, but my BigWestTV stream is blank. Any advice?

Stephen Tsai, the Honolulu paper's chief sportswriter covering the Big West had a nice sketch of the upcoming conference play. His predictions are much more realistic than pre-season polls since it is based on the teams' records so far. He picks the Aggies to finish 5th and Hawaii 3rd. He does state, quite rightly I think, that there is a lot of parity in the conference this year, so... I wish I could post the article here, but I have to get past all the current obstacles they put on newspaper websites these days. Here is his overall ranking:

1. UCSB
2. UCR
3. Hawaii
4. UCI
5. UC Davis
6. CSU Fullerton
7. CSUN
8. Long Beach
9. Cal Poly

Raiders stat sheets shows Doss has ben targeted 5 times and has caught every one of them

Just looking a the box score and seeing how poorly the Aggies shot, it's amazing that the game was that close.

Are these games on streaming video anywhere?

Thanks, BlueGoldAg. I should have known that.

San Diego joins the Big West next year, right?

How was the crowd? Are more students showing up or are they studying for finals now?

Yeah, I was at that game. What a night. It was not just Corey Hawkins who lit it up. Ryan Sypkens and Josh Ritchart hit a combined 5 for 11 to supplement Corey's 8 for 9. (Not doing this from memory, I have the box score on ESPN, but I vividly recall how it felt.)) As I recall, the Ags came out early and buried a bunch of treys quieting the usually loud Hawaii fans and earning me some glares as I was not only cheering but wearing my UCD shirt. At what point some fans behind me said "What's an Aggie anyway?" I could not resist turning around and answering him: "It's short for Agricultural." Sadly, I've only seen the Aggies win once here since then.

Bob Hamilton used to schedule a lot of preseason games against teams from major conferences. I faintly recall one year when he took them on a road trip to play Michigan and Minnesota (two Big-10 teams at any rate). He always said it was to give them the experience of playing against top caliber opponents so they would learn how great teams work together. The counter argument was that it was bad for morale, but the two years I was there as an undergraduate, they won two Far Western Conference titles.

I really like this team. They were down by 18 and 15 to two PAC-12 teams in consecutive road games and came back strong to make it close. Manjon is a special player and I would bet he'll be the Big West newcomer of the year. I appreciate what DrMike said about Pepper and Koehler both having made big strides in their game. That's a sign of good coaching and I would say that both are pretty impressive for their smart play and hustle.

I had to record and watch the game today, but I was pretty impressed by what the Aggies were doing against Cal. Cal is no Utah, but they are not likely to finish 12th in the Pac-12 as everyone in the national media thinks. Neither will UC Davis finish 8th in the Big West. Ezra Manjon reminds me of T. J. Shorts in a lot of ways (pardon me if some of you have posted this observation before but this was the first time I've seen an Aggie game this season). He's very quick, very smart, has some great moves to the hoop and handles the ball as a point guard should. I was pretty excited when the Ags took a lead but did not expect them to win even then. Cal has too much size. Given that disadvantage, I was a bit surprised that Neufeld played so little and that Koehler played so much. I did notice that we took the lead while Koehler was in there so maybe Coach Les liked the chemistry of that five-some.