Ags fall 70-63. Too many blown layups by the Ags and miserable 17% 3 point shooting. The Ags had good looks but couldn't put the ball through the hoop.

35-17 Ags at the half.

Lucky you! :rofl:

Blown layups and poor 3 point shooting. Getting good looks but can't convert.

Tied at 34 at the half. Entertaining, blue collar basketball game. Tough defense by both teams. Ags could be up by 6 or more if they could start making some of their 3's. Only 3-12 in the first half.

Ags off to a great start 20-8 at the end of the first quarter.

Long Beach is having a resurgent year. This would be a great win if the Ags can put together a full 40 minutes without long scoring droughts. Go Ags!

There’s just no bench. And so many turnovers. — abridge

I said this before, the TO's have plagued this team all season. As a team we are averaging 15+ TO's per game and that leads to a lot points off TO's by our opponents. TO's by our starting 5 by player is as follows: Burns has 46, Hall 33, Konrad 28, Stobbart 26, and Turner 23. Our opponents now know that we are prone to TO's and they are dialing up the defensive pressure and physicality to try and force us to into TO's.

This team shows flashes of brilliance but, all too often, we can go stone cold and play sloppy for long stretches. We really lack depth from the bench also. Svanholm has been the only fairly consistent help off the bench so far and that doesn't bode well for next year when we lose Hall, Stobbart and Konrad.

6'0 180 and a 4.2 GPA...perfect, scholar baller Aggie!

I agree with Obda that the last couple of years have not been very exciting. We were 11-20 in 2018-19 and 14-18 in 2019-20. Then, with the Covid shortened season last year, we were 10-8. Those sub .500 seasons combined with our current 8-6 record, which includes a bunch of cancellations and games with no fans, have really taken its toll on fan support.

I think the pandemic has sucked a lot of the energy out of the team and the fans as well. It just feels like the program has become muddled in in mediocrity for a few years now. Even the women's team is having a down year after 5 straight conference titles. Covid, losing seasons, poor student support and a lack of fan excitement in general is hurting the program and it doesn't feel like we are making significant strides forward. Hopefully, better times will come sooner than later. Winning more would help...

The conference title 6-peat is certainly in jeopardy this year for the Aggies. It's very hard to maintain the kind of dominance that the Ags have had in the past 5 years in the Big West. The rest of the league has gotten better and we've slipped some this year.

Aggies fall 69 - 65. The Ags simply do not take care of the basketball...20 TO's tonight This has been a problem all season and they just don't seem to be able to overcome it.

The Titans outscored the Ags 18-4 in the last 5 minutes. The long scoring droughts by the Aggies has become common place for them. They can play good ball for 8-10 minutes and then go ice cold. Happens too often for any kind of consistency. I think we'll be fortunate to win 1/2 of our remaining games.

The offensive drought happened again though as the Ags went scoreless for 6 minutes squandering an 11 point lead. Once we start missing a couple it seems to become contagious...

Yep, we have a tendency to go cold for big stretches too often but our defense usually keeps us within somewhat in reach. Not a good trend though. I thought the spread would be bigger than 1 point for Fullerton. They've certainly been more consistent.

You were right to eat big before the game...no concessions available. Make some noise for us!

Well, it looks like my wife and I will be watching this one on TV. The 6 pm start puts us right in the rush traffic from Sacramento and we're still waiting for the infection rate of the Omicron virus to settle down a bit more too. We've had a couple of friends who are vaccinated and boosted and wear masks who have come down with it and one friend has had some mild lasting effects for 10 days. We're not spring chickens anymore so we're being cautious. I think that we will go to the Saturday game against Long Beach though. Go Ags!

The coaching staff of both teams nearly came to blows and the end of the game in Fullerton a couple of years ago. If I remember correctly, Fullerton was leading by double digits in the final minute of the game and chose to just dribble the ball without taking a shot and the ball went over to the Aggies on a shot clock violation. The Ags had their bench in and someone took a long 3 in the final seconds which enraged Taylor and he mouthed off to the Aggies coaches. He thought we should have just dribbled out the clock even though the Titans had the game won by a wide margin.

Taylor then said something to Les and Nosek that really got them hot and the players of both teams had to restrain the coaches from going after each other. It seems like that little incident has had a lasting effect on these two programs and it has become a rather bitter rivalry since then.

The Titans are coached by former Aggie Dedrique Taylor and the games between these two teams has become a heated rivalry of late. Taylor is in his 9th season at the helm of the Titans and he has built the program largely around transfers whereas less Les generally recruits primarily from the high school level. Nine of the 13 players listed on the Titan roster are transfers from other programs.

I imagine that these two teams will really get after one another in a hard played game and this will be the first time in a long time that the Aggies will be able to have fans at the game also.

Go Ags!

247 Sports says Satele had an offer from Kansas.

We have offensive linemen who stay the same or get lighter as time goes by. I think it’s a preference as the trend is so definite , but it is definitely unusual. — Riveraggie

Maybe trimmer and much stronger from individualized weight training in the off season.