From Chima's twitter account:

"Regardless of tonight, this is the best season I've ever been a part of and I'm so proud to be an Aggie. Hope we made y'all proud!"

Also this shows you what a class act Chima is: In the tunnel outside the locker room, UC Davis' Chima Moneke pulled Bill Self aside: "Go win it all coach."

https://twitter.com/Chimdogg_?lang=en

I get that, 6th. I also wish we could get a decent OOC or 2 at home. Holy Names and William Jessop just doesn't cut for me.

Enterprise article on the game:

Excerpt: “I don’t want tonight and the outcome and the score to take away from what this group did,” Aggies coach Jim Les told the assembled media afterward. “They put UC Davis basketball and UC Davis on the map — nationally, internationally.

“They were just a special group.”

“We just had as an emotional locker room as I’ve ever been a part of,” said the sixth-year UCD coach. “And just we as a staff appreciating all this group gave to us all year and all the things they overcame and how they bonded together and allowed us to push them.

“They accomplished some wonderful feats that I don’t want this game to take away.”

http://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/kansas-flexes-muscles-against-uc-davis-100-62/

Yeah, it got away from us but, wow, Kansas is loaded. They were impressive and well rested going into the game. When you look at what we had to do in playing 5 tough games in 9 days with all the travel, I surprised we had anything left at all against a team that could hang with some of the bottom NBA teams. That's about as brutal as it gets.

Absolutely agree, we need to start playing up and toughen up our SOS. The really hard part of scheduling for the Aggies is that it's practically impossible to get good teams to come and play in Davis. Our OOC home schedule was awful this year: Holy Names, William Jessop and Utah Valley.

We also will have TJ Shorts who is a Juco PG transfer.

Great win over a PAC-12 team. It would be nice for them to get a home game but they'll probably have to go on the road again to Fort Collins in their next game.

Aggies are battling tough and lead Utah 57-49 after 3 quarters.

Let's go Ags, win this one!

Super proud of this group. Thank you Ags for a great season and a historic run!

The Aggies lead Utah 40-30 at the half.

We are making some terrible defensive lapses though. Those uncontested layups are Kansas is getting over and over again should not be happening against anybody. Those are mental errors by the Ags on D.

Well we were right there for about 12 minutes then Les got a T and the wheels came off the cart. I thought that was a really quick T on Coach Les. Did you notice that Bill Self did the went after the refs at the end of the half but didn't get a T?

Hangin' with Kansas!

These kids will play their hearts out. Win or lose...busting with Pride for them!

I think Hexter is in Tulsa...pic: https://twitter.com/UCDavisAggies

This kids make it easy to be an Aggie fan...they're such great people...humble with integrity...so nice to see in college athletics...

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I know most everyone will be in the middle of watching the Aggies play Kansas at the time that the women take on Utah at 5 pm. However, I hope you'll keep another window open on the live stream of the women's game too and check in on how they're doing every now and them. This is a huge game for them also.

Go Ags!

The amount on publicity that UC Davis is getting from the Aggies run is phenomenal. I just found a article by CNN on Chima Moneke. I hope the higher-ups in Mrak are following all press and media attention that this basketball team is generating for the school. It's high time they recognize that value of what successful D1 athletics can do for promoting public awareness of the whole university and start giving athletics more support.

Excerpt: "It's been a long journey for Chima Moneke, and it's not over yet.
The son of Nigerian diplomats has lived on five different continents. He hasn't seen his parents since 2009, when he moved back to Australia. He considers Canberra his home town."

"Now in North America, Moneke is a junior forward at the University of California Davis. For the first time in program history, the Aggies are in the NCAA tournament, the premier college basketball postseason bonanza that can turn obscure student athletes into pro prospects overnight."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/sport/ncaa-tournament-uc-davis-chima-moneke/index.html?utm_content=bufferd498e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Here's the link to the article mentioned by movielover. It's a really good read about the "darlings of the Midwest region:"

Excerpt: "Kansas brought a ton of fans to Tulsa, plus a Hall of Fame coach and the likely National Player of the Year. It’s a treat having the Jayhawks in town, but it’s nowhere near the best story at this NCAA regional.

For that, we turn to Charles Cook, who plays trumpet in the UC Davis band. Cook told me about his university’s annual “Picnic Day,” where “clubs come together and do different things, and professors put together science shows and do stuff where they put something in a balloon, pop it and have sparks shoot out, and the crowd goes, ‘Woooo!’"

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/osusportsextra/guerin-emig-uc-davis-might-not-beat-kansas-but-they/article_bcc1756c-f77a-50f7-ac52-ac8cdea777ed.html