Ags take a 36-34 lead into the break. Playing good defense but Lamine Diane is practically unstoppable within 10 feet and has 19 points and 6 rebounds already.

Sidenote: I do not like the look of CSUN's court. :meh:

I do, however, like the "lemon logo" warm-ups that the men have. :up:

50-44 CSUN with 10:51 to go. Ags playing sloppy basketball, already have 7 fouls and are missing point blank shots. Can't win that way.

Ugh, Siler breaking a dude's ankles and then missing a 6-footer in the lane.

Goode standing in there against Artest III. Nice!

Guys keep driving and getting stuck under the basket. I don't think that's how the offense is supposed to work.

64-64 with 17.6 on the clock, CSUN ball.

CSUN three-pointer rattles out. Overtime!

For what it's worth, Hawaii lost to Cal Poly and lost their starting point guard, Drew Buggs, too. It's the equivalent of the Ags losing TJ. Whereas Buggs is less all-everything, the rest of the team is less likely to pick up for his loss. If UC Davis can pull this one out tonight, they will have a better shot at the 3 seed.

Ags lose 81-76 in OT. Stephan Gonzalez kept the Ags in the game with 23 but 15 TO's that led to 24 CSUN points killed us along with giving up 13 offensive boards that led to the Matadors getting 18 second chance points. Not a good game for the Ags.

In other BW games:

Cal Poly 88 Hawai'i 80
Santa Barbara 82 Fullerton 67
Long Beach 71 Riverside 67

Any news about TJ? No excuses for the losses, but I can't help but think that those would both have been Ws with him healthy.

I think it's fair to make some excuses because of how extenuating the circumstances are. We arguably lost the best player in the conference at a critical stretch of games two seasons in a row. It's astounding bad luck.

No official word other than "day to day" and that's anyone's guess as to what that really means. We really missed him last night.

Siler Schneider has been forced into the PG position and that's not a natural role for him. He's more of a shooting guard. Damion Squire is seeing more time at the point also but he's young and doesn't put up points like TJ. We missed a lot of driving into the lane shots last night that TJ normally makes and Matt Neufeld was short on nearly all of his hook shots which he has been making lately.

Lamine Diane's athleticism really hurt hurt us. He's 6-7, long and athletic and had 11 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals to go along with 35 points. He could have easily had 40+ if he could shoot FT's. He was only 9-18 from the line and some of those were the front in of one-and-ones.

The biggest play of the game was in OT when Diane swiped the ball away from Garrison Goode and took off on a breakaway. Joe Mooney made a mistake and fouled him from behind without really making a play on the ball and got called for a flagrant 1. Diane made both FT's and CSUN got to inbound the ball under their basket and they scored again. That essentially put the game away for the Matadors.