In the the intro to this thread I said:

Morgan Bertsch could put up some big numbers if the Hornets decide pressure the ball heavily on the perimeter.

Well...bingo! Morgan had a field day and the Ags outscored the Hornets 76-26 in the paint. That's ridiculous!

I really do not like "the system." I could see that if you do not have good ball handlers and don't play smart with poise that it can cause problems but when you do face a team that has those qualities, this is what happens.

Note to Aggie Athletics: Never hire a coach who likes to run "the system!"

McKeown made some nice assists also. She handles the ball pretty well too.

So now if we beat EWU we will host a semifinal game...wow...there's a whole lot to play for tomorrow.

Go Ags!

The Ags also out rebounded the Hornets 67-32 and 20 assists to only 4 for the Hornets. The Ags dismantled "the system" and now lead the all-time series 30-29.

The Ags had 5 TO's in the first half and then turned the ball over 8 times in the 3rd quarter.

The Ags lost their poise and focus in the 3rd quarter and get outscored 17-15 but still lead 79-44.

Right now the Ags are playing very sloppy in the 3rd quarter...lots of TO's.

I agree. Weber's offense is not impressive. Our playoff games are a much tougher draw with UNI and EWU.

I think you mean 20 for Bertsch...if she had 30...well that would be incredible!

This is exactly how you beat "the system." You play play with poise and play smart by taking care of the ball and knowing someone is open when they commit to double teaming our guards at half court. Excellent blocking out on the rebounds by the Ags also.

I missed the whole first quarter but the Ads must have been on fire and lead 32-14..wow!

Ezra Manjon has a lightening quick first step and a great crossover dribble:

Elijah Pepper highlights:

Ezra Manjon sure looks like he'll be a nice replacement for TJ:

Who is knicked up?

You're right about the hole in the middle. I would say that 2/3's, if not more, of the offers Les makes is to guards.

Anything can and usually does happen in the wild, wild Big West but, unless we make some dramatic improvement on offense especially, we will be in the middle of the pack at best.

Irvine and Santa Barbara are both very solid. Irvine is disciplined and deep and Santa Barbara has been winning without their top scorer, Max Heidegger, who has been out all season from a concussion. UCSB,s coach, Joe Pasternack, has gone out and brought in several 3 and 4 star recruits and transfers in just two years at the helm.

Fullerton has been a mixed bag up to this point but they have 3 terrific scorers in Allman, Ahmad and Rowe. Any of those 3 could play in the PAC12. Long Beach always has a lot of very athletic players and may be in the mix also and the same is true of Hawai'i and both of those programs usually have several PAC12 caliber players on the roster.

We've got a lot of catching up to do at the moment.

Agree. When Siler is ice cold, why not?

3-20 from AJ and Siler pretty much sums the problems this team continues to have scoring. We played decent defense and held their leading scorer to 10 points under his average and held the Huskies to 13 points under their average but we went over 7 minutes at one point in the second half without scoring.

The thing is, we returned most of our scoring from last season. As a team last year we shot 47% from the field. This year we are shooting 38% overall. Last year we shot 37% from 3. This year we are shooting 28%. TJ has been the only fairly consistent scorer on the team this season.

We had plenty of open looks tonight and were missing badly...airballs and offline clunkers that barely drew iron. The drop-off from in scoring from last year is shocking.

Last year we averaged 72.3 ppg and this year we are only scoring 58 ppg. It's going to be very hard to keep teams below 58 points to have a chance to win.

Les believes first and foremost that defense wins games but the ball has to go through the hoop with some consistency also and, so far this season, that has not been happening.