The Aggies travel to Corvallis on Tuesday for a 7 PM game against Oregon State. The Beavers are off to a rough start and will be looking to stop a current 8 game losing streak. OSU's only win this year has been 73-64 win over Portland State in their first game of the season. This is only the second time UCD and OSU have met. The Beavers won the meeting in the Pavilion 73-59 back on December 7, 2007. OSU features a big lineup with 6 players over 6'8 including 6'10, 7'1 and 7'2.
OSU games so far:
W at home 73-64 over Portland State
L at Iowa State 60-50
L at Tulsa 64-58
L at home to Samford 78-77
L at home to Princeton 81-80
L to Wake Forest in Niceville, FL, 80-77 OT
L to Penn State in Niceville, FL, 60-45
L at Cal 73-61
L at home to Arizona 90-65
Live stream from the PAC12 Network at 7 pm Tuesday.
Listening and live stats while at a high school basketball game. Looks like we’ve overcome a frigid shooting start to be down 2 at the half. Pepper 0-5? Need to get him going. Is he getting open shots?
All the stats are very even for both teams. I like our defense. Surprisingly, 20 of our points are in the paint against their superior size. Neither team is knocking down 3's. I hope Pepper finds his stroke. He's 0-5 and none of the shots have been close. This is the first time that OSU has led at the half this season...wow...
Really like seeing Adebayo drive. It’s been just a matter of him getting enough time before he really figures out how to use his size without fouling or turning the ball over. Maybe he’s reaching that point
It's great to see Manjon being so aggressive and scoring in a variety of ways. he had really impressed the color guy, Eldridge Recasner, who was a pretty good point guard at Washington himself. Hard to believe that Oregon State went to the Elite Eight last year. Ags aren't looking to shoot from 3 much , maybe because they can't stop the Aggies inside game?
Nice win. First off let’s say tha OSU is not very good. But still any win against a Pac-12 team is a good win. Manjon gets the game ball but plenty of good playing all around.
OSU's record wouldn't be quite so bad if they had won a few of their close games. Four of their loses were by a total of 11 points.
Ezra is so much fun to watch isn't he. He has lightening quickness. His first two step off a ball fake are so quick that it's practically impossible for a defender to stay in front of him and he can finish as well. I thought this might have been Fuller's best game this year and it was really good to Ade and Borra contributing on the offensive end too.
I liked how we played within ourselves and stayed focused when the Beavers made their runs. That layup by Fuller on the inbound play with about 40 seconds to go and only 2 seconds on the shot clock was a thing of beauty as were a couple of other back door plays after timeouts.
Now if we can beat Pacific in their house and then beat Portland at home, we'll have some nice momentum going into conference play.
UOP beat UCSB tonight by 9 in OT so that will be another good game. I agree that several of our players had their best games. And totally agree that we didn’t do anything superhuman. We played our game, played consistent and won. Gotta love it.
I was impressed at how Coach Les drew up some really nice back-door and in-bounds plays for easy buckets. I don't understand how the Beavers kept letting the Aggies get those easy plays. Wayne Tinkle is a really good coach and the team has been playing too long not to be playing better defense.
Now UC Davis has beaten two teams that went to the NCAA tournament last year. Of course, that was last year and clearly Oregon State (very oddly) is a shadow of last year's team. Utah State, however is now 7-3 with wins over Oklahoma and Richmond. I don't know what happened against Sac State and Academy of Art, but this edition of UCD Men's basketball is good.
I think being the underdog let’s them play looser. When the shots didn’t fall vs the Urban Legends, we got tighter and tighter in all aspects of the game. Last night, they stayed loose, weathered the early poor shooting and got more confident as the game went on.
I with we had a better 4-out offense in the final minutes. I don’t mind seeing Ezra work the clock and take a shot at the end , but a back door or open 3 off his drive would be nice. And DO NOT FOUL on the rebound after working the me shot clock!
I’ll be at UOP; short drive. UCSB seems to be off to a bit of a slow start. Love to see a sweep of the tigers. Remember that LONG losing streak we had to them?
I remember watching that game in Comcast Bayarea (or whatever it was called then). I believe Greg Papa on the call. I also remember both Mark Payne and Joe Harden being out with injury yet we pulled it off! Ended the 49 game losing streak.