19-15 Stanford with 4:35 to go in 2nd Q. Ags are playing hard on D and that's keeping the game close at this point.

17-11 Stanford after the first quarter. The Aggie D is playing pretty well but we're missing open looks and Stanford interior size is giving us fits on the boards. We got out rebounded 15-5 leading to 8 second chance points for the Cardinal.

8-4 Stanford at the first media break. Ags working hard on defense and are getting open looks but missed a couple of easy buckets. I think they'll settle down a bit...

The live stream just started on ESPN+.

I scrolled down to "Conferences" on ESPN+ and then chose Big West and they have the game listed to go live at 7 pm. It does show that it is being carried by the ACC Network. However, since ESPN+ IS showing it to air live at 7 pm, I assume that they will be airing it as well via the ACC Network.

Please post up the details if there's going to be an AST tailgate and/or an Aggie Podcast tailgate or tailgate combing both.

Haha!!

I realize that I had quoted the wrong sentence from your original post so I edited it:

UC Davis might be the best team they’ve faced this season — Toke69

Stanford has beaten Denver, Fullerton and NAU handily and I'm not so sure we are better than those 3 teams at least not at this point from what I've seen from us so far. We're a work in progress and the progress has been slow.

UC Davis might be the best team they’ve faced this season. — Toke69

Not so sure about that.

The Aggies are still very much trying to gel as a team and figure out how to play together more cohesively. The Ags battled well against Washington but the Huskies did not impress me all that much and I think they're going to take a beating in the Big 10. They just lost to Nevada by 10. The Idaho win was a gritty effort by the Aggies to hang in there and comeback after trailing most of the game but I wasn't all that impressed with Idaho either and they just got trounced by Washington State 90-67.

Our defense was MIA against Menlo and we've yet to show that we can shoot from the perimeter. We are definitely in a rebuilding process with the loss of Pepper, Milling and Adebayo and we're missing the 3 point shooting of Pepper and Milling and the defense of Adebayo. Les brought in 4 transfers but we've yet to see much production from them other than Daugherty who looks promising. Teams will be focusing on shutting down TY so some other players are going to have to step up and take some pressure off of him.

The score will get ugly fast if we don't defend any better against Stanford than we did against Menlo.

So far, this game is receiving the overwhelming number of votes for FCS Game of the Week over on the AST Forum. Right now, the game has received 28 of the 32 votes that have been cast which equals 87.5% of the votes.

So, for a second week in a row, all eyes are on an Aggie game which goes to show just how much attention the Aggies are getting this year and just how much national publicity the team is generating for the university. This is a great example of how college athletics can help draw additional attention to the university as a whole in addition to the university's highly regarded academic reputation.

The AST Forum has been around for very long time and there are a lot of very knowledgeable members on it who follow the FCS closely. It's free and easy to join so, if you are interested, here's a link for the forum:

https://www.anygivensaturday.com/forumdisplay.php?2-FCS-Discussion

That makes 14 commits total if correct. Does anyone know the total number of scholarships we have available for this recruiting year?

I seem to remember we had a pretty good crowd for UNI game and the crowd was more vocal in their support than the typical "politely quiet" Aggie crowd.

11/12 Games:

Riverside 80 Cal Baptist 79 - Great game and comeback by Riverside. These two schools are crosstown rivals and Cal Baptist won last year by the same score.

UC San Diego 64 Sac State 54
Aggies 80 Menlo 70 - the Ags escape the upset...

The final score was 80-70 Ags but the game was closer than that most of the night. The Ags got the win but it was not pretty or confidence building and if we play like this on Sunday at Stanford, it will get ugly fast.

Some thoughts:

- Our defense was not good and we got caught asleep at the wheel way too often. Menlo scored quite a few points on back door cuts and they were able to effectively drive to the basket for layups way too often.
- We have not shot well from 3 in any of the games so far. We are now 18-71 only for 25%.
- Landon Seaman of Menlo was the best player on the floor tonight. He scored at will against Rocak and his quick spin moves left Niko flat-footed on several occasions.
- Menlo was the aggressor and they never let up. I think the Aggies thought they were going to walk away from them at some point. Give Menlo credit. They played harder.
- Tamba has made great progress from last year and we sure need some scoring from him because we can't just depend on TY and we're not seeing much scoring punch from anyone else so far.
- Carl Daugherty showed that he can shoot and I think he'll continue to make progress as he gets more playing time.
- We saw Nils Cooper for a few minutes for the first time and he looks promising.

28-21 Menlo with 7:42 to go in the first half. Aggies are being totally outplayed on both end of the court.

Menlo came to play tonight...not so sure about the Aggies...

Such a great interview with Jake! I only had time to listen to Jake so far but will tune in for the rest later. You guys continue to hit it out of the park. Man, the excitement is building up fast!

Yes but he's been injured a lot since he arrived here so we've only seen him actually play for a few minutes. He has a beautiful shot and he can drain 3's but the big question is whether or not he can defend like Les demands of his players and how well can he hold up to the physicality of the D1 game.

Always great! Looking forward to listening to it later today.