Awesome! Really proud of this team and happy for them after all they've been through this season. Aggie Pride at its best!

...and Sac has now entered a barren space of FCS independent/FBS wannabe..

He made sure that being ahead of Mercer when the game was stopped was not forgotten

I think SOS and being in the Big Sky played a big role in this decision.

SOS must have played a big role in this as well as being ahead of Mercer in the No Conterst game...

NCAA won't allow free tickets to students. It's lost revenue to them. Anyone buying tickets to the game can make donations of $5 for each student ticket so that those tickets can then be given out to students.

Just got our tickets and purchased and some $5 donation tickets for students also. Hope we get a good crowd.

It's gonna be a really, big, enthusiastic crowd today. I sure hope we're just sitting surrounded by Aggie fans and not mixed in with a bunch of Sac fans!

We're leaving earlier than usual from Sacramento today. We typically get on westbound 50 at 5th street but the all the highway construction and lane changes around the West Sac exit over the bridge have made it a real bottleneck of stop and go traffic. We'll go over the Tower Bridge today and then through West Sac and get on 50 near the Causeway but that may be heavily traveled too. Hope it isn't too backed up.

We need to bring our A game, take care of the ball, play smart and control our emotions and not let the trash talk get under our skin. There's a lot on the line and emotions will be running high for both teams.

Sac will be coming in with a chip on their shoulder. They feel like they've been unfairly snubbed in the polls and have been purposefully targeted by the Big Sky officials after abruptly leaving the conference and talking down about how FCS football is really just "JV football." They've pissed off the FCS and they know they must win to get into the playoffs. They also want to make a statement that may help improve their FBS ambitions.

Make no mistake about it, the Aggies have heard all the hype and FBS talk coming out of Sac all season long and, even though nothing has been said publicly about it by the Ags, I'm sure it doesn't sit well with them either. So we need to cancel out the "noise" and play smart, inspired football without letting our emotions get in the way of our performance. Go Ags!

From Bob Dunning's Substack column:

“There were instances early where we were not playing Aggie basketball,” said UC Davis head coach Jim Les.

“We were very cool at the start, but we did show some resolve to get back into the game.”

“We had a lot of breakdowns in the second half, especially on defense down the stretch that really hurt us,” Les added.

“We did not make them uncomfortable very often on the defensive end.”

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/colorado-is-strong-down-the-stretch?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=179621817&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I hope the Ags don't overlook this game. It's a Monday night game during Thanksgiving week so there will probably be a small crowd so, with Louisiana coming in after being blown out by Santa Clara, this may be a hard game to get up for.

From today's Sac Bee:

Sac State linemen enter Causeway Classic with a plan: ‘We’re gonna smash you’

Marion has called “Coach K-Rich the best in the country,” and he has praised the linemen for their work. Marion challenged the Hammerheads to hammer away earlier this season, and they have responded.

“We’re definitely a power run-team,” Richardson said. “We’re gonna smash you in the face and come at you and attack you with various run schemes. At the end of the day, my guys are going to ram into you harder than anyone is going to ram into us.”

“Every lineman in the county wants to run the ball,” coach Richardson said. “You want to impose your will by ramming into people as much as possible, being violent, being tough, putting guys on the ground. Every lineman wants to do that, and our guys have completely bought into that and love every second of it.”

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article313004778.html#storylink=cpy

I listened to Les in the radio post-game or at least most of it since the radio feed was constantly breaking up. On the positive side, Les liked the team's resilience for coming back from getting down 10-0 in the first couple of and playing tough for 30 minutes and the play of Rocak and Wilson. What he didn't like was all the breakdowns on defense. He said, "We didn't make things difficult for them and they shot 60%. We simply had too many defensive breakdowns."

Ags fall 95-79.

Buffs pulling away 80-71 with 3:53 to go. The Ags look gassed...tough to defend Colorado's size at high altitude as well...

I think it's the best game I've ever seen him play. Really good to see how his confidence has grown on shooting the 3.

Not negative...Ags are hanging tough but things like not getting back on transition defense more than once can be the difference in a game like this...don't want to beat ourselves...

Crappy blocking call on Sevilla.

Ags are not getting back on defense in transition and it's costing them.