The ever-popular fouls and timeouts stage of the game...

Observed that the backup guards aren't seeing the open bigs on their cuts--that needs to improve into next year--and when they do see them they don't always get them the ball in stride.

Norris needs minutes and confidence, I think.

72-49 final, Aggies win!

Sabel and Turner each with 22 to leadi the Davis scoring.
Norris the leading rebounder with 6; Sabel and Sussman right behind her with 5 each.
Turner the top disher with 4 assists.

The Megan Jones Block Party racks up another 4 blocks.

57-33 end of 3Q.

Sometime before they have to worry about minimum numbers of games, I hope!

One of the Irvine fans found the minimum squad size, per the Big West: "In the event of an issue beyond the control of the institution, a team shall be expected to honor a scheduled contest if it can field a starting line-up and a suitable number of reserves for that particular sport. A suitable number of reserves in the sport of basketball shall be three players"

I think they were down to 6 or 7 after last week's games.

NCAAW rulebook: "Art. 7. A “no contest” is when a team does not appear at the game site because
of inclement weather, an accident, vehicle breakdown, illness, or catastrophic
cause."

I guess that's why it's a "no contest" instead of a "forfeit."

There's some additional language about "failing to fulfill a contract" not being allowed to be counted as a forfeit. The root of the language choice seems to be whether officials were on site and started the game. If so--forfeit. If not, then no game occurred = no contest.

The justification I heard when the CCAA and BW moved away from weekend games was "we want to be on tv and not compete with the Pac10, etc." Didn't really buy that rationale then, and I certainly don't now when you can stream whatever you want whenever you want.

Weekend travel was certainly less impactful on the STUDENT-athletes.

*old guy yelling at clouds*

They were at one of the weekend games that my wife and 9-yr-old attended. FWIW.

*old guy shouting at clouds*

Maybe they should move the games back to Friday and Saturday evenings?!

:rage:

No minutes for Burns; anyone have the story on that?

De-fense! De-fense!

Wife is sitting next to the Pioneer High girls coach, who says the Aggies are slow on their rotations and leaving threes open.

Team is not consistent against any sort of press.

Half court shots included Pele making one granny-style. She's still got it! :rofl:

Fullerton beats Irvine in OT!

Megan Jones' block party: another 3 tonight.

..and Evanne Turner into the 1000 pts club!

Aggies win at SLO as well. Another good game from Norris: 14 pts, 9rbs, 4 blocks...also 5 TOs. Doh.

Aggies win! 60-48 Final.

Sabel and Norris each with 14 pts. Norris also with 13 rb for a nice double-double.

Two more blocks for Jones.