Other Big West games on Wednesday:

Bakersfield at Poly 7 pm
Irvine at Santa Barbara 7 pm
Fullerton at San Diego 7 pm
Long Beach at Riverside 7 pm

Current Big West standings:

1. UC Santa Barbara 11-2 20-4
2. UC Irvine 10-3 17-8
3. Hawai'i 9-5 18-8
3. UC Riverside 9-5 16-10
3. Long Beach State 9-5 15-11
6. Cal State Fullerton 8-6 14-12
7. UC Davis 7-6 14-11
8. CSU Bakersfield 5-9 9-16
9. UC San Diego 3-10 8-17
10. CSUN 3-11 6-19
11. Cal Poly 1-13 7-19

Well that explains why SB was awarded FT's and a bench technical was assessed to the Aggies.

It looks like the official box score has been updated again. It shows that Kelly and Johnson were both given technical fouls and both left the game. The box score also shows a technical foul assessed to the Aggie bench but not what it was about. So maybe the technical fouls negated each other as far as FT's for either team and the FT's that SB took were for the bench technical called on the Aggies.

The announcers said that no players from either team left the bench and, if they would have, they would have automatically been ejected. So, since no other Aggies were given technicals or ejected, I have no idea what the Aggie bench technical was about.

The older guy who does the color for the SB play-by-play is hard to listen to after a while. His homer bias gets old quick. His comments when watching the replay of the scuffle between Kelly and TY were ridiculous. The replay clearly showed that the whole brouhaha started when Kelly knocked TY to the floor and then put his arms up in the air like he was innocent. The color guy's take on it was that "TY was the kind of player that can get under your skin" and that "he had been doing little things like hand checking and pushing throughout the game" as if to justify Kelly's obvious flagrant foul. He kept completely ignoring the fact that Kelly blatantly knocked TY to the floor to start it all every time the replay was shown again on ESPN+ while the refs were at the monitor trying to sort things out.

Other Big West scores tonight:

Long Beach 79 Bakersfield 69
Irvine 83 Riverside 64
CSUN 64 Poly 53
Fullerton 52 Hawaii 51 (Hawaii came back from 18 down in the second half and had 3 shots to win it in the final 6 seconds but none would drop)

It's interesting. The Live Stats play-by-play shows Kelly with a flagrant 2 technical foul and ejection but not a technical foul on TY. However, he did leave the game and go to the locker room. The stats also shows that the Aggies were assessed a "Class B Administrative Technical Foul." Not sure what that is.

UCSB has a lot of offensive talent and size. They have a number of quick, long and talented players and they shot 61% tonight. They're the best team in the conference and we needed to play our A game from start to finish to have a fighting chance and that didn't happen. The game them in Davis should be a real dogfight though and I wouldn't be surprised if we win that one.

Losé was playing. Borra didn't get into the game.

SB killed us to start the second half by shooting 11 of 11 and eventually building a 20 point lead.

The brawl got pretty wild with 3 minutes to go. Kelly, who is 6'9 and 260, pushed TY to the floor with his right arm and them raised both of his hands up in the air with the "I didn't do anything gesture." TY fell hard into the legs of SB player. TY then got up in Kelly's face and when Kelly pushed him away, TY went at him and wrapped his arms around Kelly and we were off to the races. Kelly pancaked on top of TY on the sideline and at the feet of the fans in the chairs and a full on scrum broke out. No punches were thrown and, fortunately, no players on either team left the bench. The coaches and all 10 players on the court were pushing and pulling along with a couple of security guards. In the end, Kelly and TY were ejected and the game went on.

Edit: Apparently, only Kelly was assessed a flagrant technical 2 foul and ejected. At least that's what the box score shows. So I'm not sure if TY was ejected but he did leave the floor.

49-35 UCSB with 16:19 to go. Aggies are digging a big hole at the moment.

38-32 Gauchos at the half. UCSB is shooting 58%. Pepper is carrying the offensive load as usual for the Ags with 17.

30-25 Gauchos with 3:32 to go in the half.

This game is not going well so far. ESPN+ is having technical difficulties so no live stream and the Ags are down 27-19 with 5:52 to go in the half. Too many TO's and defensive mistakes...Gauchos are shooting 61%...we will not win with poor defense.

Our record will be different after our game tonight at Santa Barbara, Toke. We'll either be up one more win or down one more loss. I think we might surprise the Gauchos tonight...

CSUN 64 Poly 53 - Final

The Vegas oddsmakers have us as 6.5 point underdogs tonight.

Other BW games on Saturday:

Poly at CSUN 1 pm
Long Beach at Bakersfield 7 pm
Riverside at Irvine 7:30 pm
Fullerton at Hawaii 9 pm

Current BW standings:

1. UC Santa Barbara 10-2 19-4
2. UC Irvine 9-3 16-8
3. Hawai'i 9-4 18-7
3. UC Riverside 9-4 16-9
5. Long Beach State 8-5 14-11
6. UC Davis 7-5 14-10
7. Cal State Fullerton 7-6 13-12
8. CSU Bakersfield 5-8 9-15
9. UC San Diego 3-10 8-17
10. CSUN 2-11 5-19
11. Cal Poly 1-12 7-18

Other final scores in the Big West last night:

Irvine 55 Cal Poly 54
Bakersfield 73 CSUN 58
UCSB 75 Long Beach 72
Hawaii 69 San Diego 62

I agree, Mike, he has mellowed from those early years.

That's a great video and right on point. Thanks for posting it.