I hope it is a big cowbell. The one's that fans had at the MSU game were so small they were hard to hear. It's great that many of them were donated by some players' families though.

I know. It was confusing and it's not the first time we've had some kind of difficulty with ticketing. We also had a big mixup getting our Team Aggie passes. They eventually sorted it out but it certainly wasn't smooth sailing. It took a lot of our time and persistence and was frustrating.

We're easy going when it comes to things like this. We just figure people are trying to do their best but it doesn't help ticket sales when the purchasing process is confusing.

I'm kind of surprised about how many season ticket holders did not buy a ticket to this game. There may be a few like us who missed the Team Aggie email and ended up buying tickets but aren't sitting in our season ticket seats.

UCSB will be hoping to rebound Saturday after being upset at home by UCSD. — Toke69

I don't think the UCSD win was an upset. The Tritons are a really good basketball team and they showed it by beating the Gauchos in their house. I think they are just as good as if not a smidgen better than Santa Barbara. I'd rank the top 3 teams in the BW currently as #1 Irvine, #2 San Diego and #3 Santa Barbara.

We forced 20 TO’s but had 11 of our own. Crazy game…

Les shook up the starting lineup in a big way tonight. Ags have forced 12 TO’s already but can’t make a basket. We’re 2-15…!!

I'm surprised that we are favored as well. Honestly, based on how these two teams have been playing for the most part this season, I think we're the underdog tonight.

That's a pretty harsh, personally biased opinion but to each his own...

Bob Dunning takes the Aggies by 10:

AGGIES over ILLINOIS STATE ... Make no mistake, this is a very good Illinois State team coming in here on Saturday afternoon. But what an opportunity for Aggie fans to see the first home playoff game since 2018. This one will be a battle from start to finish. Take the Ags by 10.

FCS PLAYOFFS: Montana State over Tennessee-Martin, Idaho over Lehigh, South Dakota State over Montana, Incarnate Word over Villanova, Mercer over Rhode Island, North Dakota State over Abilene Christian, and South Dakota over Tarleton State.

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/take-the-broncos-the-ducks-the-dawgs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=152598899&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I'm not surprised. Poly has been playing very well and is coming off the upset over Stanford whereas the Ags have not been playing well lately and are coming off a blowout loss at Oregon State...two teams going in different directions at the moment. I do expect that the Ags are going to come out very hungry for this one though.

Well, they gave Bob Dunning the boot so I'm not surprised that they can't get their sports writing has gone downhill...

There's so much pressure and uncertainty on these athletes at such a young age especially when the big programs are already contacting them when they are 14 or even younger. It sounds like it's been long journey for him with a lot of ups and downs but he's grown a lot as a result over the years and now he has certainly made a wise decision in choosing to become an Aggie.

You always have to wonder if there are any players she might take with her. Coaches who leave for bigger programs often take players with them if they think they can compete at the higher level.

Arragh! Doesn't anyone check out the links before they officially post them?

The Bows made a game out of it after being down big at the half.

He'd be a great recruit for us.

I wonder if there will be any pleasant surprises?

The voting bias in awards like this is ridiculous. Wouldn't it be amazing if Lan led this team to a national championship and the voters end up with egg on their faces...

in Les’ defense, two bigs we were counting on (Borra and Mani) are MIA. Mani was supposed to provide scoring, Francisco defense and rebounding. That hurts — DrMike

That's true, Mike, I hear what you're saying. Having Mani and Borra out hurts.

Les is well known for developing guards. Bob Williams has said he feels like Les does as good a job with guards as any coach on the west coast and it seems like he builds his teams with guards along with defensive minded players first and foremost. I think if we are going to be able to compete at the top of the conference every year and grow the program, we have to have better offensive production and rebounding from the 4 and 5 positions. Otherwise, we pretty much have to have exceptional 3 point shooters to offset our lack of interior scoring and to overcome getting beat on the boards.

Irvine has built a very strong program and they generally have some very good bigs. This year they are a very balanced and disciplined team and currently ranked as the #1 mid-major. Santa Barbara often has talented size as well and Pasternack often recruits 4 star high school players and transfers from major programs. I think we have to do the same here in order to keep pace.

Every time I hear Tim Plough at one of these pressers it makes me realize just how lucky we are to have him as our HC. That's gotta be tough for Main not being able to suit up for the playoffs too. Hope he heals up well.