Actually, 33.2% is about what the Aggies have shot since the 2021-22 season, including the last two, both 20-win seasons. What's down is the overall shooting %-age, 39.6. We've usually shot about 41% during that stretch.

On the plus side, FT shooting is about 5% higher than any of the last 4 seasons. That should bode well for the future as this young group matures. We have good young shooters whose 3 pt and overall percentages are likely to rise as they get more experience with the college game.

If you meant gives them a place to have a schedule, play and be competitive, agreed, 100% And for baseball. softball, M/W soccer, and volleyball, the Big West is a pretty good conference. Maybe women's basketball benefits as well. It also lowers travel costs significantly.

For men's and women's basketball, the BW is a step down from the Big Sky. The women may benefit, but the Bibby hire and bringing on Shaq as a GM were as much about becoming nationally prominent in men's basketball as all their moves in football were for that sport. I don't see the move to the Big West helping to sustain that.

And they will have the same issue that Rocko mentioned UCD having with the Big West. Except for Cal Poly, none of the other BW members have football. So the conference decision-making doesn’t factor in the needs of a football program. Especially one with immediate FBS aspirations. FB produces revenue, but it chews up lots of bandwidth in every aspect of an athletic program.

What Olympic winter sports does Sac State offer? The only one I see is Women’s Gymnastics, which the BW doesn’t sponsor. For gymnastics, Sac is in the MPSF, as is Davis until next year, when we join the Mountain West, which does sponsor gymnastics.

And from the Big West site:

Big West Coach of the Year Dan Conners became UC Davis’ all-time winningest coach in the final weeks of the regular season, sporting 171 wins in 11 seasons. This is a first career coaching nod for Conners, and just the second Aggie coach to earn conference honors (Jamie Holmes, 2009). Conners now reigns with the most career wins in The Big West among active coaches.

Well-deserved!!

Now it is a 6-0 run!!
Men's Soccer ✔️
Women's Soccer ✔️
Women's Volleyball ✔️
Men's Basketball ✔️
Football ✔️
Women's Basketball ✔️

GO AGS!! Or maybe "GO-GO" AGS!!

Shout Out #2:

Coach Austin Pile Named MPSF Coach of the Year. Admittedly a new conference formed during the season with only 2 teams, but the award could easily have gone to the Delaware coach. After all, Delaware beat UCD in the championship game. And considering the struggles of the field hockey program prior to Pile, this is a well-deserved recognition of the progress he's made.

And it's followed up by what look to this uninformed-about-field hockey-person like a really solid recruiting class. Five freshmen from solid high school programs in the US and Canada.

GO AGS!

Great win for the Aggies last night at The Nest! Totally agree with Jen Gross' comment on the game recap page. This is a very youngg team, with a lot to learn about winning games. Last night, on the road in a rivalry game, they shot poorly and had a win in regulation disappear because Sac made free throws with no time on the clock.

To come back in OT and win is huge. Pretty sure that the coaching staff will make sure this is a learning experience.

I’m not sure that the Big West will help Sac St achieve their long term ambitions. It could very possibly set the men’s basketball program back. The Hornets made a splash with the Mike Bibby hire, the transfers they brought in, and getting Shaq on board…at least in name.

Will Bibby be able to get the kind of players he probably wants to coach to come play a Big West schedule?

Can he even keep the guys he brought in, especially if they have a poor season? So far, they’ve only beaten Dominican, Jessup (both D2), and Presbyterian.

Will either Bibby or Shaq want to be associated with a “JV-level” program?

I’d like to see Sussex shooting the free throws down the stretch.

Sac State is a Big Sky school, until next year when they’ll become one of the scrappy Big West schools.

GO AGS!

UCD 62-60. Stingers DOWN!!

GO AGS!!

I've never seen any at Costco, but we usually don't look that carefully at the clothing area. I'd call the store.

There's also a UCD shop next to the Varsity Theatre in downtown.

By the time Sac might be willing to eat humble pie, BSC might have the conference football schedule in the works, or even finished. Remember, the conference is moving to a 9-game schedule next season. Makes redoing things more complicated.

Would BSC even be willing to take Sac as a football only member, knowing that they’d still be intending to leave? Sac’s other sports are committed to the Big West.

5-0 so far. 6-0 if WBB holds serve tomorrow night.

Make that a 6-game sweep.
Men's Soccer ✔️
Women's Soccer ✔️
Women's Volleyball ✔️
Men's Basketball ✔️
Football ✔️
Women's Basketball

Volleyball team sweeps CSU Bakersfield on Senior Day, despite an uncharacteristically rough serving night. Wins the conference by 2 games. Earns the #1 seed in the BW Tournament.

Let’s finish the job! GO AGS!!

Tonight Davis takes on CSU Bakersfield. A win and the Aggies claim their first (and last) Big West regular season championship, and the #1 seed in the BW Tournament.

GO AGS!!

I agree that the Aggies are a better team than they’ve shown the last two games. Part of it is the growing pains of a young team. 7 of the 10 currently active players have been in the program for less than two full years. And only Ryann Bennett and Tegan Young played big minutes last year. As good as they maybe, and I think several are very good, most are still learning the college game.

And the ladies need to get over looking at the name “Stanford”on the jersey and seeing “Superwoman”. The seniors have been conditioned to expect to lose to the Cardinal, at least subconsciously. It’s going to take actually beating Stanford to change that. Perhaps not just in basketball, or just once, but across the board, since we play them every year in several sports. With some consistency.