The Aggies drag themselves home with a losing record in conference play and needing a sweep this week, which will be tough given their opponent on Saturday. In the meantime they need to get past the Titans who aren’t exactly burning through the Big West, but have good victories over UCSB and UCSD, the latter on the road, although the Tritons have stumbled a bit after going 11-2 prior to January. Their road record is 2-6 with the best win being the aforementioned one over UCSD. Statistically they resemble Cal Poly in that the Titans score a lot of points, first in the Big West by a large margin, 86.7 ppg. (UCD is second at 81.2) while giving up a lot of points, 85.9 ppg. 9th worst in all of Division 1. They don’t, however, make a high percentage of 3 point shots or one scorer, like Hamad Mousa, rather they rely on balanced scoring and they have a lot of depth.

Again, similar to Cal Poly, Fullerton often has five guards on the court, although they have been including a forward in the starting lineup. In fact, looking at their roster, there are only two forwards on the entire team. One of them, starting forward Kendrick De Luna, 6’ 10” is the only player returning from last year. The fact that he has shot 100% from the 3 point line does not mean he is much of a factor (he’s 1 for 1). He averages 4.2 ppg and 2.6 rpg. The forward most likely spend more time on the floor at the Credit Union Center is Landon Seamon, a 6’ 8” forward from Vacaville who transferred from Menlo College. He’s been good for 21 minutes a game, 13.5 ppg. and 3.9 rpg. Hope this means that Coach Les will start Niko Rocak.

The four starting guards are Joshua Ward, a transfer from Life University (there is Life in Georgia), Jefferson De La Cruz Monegro from Valparaiso and freshmen Bryce Cofield and Christian Williams. Also getting double minutes of playing time so far are freshmen guards Davis White and K. J. Garris plus transfer Jaden Henderson, from Jessup, and Bailey Nunn, from Sac State. The scoring comes from Seamon, Ward, De La Cruz Monegro, and Cofield who all score from 12 to 14 ppg combining for 53 ppg. I’m guessing that they swarm to the ball for rebounds because for all their lack of big men, they have 11.2 offensive rebounds per game v, 9.3 for the Ags

Unlike Cal Poly, the Aggies will be at home for this one, so it’s time to get back to .500.