16 pre-conference games and only 4 of them at home and 2 of those 4 being NAIA teams is a terrible out-of-conference schedule. The 9 road games in a row just make it worse. Les told me that teams simply won't come to Davis so this is what we get. Les wants to play the area WCC teams on a home and home basis but they aren't interested for the most part. He would even like to play Sac twice each year but Katz doesn't want to. I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it except hit the road for some decent competition.

It boggles my mind that teams will go Pacific (10 of their 16 pre-conference games are at home) but won't come to Davis and even Pacific is not really interested in playing the Ags. Sucks!

Last year's schedule was much tougher and it didn't pay us any dividends. This year's schedule seems just about right to me. I see no reason that we shouldn't be recruiting as well and competing well against WCC teams.

I've been waiting for Pepper to emerge. His brother is an outstanding high school player and I hope Les will consider recruiting him as well.

I saw that and, the thing that is even more astonishingly poor judgment, is that the player was repeating the stupid TD celebration that another Ole Miss player had done that originally in 2017. Stupidity breeds stupidity.

We've had a couple of good halves against good competition but we need some wins. It's easy for a team to get demoralized when they continue to lose even though they may be playing good basketball. Time for some W's.

Aggies make a great fight of it but lose 77-73. Really nice second half of basketball against another Pac12 team. This team is starting to find their identity and chemistry on the floor. I'm looking forward to seeing how this team continues to progress.

The game will be at 6 pm PST and will be aired on the Pac12 Network. Scott Marsh will call the radio PBP on KHTK 1140 AM also.

Go Ags!

Yikes, lightening and metal seat would make for an electric chair experience!

I thought Monson went to law school and Tyler Ott was the only other Mormon kid I player I can remember who left but he was only 6'5. Ott was here in 2012-13 after serving a mission. He only played in 4 games as an Aggie and then transferred to Utah Valley and played in 13 games in 2015-16 averaging 2.2 ppg. He transferred again to Dixie State and was on their roster for 2017-18.

https://dixiestateathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/tyler-ott/4096

Pretty nice stadium.

Whose ballpark is this one?

Well that makes two defections recently. I hope it's the last one. Click on the image for to read the full tweet:

Big players who are very agile and skilled generally end up playing in power conferences.

They did a little video piece on the 1998 Aggie National Championship Team. They mentioned a comment by Ray Harper, the Kentucky Wesleyan head coach, that I had never heard before. After the Ags beat the Panthers for the National Championship, Harper said, "Davis does not have the most talented players we played this year but the are the best team we have played this year." That's quite a compliment to Bob Williams and the 1998 team!

Bill Walton chimed in and said, "Imagine that, playing as a team can win you a championship."

You're right, Underwood rarely got any playing time, but when he did, he seemed very uncomfortable and unsure of himself. I'm sure they worked a lot with him and hoped he'd bet able to adjust to the speed and physicality of the D1 game but he never did really adapt. I'm not sure that he was going to develop enough to get significant minutes. It's extremely tough for big guys at the mid-major level.

Incredible courage and dedication from this young man. Football can be a cruel game to love at times. I wish him well and hope he heals up but at what point is enough, enough. You've only got one body for a lifetime and this is, after all, just a game and he has his whole life ahead of him.

Looking at the stats would make you wonder how we were even in the game but the 3 ball is a great equalizer. A lot of good mid-major teams rely on the 3 to be the difference maker. We were a team like that during the years we had players like Corey Hawkins, Ryan Sypkens, Josh Ritchart, Tyler Les and Brynton Lemar. When those players got it going they lit up the scoreboard.

We been lacking consistently good perimeter shooters of late though. Siler Schneider could get hot from deep at times but he's gone now. Not that the ability isn't there with Mooney and Gonzalez but they've both been so inconsistent and we haven't seen much of Rogers Printup at all this season...not sure what's up with him.

Song on her game winning shot:

"First I was looking to drive, but then that wasn't open and time was running out and I just shot it, hoping we'd get a rebound," Song said. "What people don't see is that in practice we go over these last-minute situations and I try and get in as much of those as possible and, tonight, it went in."

"When we went to overtime, we came back to the huddle with the mentality that we were going to win this game," Song said. "It was just a matter of playing loose and knocking down our shots. In our minds, we already knew that we were going to win. That's what I love about this team, the confidence, we were just ready to go."

Comments from Coach Gross:

"I felt like we had the momentum and our team still felt fresh heading into the second overtime period and we just said, 'Hey, let's keep pushing the ball, let's keep the pressure on them, and let's keep attacking,' " Gross said.

"I'm really proud of our team. We played pretty poorly in the first and, give Sacramento State credit, they came out firing. To be able to stick together and keep the belief in each other I think was really big for us."

]https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/11/26/womens-basketball-aggies-win-wild-causeway-clash-in-double-overtime.aspx

That would be a good bet...

No doubt about that but they need to get out of their heads when they have a good point blank shot. Don't rush it and throw up a wild ball. You can almost see Stobbart tense up. They need to work with her in practice on getting bumped but still staying in control and not throwing up a rushed, wild shot. Same thing happens with Hall at times; she cuts hard to get the basket but then loses control on the shot and misses shots she knows she can make. You can see her frustration. I think it's more of a confidence thing with both of them.