And by "somehow" I mean improved defense and distance shooting

Somehow we're up over twenty now

Oh and Turner this half

Song primarily. Besdolo as well and other than that I'm losing track. I think Gibb had a few buckets in the first half as well.

Freshman Turner showing a lot of promise. And Song is just dominant from 3 -- echoes from the splash sisters in her game

makes sense, I was wondering if it mattered for exhibitions though.

We have stuff to work on but other things are going right. I like our effort on rebounding and creating turnovers. A lot of good attempts to drive to the basket. Nina is getting a lot of looks but she's not getting the shots to fall

I don't think Svanholm did either. Can't wait for this two to finally see minutes.

I think we compete for the title this year, just maybe not with the dominance of previous seasons.

41-37 at the half

glad we're experiencing it now with a lot of players seeing time then

CSUS climbed to within 4. They're getting more aggressive on D resulting in Aggie turnovers.

Ags getting a little frustrated I think. 37-27 now with 5:30 left on the half

19-6 with 3:33 left in the first. Ags look pretty good, boy hard to tell when the other team is clearly outmatched

New court looks amazing

I'm here. They did have the players call season ticket holders inviting them but that was it again.

Trpcic, Bessolo, Stobbart, Toole, and Konrad starting

An apt comparison. I would go so far as to say what we saw was an inferior version of the Gould offense due to less depth and variety at RB and no FB home to block.

Also, I'm concerned that UG is literally the only one running. Do we not even have any FBs or TEs on the roster who can just plunge forward (because that's apparently our only running play)? Or do what UCLA did a few years back and start combing the defense for people who played two ways in high school.

UG is good if you put him in a position to succeed but having him play every snap and run it right at the best D on the conference every other play isn't how you do that. At least he got rest because the offense was almost never on the field.

Obligatory credit to our defense, they were given a near impossible task and still managed to keep the game within reach for three quarters.

I think we do need to talk about Plough actually being on the hot seat. Yeah Weber's defense was good but it felt like there was no attempt to take risks with the play calls or change things up. Think of all the things we used to do that were not present this game:

No double passes (you're telling me Crawford's the only WR who can throw?)
No fly sweeps
No wildcat snaps
No RBs other than Gilliam
Virtually no long passes

Our favorite play seemed to be to run straight up the gut with our small back and it worked once.

Why WHY DO YOU RUN UP THE MIDDLE FOR ONE ON THIRD AND LONG

You are literally better off spiking the ball because of lower risk and less time runoff

That was hairy. Hard to get a read on whether they were outplaying us or there were stupid mistakes or what just by following the score.

For those keeping track, this season now has more wins than three of Gould's seasons, and with one of the Ags' toughest recent schedules to boot

I'm wondering if elevation and cold are setting in. Cedar City is inherently one of the harder places to play four quarters in compared to the rest of our schedule

just checked the UC website, it looks unchanged from when I was an applicant. 15 required courses with a minimum GPA of 3.0 in the courses. If every recruit meets these requirements then that's definitely a filter to ensure that players are at least able to pass the coursework here.