Neither team is shooting well from the perimeter, but the Ags have done a nice job on the boards so far 26-20. They've also been better down the stretch at the charity stripe. Remember earlier in the season we were all concerned about that? In the last few games they've averaged well over 80%. 85.7% today.
Tough loss. A lot of "if onlies" here, but all credit to the Beach who clearly were motivated to win for Dan Monson. They'll likely be one of the 16 seed play-in teams so they have shot at winning one game. We didn't get the kind of shooting we needed from Milling, but he's not the reason for the loss. The Beach's big man simply had a career game and the rest of their team made some clutch shots at the end.
As of this writing, fourteen "bracketologists" give Long Beach State an average seeding of 14.93.
UC Davis was at 14.88 seeding from 78 "bracketologists" before they got eliminated.
Yeah, I forgot that there were still some automatic berths to be filled, like Grambling with a 285 NET and others who will play tomorrow. So I can see the Beach getting a 15 seed, which makes it even harder to take realizing that the Aggies could have been there to face a 2 seed.
Monson had some heartfelt words for his players as well and it's obvious that his players love him. He creates a team family just like Les does and I think they made a mistake letting him go. I was a bit disappointed that he didn't acknowledge the Aggies at all. Les and Gross always give credit to their opponents win or lose.