Wow...that's a huge win for the Aggies. Sac is always excellent in gymnastics.

Big gymnastics battle today at 1 pm in the Pavilion between the Ags and the Hornets. The Aggies have been getting really good crowds for their meets and I expect this match will draw an impressive number of fans. Sac is always very tough in gymnastics.

Go Ags!

Too bad Tysyn Parker didn't defect to us... :-*

I think you are probably right CA but, one thing I noticed, is that some of our QB recruits are very versatile and have played other positions too. I wonder if some of them might find PT at positions other than QB in the future? I'm sure some may redshirt also reducing the number of players vying for the position.

The seats were out on the upper west side but I don't think there were very many fans up there. I didn't really look up that way since we're in section 212 with our backs to those upper west sections. The area on the upper east side has been being used as a play area for kids with games and a inflatable bounce house and it's very popular with the kids.

Official attendance was 3547. That's a pretty good crowd but I think we could see 4500 if this team keeps winning.

This was a gritty win for the Ags. We dug a hole early and crept back to within 6 at the half and then Chima took over in the second half and away we went. It wasn't a pretty game, that's for sure, with 54 fouls called but the Aggies were the aggressors and benefited the most by hitting 35-46 from the line.

I love the resiliency of this team. Irvine has a lot of bigs and the Ags were limited with Goode out with an injury. Our big guys got some early fouls forcing Les to vary his lineup. Eventually Henn and Adenrele fouled out and White was trying to play through cramps but the Aggies gutted it out. It was a foul laden, physical game and the Ags were determined to win it and they did.

Irvine was led in scoring by two freshmen, Tommy Rutherford and Eyassu Worku, two players that Les had recruited but lost the Anteaters. They are a very young team with great size and very quick guards. They presented a tough match up for the Aggies but the Ags simply found a way to win.

I don't know what the official attendance was but this was the largest crowd of the season. My guess is the the attendance was somewhere around 3500-4000. This was a total team victory in every sense of the word. Great win for the Ags and first place in the Big West for now.

The Aggies overcame a lackluster offensive performance with great defense and beat the Titans 59-39. The Ags forced 24 TO's to offset 34% shooting from the field. Morgan Bertsch was held to 2 points. Good teams find a way to win when they don't play their best and the Ags did just that.

You might to start a new discussion entitled "2017 Recruiting Class" or something like that. We might be able to find some good highlight videos to add too. Just some thoughts...

Another thought: Once we actually have the LOI's signed and the 2017 class is in, I think it would be interesting to see the schools that each player had offers from and chose UCD over. I've noticed that quite a few schools do that when they post player bio's on sighing day. It's kind of like a feather in the school's hat to say this player chose UCD over these 9 schools etc.

Those are good ideas. Regardless, you've done a great job here keeping us up to date on our recruiting as best as can be found out. (Y)

Nick Ford 6'5 270 OL from San Pedro has narrowed his 21 offers to 4 big boys: Cal, Colorado, Utah and Washington. https://twitter.com/FearThat55?lang=en

Well...could we possibly be trying to get him to change his mind...?? Do coaches make offers to kids who have already made a verbal commitment?

(Y)

I just edited my previous post since I saw that Rivals has Modise committed to Southeastern Louisiana.

Rivals shows that Namane Modise is verbally committed to Southeastern Louisiana...??

Now that the majority of recruits have already made their verbal commitments, I was wondering if coaches will still be contacting those recruits and making home visits in an effort to get them to change their minds? I know we have had a few recruits change their minds at the 11th hour in the past.

herosports also posted a National Top 25 FCS Recruits list as of January 19th and Eastern Washington has #23 WR Andrew Boston and #18 WR Johnny Edwards IV, North Dakota has #15 DE Ezekiel Ott and Montana State has #14 DB Jalen Cole.

http://herosports.com/news/fcs-recruiting-national-top-25-commitments-fcs-football#1

According to their list Sac State has landed the top recruit so far LB Tysyn Parker who had a bunch of offers including UCD...(oh well...scratching my head...) but we have 3 guys in their top 17 (#17 DE Luka Nixon, #11 WR Kristian Gilbert and #10 WR Logan Montgomery). Certainly this list is highly subjective and really doesn't mean all that much.

Kourtney is playing great at the point. When this team gets in a flow they can really light it up. They execute give and go's and back door cuts beautifully and do a good job of ball movement and finding the open player. With only one senior on the team and an excellent recruiting class coming in, the future of women's basketball is looking very, very good.