Les was very frustrated in the post-game interview. Marsh ask him if Manjon driving the length of the floor and getting a layup blocked in the final seconds was in the plan and Les said, "No it was not. He need to understand those situations better." He was particularly unhappy with our defense allowing 52% shooting and said, "You can't give up those kind of numbers on the road and expect to win."

CSUN beat Hawaii so the Ags are the #5 seed and will play #4 seed Hawaii in the first round of the Big West Tournament.

The Aggies made a nice run to cut it to 3 after being down 19 with 7 minutes to go but it's rare to play poorly for the first 33 minutes and come out with a win. Not sure what Manjon was thinking when he drove the length of the floor when we were down 3 with a few seconds to go and got his layup blocked. We needed a 3 and Mooney was hot...

The Ags are falling apart...down 15 with 13:21 to play...playing poorly on both ends of the floor...

8 minutes into the game and the Aggies have scored 2 points on 1 of 12 for 8%!

The Aggies continue their road struggles this year and fall to The Beach 66-57. Even though they will still head into the Big West Tournament as the #1 seed, they will certainly not be a heavy favorite. If they play sloppy like they did today with 19 TO's, they could be in big trouble and you know that everyone is shooting for them.

Anybody able to get the live stream from Big West TV?

Current Big West Standings:

I remember a game in Hickey where Ham was just chewing on his towel and stomping his feet so hard you could here it over the crowd noise. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore and went up about 4 rows in the stands behind the team and sat there chewing his towel for a minute or two. One thing he had in common with Coach Les is how hard his teams played and how much he got out of the players he had.

Getting hammered on the boards by CSUN doesn't bode well for the Aggies if they were to get to the NCAA Tournament and draw #3 Oregon like Oldbanduhalum predicts. The Ducks have 6 players over 6'4 including one each at 6'7 and 6'6, 2 at 6'5 and 2 at 6'4. It would be a disastrous draw for the Aggies.

I know the Ags will play hard to win the Big West Tournament and make it into the NCAA but we'd have a much better chance at winning a game or two in the WNIT.

Hawk is a rare head coach who knows what's truly important in life and he shows that to his players by example. Awesome coach!

Les wasn't doing anything that at the moment he got the T that would have indicated that he was fired up. He was standing, as he does nearly entire game, and was talking with to the ref who had his back turned to him and, all of a sudden, the ref got pretty demonstrative and slammed a T on him so he must have said something uncomplimentary.

Les has toned it down a lot this season compared to what we have seen a times in the past. He doesn't stomp much at all anymore and he seems to have really backed off lighting into his players and he has also been less overtly critical of the team in his post-game, radio interviews when the team has played poorly. He still won't tolerate it when he thinks his team is playing with a lack of energy and aggression. That will set him off like a stick of dynamite but no good head coaches tolerate what they see as a lack of effort. I actually think that this may have been one of Les' best coaching jobs he's done given how far this team has come from the start of the season.

...and if Les didn't get a T in the first half resulting in Hawaii hitting 2 FT's which ended up being huge considering we lost by 2...

We survived our meltdown last week against Long Beach but not this one. Some teams seen to just have your number and Hawaii seems to be that team for the Aggies. We lose to them most of the time. That last 3 they hit for the win was deja vu of how we lost in Hawaii.We got sloppy with the ball and didn't get create good shots in the final 3 minutes and Hawaii made the plays down the stretch.

I don't like it when it seems that Les has his team trying to take time off the clock when we have a big lead in the final minutes. We did that tonight and then ended up taking a poor, rushed shot as the shot clock ran down to the final seconds. I think that takes the the players out of their normal offensive rhythm.

Then after we misfire or turn the ball over...Hawaii gets hot an drains a few 3's and suddenly the lead is down to 3. We're 31 games into the season and we we're still not closing out games when we have the lead. Hawaii, on the other hand, has won something like 6 or 7 games this year after trailing going into the last 4 minutes of the game and two of their victims were us.

Nice crowd. We need to come out with good, aggressive energy and keep it going.

Aggies up 28-27 at the half

My wife and I will be there also. Not sure how we're going to keep 6 feet away from everyone though!

The Athletics Department is encouraging fans to arrive at least 20 minutes early so they can see the ceremony for our four seniors playing their last home game. Joe Mooney, Rogers Printup, Stefan Gonzalez and Matt Neufeld have all been outstanding in their time here and they will leave some big shoes to fill when they are gone.

Anthony Villegas 5'10 192 RB from Palma HS in Salinas.

SALINAS — Anthony Villegas puts on a show each week. This time there were college scouts in the stands to witness it. For those that weren’t, there’s film worth watching.

The Palma tailback put together a highlight reel in one game, rushing for 318 yards while scoring four touchdowns in the second half in Saturday’s 45-38 win over Aptos at Rabobank Stadium.

“I truly believe he’s one of the best backs in California,” Palma coach Jeff Carnazzo said. “There are schools missing out. Size isn’t the issue.”

The 5-foot, 10-inch Villegas had touchdown runs of 81, 61, 56 and 31 yards, giving him 28 on the season. He’ll go into his final regular-season game with 1,682 yards in just nine games.


“He’s at another level,” Carnazzo said. “Look at the film and see how he runs away from defenses in the open field.”

https://www.montereyherald.com/2019/11/02/high-school-football-villegas-318-rushing-yards-lifts-palma-past-aptos/

The Aggies need to get ready for teams to press us relentlessly in tight games. Teams with the athleticism and length of LB will give us fits. I could barely believe what I was seeing. We just kept making mistake after mistake: trying to dribble through double and triple teams, inbounding the ball to a player trapped in the corner, the ball handler pulling up the dribble and then making an awkward, lazy pass, players watching instead of going hard to the ball handler to get open...to say we were rattled is an understatement!

You hav to credit LB though also. They were double and triple teaming the ball and yet seemed to have all the passing lanes cut off at the same time. When there's a double or triple team, someone has to be open but we would get trapped and they would make it real difficult to see the floor. We've got some work to do on the press this week for sure.