No one wants to be the team that Poly finally beats which breaks their eye-popping, 44 game, losing streak in the BW conference..

You can scroll to the 7:41 mark in the video to listen to what he has to say about UC Davis football and two more FCS schools he thinks the MWC might consider.

Welcome back, ccuop99. I hope you'll stay around and join in our conversations about Aggie sports. There a lot of exciting things in the works for the future of Aggie Athletics and the activity in our forum has gone way up this year. By the way, I think Pacific and the Ags should be playing each other every year in basketball too.

We all know that Les puts a premium on defense first and foremost. I get it, defense travels and defense can keep you in a game when the shots aren't dropping. There will also certainly be games where players get lots of open shots and they just don't go down. However, you've got to be able to score too because you simply can't win on defense alone. I think the Aggies generally play pretty good defense and they often play great defense but they continue to struggle mightily on offense and they haven't been able to take advantage of the TO's they force on defense.

These offensive stats illustrate our offensive problems:

Average FG percentage: 40.67% which is 10th in the BW and 334th out of 355 teams in D1.
Average 3 point percentage: 31.23% which is 10th in the BW and 298th in the nation.
Assists /TO ratio: 10th in the BW and 345th in the nation.
Assists per game: 10.6 which is 9th in the BW and 342nd in the nation.

The Pavilion certainly isn't a thing of beauty on the outside but I don't think enhancing the exterior would one of the first priorities for renovations. The inside is looking worn in places and could use some painting to freshen it up. Big improvements are needed for concessions and the restrooms could use some upgrading including privacy partitions between the urinals in the men's restrooms. All major sports arenas have much better restroom facilities. I'd like to see a merch area too.

The big Daktronics video screen is nice but I wish we had a 4 sided scoreboard that hung down from above over the center of the court. If it had video too that would be awesome. I think that having a centrally located scoreboard and clock like that would improve the fan experience.

Overall, I think the arena is pretty good as is but it is getting worn. However, since the Aggies have made a commitment to increase levels of financing in the MWC for men's basketball, I do think that we'll have to put a significant amount of money into the program including NIL funds in order to compete well. Playing against MWC opponents plus improvements to the Pavilion should help build a good fan base and increase ticket sale revenues.

Turner came up with a great defense against the Tritons who can't shoot well from outside tonight. — abridge

UCSD shoots a good percentage as a team: 46% overall and they were averaging 11 threes per game which was 14th in the nation. Tyler McGhie is their top 3 point shooter and he was averaging 4 made per game. Turner dialed up a box and one zone and they had a player glued to McGhie the whole game and shut him down. McGhie was averaging 17.4 ppg and Irvine held him to 4. Great defensive strategy by Turner.

Yikes...that's close to a goose egg...ouch!

Oof…I just checked the score and the Ags are getting blown out…down 19 in the 3rd.

32-31 LB at the half. I hope we can keep the game within reach and have a chance to win near the end. The size and athleticism of LB make it really difficult to score inside…7’1 and two at 6’10.

Mani is back today.

It looks like Vegas has us as 4.5-5.5 point favorites at the moment.

From The Big West Banter by Gauchodan:

2:00 PM: Long Beach State at UC Davis, ESPN+, Live Stats

The Beach (6-10, 2-2) won its two games of Bold Week, kicking off a 5-game winning streak. But Long Beach went 0-2 last week to fall back to the middle of the pack. LBSU averaged 77.4 points per game in December but has failed to top 65 points since. On the flip side, the Beach gave up 65.4 points per game in December and 78.0 ppg since.

The Aggies (9-7, 3-2) are 6-1 and 3-0 in conference at home. UC Davis will play 6 of its next 7 on the road, so getting a win today will be important. The Aggies have struggled to score, averaging just 58.5 points per game and 33% shooting from the field in their last 4 games vs. Division I competition. Connor Sevilla has been an increasingly important part of the UCD offense, averaging 12.3 points in his last 4 games and making 7 three pointers.

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That would be nice for a change! I like our chances at home. LB will be tough on the boards. We can't give them a ton of second chance points and it would sure be great if we could shoot 40%+ from 3.

Well, it looks like the first big push and financial increase will be in Men's Basketball. I would think that, in this new era of college sports, we'll need to have a good deal NIL money available to be able to compete well with teams in the MWC.

Check out the scoreboard in the video of the renovations that Sac plans to make at The Well...Sac 57 Aggies 36... :rofl:

It seems like it's just in Sac's DNA to be loud and flashy when it comes to boasting about the future of their athletics. I remember when John Volek was their head coach and he said Sac was about to become "the Florida State of the west" and that they wouldn't be playing teams like Davis anymore once they became a major football power.

. Makes me wonder if opposing coaches in the league are doing something since then. If so, I hope Coach Les can figure it out because I sure can't. — Toke69

Les is a great basketball mind so he have a good plan; it's up to the players to execute it though.