Thanks for your excellent write up about this game, TR67! The Aggie WBB team deserves a good following here on our forum. The Ags have come together nicely this year and certainly look like a team that could be a frontrunner in the Big West. Go Ags!

Bakersfield is a tough place to play on the road and the Runners are always very athletic. I hope having Mani back will help us have some better offensive consistency. However, the Aggies have been up and down so far this season so it's hard to know what to expect.

The women's 115-29 win over Cal Maritime set a couple of records:

An 86-point win marks the biggest winning scoring margin in Aggie history, beating the previous mark of 85 in a win over Santa Cruz on November 22, 1974.

115 points is the most scored by the Aggies in the Division I era, it's also the most scored at home, with the previous record being 108 in a win over Patten on December 28, 1996.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2024/12/28/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-finishes-december-unbeaten-in-86-point-win-over-cal-maritime.aspx

Ags win 109-46 and Prongos got a bucket. Nice to see the bench players get some quality minutes.

The Aggie women beat Cal Maritime today 115-29. The score at the half was 53-7 and Cal Maritime didn't score a single point in the second quarter.

Sac adds a 6'2 205 QB who had offers from Cal, Florida A&M, Iowa State, Louisville, Miami, NAU, Oregon, SDSU, TCU, Tennessee, UNLV, Utah and Virginia Tech.

Sac adds 3 star safety out of Missouri and more. It's amazing how fast Marion is moving and getting commitments:

It's hard to believe that Marion has coached at 10 different schools in the past 10 years. I'm not sure if that's a good thing but it certainly shows that he is highly ambitious. As a result, he's got a whole lot of connections nationwide and he has formed relationships with a whole lot of players as well. Some of them are in the portal and he's going after them. It's easier to recruit players who already know him and have played for him. Sac may have caught lightening in a bottle...guess we'll find our next season...

2011 - West Valley (WR)
2012 - Harker School (CA) (WR)
2013 - St. Patrick-St. Vincent HS (CA)
2014 - Waynesboro Area HS (PA)
2015 - Arizona State (OQC)
2016 - Oklahoma Baptist (RB)
2017–2018 - Howard (OC/QB)
2019 - William & Mary (OC/QB)
2020 - Hawaii (WR)
2021 - Pittsburgh (WR)
2022 - Texas (PGC/WR)
2023–2024 - UNLV (OC/QB)
2025 - Sacramento State (HC)

I expect that this will be the smallest crowd of the year. It will be a double-header though with the women taking on Cal Maritime also at 1 pm.

Is Sacramento State a realistic expansion option for the Pac-12, or are the Hornets a better fit for the Mountain West? — @MarcSheehan006

Sacramento State has done a fabulous job marketing itself as an expansion candidate for the Pac-12 or Mountain West and went so far as to set a goal of securing $50 million in NIL pledges this fall. Last we checked, the Hornets had roughly $35 million pledged.

(Note: They do not have $35 million in hand, much less the $50 million that an ESPN report suggested earlier this week.)

Sacramento State is an FCS program that resides in the nation’s No. 20 media market, is reasonably close to the Bay Area tech money and has easy access to high-level recruits. (Folsom High School is a powerhouse.)

But we have not received confirmation of serious interest by the two FBS conferences, which are taking contrasting approaches to expansion.

The Mountain West is hustling to increase membership, having added UC Davis (in all sports but football) and currently targeting Northern Illinois. Meanwhile, the Pac-12 paused expansion in order to focus on media rights negotiations.

Something else to consider: The Big Ten and SEC don’t want more FCS schools making the jump to the FBS — they believe there are too many mouths to feed already — and have made their feelings known at the highest levels.

Our hunch is that Sacramento State will remain an FCS school at least through this round of western conference realignment.

https://sports360az.com/mailbag-pac-12-assets-and-cfp-revenue-the-postseason-calendar-the-sac-state-expansion-option-and-more/

Marion continues to mine the portal:

Sac's new HC is pulling in FBS transfers fast:

Rodney Hammond Jr. spent his first collegiate season with former Pitt wide receivers coach Brennan Marion, and now he’ll spend his last with Marion.

Hammond — a 5-foot-9, 200-pound running back from Booker T. Washington in Norfolk, Va. — committed to Sacramento State on Sunday night, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reported. He entered the transfer portal earlier this month, which wasn’t an unexpected outcome to his career in Pittsburgh.

Sacramento State hired Marion, who served as the Pitt wide receivers coach in 2021, Texas wide receivers coach in 2022 and UNLV offensive coordinator in 2023-24, as its next head coach earlier this week.

It’s a nice landing spot for Hammond, who will join an offensive scheme that takes advantage of his skillset on the ground and through the air.

Hammond initially committed to Pitt as a three-star recruit in the class of 2021, earning playing time immediately as a true freshman. He showed flashes during his tenure in Pittsburgh, but for whatever reason (coaching decisions or a team-imposed suspension), he wasn’t able to put it all together.

He was suspended at the start of this season, missing the first four games of the season, but he was reinstated before the North Carolina game. He played in just four games — deciding to sit out and preserve his eligibility after playing four games.

https://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2024/12/22/former-pitt-rb-rodney-hammond-jr-reuniting-with-brennan-marion/#google_vignette

Pretty good job of seeding the by the Selection Committee!

The stats are pretty alarming, Mike. We shot 28% (14-50) overall and 6.7%
(1-15) from 3 to go along with 18 TO's and getting out rebounded 44-30. That's a sad stat sheet especially when you consider that Pepperdine has been struggling and had already lost to 4 BW teams. Irvine and San Diego both beat them by 18 and we lost by 39...yikes!

Les did show up for the post game and he was just pretty matter of fact in his comments. First he said, "Well, that was a lump of coal in our Christmas stocking" and then essentially went on to say that he was disappointed in the leadership of the team and that we didn't come out and play with energy and focus. He said if the players don't come back after the Christmas break with focus and effort, then the game will continue to humble them with more outcomes like this.

Ags fall by 39 points 85-46. I can't remember when we lost a game this bad to team that isn't all that good and was 0-4 against Big West teams before this rout. I don't think this is the kind of game where you just shrug your shoulders and say, "Well, there's gonna be games like this." We've had two ugly games like this already this year. It doesn't get much uglier than this...

when we do force a missed shit — DrMike

Now that's some seriously tough defense! :lol: