The Aggies and the Anteaters will battle for the top spot in the Big West conference tomorrow at 1 pm. The Ags are currently playing their best basketball of the year and have won 4 straight. I'm assuming that we will be without TY again for this game since he wasn't with the team at Riverside on Thursday.
Irvine has made a living at the FT line...16-18 compliments of the officials and some silly Aggie fouls as well. TY didn't start but is playing and looks to be fine. Neither team is shooting the ball well as the defenses are dominating the game. Pepper has only 8 points on 2 of 7 shooting. Foul problems for the Aggie bigs.
Game seems to be slipping away after that 8 point lead in the first half disappeared. Ags shooting has cooled and UCI is getting and making a ridiculous number of free throws.
I'm tired of him complaining about the Aggies "flopping" especially since the Ags are the one getting the short end of the stick by the officials on fouls.
Should have won that game. Free Throws!! Les needs to lock these guys in the gym until they start making them. Very exciting that we had a chance to win, but horrible last play in regulation losing the ball out of bounds and Pepper missing 1 of 2 crucial free throws.
Can't overlook that the Ags minus Pepper and DeBruhl shot 1 of 10 from 3 (although the Antgobblers only got 3 of 11 as a team). We got out-rebounded 46-30, too.
The Anteaters are a tough match up for the Aggies due to their superior size and talent in the paint and they made us alter and miss quite a few layups and put backs. They are also a very good defensive team and the Ags had to work hard to get good looks. We get another chance at them in 2 weeks in Davis.
The one thing that these Aggies have going for them is experience. All the starters are either seniors or juniors with at least two years playing for UCD. In this day of the transfer portal that is almost unheard of and has shown to their advantage in all of their conference games to date.