Impressive recruit!

:rofl:

Thanks for keeping the Causeway Cup regularly updated each year, 72.

Long Beach loaded up on transfers under their new head coach. This is a pretty cool video introducing the team. I'd like to see the Aggies do this too.

Holy smokes! UCD = QBU!

Thanks for tracking these players down, Mike. It's great to see so many of them doing well playing ball in foreign countries. I think that actually getting to play and do well abroad is a better experience than riding the bench in the NBA for these players.

Here's a couple more former Aggies playing abroad:

Brynton Lemar:

2017-18 - France
2018-19 - Hungary
2019-20 - Poland
2020-21 - Turkey
2021 - Italy
2021-22 - Russia (Krasnoyarsk, Siberia!)
2022-23 - France
2023 - Greece
2023-24 - Israel
2024 - current: Slovenia

Josh Fox:

2016 - England
2017 - New Zealand
2018 - present: - Australia

Fox also played for the Fiji National Team in 2015 and they won a silver medal in the Pacific Games.

Ajay Mitchell from UCSB was taken as the 38th pick by the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Aggies will play a home and home series with Idaho this fall. It looks like we have 6 away games scheduled so far: 3 with known dates and 3 TBD.



11/5 at Washington
11/7 at Idaho
12/18 vs Idaho
At Pepperdine
At Sacramento State
At Stanford

Seems like an aggressive perimeter player with perhaps some untapped potential. — Oldbanduhalum

I think that's a pretty accurate observation.

The Aggie coaching staff is good at finding and developing players who are "diamonds-in-the-rough." Daughtery started 10 of 29 games last year at Central Arkansas and averaged 9.9 ppg while shooting 37.5% overall and 31% from 3 and played an average of 19 minutes per game. He looks to be more of a shooting guard than a PG since he only had 9 total assists for the season. It will be interesting to see who will win the starting guard position alongside TY when the season starts this fall.

Daughtery is coming from a program that went 9-23 last year including loses to Hawaii 95-76 and Loyola Marymount 90-63. UCA's last winning season was in 2017-18 when they went 18-17 for the year. So I expect he'll be hungry to play for a winning program.

I did some research and it appears that there were 5 related Graduate restaurants at one time: Davis, Chico, San Luis Obispo, Stockton and one in Tucson known as the Wildcat House. The restaurant in Berkeley is Henry's located the the Graduate Berkeley building that was formerly the Hotel Durant and wasn't related to the other Graduate restaurants.

All of The Graduate restaurants related to the Davis Grad have closed:

- Chico Grad closed in 2015. I believe it was open for 37 years.
- San Luis Obispo Grad closed in 2020 after 45 years.
- Stockton Grad closed in 2021 after a homeless man set fire to it after being denied a free soda.

- The Wildcat House in Tucson closed in 2012 after 37 years. In 2015, new owners renovated the building and opened Brother John's Beer, Bourbon & BBQ while keeping some elements of the former Grad as nostalgic remembrances.

247 Sports shows that Kuchenbuch currently has offers from Air Force, Army, EWU, Idaho, Montana and the Aggies.

Ags lost a close one 3-2 today and finish with a winning season 29-27 overall. Great year for the Aggies and the Aggie coaching staff. This program is on a fast rise!

The Ags won another wild one today 9-8 over Bakersfield in 13 innings. The Aggies trailed 8-7 going into the bottom of the 13th and tied the game at 8 apiece with no outs and the bases still loaded but the Ags grounded into 2 force outs at home. Then the Bake relief pitcher was forced to leave the game after the umps determined that the Bake manager had made two visits to the mound in the inning. The Bake manager was not happy but he had to bring in another reliever who hit the Aggie batter with his first pitch forcing in the winning run for the Ags. Crazy!

One game left in the season now. Go Ags!

Check out Jamaal Unuakalu's 2023-24 highlights video here (scroll down the list of videos to see the 23-24 video):

https://www.hudl.com/profile/18855717/Jamaal-Unuakhalu

I think Jamaal Unuakhalu is a good recruit for the Aggies. Les does a great job of finding "diamonds-in-the-rough" who often get overlooked.

I just looked at Unuakhalu's stats for his freshman year at Moorpark and, overall, they're pretty impressive: 7.2 ppg, 56% shooting overall and 8.6 rebounds per game. He scored in double digits in 7 games (high of 18) and had double digit rebounds in in 13 games (high of 16). Considering he averaged just 21.3 minutes per game, those are pretty good stats.

In his sophomore season he averaged 31 minutes per game, 14.5 ppg while shooting 57% overall, 10.6 rebound per game along with 3 blocks per game. He scored in double digits in 23 games (high of 28) and had double digit rebounds in 18 games (high of 19). He also had a high of 8 blocks in a game twice. So he improved a lot.

Overall, he appears to have a big upside and a good foundation to improve and grow under Les. His rebounding stats are impressive and he shoots a high percentage. We know Les emphasizes defense so I would guess that he's a good defender as well. He can help fill in for the loss of Adebayo's defense and rebounding with more scoring as well.

I don't know if we have any scholarships left to give but, if we do, I think we might see another guard especially a good 3 point shooter.

https://moorparkcollegeathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/unuakhalu_jamal_khnx

Oh man, I had everything mixed up on that post! Thanks for the correction. I edited it.

No Aggies made Hero Sports list of Top Returning FCS LB's.

Big Sky LB's on the list:

#25 Will Leota - Sac State (transfer from Utah Tech)
#6 Riley Wilson - Montana

https://herosports.com/fcs-football-top-returning-2024-linebackers-bzbz/

Miles Hastings is #23 on Hero Sports Top 25 list for QB's:

Big Sky QB's on the list:

#5 Tommy Mellott - Montana State
#12 Kaiden Bennett - Sac State
#16 Kekoa Visperas - Eastern Washington
#23 Miles Hastings - UC Davis
#25 Richie Munoz - Weber State

https://herosports.com/fcs-football-top-returning-2024-quarterbacks-bzbz/

Big Sky RB's on the Hero Sports Top 25 list:

#1 Lan Larison - UC Davis
#8 Eli Gillman - Montana
#12 Julius Davis - Montana State

Great comeback win by the Aggies today!

The short story: After being shutout for eight straight innings, the UC Davis Aggies rallied to score seven in the ninth inning, walking it off on Mark Wolbert's two-run home run to pick up the 7-6 victory over the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners Thursday.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2024/5/23/baseball-aggies-rally-for-seven-runs-in-the-ninth-to-walk-it-off-against-cal-state-bakersfield.aspx