It seems to be working so I think we'll continue to see him start that lineup.

We're getting consistent contributions from Mooney and Neufeld now and that is really helping this team. Our defense was playing well for most of the game tonight. Saturday at UCSB will be a tough one.

7 in a row for the Ags. All road wins are good wins...

Neufeld looks great and then picks up his second foul and has to sit...

Les starts Squire, Printup, Neufeld, Mooney and Gonzalez again.

Click on the following link from Big West TV:

http://bigwest.sidearmstreaming.com/watch/?Live=1793

The pregame warm up is already streaming live from Big West TV.

His future is bright and it'll be fun to watch him on Sundays.

Siler is a warrior; he gives you 100% every game and has done so throughout his career here. He can be inconsistent and a streaky shooter but you can never fault his effort. He's a crunch time player also...fearless and tough...and he isn't afraid to have the game on his shoulders when it counts. I hope he finds a rhythm and tears it up the rest of the season.

Yes, that's accurate. Siler seemed a bit subdued and didn't really get into a flow when he was in the game. I don't think we'll see him sit that much again though.

On the radio post-game interview Les said that he needed to "mix things up." He said it wasn't any sort of punishment to the usual starters; he just needed to try something else with the team and all the players have taken it well.

Les started Squire, Mooney, Neufeld, Printup and Gonzalez and they came out firing on all cylinders. They had excellent ball movement, scoring inside and out and were playing tough defense. It turned out to be an excellent coaching move by Les.

I agree with Oldbanduhalum that Les may have been limiting TJ's minutes a bit. He's a little banged up right now. He was hobbling a couple of times in the last game.

Good teams like the Aggies continue to play hard after a miserable 3rd quarter, recover and win.

What a great half of basketball by the Ags. They're firing on all cylinders!

This sport is perfect for UCD...another great development in Aggie Athletics by Kevin Blue.

The women are rolling!

The Aggie Equestrian Team won by a score of 10-5. The events, of which I have no knowledge whatsoever, were Equitation Over Fences, Equitation On the Flat, Horsemanship and Reining. Google here I come...

Great start for the team and let's hear it for the horse Aggies: Gracie, Eden, Teddy, Cappo, Tom, Van, Casper, Luron, Boomer, Toby, PeeWee, Flash and Donal! I wonder if Donald has a blonde mane?

https://ucdavisaggies.com/documents/2019/1/31//2018_2019_Master_Scoresheet_vs_DSU_Jan_31_.pdf

Great start for a new Aggie sport!

I was about to comment on Siler and Garrison being benched in the second half as well. I agree. It certainly was weird seeing the players Les chose to play for nearly the entirety of the second half.

My guess is that Les was unhappy with what he saw in the first half especially on the defensive end and was sending the team a message essentially saying, "I'm going to see who really wants to play." Hawai'i shot 56% overall for the game and that'll raise Les' blood pressure through the roof.

I listened to the brief post-game interview with Les by Scott Marsh. Les was very brief as usual when he is upset after a poor performance by the Aggies although he has really toned down his rhetoric after he publicly went overboard with his frustrations about the team earlier this year. He just said he was surprised how poorly we played against the zone since they had prepared for it all week. When Marsh commented that Neufeld and John both had nice games he responded, "Well for every plus there's two negatives that cancel out the positives." End of interview.

You could tell that Les was beside himself. Marsh seems almost intimidated anymore to ask Les questions when he's is upset with team's performance after yet another loss. In the post-game interview after a loss a few games ago Les said, "We're all emotional right now so I'm not going to say anything."

It's obvious that the team and the coach are not in a good place at the moment. DrMike is correct that there's still time for this team to finish in the top half of the Big West. I think they have the ability to do that.

Les and the team need to put all these losses behind and take it one game at a time all the way to the end of the season. No one seems to be having fun right now and that's hurting the chemistry of the team. The fun has gone out of the game and that's dragging us down. Carrying these losses around like a dead weight won't help things get any better.

I'm not making any excuses but several things have had a lot to do with so many loses this season. The two biggest factors in my estimation have been the big step up in our preseason schedule, our toughest ever, and injuries that sidelined AJ John and Stefan Gonzalez for much of the season. We needed both of those players to contribute to our perimeter shooting. We have fallen way off in 3 point shooting without them being healthy. Teams are now zoning us and forcing us to try and beat them from distance and we continue to shoot poorly from the perimeter.

Another factor is the we had Chima for most of the season last year and he was a tremendous impact player. Chima and TJ were able to break down defenses one on one. TJ is really the only player with that ability that we have this year. Schneider can do it also but he can be very inconsistent. It's very hard to slash and drive against the zone defenses we are now facing. They clog up the middle and make it very tough to drive the lane. If you can't make teams respect your perimeter shooting they will force you to beat them from the outside.

The best teams in the Big West have several players who are long, athletic and talented. They can create off the dribble and make difficult, contested shots. We are not keeping pace in recruiting those kind of players and, with TJ, Siler and AJ graduating this year, we could be in big trouble again next year.

The trajectory of the program currently is very disappointing after 3 Big West titles in 4 years. I thought we had turned the corner and were on the fast track to becoming a west coast, mid-major power but, instead, we're on a slippery slope back to the bottom half of the Big West.

Unfortunately, I believe we are...