I just don’t see us coming back tonight; nothing is working and we’re really pressing.

Bako is not very talented; crazy we’re down 10 with 15 to go.,

Down 33-26 at half after a terrible final four minutes. Not sure I understand Les’ substitution at the end with Johnson, Milling sitting; backups really struggled.

Another 0 FG half got Pepper; he’s pressing

Sluggish start; officials are letting a ton of contact go. Up 1 at the 18-17 with 8 to go.

odds makers have us at a 2 1/2 favorite, with 60% probability of winning. in other words, another nailbiter!

I don’t take them for granted. They play with intensity. We shoot very poorly in the 2nd half (24%. 1-9 from 3) to let them back in after we had taken charge after a slow start.

I’m ready for Pepper Time!

When you throw in tie breakers (swept UCSB and CSUN), only LBSU and Hawaii have realistic chances to catch us. LBSU travels to the island to face a rested Hawaii - I think we put on our leis and root for the rainbows. LBSU also has Irvine. That Hawaii home game will be huge for us before the brutal final road trip.

Hawaii has the following 5 games (LBSU, at Davis, at UCR, CSUN, Bako). they could run the table to get to 12 wins, with a tie breaker over us. A win over Bako and home win over the Rainbows would get us ahead of them.

The Beach has the following 5 (at Hawaii, Fullerton, at Irvine, UCSB, Davis). We really need them to lose Saturday and at Irvine, so a win over them down there would put us at 2.

i think the only way we don't get a top four is if CSUN (not likely, tough schedule) or UCR (managable schedule) wins out and we collapse.

I heard Freshman also! Not the cream of the crop broadcasting team. And the visuals were horrible. They showed their coach standing while the play was going on, as well as showing replays during play. Bad camera angles. Not good.

One thing to note about Pepper - he had SEVEN steals last night. That’s an incredible feat. And he’s the reason Leo was so wide open on his threes.

Well…. Not so sure we deserved that one but take it! TY comes up huge

My ESPN feed is terrible tonight. Add to that the horrible camera work (why focus on the coach got 5 seconds while the ball is in play) and it’s almost unwatchable

Down 29-26 at half. Looks not so good to close the half. No points from Pepper. Guys look a bit worn down

Up 19-17 with 6 to go in half. No points from Pepper. Defense is good so far. Northridge just tries to out athletic us going to the hoop. Broadcast quality is bad for me

Oddsmakers have us as 1 1/2 favorites. He shoot really well last time vs CSUN and need to replicate that, especially early - can’t dig another double digit hole.

went back to the box score for the first meeting. this was the game we had 3 20-point scorers (Milling-27, Pepper/Johnson-20). Shot 15-34 from 3! We really need production tonight from MIlling, Adebayo and DeBruhl.

Les was harping on defensive miscues, but we held them to 66 points and a low shooting percentage. We were a desperation 3 from a 18% shooter from having a shot to tie of go ahead. We got nothing from the bench. The rotation was different to say the least. Almost no Borra and Tomba, but 11 minutes from Sevilla. A couple secondary players really struggled, one for third game in a row (I don’t like to call out players here)

The beach looks to be rolling tonight. I’m hoping we can get a top four seed now.

yep

Just a bitching aside - these TV reviews are really effecting the games. It seemed like in the fairly recent past, games clocked in at just under 2 hours. This was was over at closer to 8:20. I get it was a tight game with both teams using up their time outs BUT the reviews just seem to add some like 10 minutes to each game. Thankfully we didn’t have our normal assortment of clock mishaps!

When you’re facing a 80 minute ride home that gets closed considerably by the perpetual I80 construction starting at 8:00, that extra time can be a real drag

Big game today with a tough road trip coming up. Need to be big Northridge fans today
as they take on the Beach at home.

I was listening to the post-game driving home from the game, and Les mentioned some talk in the locker room and how they needed to move on from that.

I’m guessing the collapse of the pac 12 is affecting things. Those schools are having to schedule an extra non conference game (Pac12 played one more conference game than other P5), and they must be leading to a lot of shuffling of existing dates. For example, San Jose is hosting Stanford next year - they had to drop someone to fit that in.

The beach went to box and one on Pepper after his last 3 which really disrupted our offensive flow. I believe we had 3 turnovers down the stretch and no ‘easy’ buckets. They had 2 or 3 guys who can credit a shot and had no hesitation taking the big shot.

I’ve never seen Pepper that riled up. He blasted a guy on a break away layup during their surge. Snapping at Les, and was yelling at Rocek before his free throws. I think he wanted Nicko to throw the ball out to the perimeter down 3 instead of taking the very contested put back. They need to regroup - home stretch is very tough! We’ll need to be at our best or look at something like a 12-8 record

Oddsmakers have us as 3 1/2 favorites. Gotta win these home games - we have some tough road trips ahead.