#3 NDSU 42 Montana 20 - Final

#6 Samford 48 SE Louisiana 42 in OT - Final

Richmond 21 Sac 17 at the half.

Sac dodges a bullet when a fumble scoop and score gets overturned by the replay that would have made it 28-10 Richmond.

#1 SDSU 42 Delaware 6 - Final
#5 William & Mary 54 Gardner-Webb 14 - Final
#4 Montana State 33 Weber State 25 - Final
#7 Incarnate Word 41 Furman 38 - Final
#8 Holy Cross 35 New Hampshire 19 - Final

3 straight TD's for Richmond. 21-7 Spiders.

But there were times when the house was dead silen — agalum

I think the "dead silence" is even more unnerving than shooting FT's than a noisy crowd.

The Aggies were #344 in the country in FT percentage coming into tonight's game. I'm sure it didn't improve after going 16-30 tonight.

We just got home from the game. Man, these last few games have been frustrating to watch. We've been in 3 straight games where we have squandered big leads and missed a ton of FT's. We were 16-30 tonight and a bunch of those were the front end of one-and-one's. 8-26 three point shooting didn't help either.

We looked great at in the first 10 minutes of the game. The defense was stifling and the ball movement was good on offense and we built an 12 point lead. Things went downhill from there. I thought Pacific was the aggressor in the second half especially on defense. They made things tough for us and battled on the boards. We had too many defensive breakdowns and critical TO's at critical moments.

Les was very displeased, to say the least, with the team in his post-game comments. He said the players lost their toughness when a few shots didn't fall and got away from playing as a team and started playing "me, me, me" basketball. They got away from the "scheme" on both ends of the floor. The ball movement went away and they began taking rushed, poor shots. He commented on the atrocious FT shooting and he said the players shot a ton of FT's in practice and everyone was making them. Then they get into the game and can't make FT's. He said it's a lack of "mental toughnes and it's ridiculous." I think there's going to be some tough practices before the next game.

35-32 the Ags lead at the half on Peppe’s NBA range 3 at the buzzer. The abysmal FT shooting continues: 7-14.

Less than two hours until tipoff. Pacific will come into the game hungry after losing 4 straight on their own home court. The Aggies have had trouble holding onto big leads in their last 2 games so it will be interesting to see if the Ags can put together a solid, full 40 minutes of basketball. Go Ags!

Ags fall 11-7. Pacific moves onto the semi-finals on Saturday.

The Ags will be without their senior attacker, Connor Norton, who had a recent medical emergency. Live stream on the PAC12 Network at 3 p.m. Thursday.

“He did not have a pulse when we got him out of the pool and we had to do CPR right there,” Leyson explained.

“All of his signs and tests are now positive and he’s making a full recovery, but he won’t be able to play. He was one of our key seniors and we’ll miss him, but we’re just glad he’s okay.”

Coach Leyson comments:

Aggie head coach Dan Leyson, now in his eighth highly successful season guiding Aggie fortunes, refuses to look past UOP, a team UCD beat, 12-11, on a sudden death goal by Connor Norton less than a month ago.

“They’re hard to stop,” said Leyson of the Tigers, who enter the tournament with a 21-6 overall record.

“They have a really, really strong starting seven, good at every position and able to score a lot of goals quickly. They can play with anybody in the country.”

Add to that the feeling among the UOP coaching staff that there were several controversial calls that went UCD’s way in their first meeting.

“I don’t agree with them (UOP) about the calls, but I know it left a bitter feeling for them, so they’ll be highly motivated,” Leyson added.

As if playing for the national championship is not motivation enough.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/water-polo-aggies-preparing-for-ncaa-championship/

All 2nd round games on ESPN+:

New Hampshire at #8 Holy Cross 9 a.m.
Furman at #7 Incarnate Word 11 a.m.
Gardner-Webb at #5 William & Mary 11 a.m.
Weber State at #4 Montana State 12 noon
Delaware at #1 South Dakota State 12 noon
Southeastern Louisiana at #6 Samford 12 noon
Montana at #3 North Dakota State 12:30 p.m.
Richmond at #2 Sacramento State 2 p.m.

Mazakas tweeted this letter from Cory Hawkins:

We're 6-2, Toke.

Milwaukee beat SEMO tonight 84-68 to 3-0 in their own Classic.

I didn't see it at first also but then I saw in on the replay. It was just bad luck. The ball bounces that way sometimes. Fortunate for Milwaukee and unfortunate for us.

Unfortunately, for one error in judgment they should have been 3 - 0 and won the tournament. — Lizaggie

I think you may be referring to Anigwe trying to throw throw the ball into the backcourt in the final 2 seconds after he grabbed the rebound which, unfortunately, went right to a Milwaukee player who drained a 3 at the buzzer. Anigwe was falling down with the rebound and he needed to either try throw the ball into the backcourt or fall to the floor with the ball and be called for a travel which would have given Milwaukee another final chance. So it wasn't an "error in judgement;" it was just bad luck.

I was freaking out and I didn't have any money riding on it!

I think the poor FT shooting has gotten into their heads now. Their body language shows their exasperation after each additional miss. It's taken on a kind of "FT mass hysteria" now where practically no one can make a FT. Anigwe hit the back of the iron and tried to adjust on the second shot and threw up an airball. That's just mental. I think Les is going to have them shooting tons FT's in practice in the next few days.