Manjon really impressed the commentators at both Pacific and the Pac-12 guys doing the Oregon State game. The color guy for the Oregon State game was Eldridge Recasner who said that Ezra reminded him of himself, which is an immodest statement until you check and see that he was an all conference point guard for three years at Washington.

It never got as close as it did in the first game, even though the final score makes it look a lot closer than it was. The Spanos arena never did get many fans. If the Tigers play as poorly as they have against us, I can see why not many of their students or alumni show up. Got another WCC team coming to Davis on Wednesday.

Not sure whether Ags are this good or Pacific is just bad.

Bailey has yet to score. Aggies out-rebounding Pacific 16-7. Tigers look very sloppy.

This is beginning to look the same as the previous game. Ags are beating the Tigers in every aspect of this game in the first half, now up 24-11

Watching on WCC Network. The place is practically empty!

One last comment about IM sports at UCD: They were very quick and eager to allow women to play sports, including flag football and "regular" basketball. When I first got there, women were playing an odd 6 person game where only two guards were allowed to cross center court, making it a 4 on 4 game. Each player could only dribble the ball 3 times, all in the name of "saving" the women from overdoing it. As I recall that was abandoned by 1969.

The football program caught the eye of the 49ers and a friend of mine told me she was going to play during halftime of a pre-season game, Niners v. Denver Broncos. I went down to Candlestick to watch her and her team play for about 5 minutes at halftime. Davis must have had one of the few, if not the only, such program at that time, to get the attention of an NFL team.

I was impressed at how Coach Les drew up some really nice back-door and in-bounds plays for easy buckets. I don't understand how the Beavers kept letting the Aggies get those easy plays. Wayne Tinkle is a really good coach and the team has been playing too long not to be playing better defense.

Now UC Davis has beaten two teams that went to the NCAA tournament last year. Of course, that was last year and clearly Oregon State (very oddly) is a shadow of last year's team. Utah State, however is now 7-3 with wins over Oklahoma and Richmond. I don't know what happened against Sac State and Academy of Art, but this edition of UCD Men's basketball is good.

It's great to see Manjon being so aggressive and scoring in a variety of ways. he had really impressed the color guy, Eldridge Recasner, who was a pretty good point guard at Washington himself. Hard to believe that Oregon State went to the Elite Eight last year. Ags aren't looking to shoot from 3 much , maybe because they can't stop the Aggies inside game?

Curry has forced my viewing of this game into a later viewing for me.

The other great thing about intramural sports at UCD was the way they were given coverage by the Cal Aggie. I think I even got my name in the paper once for a softball game I did unusually well in. The Cal Aggie not only printed thumbnails of some of the games, but scores and league standings. They even had top ten rankings in football and basketball. I wonder if or how long they continued to do that? I was associated or familiar with three other universities where intramural coverage in the student paper was either non-existent or minimal (announcements about seasons or playoff schedules only).

Aside from the sports themselves, I always got a laugh out of the names that some of the teams gave themselves. When I first for to Davis, the dorm teams all called themselves Pierce L, Ryerson 3, Nova, etc. but the off-campus teams gave themselves colorful names usually with some off-color innuendo, such as I Phelta Thi, Dixon U or Howard's Ballers. By my last year (and I was one of those rare birds still living in a dorm) the dorm teams had caught on and my team-mates asked me for a suggestion and I said "The Organ Grinders" which they immediately adopted.

So this game does not "count" as far as the NCAA is concerned.

IS UC Merced Div. II? In a conference?

I recall that it has always been the case that a grad transfer does not need to sit out a year. Like Kennedy Koehler, I suspect many graduates of UCD would be highly likely to be able to get into graduate programs in most schools across the country and would want to continue their educations in specialities not available at Davis.

What a great game. To be 15 points up, watch it evaporate then hold on to grab the momentum back and win the game says a lot about this team's character.

It's amazing how Pacific came out with so much energy and the Ags seemed to sag in reciprocity getting sloppy with the ball. Things seem to have evened out now but it's anybody's game to win.

Aggies shooting 57% from the 3-pt. line. Whatever Coach Les did after the sad loss to AA is working. The team is being very aggressive on defense and on the boards.

Bob Williams is doing the color. Ags look okay after a slow (2 of 8) start. They're playing hard.

Thanks, I think that's only the 32nd time I've messed up the time difference subtracting instead of adding the Hawaii time. Guess I haven't been living out here long enough.