The Aggies travel to Cedar City for their second of 3 road straight road games to play SUU at 1 pm in the America First Events Center. The Thunderbirds are coming off a nice win Tuesday over Utah State 70-67. The Aggies demolished Pacific 90-58 in Stockton on Monday evening for their first road win of the year.
Decent game, but way too careless with the ball. With Morgan in, this team is a completely different animal. She's going to cause mismatches in every game. Nina Bessolo may emerge as another star this year. Good basketball IQ. On a side note, looks like Jennifer Gross made a point to give the reserves more time at the cost of blowing the game wide open- smart move at this point in the season. Tough to complain with a 26 point road victory, but this team still has a lot they can still improve on and would love to see it live up to its potential.
Although the game was essentially over when I tuned in midway through the 3rd quarter, the Ags were not playing with focused intensity and authority and, I agree, that 24 TO's is far too many. It was nice to see the Jen Gross gave her reserves the entire final 7 minutes of the game and wasn't concerned with rolling up an even more impressive score.
Nina Bessolo and Cierra Hall are both getting quite a bit of playing time and they both bring good athleticism to the floor. Both of them are quick and rebound well. Nina can get lackadaisical with her passes and turn the ball over and Cierra is rushing many of her shots and is not shooting a good percentage. Improvement in these areas by these two athletic players will make a big difference in tight ball games against tough opponents.
Morgan Bertsch led the way with 22 and Nina Bessolo had 13. Rachel Nagel pulled down 10 rebounds and Cierra Hall had 7. The Ags had an impressive 26 assists as a team.
The Ags travel to Seattle next to take on Seattle U on Sunday.