Good crowd today. Tough defense by both teams.

Three tough games in a row!

Here's the current Big West standings heading into the games on Saturday 1/20:

I noticed that Jac Mani has been in uniform on the bench for the last 2 games but he hasn't played yet. I wonder if we'll see him this year?

1/18 games:

Aggies 67 Fullerton 65
Irvine 76 San Diego 65
Santa Barbara 97 CSUN 69
Long Beach 79 Hawaii 71
Bakersfield 80 Riverside 56

The Ags came back from being down 11 twice in the second half to pull this one out 67-65.

The Aggies won this one from the FT line as they hit 28-33. I thought that Johnson energized the team with his hustle and determination in the second half especially when he started driving the ball and getting fouled.

Pepper is not shooting well either even though he has 18. The problem is that there is virtually no scoring from anyone else.

35-26 Fullerton at the half. The Aggies did not play well in their last game against Bakersfield and that poor play has continued through the first half tonight.

34-28 Fullerton at the half.

Welcome back, Mike. Long time, no see...hope all is well. I miss reading your comments on Aggie basketball and football.

Both Pepper and TY are capable of making a play like that. TY made an amazing, acrobatic layup at the buzzer to beat Pepperdine this year.

I don't think Les wanted a timeout in that situation. Johnson, for whatever reason, just called the timeout. You could see that Pepper was like "what are you doing TY?" It wasn't a good decision by TY especially since Pepper had a full head of steam and was nearly across midcourt. He would have been able to get within his 3 point range and put up a final shot. Eli was surprised by the timeout. TY thought he was doing the best thing in that situation but I'm sure Les would have preferred to let Pepper keep going and put up the final shot.

The timeout allowed Bakersfield to set up their defense and, as a result, Adebayo barely got off a contested half court shot when the inbounds pass was nearly deflected and stolen.

1/14 scores:

Aggies 78 Bakersfield 71 in OT
CSUN 76 Fullerton 71
Santa Barbara 85 Long Beach 76
San Diego 85 Cal Poly 61
Hawaii 63 Riverside 56

At least we got the W. The officials called this game poorly and way too close, but CSU Bakersfield is the one who might complain seeing as how UC Davis got 20 more points from the charity stripe. — Toke69

Bake was hacking hard with the hands and arms all game long. There were a lot of hard fouls by them including a flagrant 1 where a Bake player nearly took TY's head off. It was a midwest, blue collar game type game.

I felt like this game was going to be a tough game for the Aggies, I watched Bake lose in OT at UCSB and that was a game that they had a great chance to win but couldn't keep the a 5 point lead with under a minute to go and lost in the final seconds of OT. What I saw was a team with a lot of quickness off the dribble, that also hits the boards hard and scores in the paint. That's what we saw today as well. I figured they'd come into the game today very hungry and ready to snatch a win.

There were 49 fouls in the game: 29 on Bake and 20 on the Ags. It was really physical and it seemed like Bake's game plan was to play a lot of players and allow them to play very physical without a whole lot of regard to the number of fouls they would give up and it almost worked. At one point, the Ags were only 19-29 at the line but then they hit 11 of their next 12 and ended up going 30-41. Johnson was a perfect 14-14 and many of those FT's were at crunch time.

Pepper's NBA range 3 that tied the game with 27 seconds to go was a beautiful play. Then Johnson's defense forced a difficult shot by Bake and the Ags got the rebound to send the game into OT. Johnson and Pepper took over in OT.

It wasn't a pretty game by any means but grinding out a win like this was huge. When this team is clicking on all cylinders like they were against CSUN, they'll be tough to beat but that simply won't happen game after game. Now they know they can win when they aren't at their best also.

62-46 Aggies - Final score. Turner led the way with 22 and Sabel had 13.

...I just assumed it was KHTK...guess it was another station. I just tuned in on the Aggie website.

1140 am. Ags win 78-71 in OT. You can listen to the post-game interviews in a minute or so.

What a bunch of crap...ESPN just left the game after regulation. I'm listening to the radio broadcast now. Ags up 76-71 with 13 seconds to go.

Did ESPN+ lose the feed? I can't get the game to stream after the end of regulation...