The commentators said Les changed the starting lineup as Cal Poly was smaller and we wanted to make sure we could cover their guys on defense. For years Les seems to adjust our lineup to the other teams instead of imposing our will on them. When we play stronger programs with more than one big man we often complain that we are too small and couldn't compete. If so, then why does that not work for us when we are bigger. When we played Oregon St. they were getting tons of shots in the paint and all we can do is shoot threes. When we have good big men all they do is shoot threes and post up to block defenders and free up a guard for a three. Mikey Henn left our program and ended up at Penn St. for his last year playing ball. Why couldn't we keep a guy like that and have him develop here. I would prefer that we develop a different strategy. I am sick of years of hot and cold three point shooting dictating our wins and losses.

Anyone notice that the two teams combined for more turnovers (84) than made field goals (52)?

Mikey had a couple stops before he finished at Penn St:

Very weird game. Poly is very confident (cocky) as you could tell in their pregame. Then they come out and hit 3 3’s in 90 seconds and we can’t hit anything….9-2 was looking insurmountable! Thankfully they turned into a turnover machine and didn’t score (maybe got 1 shot?) in the next 6 minutes.

The 19 point run at the beginning on the second was impressive. Sevilla and Daugherty both looked like they wanted the shot and they sparked us. TY finally settled and it was a romp! If we hadn’t gotten a bit lazy on the glass (they seemed to be getting several offensive boards) it would have been even more.

I heard there was a little dust up in the handshake line? I was walking out when that must have happened. Poly was an attitude and you could see their frustration building.

Poly is a microcosm of modern college sports. Coach comes from Colorado Mesa - very good D2 program last year - and brings 4 of this players with him. 2 Sr's and 2 Gr's. Their roster is filled with transfers.

Had a conversation last night with Bob Dunning about the BIg West contenders. He was saying that UCSD is a program that is poised for real success due to the NIL collective that they have developed. That's one advantage of being a mid-major without football -> you can focus resources on basketball and try to get exposure through March Madness.

If you go back and look at the end of the game as the teams were shaking hands you can see TY getting into some kind of incident with a Cal Poly player. It appears something was said but I didn't see anything like a punch, maybe just a slight shove. It didn't seem like a big deal.

The Aggies took advantage of Poly having two of their top scoring guards out with injuries. Isaac Jessop came into the game as their second leading scorer at 14.3 ppg an Jared Hyder was their #3 scorer at 13.8 ppg. I think this is probably why Les went small to start the game and really turned up the defensive pressure to force TO's since Poly was down two starting guards.

I'm not sure we can go that small and do the same against the interior size and strength that Santa Barbara has inside though. It will be interesting to see what Les has planned for the Gauchos.