39-29 Aggies at the half. Solid half of basketball for the Ags! Good crowd again too.

Well that's too bad, Mike. It's raining here in Sacramento right now.

Vegas has us at 3.5 point favorites with an over/under of 156.5. I expect this will be a hard fought game that will probably go down to the wire.

Last home game for Christian Anigwe and Patrick Lambey. I hope the rain doesn't discourage too many fans to stay home and that the students show up again. I would be great if we have a good, loud crowd today.

That's very cool. I didn't notice that while we were at the game.

Did ESPN show Eli being being honored before the game with Les giving him a basketball painted with his all-time, single season scoring record?

I think you're right about the refs being on high alert. My guess is that TY and the SB players may have vocally "complemented" each and the ref heard it thought he needed to nip it in the bud. Both players couldn't believe it.

Yes, it seems like that whole unfortunate situation at SB set TY back a bit. He has shown that he has the talent to be a great player and Les certainly believes in him. He passed up a couple of open looks that I thought he should have taken against SB and he seems to be looking more to set up his teammates. 6 assists is great.

Not sure what that double technical he and a SB player got.

The Ags lost the first of their 3 games at Seattle 11-1. That bats were silent for the Aggies who only managed 3 hits and they had 4 errors also.

Other Big West games on Saturday:

Bakersfield at Irvine 6 pm
Hawaii at Santa Barbara 6 pm
Riverside at Poly 6 pm
San Diego at Fullerton Cancelled - due to Covid protocol within the SD team.

Current Big West standings:

1. UC Santa Barbara 14-5 23-7
2. UC Irvine 13-5 20-10
2. UC Riverside 13-5 20-10
4. Hawai'i 13-6 22-9
5. Cal State Fullerton 12-6 18-12
6. Long Beach State 11-8 17-14
7. UC Davis 10-8 17-13
8. CSU Bakersfield 6-13 10-20
9. UC San Diego 5-13 10-20
10. CSUN 4-16 7-24
11. Cal Poly 1-17 7-23

It was a really good basketball game. Highly competitive game with the score going back and forth and probably our best crowd of the season.

Les was constantly matching Pasternak's lineup moves. Every time Pasternk went small so did Les. Really nice to see Ade pump faking and hitting those point blank shots and also slamming one down too.

I thought the most amazing shot of the game was Pepper's twisting layup while falling down and getting fouled hard at the same time. Even though he put the ball up with his right hand on the left side of the basket, it had so much English on it that it went in. Incredible shot!

Yep, we lost our focus and blew the double digit lead and SB took advantage of it very quickly. We've had a problem holding onto leads this year.

Terrible foul call when the SB player slipped down on his own. Same ref called the foul on Beasley in the final minute when the replay showed Beasley poked the ball away cleanly. Both teams were deadly at the line: SB was 28-32 and the Ags were 23-26. That 3 ball by Eli was halfway down before it popped out too.

Both teams are playing for the 6 seed so it will be a dogfight. LB presents some tough matchups for us. They like to get out and run and don't mind if the game turns into into a track meet.

They are also very athletic and long and they pound the ball inside the paint for easy buckets and dunks and they often get a lot of second chance points. They can be undisciplined on defense so we need to take advantage of that when they make defensive mistakes.

Crazy foul and FT stats! So one-sided for SB. Maybe the Aggies went all in on aggressive defense. They held SB to only 29% shooting for the game. The Ags somehow managed to survive 22 TO's of their own also.

Other Big West final scores today:

Long Beach 77 Bakersfield 61
Irvine 75 Riverside 65
Hawaii 81 CSUN 55
Poly at San Diego - Cancelled

Anigwe, Beasley and Lose are dressed. Hopefully, they’re good to go.

Pepper is currently averaging 22.0 ppg which is 9th in the nation.

The Cal Poly game at San Diego has been cancelled due to Covid protocols within the San Diego program.

As expected, the game scheduled for today at Cal has been postponed. The Ags are now scheduled to head to Seattle for 3 games beginning Friday. I wouldn't be surprised if those get washed out too.

Nice piece on Eli:

Other Big West games on Thursday:

Irvine at Riverside 7 pm
Hawaii at CSUN 7 pm
Bakersfield at Long Beach 7 pm
Poly at San Diego 7 pm (Cancelled due to Covid protocol by San Diego)