39-37 Ags at the half. The Hoosiers came out flat but Juwan Morgan has brought them back with 19 points. The Ags will need to continue to play the best ball they've ever played to have a shot in the second half. Go Ags!

24-13 Ags! Playing their best BB of the year.

9-4 Ags off to a nice start. Fuller with 2 early fouls.

My guess is Jen Gross will start:

Morgan Bertsch
Kourtney Eaton
Nina Bessolo
Cierra Hall
Kayla Konrad

Thanks, I corrected it.

CK2 predicted the spread would be this big just after the field was announced.

They've been getting the job done though.

It was true thoug...it actually jinxed them! :naughty:

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I can only imagine that when Les put this schedule together he thought he had the horses in the stable that he felt could compete in the race but, so far, that doesn't look to be the case. Unfortunately, if this losing trend continues, it's not going to help recruiting at all.

The greater Sacramento area is hungry for some high level D1 major sports such as football and basketball. You have to go to the bay area, Fresno or Reno to find that right now.

The sky is the limit If either school were to grow these sports to a higher D1 level and prestige and were able to bring in schools to compete against that fans actually get excited about. That would mean teams like Nevada-Reno and Boise in football and any of the PAC12 schools in basketball for example. It would require a big increase in resources and facility upgrades but whoever gets there first will win the prize.

From the Enterprise: Hornets get even, sting late in hoops clash at Golden 1 Center

“We won ugly tonight,” Sac State head coach Brian Katz said afterwards, alluding to the 40 combined turnovers between the two teams. “They made some unforced turnovers, but so did we. (But) we won at the foul line.”

“We struggled on both ends of the floor,” Aggie coach Jim Les said. “I don’t think we even scored in the last five minutes.”

Les admitted he had second thoughts after not calling a timeout prior to Schneider’s shot.

“I told the team, I regretted not giving them a chance and not being more vocal to call a timeout,” Les said. “We just needed one more defensive stop, but we couldn’t come up with it.”

“Our carelessness with the ball, it’s a problem,” the eighth year UCD hoops mentor added. “It’s not just one guy, it’s a number of guys. And it’s affecting us and a lot of those points in transition off those turnovers where we can’t get our defense set.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/hornets-get-even-sting-late-in-hoops-clash-at-golden-1-center/

Here's another stat that we need to clean up. We have turned the ball over 106 in 6 games for an average of 17.6 per game. Of those, TJ and Siler have accounted for 58 TO's. That means our two main ball handlers have committed 58% of our TO's. That's not good.

I think TJ's 27 TO's are largely due to how hard he is trying to make something happen when the offense is struggling. He's fearless and will drive the ball into the redwoods but teams know that now and are more prepared for him. Siler just drives himself into trouble too often. He's fearless also and never quits but he seems to be pressing more this year and turning the ball over.

It's not a student section until there are actually students in the stands though...

Yep, we were up 6 and AJ missed badly on an open 3 but then Goode also missed 2 FT's as well although he is shooting FT's better than he ever has. There's something stagnant about our offense with a lot of perimeter passing without getting many open looks. The lack of inside production is glaring.

We are only shooting 35% from the field so far this year and only 25% from 3. Siler is shooting 26% from 3, Mooney 27% and AJ 19%. That hurts. Teams are going to make us beat them from the outside with numbers like that. Gonzalez is shooting 36% from 3. We need him to keep firing away.

I was shocked to see that Sac has only had one winning season in the last 30 years. They've been a really weak program for a long time. That makes losing to them hurt even more.

I caught the very brief radio interview with Les after the game. Les essentially said he felt that we had too many breakdowns on defense in the final few minutes and that we didn't score in last 5 minutes of the game.

One thing I have noticed about Les is that he can often be critical of the team's energy and effort, breakdowns on defense and turnovers on offense, but he rarely has much to say about our offensive play. I think his feeling is that there's not a lot you can do about the ball not going in the hoop with any consistency and that you just have to keep battling on defense and hope that some shots eventually start to fall.