Diane is the key, of course. I think Poly got him into foul trouble, similar to how Carter had to sit out a lot of last nights 1st half. Hopefully we'll be able to get a few early fouls against him.

Its the start of another weird BW season. Poly, who some thought might not win a game in conference, has already beaten CSUN (clobbered) and played UH tough in Hawaii. Beach has two losses (one at home) but a road win at SB. There's probably other surprises...and we are only a week into conference play.

Ah man that sucks. I hope she can heal well and gets another year. Song has been out a while, too, but I thought I heard on a broadcast that she's close to returning.

Not a pretty second half, after a spectacular first half. But a road win is very sweet. Manjon and pepper were strong down the stretch

Pretty important road trip for the Ags. Two winnable games, tonight at the beach and Saturday at CSUN. Splitting would be "OK" but it sure would be nice to take two. Obviously, the Ags have to play better than they did last week. Beach is athletic but they don't have a bunch of scorers. If we can play tough team defense and take care of the ball on offense, we should have a good chance.

Go Ags!

I remember watching him against the Ags. Big guy and a pretty decent b-ball player for Irvine.

Let’s go Ags

our defense has been awful. Lack of size is killing us.

You’re not missing much. Ags down by 8 at half. Should be more if not for some good 3’s

That's a pretty good guess. I'm estimating we finish 9-7 in conference play (6-2 at home and 3-5 on the road) which will put us about 4th (somewhere between 3rd and 5th). There's still lots of "ifs" in the league: how will CSUN play now that Diane is back? Will UH be able to win on the road? Will UCR be the team that beat Nebraska and Fresno or the one that lost at home to NAU and got clobbered by 50 at Air Force. Questions start to get answered this week.

Go Ags!

I got to know Scott when I coached one of his kids in little league. Good guy and great family

A couple of highlights from last night. First Manjon got two impressive breakaway dunks. He can really get up there for his size. But the best dunk of the night was from Adebayo. He made a nice move along the baseline and slammed home one of the best dunks from an Aggie in several years. Then in the second half he was all alone on a breakaway and pretty much air balled a dunk. But he didn’t give up as he raced back on defense and skied way above the rim to swat a layup out of bounds. That whole sequence got the bench and Les laughing with amazement. Once Adebayo gets more court time he will be an exceptional player.

Glad they are doing these free promotions. Makes it a lot easier to go even when you are expecting a lopsided game.

ok. Hopefully she gets back soon. She’s a good defender and can hit the big shot too

Good scrimmage heading into BW play

No Sophia Song? Hopefully not a big deal

I wouldn't care if we ever scheduled NM again...nasty program... — BlueGoldAg

I just watched part of the game on-demand. Totally agree, not a very disciplined team and a bit dirty and I'd rather not see them again. Plenty of other quality programs out there to schedule.

As for the Ags, the effort has been there for the most part. Big teams are always going to give us trouble, but you have to love the determination. I'm kind of tired of the moral victories, but hopefully it helps us win in the BW. Assuming we have no difficulties with Holy Names, we'll end the OOC at 6-10, which is about right considering all the new pieces that have to fit together. The VMI and Portland games were the only two that, at the beginning of the season, I hoped/thought we would win.

And just to point out, still no Gehrke, even on the bench, and no minutes for Printup. Not that either are key cogs, but they do provide depth and, in the case of Gehrke, these OOC games would have provided some developmental time.

Edit: Well after some digging and with help from Google Translate, looks like Gehrke has left the team and joined Jamtland Basketball team in Sweden. I found this, now translated, tweet from 6 days ago: "I don't know very well what happened to him in NCAA but the Swedish promise Oliver Gehrke (‘00) returned to Jamtland (where his father trains) although he was injured in his first game.

Great picture of three all-time great Aggies. Too bad they couldn't witness a big upset. I just caught just the end and saw some pretty poor free throw shooting. Kind of ironic that the WBB team is struggling at the line (something they have traditionally been strong at) while the MBB, which usually struggles, is one of the best in the nation.

Ok here it is. Sorry for the bad quality.

it was kind of a side comment. SVP said “let’s head over to UC Davis, I’ve never been there, is it nice?” To which Steve simply said “no”. Most folks probably wouldn’t have paid much attention but it kind of pissed me off. They did include Marsh’s call of the game winner. I recorded the segment On my DVR so maybe I’ll just take a video of it and post that.