The more I read about Fuller and watch he on video, the more he looks like he could be a very special player for us. The following British basketball website has him listed as a 6'6, 4-star SG with a 6'10 wingspan and they have him ranked as their #1 player for their 2017 UK camp:

http://dengcamp.com/player/caleb-fuller

That's an interesting offer considering all the Top 10 and elite schools he has offers from. Hawk must a feeling for some reason that we can throw our hat in the ring with the big boys and compete for this kid.

Are the Ags going to be in the Ireland tournament?

He looks good on film and is another lefty along with Mooney. We may have been his only offer but Les is really good at finding kids who fly under the radar and fit his basketball philosophy. I seem to remember Les mentioning something in an interview last season about possibly landing an international recruit.

We lost out to Colorado on Shance Gatling who is a junior transfer from Niagara. Gatling is a phenomenal 3 point shooter. Fuller looks like he has a variety of offensive skills and finishes above the rim. I'm excited about the team for this fall when several of our recruits become eligible after transferring in or were red shirted this past season.

The following was posted by NorRidgLum on the Big West Basketball Boards:

Here we go again with a head coach mired with a suspect past. Is Coach Gott implicated? We'll have to wait and see.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/spor ... ption.html

Federal prosecutors announced new charges in the continuing college basketball corruption case on Tuesday, adding Kansas and North Carolina State to the list of universities implicated in the scandal.
The prosecutors said that several men, including Jim Gatto, a former Adidas executive, funneled money to high school recruits who attended Kansas and North Carolina State, as well as players who went to Louisville and Miami — programs that were already known to be related to the case — in exchange for those recruits’ commitments to those universities. All four universities are sponsored by Adidas. The trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 1.

Sanders scored 25 points in the Girl's Small School Optimist basketball game a couple of days ago. Mackenzie Forbes' brother is Mason Forbes and he scored 22 points in the Boy's Large School Optimist game. He is going to play at Harvard next year and Mackenzie will be playing for Cal. I wonder if we tried to recruit either of these players. They are both talented basketball players and both value academics.

PBS is showing "The Boys of '36" on KVIE Sacramento. It will air on Monday the 9th at 10 pm.

Wow, that's a very sad statement and obviously struggling deeply. I feel for him and hope he finds the peace he is looking for.

I've read the book, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown, which is about that UW rowing team. It is one of the best books I've ever read. It's a remarkable story about the grit and determination of a group of depression era young men as they strive to go to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin during the rise of the Third Reich. Highly recommended! It's also being made into a movie.

13,000 fans Indiana fans...wow...you're making me homesick for Hoosier basketball... :cry:

Welcome to AST and thanks for the supporting the Ags in SoCal.

A couple of quotes from Jen Gross in the Enterprise article about the Indiana game:

“It was sad to fall a little bit short and it was disappointing to see it all come to an end, but I just could not be more proud of my team and everything we accomplished this year,” said head coach Jennifer Gross. “I feel like our players don’t even realize how many new fans they made for our program and how special this group was. Teams like this don’t come around that often.”

“We didn’t play our best. In different circumstances, it might have been a little bit different. I’m extremely proud of our team,” Gross said. “I just don’t think there’s many teams, and that tournament proves that there’s not, that can continually get on another plane, go to an environment where there’s 5,000 people cheering against you, and keep finding ways to win and have to do it again.”

It should be noted that Indiana has yet to travel from home and the Ags had to travel over 7000 miles in less than two weeks. That was a huge advantage for the Hoosiers.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggies-finally-hits-the-end-of-the-road-in-basketball-mecca/

Says a lot about both teams doesn't it! 7800 fans in Bloomington supporting their women's basketball team. I'm not sure we'd get that many fans if the men were playing the Warriors...

He's right out of the mold of Bobby Knight...

I think that says a lot about the Ags. We led Utah going into the 4th quarter and just ran out of gas with our short bench. AJ John picked up two fouls in less than a minute into the game and TJ Shorts picked up his 3rd foul in the 2nd quarter. Both of them had to sit for long periods of time. I think we were every bit as good as Utah so who knows how far we may have gotten if we had won that game.

Can't wait! :cool:

Ha...probably in Bakersfield now that they are coming into the conference!

The Final 4 of the WNIT are all heavyweights: TCU @ Indiana and Virginia Tech @ West Virginia.

That's exactly how it is. The high school basketball season was the highlight of the year in the small town I grew up in. I get nostalgic about it when I see 6000 IU fans showing up and supporting the IU women's basketball team. Indiana was a pretty good place to grow up in but once I got to California a whole new world opened up for me.

We are most definitely on the rise but what will it take to get many more students and fans in the seats to support these basketball teams?