Milwaukee is part of the University of Wisconsin system. It is in the Horizon Conference along with its sister campus Green Bay. It's hard to judge how good/bad they are because their two losses are to Power 5 Schools, Purdue and Iowa State, both of whom are undefeated as of this writing, and both their wins are over non-NCAA Div. 1 schools. It appears that Sac State's lack of depth cost them against us, but that will not likely be a problem for the Panthers, who have 13 players averaging double minutes per game. This could be because they have a new coach, Bart Lundy, who is trying out various rotations to see what works. This makes it hard to figure out who the Aggies need to be wary of. Milwaukee loss to St. Thomas does not provide any insights, as 9 of their players logged double digit minutes and 14 say some time including 7' 1" Moses Bol, cousin of Manute Bol. The Ags are part of the Cream City Classic, a four team tournament including Southeast Missouri State and Boston U. whom UCD will play on consecutive days before coming home to play Pacific. The first game is going to be broadcast on ESPN+.
The Ags will be actually be playing 3 games in 3 days in Milwaukee during the Cream City Classic. Milwaukee is our first game on Saturday and then we play Southeast Missouri State on Sunday and Boston University on Monday. I expect the game against Milwaukee will be tough. Basketball is a big deal in the Midwest and a lot of these smaller schools field very good teams.
Yikes, I need to stop relying on ESPN for everything. On their site, it looks like the Ags are home against SEMS and Boston. I just checked the UCD website and they even have the latter two games "at" UCD. I suppose that's because the Cream City Classic designates us as the home team. How did you find this out? When I googled "Cream City Classic" I got a baseball tournament in April and a swimming race.
Their announcer has said that Milwaukee has done a good job of forcing turnovers, but I saw at least 4 that were the result of sloppy or careless passing. I also thought the Aggies were forcing too many shots on drives as opposed to settling for a mid-range jumper. The one stat that strikes me is the 27.3% shooting from the 3 point arc.
I noticed that the Panthers non-starters have scored all but 11 of their points. As for the Aggies, all but 6 of their points are from the starters. T Y Johnson is having a really good game. He's shooting 100% (6 of 6), but it seems like Pepper is not looking for his shot. He's only 1 of 2 from 3.
Ags have taken 17 threes. Problem is they've only hit 5. And 10/17 from the foul line.
I don't see any real bias by the refs, but I still don't like it when they call it so close. It not only interrupts the flow of the game, but it inflates the number of foul shots, which should not be (but often is, I know) the decisive factor is a game.