They say it’s hard to beat a team three times in a season and the Ags downed the Gauchos twice. That never made sense to me, because if you’ve beaten a team twice, you probably are better than they are. UCD beat UCSB down in SoCal 93-86, then at Davis 85-75. In Santa Barbara, the Ags came back from a halftime deficit of 4, but at home leading by 8 at the half, they had to fend off a rally by the Gauchos who took a brief lead in the second period.
I recall that against Cal Poly last year, the team's lack of depth and injuries resulted in a second half in which the guys were exhausted. While we have injuries again this year, the depth probably means they won't collapse in the second half.
we scored nearly 50 first half points shooting something like 70%; second half we cooled and they got hot and it slipped away quickly. We did look gassed in the second half.
I don’t expect we’ll see Stokes but maybe Cooper returns and Sevilla is healthier.