I think Les has to hit the portal hard. We have a lot of shoes to fill and we don't have size.

I'm not surprised that Jac Mani and Derek Sangster have entered the portal.

Mani came here as a highly regarded HS recruit but he was injured much of the time. He was finally available at the start of conference play this year but only saw action in 10 games for a total of 55 minutes. He was praised early on by Les as having the potential to become and outstanding big man for the Ags. He has a beautiful 3 point shot but never showed the physicality and ability to defend in the interior.

Sangster is a bit of a mystery. He was a highly sought after HS recruit and signed with Princeton. I was expecting him to play a major role this year but he seldom saw any action at all. He played in 8 games for a total of 33 minutes. He did not look "comfortable" in the few minutes that I saw him play.

Carl Daugherty Jr and Nils Cooper were the two transfers that worked out very well for us this year and should be even better next year. Jamaal Unuakhalu began seeing action late in the season and showed promise. He has good length, defends well and appears to have an ability to score inside. I expect we'll see more of him next year.

Curiously, Sione Losé is being listed as "Offered" on verbalcommits.com . That's either a mistake or maybe he wasn't on scholarship...??

The Ags went to Hawaii and got swept in 3 games: 7-2, 16-0 and 2-1. Hawaii has an amazing baseball facility and had 4589 fans at the first game, 3981 at game 2 and 3255 at game 3 on Monday.

It will depend on the facts of the firing, but somebody won't care... — AggieFinn

That's for sure...

Then the women's team could hire someone from this message board since we're all experts here. — yolohw

:lol: I don't come cheap though!

Do the Aggies have any more scholarships to offer? Do you think that the coaches be looking at the transfer portal this year?

Robby Beasley would be a nice addition to the Aggies.

The MBB transfer portal officially opens on Monday, March 24th and will be open for 30 days. I expect we will see a ton of players enter the portal and I would imagine that Les and his staff will be actively looking for possible transfers for the 2025-26 season.

These are excellently written summaries, TR67. You should be writing for the Athletics Department!

The NCAA recruiting calendar for MBB can be a bit confusing but here it is:

In the classroom, student-athlete academic success has risen under DeLuca's leadership, with the department recording a 93% Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in 2024, ranking among the top 10 nationally and establishing a program record. On the fields and courts of competition, UC Davis teams have captured 12 conference championships since his elevation to director of athletics in 2021, with 25 individual Aggies winning conference titles.

Financial growth and stewardship have also been hallmarks of DeLuca's leadership since his arrival in Davis in 2016. Ticket sales have increased by 108%, contributing to a 150% rise in football revenue, while Olympic sports have seen a 140% revenue boost. Annual fundraising has consistently exceeded goals, leading to the department's budget growth to $50 million in fiscal year 2024. These financial gains have supported significant investments in student-athlete services and facilities, including the $52 million Edwards Family Athletics Center, a $5 million addition of lights to Aggie Soccer and Dobbins Baseball Stadium, a $3.2 million Aquatics Team Center, and upgrades to softball, baseball and beach volleyball venues.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2025/3/20/uc-davis-extends-director-of-athletics-rocko-delucas-contract.aspx

You may want to check into the forum fairly regularly before next fall. There seems to be quite a few changes coming to Aggie Athletics with the move to the MWC in 2026 and I'm sure we'll be seeing some recruiting news for MBB.

Valiant effort by UCSD but they lose 68-65. Michigan's two 7 footers on the floor at the same time were just too much size. I'll tell you what though, SD's coach, Eric Olen, is a helluva coach when you consider the halftime adjustments he made to attack the basket against those twin towers. He put together one heck of a team this year. UCSD is a program that is rising up fast.

...and now Tait-Jones has fouled out...

Foul trouble and poor 3 point shooting is hampering the Tritons. They cut the lead to 1 but it's back up to 8 with 8 minutes to go.

The Tritons are making a run early in the 2nd half and have got cut the Michigan 15 point lead down to 6.

Michigan 41 UCSD 27 at the half. The Michigan twin towers, 7' and 7'1, are just too much size for the Tritons. SD needs to get hot from 3 in the second half if they are going to claw their way back into this one. They were only 2-17 from 3 and that won't get it done.

I grew up in Indiana. Bob Knight was a great basketball mind but he was also an abusive coach and a disgusting, vulgar man. Yes, he won lots of games and championships but, over the years, he brought a lot of shame to a cherished basketball program.

The IU administration looked the other way for years until they couldn't anymore after he physically choked one of his own players. He should have been fired long before he ran the reputation of the program into the ground. The Big Ten had several coaches who were abusive like Knight: Woody Hayes at Ohio State and Bo Shembechler at Michigan but Knight was the worst of them all.