Greg does a great job. He also does the ESPN+ games for women's basketball and also softball.

Yes. We've beaten every one else at least once. We lost to LB 78-74 at home on February 15th.

Here's our record against the BW teams this year so far:

Irvine 1-1
San Diego 1-1
Long Beach 0-1
Hawai'i 1-1
Santa Barbara 2-0
Riverside 1-1
CSUN 2-0
Bakersfield 1-1
Fullerton 2-0
Cal Poly 2-0

I agree, it was a very satisfying win for us after their coach really did allow his starters to play late into the game and run up the margin of victory over us in the first game. He's done a great job building a formidable team quickly at UCSD but I lost some respect for him when he ran up the score on us. It wasn't necessary at all.

I would play to win just like any game we play for a couple of reasons:

1) We've locked up the #2 seed but the game is still meaningful for Long Beach and the other teams who can move up or down in the seeding depending upon the outcome. In all fairness to the teams still trying to move up, we need to play hard as normal. We don't want the reputation of simply being an "opportunist" who slacked off and ended up aiding some teams while hurting others.

2) Long Beach beat us at home and we might see them again in the tournament. So we want to beat them on the road and carry that momentum and confidence into the tournament. We don't want to have any doubt that we can not beat them in the tournament.

3) As the #2 seed, we have plenty of time to rest up and be ready to go so we don't need to take a day off against the Beach to save energy.

4) A win gives us great momentum and confidence that we're playing good basketball as we head into the tournament.

I loved how DeBruhl, Losé and Tamba contributed tonight especially after Johnson and Milling picked up their 4th fouls. Tamba had 9 boards and DeBruhl had 5.

Milling was on fire in the first half. His 3 ball is has NBA form. It would be great to him keep rolling right into the tournament.

Les stayed with a small lineup for nearly the entire game. I'm wondering if Rocak was not 100%?

3/07 Games:

Aggies 70 San Diego 63
Santa Barbara 76 Long Beach 74
Riverside 84 Fullerton 74
Irvine 82 Cal Poly 68

Current standings:

Ags clinch the #2 seed! Great TEAM win!

What a shot by DeBruhl!

The fouls are piling up on the Aggies: Johnson with 4 and Milling with 3.

Santa Barbara is leading Long Beach 52-41 with 12:26 to go.

We'll need to weather the storm that SD will bring in the second half. A 10 point lead against a team as good as the Tritons can evaporate in just a few minutes. We need to do a better job of stopping their dribble penetration before they get to the basket. They don't miss very often within within 6 feet of the basket.

Pepperdine led 26-0 at the start of the game...yikes!

3/06 game:

Hawai'i 72 CSUN 70

The Aggies beat Sac 10-5 in baseball tonight.

Irvine has clinched the #1 seed but there's a lot of possibilities for the remaining seeding depending on the outcomes in the final two games. Here's the schedule for the final week:

Irvine (15-3):
Th - Cal Poly
Sa - @ Fullerton

San Diego (14-4):
Th - Davis
Sa - Cal Poly

Aggies (12-6):
Th - @ San Diego
Sa - @ Long Beach

Long Beach (10-8):
Th - Santa Barbara
Sa - Aggies

Hawai'i (9-9):
Wed - CSUN
Sa - Bakersfield

CSUN (9-10):
Wed - @ Hawai'i

Santa Barbara (8-10):
Th - @ Long Beach
Sa - Riverside

Riverside (8-10):
Th - Fullerton
Sa - @ Santa Barbara

Bakersfield (8-11):
Sa - @ Hawai'i

Fullerton (7-11):
Th - @ Riverside
Sa - Irvine

Cal Poly (0-18):
Th - @ Irvine
Sa - @ San Diego

3/02 Scores:

Irvine 82 Long Beach 61
Hawai'i 76 Riverside 73 in OT
San Diego 79 CSUN 69
Fullerton 79 Santa Barbara 70
Bakersfield 68 Cal Poly 56

Current standings:

I hope the momentum form the Hawai'i game will carry over to the San Diego game. I remember that Les said the team was extremely disappointed in how they played after the blowout loss to the Tritons in front of the largest home crowd of the season.

The sequence of Pepper's impossible 3 from corner with the foul followed by the 10 second violation and then another Pepper 3 was one of the great moments in Aggie basketball history. I couldn't believe Pepper was even able to get that shot off with 6'8 Da Silva draped all over him.

How about TY dropping 30 also? He has grown so much since he came here. He struggled to keep his emotions in check last year and teams took advantage of it and tried to get under his skin and it affected his play at times. He's playing with a quiet confidence now and he led the Aggies in scoring during Pepper's recent 3 game drought. He's fearless, has great quickness and his defense is tenacious.

Throughout the game, our defense was a thing of beauty. Everyone was working so hard. Les does a great job of rotating players in and out and giving them a blow because it takes so much energy to continuously play defense that hard. We forced several shot clock violations and a several desperation shots as the shot clock wound down.

I loved it when Tim Plough came onto the floor and led the crowd in a Go Ags cheer. He got the crowd energized even more. Les and the players talked about how the team feeds off the energy from the crowd. In the radio post-game, Pepper said that the crowd reaction after he makes a 3 is the best feeling in the world.

This game was a great example of how much fun Aggie basketball can be when we have a good crowd that gets into the game. So much fun!