Garrison Goode is back in uniform after being out for a couple of weeks with an abdominal strain.

Well... Aggies find themselves down by 4 at halftime, 28-32. Game is far from over, but shooting 0% from beyond the 3 point line is hurting (although it's only on 4 attempts). Gotta heat up just a little bit in the 2nd half and we got this.

Poly leads the Ags 32-28 at the half. The Aggies started off the game ice cold and out of sync on offense shooting just 22% in the first 11 minutes and scoring only 7 points. Chima has kept us in the game with 14 of the Ags 28 points.

I like your confidence CF. The Achilles heel of this team has been their highly inconsistent offense and you never know how it's going to go. We don't have the lights out 3 point shooters this year that Les often builds his teams around.

I hope you're right and we pull it together in the second half and put this one in the W column.

Yeah I know we've had our inconsistencies this season, but we're only down by 4. We've come back from a whole lot worse this season. I think the boys got it in em to bring this one back.

Well, unfortunately the Aggies cold streak at the beginning of the game comes back to haunt them as they fall 70-74. Too many turnovers and it took too long to start heating up on the 3's.

The Ags came back and made a game of it late, and actually took the lead at 63-62, but Poly made the plays at crunch time and got a well deserved win. This game was practically a tie in every statistical category except one: 3 point shooting. Both teams were 25 of 55 overall but the Mustangs were 9-24 from 3 and the Ags were only 4 of 12.

To the casual fan, it was a hard fought game by both teams. To Coach Les it was a disappointing loss and I agree. Why? Because the Aggies are forming a habit of starting games slow and sluggish and getting themselves down big early. It happened at Riverside and CSUN, then at home against Irvine and now again on the road at Poly. Sure we managed to win 2 of those 4 but the trend is troubling. Sometimes the shots just are not going to fall but good energy and focus need to be there all the time no matter what.

Poly got a lot more help from their bench outscoring us 25-4. Mikey Henn was dressed but didn't play so I assume he may be under the weather or knicked up. Poly's guards, Victor Joseph and Donovan Fields, beat us off the dribble time and time again. We had no answer for their quickness and athletic drives to the basket. They combined for 34 points and made some critical 3's down the stretch. They both play with great confidence and were almost daring the Ags to try and defend them too closely. When we did, they blew by our guards and finished with athletic lay ups. They also have the ability to pull up and knock down contested 3's with only a little opening.

Chima Moneke was single-handedly keeping us within reach for much of the game and finished with yet another double-double with 25 points and 13 rebounds. Brynton Lemar came on in the second half and added 18.

The Ags need to regroup and and play UCSB with intensity from the get go on Saturday.

It would be really nice to see Cal Poly on the other end of the bracket in Anaheim.

I've only watched 3 of Cal Poly's games, the two against us and the one (victory) against UCI. How are they only 2-6 in conference? The announcers last night seemed to think that a lot of new blood was taking time to gel, but still.

I'm with you, 6th, I don't want to see Cal Poly on Thursday of the BWT.

And their two wins are against the top two teams in the conference. Makes perfect sense.

I can't help but think that these kids (and we have to remember that they are all young men) ease back when they play an opponent with a poor record. On the road, that's a mortal error without the home crowd to cheer them on.