MBB 7 pm Thursday: CSUN (5-14 & 2-3) @ the Aggies (12-7 & 3-2) The official attendance was 1075 but there were a lot less at the start of the game as a lot of fans came late. It's sad that our attendance is generally as poor as it is given how good Aggie basketball has become and the winning basketball culture that Jim Les and Jen Gross have built. I hate to say it but the students and the Davis community are just not avid sports fans even though we are winning with true scholar athletes which should debunk their fear that going D1 would build a "dumb jock" sports culture at UCD. We've got smart, high character kids getting it done in the classroom and on the floor. What more could they want?
CSUN played man defense the whole game last night which, quite frankly, surprised me. They didn't pack it in as much as many teams have against us. We scored 46 points in the paint and that shows you how successful we were inside. Shorts, Hennings, and Schneider were all looking to penetrate and go to the bucket or dish it off inside. We had open looks from the outside but were cold as ice again for anything outside of the paint. That just has to get better.