I've been keeping an eye on Skogman. I'm guessing he is holding out for the perfect offer (perfect in his eyes). Wisconsin is the obvious guess.

As for Barisic, we definitely need some inside muscle. I think we will really realize just how good a defensive player Goode is when he's not around any more. Barisic could help that loss. Fingers crossed.

We have a new offer out per Verbal Commits. Luka Barišić is a 6'9" JC transfer, originally from Croatia. He has a slew of mid-major offers, so I don't know what our chances are. We sure could use his size next year.

Gauchodan over at the BigWest board put this together as the likely outcomes based on some predictor:

The DCI predicts the following results:

Wednesday: Long Beach
Thursday: Irvine, Davis, Northridge
Saturday: Davis, Santa Barbara, Fullerton, Irvine

Giving us:

1 Irvine 15-1
2 Fullerton 11-5
3 Santa Barbara 9-7
4 Davis 9-7
5 Long Beach 8-8
6 Northridge 8-8
7 Hawai'i 7-9
8 Riverside 3-13
9 Cal Poly 2-14 — Gauchodan

I guess that's as good a draw as any. We've split with Beach, winning at home, but our loss at LB was a close one. Honestly, other than UCI vs UCR, the rest could go either way.

honestly I’d be happy if we win in round one and compete well in round 2. But anything can happen.

Man that is some heavy work. I'm not sure where I'd rather end up. CSUN scares me as I don't think we match up well with them, but they are a young team and playing in the Honda Center can be tricky. I guess I'd lean towards wanting to play UH (although that might change after Thursday). As Toke pointed out, they don't seem to be playing well right now, plus they always bring a good rooting section to Anaheim so it's a fun atmosphere.

coach Gross has this program humming along. I’d be shocked if we aren’t at/near the top of the BW next year. Quite a feet considering we lose 3 starters including the best player in program history.

I’m not sure. He was a good recruit out of Idaho and got some (minimal) time as a true freshman last year. Kind of reminds me of Fuller this year. Someone who clearly has the talent but needs to adapt to D1 speed. I was looking forward to how he developed but for whatever reason he wasn’t on the roster to start the season. Les can be a demanding and vocal coach so maybe the style just didn’t fit. We’ve lost several freshman over the years (couple of big guys last year) so it’s not too unusual.

Squires is getting regular time. Not much because he comes in for TJ. But his defense is very good for a freshman, he has a decent outside shot and has shown he can get to the basket. He’s still learning but he’ll be a good contributor next year, probably a starter. Fuller was getting time but that has stopped during the BW. He’s going to have to rework his jump shot (way too flat) and play quicker but he is young and athletic. Underwood hasn’t seen any time other than some clean up minutes. He’s big and athletic but he needs to work on his footwork. When I’ve seen him on the court he plays defense with his hands and not his feet. He may get his chance next year as we don’t have much height coming back. All three appear to be quality teammates, supporting the guys that are getting more minutes. Keep working and their times will come.

I’m certainly disappointed that we can’t watch Delvion grow on the court, but I do hope he excels wherever he ends up.

Ags defense was very active tonight. Goode has 5 blocks in the first half which I think tied the Aggie record for blocks in a game. Allman (I think) I got by Mooney several times in the second half, but in general the Ags did a good job of limiting the big 3 from Fullerton. There always seemed to be an Aggie hand in their faces. On offense the biggest thing was getting into the bonus early in the second half and then hitting foul shots. Tj had more free throws by himself than csuf had as a team. This team struggles late in games because it doesn’t have a closer like Lemar or Hawkins in the past. Tj tries but is sometimes limited because of his outside shot. But tonight he was able to drive and draw fouls.

Overall a good solid win. It’d been very nice to win out and get the confidence high going to Anaheim

Good win. Not sure it’s going to matter too much in the seeding but it’s good to get some confidence back. Good defense tonight

Per his tweet Doss tweaked his pec during the bench press and did not do any of the other drills.

Not working for me either. Frustrating

Saturday is going to be a tough sell.

Some International height coming our way!

Yep, we'll need him to play a little bigger than that, but I like the fact that he looks like he can score inside and out. Heck Printup is starting at the 4 now, and he's only 6'4". And not nearly as stout as Johnson. Its worth noting that the above video is from his one year at CSUDH, before moving on to CCSF. Not sure there's much video of him from this year, but his coach did say in one article that I read that he doesn't run many plays for Johnson, he gets his points by hustling. Gotta like that.

Pretty sure that is TJ practicing (or at least dressed and standing) in the right hand picture. I can't zoom in enough to be absolutely sure...

NSFW (Not Suitable For Wife?)

From Today's Enterprise:

And what about Shorts’ future?

Les still reports that his sparkplug of a guard is “day-to-day,” but there are rumblings from just outside the UCD camp that Shorts could be back soon, even Thursday.

Malcolm will definitely get the opportunity to make a big impact with the Ags next year.