The fouls are piling up on the Aggies: Johnson with 4 and Milling with 3.

Santa Barbara is leading Long Beach 52-41 with 12:26 to go.

We'll need to weather the storm that SD will bring in the second half. A 10 point lead against a team as good as the Tritons can evaporate in just a few minutes. We need to do a better job of stopping their dribble penetration before they get to the basket. They don't miss very often within within 6 feet of the basket.

Pepperdine led 26-0 at the start of the game...yikes!

3/06 game:

Hawai'i 72 CSUN 70

The Aggies beat Sac 10-5 in baseball tonight.

Irvine has clinched the #1 seed but there's a lot of possibilities for the remaining seeding depending on the outcomes in the final two games. Here's the schedule for the final week:

Irvine (15-3):
Th - Cal Poly
Sa - @ Fullerton

San Diego (14-4):
Th - Davis
Sa - Cal Poly

Aggies (12-6):
Th - @ San Diego
Sa - @ Long Beach

Long Beach (10-8):
Th - Santa Barbara
Sa - Aggies

Hawai'i (9-9):
Wed - CSUN
Sa - Bakersfield

CSUN (9-10):
Wed - @ Hawai'i

Santa Barbara (8-10):
Th - @ Long Beach
Sa - Riverside

Riverside (8-10):
Th - Fullerton
Sa - @ Santa Barbara

Bakersfield (8-11):
Sa - @ Hawai'i

Fullerton (7-11):
Th - @ Riverside
Sa - Irvine

Cal Poly (0-18):
Th - @ Irvine
Sa - @ San Diego

3/02 Scores:

Irvine 82 Long Beach 61
Hawai'i 76 Riverside 73 in OT
San Diego 79 CSUN 69
Fullerton 79 Santa Barbara 70
Bakersfield 68 Cal Poly 56

Current standings:

I hope the momentum form the Hawai'i game will carry over to the San Diego game. I remember that Les said the team was extremely disappointed in how they played after the blowout loss to the Tritons in front of the largest home crowd of the season.

The sequence of Pepper's impossible 3 from corner with the foul followed by the 10 second violation and then another Pepper 3 was one of the great moments in Aggie basketball history. I couldn't believe Pepper was even able to get that shot off with 6'8 Da Silva draped all over him.

How about TY dropping 30 also? He has grown so much since he came here. He struggled to keep his emotions in check last year and teams took advantage of it and tried to get under his skin and it affected his play at times. He's playing with a quiet confidence now and he led the Aggies in scoring during Pepper's recent 3 game drought. He's fearless, has great quickness and his defense is tenacious.

Throughout the game, our defense was a thing of beauty. Everyone was working so hard. Les does a great job of rotating players in and out and giving them a blow because it takes so much energy to continuously play defense that hard. We forced several shot clock violations and a several desperation shots as the shot clock wound down.

I loved it when Tim Plough came onto the floor and led the crowd in a Go Ags cheer. He got the crowd energized even more. Les and the players talked about how the team feeds off the energy from the crowd. In the radio post-game, Pepper said that the crowd reaction after he makes a 3 is the best feeling in the world.

This game was a great example of how much fun Aggie basketball can be when we have a good crowd that gets into the game. So much fun!

The Ags don't play this coming Saturday but here's the schedule for the rest of the teams:

Long Beach @ Irvine
Hawai'i @ Riverside
San Diego @ CSUN
Santa Barbara @ Fullerton
Bakersfield @ Cal Poly

I looked at the box score and Marcus Tsohonis did not play and he's their leading scorer at 17.1 ppg. I didn't see any other key players out for them.

This was a really good win for the Aggies. Great game, great crowd and energy in the building...a perfect send off for our seniors. Eli and TY with 30 apiece! Wow...can anyone remember if we've ever had two players with 30 points apiece in a game?

2/29 Scores:

Aggies 75 Hawai'i 63
Fullerton 76 Long Beach 71
Bakersfield 70 San Diego 57
Irvine 89 CSUN 64
Santa Barbara 83 Cal Poly 75

Current standings:

Yes, the Ags have clinched a 4 seed.

Eli is back and TY is right there with him!

38-32 Aggies at the half.

Both teams shooting lights out to start.

I like the promotions they have going tonight. It's a Team Aggie event so there will be food and drinks for the Team Aggie donors. Honoring the seniors before the game is always a nice tribute for the players and their families. I believe this is the first time that the seniors will address the crowd after the game also. I think this is a great idea also. I hope we have a good crowd and the students show up.