19-9 Aggies at the end of the first quarter.

Thanks for all the updates, AF.

The Aggies (25-5) play at 4 pm today against CSUN (18-15) for the Big West Tournament title and an auto-bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Ags lost to the Matadors in Northridge 75-71 on February 3rd and then trounced them in the Pavilion 72-46 a week later on February 5th. CSUN rolled over Hawai'i, Irvine and Santa Barbara to make to to the championship game while the Ags escaped with a 49-46 win over Riverside to advance.

CSUN features two time Big West Player of the Year and first team Big West, Channon Fluker, and Big West 2nd team member Tessa Boagni. Those two players generally combine for 30-40 points per game and a bunch of rebounds. Fluker is a load in the paint and Bertsch will need to use her quickness to offset the physicality of Fluker.

CSUN will be aggressive and determined and the Aggies will need to match that intensity from the get go or they will find themselves playing catch up which has been a trend for them lately. Hopefully, we'll see the Ags come out and play hard with energy from the start. This one is for all the marbles.

Live TV at 4 pm on Fox College Sports Pacific.

Go Ags!

Jackson is apparently struggling with an illness. He's not a 3 point shooter. He's more of a strong defender and he's very athletic. Stefan Gonzalez, a junior transfer from St Mary's, is a deadly shooter from 3. Redshirt freshman, Gio Nelson, may also be a threat.

Taylor because he had his team take a shot clock violation since the Titan's were up 15 with under 30 seconds to go. The Aggies inbounded the ball and Rogers Printup missed a 3 at the horn.

Taylor was pissed because he thought our coaches should have told the Ags to just run the clock out because the game was not in question. He said something volatile to Nosek, a former Aggie teammate of his, and Nosek yelled back. Then Taylor said something inflammatory to Les and Les went ballistic and some players started getting involved. Chima was instrumental in getting his players and Les off the court.

It was a total BS move by Taylor. There's not sportsmanship violation when a sub takes a shot at the buzzer when his team is down by 15.

I just checked the Live Stats play-by-play. Les called a 30 second TO when we were up 12 at the 13:03 mark of the second half. Then Fullerton caught fire and hit 6 of 7 and the Ags turned the ball over 3 times and, suddenly, it was a 3 point game with 8:21 to go when there was a media time out.

Les should have called a time out in the middle of that Fullerton run to try and break their rhythm and give our guys a bread because they were on their heels. I don't often question Les' in-game judgement but I think the team needed a time out to help break Fullerton's momentum.

Yes, I think he is profound hearing loss but he can talk just fine. Not sure if he reads lips? He wears two hearing aids during the game. I did see an instance where he may not be able to hear others. The ball got inbounded to TJ and Fullerton was pressing and TJ pulled up his dribble. He looked to are yelling at Printup to come back to the ball but Rogers continued up the court. He may not have been able to hear him...??

Siler had a tough game last night also.

Considering everything that this team has done since Chima went out, I would say they damn near overachieved. Proud of this team.

I do not, however, like losing 3 times to Fullerton. I had a ton of respect for Dedrique Taylor until he pulled that stunt in Fullerton where he called out Les and Nosek at the end of a game that his team won by 15 points and nearly started a brawl. He'll gloat over this 3peat.

Les needed a time out and, instead, let Fullerton continue their run...

We seldom play zone and, when we have, we're not great at it. Les will often go 1-2-2 zone press with a 1-2-2 or 1-3-1 zone for one play after a timeout.

I did like the fact that Jen Gross had the Aggies turn up the defensive pressure in the second quarter after the Ags fell behind by double digits and the offense was struggling. That got some energy going even if the Ags continued to throw the ball away. In the end, it was our pressure defense got us back into the game and make the late stops to win it. Like Jim Les always says...offense can come and go but defense travels.

I'm not sure what's going on with the Ags. They've made a habit of coming from behind in most of their last 10 games or so. It seems like they played their best ball in the first half of the season.

I'm sure teams have figured out how to play us tougher but, like you said, they seem to come out slow and fall behind early and then pull the game out late. They have also been relinquishing big leads and then hanging on to win.

Riverside has been on a tear lately though and they were the aggressors early in this game. What surprised me the most was the unforced TO's by the Aggies. We normally have great ball movement also but today we were totally out of sync offensively. Dani Nafakh saved the Ags from making an early exit.

Yep, wasn't a smart choice.

This was literally the epitome of survive to play again. The Ags won this game with defense because the offense was totally out of sync the whole game. The number of unforced TO's was hard to watch. I hope we got that out of our system because we'll need to play much, much better to win another game.

Ugly game but a gritty win.

Ags trail 33-30 after 3 quarters.

The Ags scored 4 points in the 2nd quarter. The Ags were asleep at the wheel until they turned up the defense with the press. The offense is totally out of sync though. The Ags need to regroup and play like they are capable.

Riverside leads the Ags 16-13 after the 1st quarter.

The women play UC Riverside today at 12 noon. Live TV coverage on ESPN3.

Survive and play again...