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.

One of the good things about being a student at UC Davis was that the athletes often lived in the dorms, so I got to know some of them across the whole spectrum. In some major sports programs the jocks live in a dorm only for them. It looks like name dropping is not allowed on this site, but I doubt most posters would go back so far as to recognize any names I could drop, but there were some very good athletes I got to know. Just regular guys for the most part.

Versus has moved the Ags all the way up to #11.

BlueGoldAg, I think this one is even less realistic. Would the committee put three Big Sky teams in the same bracket? If they were thinking about geographic proximity, I could see it, but they also have Villanova possibly coming all the way from Philly to play Sac State, et al.

The Big Sky seems to be pretty dominant with over half of the byes. I'm guessing that after the next two games, that will drop.

If Im seeing things clearly (and many of you know that's not always the case), four FCS teams media ranked ahead of UC Davis lost today: North Dakota State, Eastern Washington, Southern Illinois and Southeast Louisiana. I wonder if that will vault the Aggies into the #4 rank, not that any of this matters going into the game against the Eagles. EWU has lost two straight including to 4-4 Weber State, I wonder if they've run into injury problems or something?

Hastings has "rushed" 11 times this season for a -8 yards. A problem with college stats is that they count a sack as a rush attempt. I am not sure how they figure it, because he has been sacked 6 times. I wonder if any forward progress is considered a rush, even if it results in negative yards?

Two big ones coming up. Ags control their own destiny.

But they took 7 minutes to do it.