Both teams are playing for the 6 seed so it will be a dogfight. LB presents some tough matchups for us. They like to get out and run and don't mind if the game turns into into a track meet.

They are also very athletic and long and they pound the ball inside the paint for easy buckets and dunks and they often get a lot of second chance points. They can be undisciplined on defense so we need to take advantage of that when they make defensive mistakes.

Current Big West standings:

1. UC Santa Barbara 14-5 23-7
2. UC Irvine 13-5 20-10
2. UC Riverside 13-5 20-10
4. Hawai'i 13-6 22-9
5. Cal State Fullerton 12-6 18-12
6. Long Beach State 11-8 17-14
7. UC Davis 10-8 17-13
8. CSU Bakersfield 6-13 10-20
9. UC San Diego 5-13 10-20
10. CSUN 4-16 7-24
11. Cal Poly 1-17 7-23

Other Big West games on Saturday:

Bakersfield at Irvine 6 pm
Hawaii at Santa Barbara 6 pm
Riverside at Poly 6 pm
San Diego at Fullerton Cancelled - due to Covid protocol within the SD team.

If UCD does get the 6 seed, who would we want to play at the 3 seed? I haven't done the math, but it seems like it could be UCI, UCR, UCSB or Hawai`i. The only one of those teams we've beaten is Hawai`i, so I'd go with that.

Love to see TY get a few buckets early to get himself going. Since the ejection, he’s scored 8, 0, 12 (8 FTs) and 13 (7 FTs). He had 6 assists last night. He had some nice drives last night that rolled out.

Yes, it seems like that whole unfortunate situation at SB set TY back a bit. He has shown that he has the talent to be a great player and Les certainly believes in him. He passed up a couple of open looks that I thought he should have taken against SB and he seems to be looking more to set up his teammates. 6 assists is great.

Not sure what that double technical he and a SB player got.

neither did either of the two players! They were looking at each other with puzzled looks trying to explain themselves. I wonder if the refs were on high alert after the fight and overreacted

I think you're right about the refs being on high alert. My guess is that TY and the SB players may have vocally "complemented" each and the ref heard it thought he needed to nip it in the bud. Both players couldn't believe it.

Vegas has us at 3.5 point favorites with an over/under of 156.5. I expect this will be a hard fought game that will probably go down to the wire.

Last home game for Christian Anigwe and Patrick Lambey. I hope the rain doesn't discourage too many fans to stay home and that the students show up again. I would be great if we have a good, loud crowd today.

I have to miss; opening day of baseball and softball for grandkids and the rain isn’t coming fast enough to get a cancellation,

Well that's too bad, Mike. It's raining here in Sacramento right now.

it’s just starting now…..too late to get up there before 1:30 at best!

Scored at the gear sale today.

Pepper scoreless, but Anigwe taking up the slack with 11. Ty looking good except for one blown dunk.

Yeah they’re double teaming him and putting a lot of pressure on him

they’re very physical with pepper away from the ball. Not letting getting around on that low screen along baseline.

And hits from the logo

Good first half up 39-29

39-29 Aggies at the half. Solid half of basketball for the Ags! Good crowd again too.

4 turnovers to start the half, up 9 cuz the beach is sloppy too

The Beach is 3rd in the nation in rebounds per game, behind only UAB and Alabama, but Ags were out-rebounding them at the half 22-17!

Horrible first 8 minutes. Sloppy. Turnovers. Bad shots. Look tired. Haven’t scored in 5 minutes. 45-41 at the 12 minute mark. Beach has all the momentum

Ags slumping all of a sudden. They gotta pick it back up.

Looks like they got a Pepper-Upper

Down 53-51 with 7:30 to go after a beach 10-0 run. They’re imposing their will

Wow. 18-1 run down 10. We can’t hit anything and we’ve lost our poise. Disappointing .

39 first half points…….12 in the second

If only

OT…I’m too old for this!!

Wow…..on to OT. Memories of Poly game

If only one of the Ags shots had fallen earlier, but I'll take OT. Both Traores have 4 fouls.

How about double OT? Shocked with Long Beach’s last shot