It looks like Poly's conference losing streak is the longest, currently active streak but it's not an NCAA recored. The following is from The Big West Banter by Gauchodan:

A small kerfuffle broke out on X Thursday night after Cal Poly lost its 45th consecutive Big West regular season game. Some guy posted that the Mustangs had tied the NCAA record held by Grambling State, which I had debunked the other night, and he tagged a bunch of mid-major college basketball accounts in the process. Cal Poly play-by-play man Chris Sylvester jumped in, basically saying, “Wut?” To clear things up, Cal Poly has the longest “active” conference streak and it’s the 3rd longest of all time. Colgate is 2nd at 47 (1984-87) and U. of Chicago lost 60 in a row 1940-46. The Mustangs (6-13, 0-7) weren’t expected to have this continue based on their non-conference body of work, but here we are.

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Another 3-pt second quarter. Funky. — Russ Bowlus

All of those 3 points were on FT's also. The Ags didn't score a FG from the 3:30 mark of the first quarter for the next 17 minutes.

I think the thing that is most concerning about this game is that the Gauchos just simply outplayed the Aggies after the first quarter. They were more aggressive, more physical and more determined and the Ags got flustered, turned the ball over and couldn't make a basket. No coach wants to see their team allow that to happen on their home court.

Ags hold on and win 64-60. TY ties his all time high with 35 points.

TY makes them both...Ags up 4.

TY has 33 and is going to the line with 6.3 seconds to go.

62-60 Ags with 6.5 seconds to go.

Ags up by 1 with 1:48 to go.

Our 18 point lead is down to 7 with 12:05 to go.

29-17 Aggies at the half. Suffocating defense by the Aggies!

From the Big West Banter by Gauchodan. (Note: Stephan Swenson hit a buzzer beater 3 in each of the Gaucho's last two games beating Riverside and Cal Poly).

Every time you think the Aggies (10-8, 4-3) are finished they bounce back with a good performance. UC Davis shot just .414 at Cal Poly, but that was its best shooting outing vs. a Division I team in almost a month. The Aggies are 9-1 when they shoot 40% or better. UC Davis stays in games with its ball-hawking defense, which forces 16.3 turnovers per game. TY Johnson is leading the conference at 20.4 points per game.

Stephan Swenson, we are getting bored by your one-dimensional game. Tie-breaking, game-winning three-pointers from the left wing as the clock expires? Yawn. In all seriousness, it’s uncanny. It’s like Swenson has some song in his head that helps him beat the buzzer. The Gauchos (12-5, 4-2) have needed Swenson’s last tick heroics because they have not gotten consistent offense or rebounding from the rest of the team. One player who is red-hot again is Cole Anderson, who would be leading the nation in 3-point field goal percentage (.513) if he qualified (he falls short with 2.4 threes per game when you need 2.5). Anderson is 14 for 18 (.778) from distance over the last 3 games.

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I'll probably have the Aggie game going on my laptop with the NFL game on the TV. I often do that when the men's and women's games overlap. Sometimes I'll skip the one or the other live and watch it recorded or on demand later. Sports are about the only thing I can multi-task all at once!

They were so careless with the ball the first game; same thing tonight? — DrMike

They were sloppy at times but a lot of the TO's were due to our defensive intensity. We had very active hands. TY had a critical steal when they were about to make a breakaway basket late in the 2nd half which would have got them within 6. A Poly assistant coach said the magic words to a ref and got T'ed up which resulted in Sevilla hitting both FT's and stretching the lead to 8.

They really held the Mustangs with their defense. I mean 20 turnovers! — Toke69

Poly was averaging 81.1 ppg so the Ags held them 27 points under their average. Les was really proud of the defense and said that it was a challenge to get getting ready for Poly because does some things that you don't see very often. TY and Les both praised the scout team in practice this week and TY said that, because of them, "we knew what Poly was going to do and we were ready for it defensively."

Ags win 65-54. The loss by Poly was their 45th conference loss in a row which tied an NCAA record.

I don't know if he travels on the road games. I think DrMike said that he had a season ending injury before the season started.

Aggies take down Poly 63-51. Great defense by the Ags as they hold Poly to just 29% shooting for the game. Norris had 17 and Sabel 16 to lead the way.

Yep, our poor shooting continues but Poly isn't much better either. Ags are shooting 33% and Poly 36%. Leo, TY and Daughtery are a combined 4-22.

Wasn't it being hyped that SAC12 had $50 million ready for NIL? Looks like they're looking for a little more...

Evan Kiely has committed to Boise State:

From the Big West Banter by Gauchodan:

The Aggies (9-8, 3-3) make the Central Coast trip this week in a horrible shooting slump. UC Davis is making just 33.5% of its shots from the field in its last 5 games vs. Division I opponents. The Aggies have made 24.8% of their 3-point shots during those same 5 matches. Overall, the Aggies are last in the conference and 21st-worst in the country in field goal percentage. A loss at home to Long Beach State puts extra pressure on the Aggies to get a road win this week.

The Mustangs (6-12, 0-6) have five losses of less than 5 points or in overtime this season after a gut-wrenching loss to UC Santa Barbara, a game they never led but tied up in the waning moments. Cal Poly has lost 8 of its last 9 games and has a 44-game Big West regular-season losing streak in progress. There was some talk last week of Grambling State having a 45-game SWAC streak about 11 years ago, but that losing skid was to all Division I opponents and was just 28 games long in the conference. D3 Caltech lost 310 straight Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games from 1985 to 2011. My research continues.

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