I think Milling had a career high (?) today. — Toke69

Milling had 27 against his former team, Nevada, on the road in Reno this year.

The Ags are playing at a high level right now and they are getting good contributions from the bench also. It's great to see Milling heating up from downtown in the last couple of games. Mani got in for 8 minutes and he looked good in the paint with 4 points and a blocked shot. You can see that he has a lot of potential to develop into high quality player.

Long Beach is such an athletic team with length and quickness. They dominated us on the boards 39-24 and 19 of those were offensive rebounds which led to 15 second chance points for them. We don't match up well with the size and length that they have so we have to shoot a high percentage to beat them and it was our 3 point shooting and FT shooting that offset their scoring in the paint. We were 10-16 from 3 and 24-27 from the line compared to 3-16 from 3 and 17-23 from the line for The Beach.

I really didn't like us starting to work the clock with so much time left. We were up 19 with 8 minutes to go when Les had the team slow down and work the ball late into the shot clock. That worked for a while and we still had a 19 point with 5:50 to go. Then LB started pressing and double teaming and we still tried to work the clock and we lost our offensive rhythm and committed some TO's and the lead fell to 10 with 3:18 to go.

The team has really turned things around after we went through that skid of losing 4 out of 5 games. The last 3 wins over Hawai'i, San Diego and Long Beach were all solid wins and now the team can carry that confidence and momentum into the Big West Tournament. It won't be easy but we just could win it and go dancing.

I wondering how Les will play it? Will we see a lot of the bench get more minutes or will it be business as usual?

For those of you that are able to attend the spring game today, please post a good review the attendance, what you saw and how it went. I think it should be a pretty exciting event!

That's impressive!

Holy smokes, that's a huge number of recruits! I'm sure we've never done anything like that before or, at least, not with that big a number. You've gotta love the energy and vision that Plough is bringing to the program. I can't wait to see how what he builds here.

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!