We kept the Bobcats to their lowest scoring all season including vs FBS New Mexico (who btw just beat #18 WSU). I do think against elite defenses we'll need to buy Miles more time, and probably obvious, but we need to minimize turnovers

imo we're ranked correctly as a top 4-5 team. Really excited for the Causeway and can hopefully lock down a 4 seed.

Hypothetically if we’re able to pull off the MSU upset and the Causeway classic, would we secure a top 2 seed and guarantee home field advantage throughout playoffs? Or would we land behind the Dakotas

tbh I’m not entirely sure the third to last play in first half wasn’t a td. Difficult to see if a knee was down, but to me it appeared the ball touched the end zone. Either way, we’re not playing like a top 10 team. 3 wins by a combined 6 points. We could’ve easily been 2-4. Glad we’re ending on top but making many mistakes and need to quickly clean them up- esp that passing defense stat of 11 yards per attempt and seems we’re not great vs mobile qbs

Late to the party here but does a depleted MW drive more interest than the Big Sky? i.e. SJSU or New Mexico or Wyoming drive football attendance? I’m honestly not quite sure. At least w Sac we have the local angle, Cal Poly the academic rivalry, and teams like Montanas, Idaho and EWash are all at the top of FCS. And then, for all other sports, the BW is way more budget/ travel friendly and has fellow UCs.

In the unlikely/ nearly impossible scenario we’re invited to Pac12- even then do the best teams drive 30k attendance? OSU? WSU? Maybe they’d drive a little more, but I’m skeptical even then. I’d think USC/Stanford/Cal/UCLA/Oregon etc would, just not sure that Fresno or Colorado St would do the trick. Also I doubt the Pac12 is interested. They want to maximize their shot at an auto bid or least be best of the rest- Memphis or UNLV could help. Unfortunately Davis doesn’t.

Only incentive I can think of is NCAA tournament seeding if we think we can win 2 in the BWT. Not sure if that’s a moot point with our net ranking at 169? Assuming all remaining games will likely be Q2 and Q3 for net ranking.

A bit rough. Losing by a combined 8 points to the top two teams in the country apparently doesn’t do it. As frustrating as it is, we shouldn’t leave our destiny to the committee. Needed one more win and they couldn’t leave us out. We were so close this year and probably have a better team than most in the playoffs. The history books will show an average 6-5 year, but we fielded one of our best teams ever. Proud of our team. We just needed to win one of the close ones. On to next year…

Good enough? Yes. 1 possession losses to the top 2 seeds overall. And another top tenish team in Weber. Absolutely crushed the lower tier teams

Will committee select them? Likely not. imo 80-90% chance they pass. Aside from the record, Ags consistently compete but lose to top 10 teams. Imo, we’re a top 15-20 team. If however we’re selected, it’s a nightmare draw bc Ags have a punchers chance vs anyone and could run up the score vs a lower tier auto bid

Congrats! Team looked impressive and were even able to overcome a second half deficit after Cal came back

Landmark win despite Oregon’s injuries. Congrats to the ladies! Seems the coaching staff made an emphasis on rebounding. It’s encouraging that we equaled Oregon’s tall roster in boards.

Burns seems to be developing rather quickly as a freshman point guard which is encouraging. Good to see Svanholm’s positive contribution today w 20 solid minutes. She could end up being a major factor this year. Hoping we can develop our bench a bit more during BW play, keep the rebounding focus and maybe improve on to’s.

Big games coming up against WSU, Stanford and Gonzaga. All tough games but let’s see how we measure up.

Put in HR already!

Wow, didn’t realize there was such a significant downtrend in attendance. For now, we’re not ready for an FBS move anyway. Maybe some day. Even if we could somehow make it work for football, not sure we’d prefer the remaining sports out of the Big West. At least travel is more reasonable and we have academic rivalries w UC’s, Cal Poly…

Who knows, maybe some day they will combine FCS & FBS and the smaller programs will be considered mid majors kind of like in basketball. The top of the Big Sky seems to be able to compete, unless you think this year was a fluke. Northern Arizona beat AZ, Montana beat a ranked Washington, Davis over Tulsa (last years AAC champ) and EWash beat UNLV. Not bad.

There’s still a chance the Big 12 could go after more AAC or MW schools. There are rumors Boise and Memphis are on their radar. And they might push for even more to get to 16. The MW might need to replenish if it’s raided. Unfortunately don’t think we’re ready to move up now.

That said, in the long run can we succeed in the MW? Not sure. Can our brand recognition in Sac could translate to ticket sales and tv viewers? Will average residents in Sac watch Aggie football on their tv screen? We’ll likely play 1 or 2 nationally ranked teams per year in the MW which should help but not sure it’s enough. We’d need students to come out, a core of loyal community fans, and probably regional support for this to make sense. But it should elevate our brand

I might be in the minority here, but I’d rather see the top of the Mountain West conference than EWash, Montana and Weber. No disrespect to the latter as these are all perennial FCS contenders. We’d probably get a Power 5 game or two every year on top of that. And in the past 5 years, Boise St, Air Force, Fresno and Utah St all had at least one top 25 finish. And SDSU is currently #24. Not a bad league to take a step up in our national profile.

Really excited about the direction of this program. Imo we’re knocking on the door to moving from good team to great team. To get to that next level, (judging by the few games I’ve watched) we should have an emphasis on limiting second chance points by rebounding. We’ll need to be aggressive on the boards, box out, secure the ball, outlet pass, etc, etc. I didn’t think we were that undersized tbh. Jennifer has actually done a great job recruiting size. Also secondary focus should be making a point in including the bench more. While it will probably affect outcomes or scoring margins in games, in the long run, it will make us a deeper team. Again, phenomenal job by the team and coaching staff. Excited to see where this goes

Great season overall. Hats of to this team and to Jennifer Gross for building up this program. A few thoughts:

• Sage is the real deal. She controlled the paint on defense. I honestly think she’d hold her own against anyone
• Cierra Hall played well and efficiently. 4/6 beyond the arc, got boards, assists, steals, even a block. Only tough stat was the 6 TO’s
• Our achilles heel was rebounding. We got absolutely crushed on the boards
• Didn’t feel outmatched. Not sure everyone agrees, but felt this was actually a winnable game unlike the Stanford matchups in the past. MSU was the better team but not by a mile. If we cleaned up the rebounding, maybe we’d have a shot
• Developing a bench would help. Would not only give our starters some much needed rest but could open up game plans like trying the full court press earlier. That seemed to work well
  

Very impressive year overall. Hopefully this group returns the core, maybe schedule more tough OOC competition (if possible and pandemic situation allows) and next year should be good. Program isn’t that far from taking the next step imho

On tv on ESPNU. Stobbart is phenomenal on defense. No doubt she lives up to defensive player of the year in BW. But we need to hit open looks. And MSU has been draining too many 3s

Looks like Wright St upset Arkansas. So winner of our game faces 13 seed Wright St

Yeah MSU will be a tall task. They beat one of the tournament favorites in Maryland and went undefeated in a solid conference.

On the bright side, we bring an MVP type player in BW poy Hall, a tough defense featuring Stobbart (BW dpoy) Konrad (1st team defense), a solid floor general with great vision in Trpcic (13 assts vs Oregon) and a proven scorer in Turner who has come up big in key games (19 pts vs Oregon and 22 in BW final against UCI). From the limited amt I’ve watched, Harris and Gibb play well off the bench, but our starters take most of the minutes.

This article has Cierra Hall as one of the five players to watch in the region: https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31083672/women-basketball-tournament-2021-players-teams-watch-region-region

While it's a much better draw than Stanford, Missouri State has a very impressive resume:

• In the last tournament in 18-19, they made the Sweet 16 knocking off 2 ranked teams prior to falling to Stanford by single digits
• Nationally ranked this year and in 19-20 even though there was no tournament
• Beat a #2 seed in Maryland this year and crushed a good #11 seed FGCU by 25 points
• Top ranked mid major: http://collegeinsider.com/womens-mid-major-top-25
• Edit: Perfect 16-0 in the 12th ranked conference by rpi (Missouri Valley). For comparison, the Big West is ranked 16th best by rpi

We're going to need a near flawless performance.