Every time you think the Aggies (10-8, 4-3) are finished they bounce back with a good performance. UC Davis shot just .414 at Cal Poly, but that was its best shooting outing vs. a Division I team in almost a month. The Aggies are 9-1 when they shoot 40% or better. UC Davis stays in games with its ball-hawking defense, which forces 16.3 turnovers per game. TY Johnson is leading the conference at 20.4 points per game.

Stephan Swenson, we are getting bored by your one-dimensional game. Tie-breaking, game-winning three-pointers from the left wing as the clock expires? Yawn. In all seriousness, it’s uncanny. It’s like Swenson has some song in his head that helps him beat the buzzer. The Gauchos (12-5, 4-2) have needed Swenson’s last tick heroics because they have not gotten consistent offense or rebounding from the rest of the team. One player who is red-hot again is Cole Anderson, who would be leading the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (.513) if he qualified (he falls short with 2.4 threes per game when you need 2.5). Anderson is 14 for 18 (.778) from distance over the last 3 games.

A small kerfuffle broke out on X Thursday night after Cal Poly lost its 45th consecutive Big West regular season game. Some guy posted that the Mustangs had tied the NCAA record held by Grambling State, which I had debunked the other night, and he tagged a bunch of mid-major college basketball accounts in the process. Cal Poly play-by-play man Chris Sylvester jumped in, basically saying, “Wut?” To clear things up, Cal Poly has the longest “active” conference streak and it’s the 3rd longest of all time. Colgate is 2nd at 47 (1984-87) and U. of Chicago lost 60 in a row 1940-46. The Mustangs (6-13, 0-7) weren’t expected to have this continue based on their non-conference body of work, but here we are.