Marsh said that the Eagles requested an early start so they could go home. They've been in the area since their game against Nevada. It's a young team with a first year coach and a lot of new faces (only one returning starter), so it's no surprise that we're handling them relatively easily. Can't let up, though.

UCD 42, EWU 26 at the half. Neither team is exactly melting iron, but EWU is very sloppy with the ball, 14 turnovers in the first half. Finally got audio about 1:30 into the half. Scott Marsh on play-by-play and Darius Graham doing color. Seems like just the other day, he was guiding the Aggie offense. McGill and DeBruhl getting a lot of playing time and looking pretty good.

Of course, the commercials have audio. :)

ESPN+is "experiencing technical difficulties," so there's no audio and no on screen scoreboard, but from just the look of things, the Ags are running all over the Eagles?

ESPN has the Ags as 84% favorites to win. They use their power indices to compute this, but I have no idea how that works.

Hawaii lost, 81-78, at home to a Northern Colorado team with a lower Sagarin rating (http://sagarin.com/sports/cbsend.htm) than UC Davis. Hawaii rarely loses at home to mediocre teams.

Sorry that this is a bit off the point, but does anyone know anything about Leo DeBruhl? There's almost nothing about him on the UC Davis roster site. Seeing as how Coach Les gave him some playing time against Utah State, I assume he's shown something, even though he didn't score. From what I saw of him, he was hustling.

Caleb McGill also impressed but he had some bio: Earned first team all-state and All-Centennial League honors as a senior... Averaged 17.2 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.5 blocks per game that season... Led his team to a 5A State championship in 2018... That successful postseason run ended with 5A Playoff All-Team honors... That season, the Wolves finished 24-4 overall, 11-3 in league play, won a league crown, its last 11 straight, earned a No. 1 ranking in the state of Colorado and No. 37 ranking nationwide... Junior year honor roll included second team All-Centennial League and all-state honorable mention... Averaged 11.4 ppg, 6.2 rpg, 2.3 apg and 1.5 bpg as a junior... Entering his senior year, the Wolves won 80 percent of their games (64-16 combined record) and 33 of 42 matchups against league opponents...

Looks like both young men will contribute and add depth.

I'd put San Diego State ahead of USC and Cal below UC San Diego. Matt Bradley transferred from Berkeley to San Diego and that was huge for both teams gong in different directions. I'd also rank UCD higher. Maybe 12 but I'm just a wee bit biased.

One concern: Milling kind of disappeared offensively in the second half.
One great stat: UC Davis had 41 rebounds tying USU, a much taller team.

One factor in the Aggies upset of USU was the fact that the Utah State Aggies lost three starters from last year and had about 7 new players in the rotation, transfers from Maryland-Baltimore County and Utah. The former followed their coach, Ryan Odom, the guy who led the Retrievers to the first time upset of a #16 seed over #1 seed (Virginia) a few years ago. I don't think they were as well meshed as our Aggies who have three returning starters, plus two key reserves and the benefit of having played one game already. This is to take nothing away from the upset. The guys played very well and never withered down the stretch. That speaks volumes about their ability to win close games this season.

I thought the defense looked very good for this early in the season. Also impressed that Coach Les would give two freshmen so much playing time. Great win.

I guess the commentators can't call both teams "Aggies" but it's still weird to hear him saying stuff like "Aggies need to get more noise from their crowd," etc.

I saw that last shot that Milling hit from the corner. You can tell he has that classic form on the J. What a great recruit.

I miss the first half, and find the Ags ahead by 5!

I watched the end of this game on the Pac-12 network and while the Tritons did play well, shooting 52% from the field, Cal was clearly in disarray. The Bears only got 4 assists and were 5 of 18 from 3-point range. Hard to say how good UCSD is at this point. I can report that Hawaii is in trouble as two expected starters were lost for the season with injuries, including Samuta Avea who was expected to be a major offensive threat.

Thanks Russ.

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I was good friends with Mike Creed who was a great goalie for the Aggie water polo team. He was all west coast at least once and should be in the hall of fame. I lost track of Mike. Last time I saw him he was visiting Davis and he told me he had moved to Barstow. His good friend from Las Lomas High was Mark Olson who was a real character. I saw his first game when Bob Hamilton put him in as a freshman and he made three spectacular plays in a row. At the next time out, Ham hugged Mark and practically carried him off the court.

I got to play a lot of basketball against Mike Belotti, who was a very good athlete. We took the basketball class together. I had no idea he would become a great coach and when I was watching Oregon on a bowl game telecast I told my father that I once beat him in a 3-on-3 game. Dad didn't believe me.

I'm not sure of this, but I think Bill Barker, once a great first baseman, is in the UC Davis Hall of Fame. I can't find him there, but I'd heard he was. He was in my dorm. Funny fellow who is now, I think, a dentist, probably a retired dentist.

I knew a bunch of others who did not rise to any kind of local stardom, except for maybe Mike Murray who died of cancer after playing one year of varsity basketball. They used to have a charity game for him, but not sure if that's still going on.