31-26 Gauchos at the half. The Ags started off hot and then went ice cold. We'll need to heat up to stay within reach in the second half.

Wow...what a paycheck for the Spartans!

It wasn't pretty but we ground out our 4th win in a row 77-62. Ragged game with 49 fouls called. We shot 55% and were only 5-12 from 3 but we dominated the paint 28-18.

Heck yes!! :cool:

It looks like we just made an easy $725,000:

According to The Athletic, USC will have to pay $725,000 to UC Davis to cancel the game. If the Trojans were able to cancel before January 1, 2020, the buyout would have been $500,000.

I hope we can get another game to fill the cancellation and we don't end up with another bye on the schedule.

I forgot about Squire. He has a nice shot so, hopefully, he'll continue to get better from the outside.

You know that teams are going to be focusing on slowing down our 3 point shooting from here on out so it will be immensely important that we have players continuing to drive to the hoop to give our opponent's defenses something else to think about.

We will lose our 3 best 3 point shooters to graduation this year: Gonzalez, Mooney and Printup. I'm wondering who's going to step in a fill the gap that this will create for us? Manjon seems to be extending his range and Fuller and Pepper have nailed a few but losing those 3 players is a big loss for us.

I can't stand that red field. It's worse than the blue field at Boise State...

It seems like this team has found a chemistry on offense that has them putting up big numbers. We will still depend on defense first because there will be games ahead when the shots aren't falling like they have been recently. It's nice to know that the Ags can win a shootout as well as a defensive struggle.

I was able to watch the game up to the when we had scored 70 points and there was still 8 minutes to go or so before we had to head out to see Paula Poundstone. I told my wife that we were headed for 100 points.

We sure would have liked to have been at the games today but Paula Poundstone had the audience laughing hysterically. The Ags win both games and Paula Poundstone made us laugh until we had tears in our eyes. It was a very good day!

Having athletes that are good in the classroom helps silence those differences.

If the Aggies win the conference they are guaranteed a spot in the WNIT so they need to keep winning and don't have to depend on winning the BW Tournament to get into the post-season.

Probably is a typo.

I've heard it said that basketball is a contact sport and football is a collision sport. Your photos capture the physicality of the game. I love the photo of 4 Aggies boxing out for a defensive rebound. That's the way you beat a team with a decided height advantage!

Always appreciated, Adam. Thanks.

Get the Paula Poundstone tickets! I guarantee you'll be worn out from laughing by the end of her show.

We saw her at a small theater in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last fall while on our long trip to New England and Atlantic Canada. She doesn't have a set routine; she just starts off with some currents events and goes from there...witty, smart, satirical and anything and anybody is fair game. If you've ever heard her on the National Public Radio show, "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," then you've heard some of her PG rated commentary. You get her R rated version in her live show and it is hilarious. The audience in New Hampshire was largely boomers and, the funny thing was, that half the men in attendance looked like Bernie Sanders from behind with a flock of wild, white hair!

Quotes from Hawkins in an Enterprise article:

“We’re always trying to reinvent ourselves,” the former UCD fullback told The Enterprise. “Football has changed so much in the last 10 years, it’s crazy. It’s changed a lot in just the last five years, and it’s continuing to change, so you have to take that approach. You always want to keep the best of what you’ve done and (explore) new things.

“I don’t think we’ve ever showed up and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do what we did last year.’ It’s boring for these guys, who like to be intellectually stimulated. If we don’t change things, it’s probably boring for (staff), too.

“You know this place: it’s Quarterback U. Plough is again one of the best in the country at what he does; we have a great culture there. Really want them (the quarterbacks) to be them,” Hawkins says. “They’re not Jake, they’re not Kenny (O’Brien), they’re not J.T. (O’Sullivan). We want them to just be the best version of them and we can kind of ebb and flow with how that goes.

“They do such a great job of competing against themselves, not with each other. So we’re fortunate that way

“I’ve just got to do a better job coaching. That’s all. Like a good marriage, it’s all in the details.”

This year, some of those details include replacing veteran defensive coordinator Robert Tucker with former Oregon defensive analyst Matt Coombs.

“Really happy with what’s he’s done,” Hawkins says of Yale graduate Coombs, who also spent four seasons on staff at Boise State “It’s a great staff on defense.”

Evan Hicks moves from defensive quality control to safeties coach and Paul Shelton (a former volunteer assistant) will work with tight ends, given the departure of Paul Creighton to Fresno State. Hawkins will now handle special teams. Veteran assistant Jerry Brady moves from linebackers to defensive-line coach.

Randy Wright, the former four-year Aggie starter at quarterback (2010-2013), and former Butte College linebackers coach Matt Phipps join Hawkins’ staff in quality control roles

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggie-winter-features-spring-football/

I wonder why Les rarely used Printup until the last few games this season? He's a rock solid defender and can be a deadly 3 point shooter. I think his recent playing time is one of the reasons the team is playing really well right now.

Nice summary, Mike. It was fun night of basketball. I wish we could somehow get these good crowds out earlier in the season and on a more consistent basis. I guess the secret to getting the students to show up is, "If you feed them, they will come!"

The Enterprise article on the game says that Neufeld is "is day-to-day with a back injury but may be able to play on Saturday."

Unfortunately, my wife and I are going to miss the double-header Saturday. She got us tickets to see Paula Poundstone in Nevada City on Saturday night a long time ago before she knew the basketball schedule. Poundstone is insanely funny and witty in her live show. We've seen her once before and I don't think I have ever laughed so much for two hours in my life. I'll be checking into the game from my phone though.

I thought we simply outplayed the Gauchos and we did it playing small ball. Our defense was tough for most of the game and we battled their length and physicality on the boards. We just had more heart. If it wasn't for Heidegger getting on a heater we would have won by 20. Les has a way of getting his teams to play really, really hard.

The thing I liked the most tonight was that everyone who played contributed. It was a total team victory. How about Manjon also...wow...he's getting better all the time.

Might be the best half of basketball the Ags have played this year. SB has a huge height advantage and the Ags out rebounded them 20-13! Awesome defense!