New video board looks nice.

Norris and Gray not dressed.

Aggies cold from any range at the moment. Rebinding stats look bad, but SMC got half of their rebounds on one play.

Got some work to do!

Ags need to pick up the defense. Yes the offense is cold but way too many open shots for the Gaels

Sage is working hard.

yeah she continues to pile up the blocks! Better energy in the second quarter

Tied at 27 at the half. Turner really didn't like the southern basket; way off on a few shots.

The Ags need to tighten up their defense. Poor rebounding early but doing much better now, This game will probably go down to the wire.

Offense isn't really running correctly: only 4 assists.

Defense only allowed 9 in the 2nd. :up:

"Turner really didn't like the southern basket; way off on a few shots."

Turner really likes the northern basket.

45-39 after three!

Brutal start to the quarter for the Aggies. Someone take the lid off the basket, please!

it’s gotta be Hall down the stretch

Ugh.

Gotta foul on the inbounds now.

Bummer. Don't win many games in which you only score 5 in the final quarter. On the flip side, the Aggies don't lose many in which they hold their opponent to 52.

The season might still be okay but more games like these makes it more and more likely that this team's ceiling is getting a first round draw @ Stanford again

Jen can use this for a teaching moment for this team because St Mary's exposed the current weaknesses that the Aggie need to work on especially rebounding. St Mary's won the game by out rebounding the Ags 42-27 of which 13 were offensive boards which led to 10 second chance points to only 2 for the Aggies. That's the difference in the ball game right there. Rebounding is a combination of blocking out, physicality and determination and St Mary's did it better than the Aggies.

The Gaels also locked down on defense when it counted. They got themselves back into the game when they were 11 down and the Ags relaxed on defense and got out hustled on rebounds. They forced 3 Aggie TO's in the final 1:38 and held the Ags to 1 of 7 shooting in the final 3 minutes. In short, they closed out the game.

Even though we lost, I thought there was a lot of improvement overall by the Ags except in rebounding. There was better ball movement on offense and stretches of very good defense, They can build on that. These two teams seem to battle like this each year and the Gaels executed better when it counted the most this year.

Stobbart getting 16 rebounds is pretty neat--gotta get the rest of the team involved now!

(Also 4 blocks for Sage--ho hum)

Those are great numbers for Sage and Hall had 5 boards. You're right though, where was the rest of the teams when it came to the boards?

No one else had more than one rebound. Sage is great when the ball comes of the board near her and she's in good position but the Gaels where getting the 50/50 balls that came off the rim wide. It looked like they just went after those balls harder than us.