I think the chances of this game being cancelled is higher than it being played given how the air is staying unhealthy and Camp Fire is only 30% contained. With these conditions the air quality has been staying in the unhealthy to very unhealthy categories. If the health officials at UCD are concerned enough to cancel classes, they are not going to allow athletes to exert themselves and fans to sit in unhealthy air.

The greater Sacramento are air quality at 9 am today was 167 = unhealthy.

Comments from Coach Les:

"I told the guys in the locker room afterwards that I appreciated their fight. There were a couple instances where we could have folded, but we continued to battle and keep making runs," said head coach Jim Les.

"There are too many good people in that locker room … this will motivate us, bring us closer together and work on the things that made Aggie basketball successful: playing hard, playing together, not beating ourselves and working hard on defense all game long," added Les, regarding his team's start, albeit against a tough non-conference slate.

"I love the character in that room, we are going to fight our way through this."

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2018/11/12/mens-basketball-shorts-ii-mooney-lead-aggies-at-arkansas.aspx

Yikes!!

Jim Les was subdued in his post-game interview. He said the locker room is very quiet and the players are disappointed. He liked the fight we had tonight but feels like we made just too many mistakes on both end of the floor.

I thought we played pretty good D most of the time and were very physical against a bigger, more athletic team. We handled the press well but threw the ball away way too often after we got it into the forecourt.

Our shooting continues to be miserable. We are 13 for 71 on 3 point shooting so far this year. If you can believe it, we actually raised our 3 point % from 14.7% to 18.3%. and Our overall shooting is only 32.5%.

Les likes to build his teams around defense but, man, I wish he'd go out and bring in at least a couple of players that can flat out put the ball in the basket.

TJ is a very special PG. You won't find a PG anywhere who works any harder than him.

The air quality current in Sacramento is the worst I've ever seen. It was 227 at 7 pm. 151-200 is considered unhealthy. 201-300 is considered very unhealthy.

Schneider, Mooney and John are a combined 4-19...that will not get it....

This is better than I expected especially the way we started. Siler to really out of sorts. He's 4-23 on the season that includes 1-10 from 3. That's got to be mental...

When they are playing games that really interest their fans they can fill the place up.

Anyone able to get the ESPN live stream working?

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It's easy to become dehydrated in very dry, cold weather too.

That's a very informative article. Thanks for posting it.

You made some good observations but the turnovers stats you quoted are for the first two games combined. We did not have 44 turnovers in the game against Pacific.

Morgan Bertsch and Kourtney Eaton each had 6 turnovers in the Pacific game and the Aggies had 26 TO's total for the game. The team also had 18 TO's at Stanford and which gives them 44 TO's for both games.

The Ags drop to 9th in the Stats FCS Poll:



http://www.fcs.football/cfb/polls.asp?div=fcs

Athlon FCS Power Poll:






https://athlonsports.com/college-football/fcs-rankings-power-poll-following-week-11-2018

Ags drop to 11th in the Coaches Poll:



https://www.afca.com/polls/

Re: Bracketology Week 11

Nobowls http://www.nobowls.com/ :

Jen Gross pays tribute to Morgan Bertsch:

Head Coach Jennifer Gross added, "The fact that record has stood for decades just shows you what an incredible record it was and what a great player Carol was. For Morgan to break it in only the second game of her senior season is pretty remarkable. I think it speaks to the kind of player she is and, the best part, is that she's all about the team and she's extremely humble. She's a special player, she's a special person, and I'm really happy for her."

...and comments on the loss to Pacific:

"I was really proud of the team for the way we showed fight at the end of the game, but there were just too many stretches where we just made a lot of mistakes, turned the ball over, didn't get matched up defensively, and gave up transition buckets," Gross said. "We felt like there were a lot of points that we could have had better control over that we allowed them to have. We just can't do that. We know better than that."

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2018/11/11/womens-basketball-bertsch-breaks-school-scoring-record-in-tussle-with-tigers.aspx

With wind gusts up to 35 mph the fires could get worse tomorrow and spread. I think there is a very real possibility that we won't be playing on Saturday. I can't ever remember air quality this bad and could get worse. California burning....

We saw the turnover problem rear it's ugly head last year at times too but today's game was particularly troublesome. The Ags came out very unfocused and lackadaisical. We had something like 5 turnovers in first 6 possessions and they weren't due to pressure by the Tiger defense; it was just throwing the ball away.

The Aggies were not mentally ready to play hard and smart. The starters are just not on the same page with each other and some of our experienced players that need to step up and be the leaders of this team are struggling. The way we rallied at the end of the game is encouraging but I think Jen Gross and the team must be very disappointed so far.