MBB at Oregon State on Thursday, November 30th in Corvallis.

Beasley had a groin injury last season and groin injuries can take a long time to heal properly especially if there was a tear. I hope he isn't gone for good. He was a solid player for the Aggies.

That's an interesting article about Carter trying to play both basketball and football at CU. I wonder if he will try and do the same here? Have we ever had someone who played both football and basketball?

MBB: at Nevada on Wednesday, December 6th.

In addition to the offers you listed, Owen Long also has offers from Penn, Dartmouth, Harvard, Georgetown, and Yale. Smart kid!

The Aggies will be paid $635,000 for playing at Oregon State this year.

https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/05/oregon-state-to-pay-uc-davis-635000-for-its-sept-9-football-appearance-in-corvallis-other-non-conference-contract-details.html

Good for Gus! He's a great hire for San Bernardino and I hope he's successful there. He continues the tradition of former Aggies in many sports continuing their careers as excellent coaches.

Good news! She's an impressive, young woman.

I'd love to see rowing and men's swimming back again.

Bob Dunning makes his case for the Big West to have a post-season Baseball Tournament:

It’s about time for the Big West Conference to join the crowd and sponsor a conference tournament at the end of the baseball season.

The Big West already has a conference tournament in basketball, for both men and women, with the winners advancing to the NCAA tournament. The same should happen in baseball.

Whole article here: https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/bob-dunning-time-for-big-west-conference-to-join-the-crowd/

There was better news on forward Morgan Bertsch. She'll miss Friday's home game against the New York Liberty with an ankle sprain, but is expected back soon. The 6-foot-4 Bertsch, a WNBA rookie who has played professionally overseas, started the first three games.

"Morgan's maybe a week or two," Wade said. "I don't think it's going to go any further than that. She was on the bike and doing some stuff today."

https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20230601/as-vandersloot-returns-sky-lose-another-key-player-to-injury

Lindy's Sports FCS 2023 Preseason Poll:

1. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
2. NORTH DAKOTA STATE
3. MONTANA STATE
4. WILLIAM & MARY
5. INCARNATE WORD
6. SACRAMENTO STATE
7. WEBER STATE
8. HOLY CROSS
9. SE MISSOURI
10. MONTANA
11. SAMFORD
12. IDAHO
13. FURMAN
14. NEW HAMPSHIRE
15. SE LOUISIANA
16. RICHMOND
17. CENTRAL ARKANSAS
18. UC DAVIS
19. N. CAROLINA CENTRAL
20. DELAWARE
21. EASTERN KENTUCKY
22. GARDNER-WEBB
23. MERCER
24. CHATTANOOGA
25. JACKSON STATE

Not a rule change but the NCAA is looking at possibly increasing the number of teams that get seeded in the FCS Playoffs.

June 1 update: The FCS playoff committee met in mid-May to review/discuss findings from the NCAA’s research regarding changes to the bracket structure after NCAA staff has been looking into what the change in cost would be to seed more teams. After review, the playoff committee has recommended seeding the top 16 teams in the 24-team bracket moving forward. It still has a couple of approvals to go through this month, including the Football Oversight Committee. The hope is by the end of June there will be more concrete news/details.

Whole article here: https://herosports.com/fcs-playoff-increase-seeds-bzbz/

This website has Morgan listed as not returning until mid-June. There are currently 5 Chicago Sky players out and two are listed as "out indefinitely."

http://prolinestadium.sportsdirectinc.com/basketball/wnba-injuries.aspx?page=/data/wnba/injury/injuries.html

Great news! Eli is going to draw a lot of attention from our opponents. He'll get double teamed, trapped and bumped around a lot but he's shown that he can still contribute at a very high level even when teams are locking down on him. Focusing so heavily on stopping him will open things up for the other players on the floor too.

I don't know exactly what all these numbers mean either other than I think it shows that we have some very athletic athletes on the team.

Someone over on the Big West Boards Basketball Forum posted this comment regarding Robeson:

If he is 100% recovered from injury, he should be a impact transfer for Davis.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bigwest/2023-transfer-portal-t27307-s160.html