Niko and Leo apparently found joy!!

Crazy we lost the turnover battle 16-6 and won! Free throws were a big difference. We were 22-27, they were 5-9 (free pizza!!).

Leo was huge last night. 13 rebounds and solid on both ends. Mani contributed 11 solid minutes - critical with Chappell out. Sevilla played only 14 minutes and took 2 shots, including an air ball 3. As many turnovers as shots, and he’s been our most dependable ball handler. I wonder if that was a matchup thing or illness/injury?

Key sequence was the end of the half. They hit a bucket with 41 seconds left to go up 8. After a TO, TY hit a 3, we got a stop and Daugherty made a late layup. Got it down to 3 points when it looked like Riverside was starting to pull away.

Mirror image teams. Tough, well coached , defensive teams. No surprise both games came down to the last seconds

Down 72-70 and they have the ball. Tome for another review

looks like they had a favorable matchup with the white dude with the head band . Being Mani in when he’s in

st Mary’s took off when they dropped football and focused on basketball. Randy Bennett and the Aussie pipeline really propelled them!

I was had your confidence! Riverside is tough. That loss on the road really hurt - we’d be in the top four and in line for a sweep (tie breaker). I fear a let down in front of a small crowd but hope I’m wrong!

I was surprised to see UCSD is averaging only 2000 fans per game and that’s padded a bit by the 4000 they announced for ESPN game vs Irvine.

Irvine is drawling a very healthy 2800 per game. I would imagine that’s second in the BWC after Hawaii.

We are at 1500

The schedule this year is helping build interest. We play at home tonight for the first time in a month. So much for bounding off a great last minute win! Last Saturday hind game? January 11! So, we’ll go a month between Saturday home games.

Throw in the rain and it’s probably not a great turnout. Let me guess….midterms week?!?!

the team Aggie donor list is here:

https://www.teamaggie.com/about/our-donors.html

Unless they choose to donate anonymously, or are donating through the Collective . I’ll point out there are several names I know of that are missing at the higher level (non NFL ) so the list isn’t completely inconclusive

my Hunter story from Montana. If you recall, we marched from the field to get within the 20. False start, delay of game, false start and the crowd’s in a lather. Ridley goes out and kicks a fairly long FG to momentarily silent the crowd (a miss would have been a huge swing)

I walk up to him on the sideline to tell him nice kick under pressure. He thanks me and walks away. Then turns back and sticks out his hand to say ‘I’m sorry I’m not sure I remember your name?’. And then thanks me for coming. I felt pretty good if we need a pressure kick later.

Kickers….

he’ll never hit the Hurley level. Most of the coaches here with 18 or so years are basically lifetime achievement awards.

Fullerton won 21 and 20 games in 21-22 and 22-23, and now they probably won’t win 10. Not sure what led to this big drop off.

he might still pan out. He’s been hurt the past 2 preseasons, so he’s missed valuable development time. He hasn’t been healthy until well into the season, so it’s been hard to get into the rotation and allow him to get some confidence.

he gets manhandled on defense - that’s something weight training can help with. Offensively, his confidence is not there. He finally demanded the ball with his defender backing off allowing him an open 3, but the first minute of so he was very tentative. Hopefully, just staying healthy and getting court time (preseason practices and games) will help.

fortunately only 450 fans witnessed the Titan’s effort!

Great game for Leo - he really looked confident!

Sevilla was off and sat more than recently.

I’m liking Daugherty - nice touch, handles the ball well and solid on D.

We need to get Mani, Singster and UNUAKHALU in the weight room NOW!

Have you ever seen a more disinterested crowd?

Foul calls are getting ridiculous, both sides. No continuity. We are gonna have foul Trouble which is why we’re zoning now

8 fouls and a ton of time left. I think Fullerton is so clumsy it looks like fouls.

And they are 10-10 at FT LINE