The 2024-25 MBB roster is now posted and it shows that we added a transfer from Princeton:

Derek Sangster 6'8 200 lb G/F Sophomore.

247 Sports shows that he had offers from Washington State, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, San Jose State, San Francisco, Montana, Loyola Marymount and Princeton coming out of Archbishop Mitty HS in San Jose in 2023.

This bio is from the Princeton Athletic website:

2023-24: Appeared in 13 games … scored 11 points, went 3-for-5 from three and had five rebounds along with two blocks in a home win over Delaware Valley on Dec. 22

Before Princeton: 2023 Conference Player of the Year … 2X First Team All-Conference … 2X Central Coast Section Scholar Athlete of the Year … 3x member of the California All-State team … 3x Conference Champion … 1x Central Coast Section Champion … member of the 1000 Point Club … member of the California Scholarship Federation and National Honor Society … Principal’s Honor Roll list for six semesters (4.0 academic GPA or higher for a semester)

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/derek-sangster/21797

I didn't realize that we did that well bringing in transfers.

Hugh Hogland played for the Aggies in the 2020-21 as a grad student transfer from Portland where he played for 4 years from 2017-2020. He only appeared in 2 games for the Ags and decided not to use his additional Covid year of eligibility.

After he left Davis, he went to Japan and signed with the Ryukyu Golden Kings of the professional B League. He suffered a serious elbow injury and underwent 3 surgeries before returning to play in 2023 and helped his team win the B League title and he is still with the team. He is currently a member of Japan's Olympic team in Paris. He was also an Olympian on the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games as well.

Lots of information about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Watanabe

It will be interesting who plays linebacker and how they do. It will be interesting to see if Teddye Buchanan starts or at least plays a lot for Cal. — Riveraggie

I would be surprised if Buchanan does not start for Cal. He was an impact player for us with his FBS speed, energy and ball awareness. I think he could be tough for us to handle.

Count me in too! This has been sorely needed for a long time.

11/5 at Washington
11/7 at Idaho
at Grand Canyon (Acrisure Holiday Classic in Thousand Palms, CA)
at Stanford (Acrisure Holiday Classic in Thousand Palms, CA)
11/30 at Oregon State
12/18 vs Idaho
at Pepperdine
at Sacramento State

UCLA has prevailed in each of its two previous meetings with UC Davis, outscoring the Aggies by a 26-0 margin in 1932 and a 49-0 count in 1934. Both games were played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

https://uclabruins.com/news/2024/7/10/ucla-football-announces-changes-to-future-schedules

Wow! I expect these games will be a big payday for us as well.

11/5 at Washington
11/7 at Idaho
11/30 at Oregon State
12/18 vs Idaho
At Pepperdine
At Sacramento State
At Stanford

Do you know how many scholies we may have left go give?

This class is shaping up to be all QBs and WRs — CA Forever

Definitely! All of these WR's are under 6 feet tall so no big targets. My guess is that we are recruiting for speed, quickness and good hands first and foremost. I'd love to see us play a lot of no huddle, hurry up offense with a good stable of fast WR's to throw to mixed in with our solid running game. Shredville football is going to be exciting to watch!

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.