Going to OT tied at 65.

65-62 Bake with 3:24 to go in an ugly, foul filled basketball game.

Poor foul shooting is hurting the Aggies. Only 18 of 27 so far and many were the front end of 1 and 1's.

DeBruhl plays with really hard all the time he's on the floor and he's very aggressive going to the boards. He's a tough, physical player.

34-26 Aggies at the half. Nice comeback by the Aggies after being down 22-13 before going on a 21-4 run to end the half.

The Aggies are asleep at the wheel on both ends of the court...behind 22-13 with 9:26 to go in the half.

I think this game will be a grind for the Aggies..

Totally agree. The Aggies won't shoot 55% like they did against CSUN and teams now know that they need to drive the ball against us and try to get us in foul trouble.

His X account shows that we offered him back in May 2019. He had a lot of offers early on from the Ivies and the service academies before the bigger programs started recruiting him: San Diego State, Cal, Iowa State, Nebraska, Utah State, Hawaii, Wyoming, Colorado State, Brigham Young, Nevada and Oregon State. It's great that he has 2 years of eligibility left. He'd be a great get for the Aggies.

I'll often have one game up on the TV and have the other playing on my laptop so I can follow both at the same time, Of course, ESPN+ has the replay available soon after the end if a game also.

Ooops...

I think you pretty much summed it up nicely!

For sure we did...their coach just isn't going to say anything about just how good our defense was...

It's former Aggie head coach, Bob Williams, who led the Aggies to the 1998 D2 National Championship. He moved back to northern California, Lake-of-the-Pines near Auburn, when he retired from UC Santa Barbara. He's a fantastic commentator alongside Scott Marsh.

Comment from CSUN head coach Andy Newman:

"We were terrible to start the game. We didn't do any things that impacted winning the game. We didn't guard and didn't rebound, both those two things are really big for us. We came in leading the conference in defensive field goal percentage, 38 percent, and they shot 56 percent. Our minds weren't into it."

https://gomatadors.com/news/2024/1/11/mens-basketball-csuns-win-streak-snapped-at-uc-davis.aspx

CSUN is a really good basketball team. They came into the game with several top-10, stats rankings and, when you look those stats, you can see just how impressive this win was by the Aggies.

CSUN is one of the best rebounding teams in the nation. They were ranked #5 in rebounds per game, #6 in rebounding margin (+11.8) and 7th in defensive rebounds per game. The Aggies were able to match Matadors with 32 rebounds for the game led by DeBruhl with 6 and Borra with 5.

The Matadors were #9 in defensive FG percentage at 38.2% and the Aggies shot 55.2% for the game.

CSUN was also #21 in 3 point defensive percentage and the Ags shot 44.1% from 3.

The Matadors came into the game allowing 69 points per game and the Aggies put up 95 on them.

1/11 scores:

Aggies 95 CSUN 75
Riverside 71 Cal Poly 56
San Diego 84 Long Beach 74
Santa Barbara 66 Bakersfield 64 in OT
Irvine 60 Hawaii 50 on the island

55-45 - Final

I know. This team is playing really good basketball right now and they deserve a whole lot more fan support.

It really is remarkable how much better this team is playing since the conference began. I really didn't see that coming based on what I saw in the pre-conference games.

Our defense has been smothering in the first half of these games. Les mentioned that the team has really bought into playing extremely hard and smart on defense, so much so, that he said he has to give the players a blow every 5-8 minutes because it's so physically demanding to play consistently with so much effort. Milling hitting his stride on offense has made a big difference too. I hope we can keep it going!