I just watched the replay of this game after watching the the 49ers beat the Seahawks for the 5th straight time!

This game was like night and day from what we've seen from this team this year. The biggest improvement was having only 7 TO's to go along with 22 assists! Along with those great stats was the crisp ball movement, great backdoor cuts and outstanding shooting: 56% overall including 41% from 3 and excellent FT shooting as well - 15 of 17 for 88%.

The Aggies have one more game before conference play begins and that game will be an acid test as they head to Stanford. Regardless of the outcome at The Farm, if the Ags play like they did today in their conference games, they can be a contender for the title.

Greg Fong mentioned that Jen Gross had the team watch some game film and asked them what they were seeing and they all said "self-inflicted wounds." They cleaned that up today in a big way and it paid off in an impressive victory over the Gaels.

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12/09 scores:

Santa Barbara 126 Bethesda 76
Fullerton 62 Sac State 60
South Dakota 78 Bakersfield 73
Pepperdine 68 San Diego 62
Weber State 78 Cal Poly 50
#25 San Diego State 63 Irvine 62

Albany 30 Idaho 22 - Final

Horrible 2nd half for Idaho.

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He may have been. I'd have to see the replay to be sure but I think that they probably set the play up for Pepper to open if TY couldn't get to the basket. Milwaukee collapsed on TY and he pivoted around before putting up a prayer so he just may not have seen Pepper if he was open.

The big mistake was when TY fouled on the rebound. The Milwaukee player had the inside position and ball and TY reached over him for the foul. There was no chance for TY to get to the ball and Milwaukee had no time outs so it would have been tough for them to go the length of the floor with no set play and score. Instead of going to OT, they go to the line and win the game.

I was able to listen to the radio, post-game interview with Coach Les on the drive home from the game. As would be expected he was pretty disappointed with how the Aggies played. Here are some things he wasn't happy with:

- "We allowed a team that was shooting below 40% on the season come into our house and shoot 58%." He said, "I don't need to see anything else. That tells me everything I need to know."
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- We got off to a good start and were up 21-9 early but then a missed dunk, a missed layup, a TO on a poor pass to a wide open Borra and then blown defensive assignment and the lead was gone. So, instead of pulling away to a big lead, we let them get back in the game on our mistakes.

-He said that TY did not make good decisions on our final possession for the potential game winner. The play was for TY to drive to the basket but, if it was covered, he was to kick it out. He drove to the basket and it was covered by 3 Milwaukee players but he went ahead and forced the shot instead of kicking the ball out and then he fouled on the rebound which led to FT's with 2.9 seconds left and Milwaukee won the game. He said you simply can not foul when the game is tied with 2.9 seconds left and they don't have a timeout. Instead we put them on the line and lost the game.

-Finally, he said, "This team needs to figure out who they want to be."

I'll also add that most guard rich teams rely heavily on driving to the basket and 3 point shooting. We get to the basket pretty well and draw a lot of fouls but we are only shooting 68% from the line. We are also shooting poorly from 3 at only 32% on the season. No one is shooting well from beyond the arc.

Also, after having his best offensive game of the year at Nevada, Milling struggled to score again. I'm beginning to think a whole lot of it has become mental for him. I can't imagine he shoots this poorly in practice.

The thing that concerns me the most is that I don't think this team is getting better and there are only 3 games to go before the conference starts. If we don't improve rather dramatically in our next 3 games, I think we'll be among the bottom 3 teams in the conference from what I've seen of us and the other conference teams.

South Dakota State 23 Villanova 12
NDSU 45 South Dakota 17

Ags lose 81-79

39-35 Milwaukee at the half. Missed layups, missed dunk, TO’s, defensive lapses…won’t win you many games…

It’s amazing how poorly this team can play for long stretches

3 straight poor possessions by the Ags and Les is NOT happy!

Ags playing hard and fast…up 11-4

Losé is back, Mani still out too

I didn't't expect this!

My wife and I will be at the game after all. Go Ags!

Man, Montana is a tough place to play. The fans are LOUD and many are loud & rude as well. There were F bombs that could be heard at times and half the stadium joined into a "bullshit" chant on a pass interference call against the Griz in the final seconds before Furman tied the game in regulation. The PI call wasn't even close, it was a mugging but that didn't stop the fans from joining into the chorus.

I was surprised that the play even went to review because it wasn't even close but they reviewed it while the fans kept up the chant. Surprisingly, the PI stood as called on the field. I figured they would overturn it since Montana seems to be the one of the darlings of the FCS powers that be.

I found myself pulling for Furman as the game went on even though it's good for the Big Sky to have Montana and Idaho advance. The rude behavior from many of the fans, Hauck's fiery attitude and always whining, all those dirty plays from past years that Hauck allowed including quite a few from his son when he played and the favoritism they receive from the FCS big wigs was just too much for me to pull for them.

Montana 35 Furman 28 OT - Finał

Furman ties it up at 28 on a amazing 4th down TD and we're going to OT.

If my son comes up from San Francisco we won't be going to the game and probably won't be able to watch it live either.