They have some brief game notes up also. I've always been impressed with how hard their HC, Lancer Van Vogt gets them to play. He's 137-93 in 13 years at the helm of the Warriors.
Nothing in the first half that would get Aggie fans excited. We're 0-12 in 3 point shooting. I know it's way early but that's not a good omen in a game that you would expect us to dominate. Manjon is leading the way for the Ags with 10 points and no one else has more than 4. Yikes!
The starting line up for the Ags was Anigwe, Manjon, Fuller, Pepper and Adebayo.
We've struggled offensively as a team in general for a couple of years now. We just don't seem to be able to bring in the the kind of offensive players we had during the Hawkins era for example.
Ags pull it out in the 74-64 but it wasn't easy. Manjon and Anigwe led the way with 21 and 17 respectively. Anigwe had 13 boards also. 2-17 from 3 is very concerning...that's an ugly stat. Looks like we've got a whole lot of room for improvement.
I hope you're right, Mike! I've already put in our season ticket order. We've gone for 25-38 in the past 2 seasons and a game like this doesn't exactly get me excited for this year either. I'm starting to think we'd be better off getting season tickets for WBB. Jen Gross just reloads every season now and that makes them exciting to watch.
I don't think they will stream an exhibition game.
I just checked the men's and women's schedules and there aren't any games listed as having a live stream or tv coverage. So I went over and checked the Big West Conference site and there are only a few games listed, mostly men's, as having live stream or ESPN+. I think the conference signed a contract with ESPN+ this year but it doesn't look like many games are going to be covered. At least it's not listed in the schedules.
It appears that the Big West has dropped the liver streaming that they have done for years. It will really suck if the live streams and tv coverage are going to be few and far between this year.
It’s really hard to draw too many conclusions from an exhibition game box score. Was it just a matter of missing a few open threes that we’ll normally make or we’re we not getting open at all? Was the defensive effort lacking or was it a matter of missing assignments that will get cleaned up with more practice. It’s certainly not a great sign obviously
I agree that it's hard to know much about this team from their performance last night but, like I mentioned before, we've had our offensive struggles the past couple of seasons and, unfortunately, this game looked a lot like what we've become accustomed to seeing of offensively lately.
No doubt that this offense will resemble last years where we struggled for, sometimes long, stretches. Winning/losing will depend a large part on an active defense and solid rebounding.
My WBB season ticket membership has not disappointed. I'm actually not entirely sure when was the last time I attended a home WBB game where UCD lost, might have been in Bertsch's first year or something