I’m going to miss this one unless the PAC12 Network has an online archive of their broadcasts. My wife and I will be on the road driving from Overton, Nevada, to Bishop, CA. We were finally able to pick up our repaired car in St George after hitting a deer near Bryce Canyon a month ago.

We’ve spent a couple of days hiking in the Valley of Fire State Park not far from Las Vegas. This place is a little gem. If you’re ever in the Vegas area and want to hike and see some gorgeous landscapes, this park will impress you.

That's pretty cool. I wonder how they got permission to do that. I would imagine that Lucas Films protects their signature scrolling intro very tightly.

For sure. They started selling beer at Hamilton Court last year.

Kudos to you AggiePhoto!

I don't get why the radio feed is not linked with the live video feed. Makes no sense. It's ludicrous to have a nice video without any sound except a live mic in the background. How hard can it be to link and synchronize the live radio broadcast with the video broadcast? It's bush league the way it is now!

The Ags also shot well from the line tonight hitting 14 -17 for 82%. They are shooting 75% as a team this year. The Aggie men often struggle from the line and, it seems to me that as a whole in college basketball, women shoot FT's better than men. Anyone have any idea why that is the case?

79-72 Ags. Sac took the Aggies to the limit. Hannah Friend, the Hornet's 6'0 So G transfer from Delaware, got hot from 3 and scored 25 points. The Hornet's record was deceptive with 4 loses to major programs.

All 5 of the Aggie starters ended up in double figures with Morgan Bertsch scoring 29 with 7 boards. I thought the Aggies did a great job of handling the Hornets' full court pressure. They had only 12 turnovers and they made good decisions with their passes and really demonstrated their experience and maturity. They just don't get rattled when the pressure is on.

7-0 and rolling on but this one felt a little too close for comfort.

It's working for me now.

54-52 Aggies at the end of the 3rd quarter. Sac is hitting their 3's. The Aggies have their hands full right now.

Anybody having problems with the online stream? It keeps crashing on me...??

Crushing loss...damnit!

Nice pic, Oldbanduhalum, you caught the moment!

Well as Jim Les said after the game, "This was a character building game for this team. Good teams find a way to win when they don't play their best." That obviously was the case tonight.

The Ags won despite shooting only 31% but held the Bears to 28% which included 1-23 from 3 for only 4%...amazing. It was UGLY but it's a win and it keeps the home court winning streak alive at 12 straight. Les preaches that good defense can keep you in a position to win when everything else is not going well. Tonight's win demonstrated that in spades.

The Ags looked dead in the water down 11 with 4:27 to go. Siler Schneider and TJ Shorts were clutch down the stretch as the Ags closed the game on a 16-0 run. Chima Moneke was a monster on the boards with 16 and scored 17 points but did not shoot well. He was 4-12 from the floor and only 8-16 from the line. I guess there were quite a few pro scouts in the stands and I'm sure Chima isn't happy with his offense tonight but he'll bounce back.

Great comeback for the Aggies.

The online stream is back up if you can bear to watch it...

Don't know. I'm was watching online before the feed went down. The crowd looked small though.

The Big West stream is not working. Live stats and the Aggie radio broadcast are ok.

This may have been the ugliest and most boring half of basketball by two college teams I've ever seen. The Ags blistered the nets with 26% shooting and UNC almost kept pace with 23% shooting. The score was 18-11 Aggies with under 3 minutes to go in the half before the Bears actually managed to make a couple of shots.

I think most of the fans fell asleep about midway through the half.

We are the only team in the Top 25 that is 6-0. Our SOS must be hurting us from being ranked even higher. The St Marys and Oregon State games loom big for us as long as we take care of business and beat the teams we should be beating. The sky is the limit for this fine team.

Here's a few more schools for the Big West to consider:

Academy of Art (well they've got some upset history with us)
Notre Dame (the da Namur one)
Holy Names (might as well keep God happy)
William Jessop (Onward Christian Soldiers)...

Bob Dunning wrote a wonderful nostalgic piece today about The Toom.

Excerpt:

"The old scoreboard, which seemed always to favor the home team, is still standing, and if it survives the tear-down, wouldn’t it be great if it was lit up brightly every night to read “Aggies 37, Nevada 21” to commemorate that tremendous victory 40 years ago played before 12,800 punch-drunk fans who couldn’t believe the rout they were witnessing.

The town and the campus were both much smaller then, but that remains the largest attendance ever for an Aggie home game, either at Toomey Field or at the current venue, Aggie Stadium.

I remember on Nevada’s first play from scrimmage, UC Davis defensive end Casey Merrill broke through the Wolf Pack front line and sacked Nevada’s talented quarterback for a significant loss. They may as well have called the game then.

I remember the closing game of the 1963 season when Will Lotter’s final team, led by quarterback Dick Carriere, beat Sac State, 17-8, to claim the Far Western Conference championship.

As Lotter and Carriere and several other players boarded the horse-drawn carriage that went to the game winner, a hoarse Lotter gave an impassioned and impromptu speech where he noted that when the team’s seniors arrived on campus as freshmen in 1960, they didn’t win a single game.

I remember the tremendous Columbus Day storm of 1962 when Toomey Field became Toomey Lake and fullback Bob Foster was called on to regularly carry the ball through the mud and muck because no one dared to throw a pass.

The Aggies won that one, 8-6, establishing the margin of victory by going for a two-point conversion, since kicking a PAT on the sloppy field was out of the question.

I especially remember the Fog Bowl game against Lehigh in the 1977 Division II semifinals when TV color commentator Ara Parseghian famously welcomed the viewing audience to the beautiful San Joaquin Valley.

In respect to the potential East Coast audience, the game had a 10 a.m. start and a dense December fog emerged from the soggy turf to add to the intrigue.

And who can forget the mighty steam engine with the loud whistle that went off after every Aggie score, a decibel-busting eruption that clearly would violate any noise ordinance we have in place today.

Jim Sochor’s first game as a coach on Toomey Field — as opposed to the times he appeared there as a standout quarterback for FWC power San Francisco State — produced a 24-14 win over University of San Francisco. There’s nothing about that game, besides the win itself, that gave even a hint to Aggie fans of the magical 19-year run that led Sochor into the College Football Hall of Fame.

The memories and rich and will never fade. Win, lose or draw, Toomey Field was the place to be on a Saturday night in the fall.

I suppose some of us are guilty of living in the past. But what a glorious past it was."

http://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/bob-dunning-toomey-field-the-memories-will-never-fade/