Good ball game and a nice crowd. Hope they stay around for the men too.

I think Derrick Bang is still writing for the Enterprise. I recently read his review of 1917 which he described as a masterpiece. I agree with you that Derrick is a fantastic movie critic and he's been writing for the Enterprise as long as I can remember. He's so good that I have often wondered why he hasn't gone on to write for bigger publications. He used to have a game store in town many years ago if I remember correctly.

I agree that not mentioning Dante Ross was an oversight but I enjoyed the article overall. I thought the intentional, main focus of the article was about the memories of Bob Williams and Kevin Nosek and how they have stayed locally connected. Winning the National Championship without scholarships was such an amazing achievement that it's always nice to read about it again.

It will be great to see the team honored the double-header today. I hope a lot of the former players will be in attendance.

Williams has moved back to norther California since he retired and he lives in Lake of the Pines near Grass Valley. He and the team will be honored at the Cal Poly game on Saturday.

Any insight on who the possible grad transfer is and where he might be coming from?

Adenrele and Goode were, as you said, very good defenders inside and good rebounders but neither were an offensive threat. Printup is a tough defender too but he's only 6'4 and even Moneke was only 6'6 but he had incredible quickness and leaping ability. So size isn't everything when it comes to and interior presence but athletic size is a big plus.

I'll take an athletic, quick 6'6 player like Chima anyday over a static, slow 7 footer. This year Neufeld and Koehler are our only 2 big men at 6'11 and 6'7 respectively and neither are that quick or have great leaping ability. Irvine outscored us 40-12 in the paint last night. Collin Welp 6'9 is an outstanding player and Tommy Rutherford at 6'8 and 240 has been punishing us for 4 years. Les recruited Rutherford also.

Irvine has a history of good big men and the top Big West teams this year have a strong inside presence. Santa Barbara has Amadou Sow 6'9 235, Hawaii has 3 seven footers and Raimo who's a beast with an inside/outside game, and CSUN has Lamine Diane and, although he's only 6'7 and 205, he plays much bigger and is arguably the best player in the league.

We have been a guard dominated team during the Les era here and he's had success with that formula but our lack of an interior game has really been apparent last year and this year though. When the better defensive teams lock down on our guards, clog up the lane and contest our 3's, it spells trouble for us. We can't depend on Gonzalez to catch fire every night and Mooney is currently in a bit of a shooting slump. Manjon and Pepper have been stepping up too but our weaknesses in the paint on both ends of the floor is making things tough for us.

We have 2 players who are currently redshirting and one other commit. Wesley Harris is a 6'6 So from Phoenix and Aaron Murphy is a 6'6 Fr from Modesto. Both of them are redshirting this season. We also have signed Caleb McGill from Aurora, Colorado, and he is 6'7. Oliver Gerhke from Sweden has left the team and he was 6'7. So we have 3 forwards coming in but no really big power forwards or posts at this time. It seems that well over half of the offers Les gives out are to guards.

We got beat by a much better basketball team tonight. We did not play our best, for sure, but we don't have the overall talent, especially the kind of talented big men, that Irvine has. I know Les feels the team is letting our opponents come into our house and get into a rhythm and take over the game. There is some truth to that but we don't match up well with teams that have talented big men. Chima was the last dynamic big man we've had that could really take over in the paint. Until Les recruits some talented big men we'll continue to lose more often than not to teams with talented posts and power forwards.

Looks like Meynell had offers from San Jose State and San Diego as well.

Ags run off with it 61-39 while holding CSUN to 25% shooting. Emma Gibb came off the bench and played really well. Good for her!

Couple of historical notes: this was the Ags 28th straight, conference, home court win. Also, the 42 total points scored by the Aggies in their win over Poly last week was the lowest amount of points scored by an Aggie team in a win since 1977.

39-29 Aggies after 3. Great defense by the Ags gave them a little breathing room.

24-19 Ags at the half. Defensive battle by both teams...Ags shooting 24% and CSUN shooting 26%.

10-8 CSUN at the end of the 1st quarter. Aggies shooting a dismal 13% but their defense is keeping them close. The Matadors aggressive, harassing defense is giving the Ags fits.

I can't be positive but since he is pictured with Coach Tim Keane I would expect that he is an OL recruit.

From his twitter account it looks like he had an offer from Southern Oregon also.

Did the lateral result in t turnover?

Anybody see the game? Did Jake get any playing time?

I agree, the officiating was suspect for sure but, like you stated, it was bad for both sides. I thought the critical sequence that really gave the momentum back to Hawaii was when Squire missed a wide open layup late in the game when we were up 7 and then ran down the court and fouled the 3 point shooter for Hawaii. The Hawaii player hit all 3 FT's to cut the lead to 4 which started an 8 point run for the Warriors and, in about a minute, they were up by 1 and had the crowd going crazy. That was a 5 point swing on the missed layup and the following 3 FT's. Tough sequence of events...

As you say, boxing out and positioning are critical to rebounding and we do those things pretty well especially given that we lack size. It's simply hard to match up with a team like Hawaii with 3 seven footers and 6'9 Raimo who is an absolute beast in the paint. Hawaii is big, talented and deep.

Desire? No team in the Big West plays with more desire on most nights than the Aggies. We're lack size but make up for it grit, effort and smart basketball. We had Hawaii on the ropes in a very tough environment last night in a game that most everyone thought we'd lose by double digits. It was a great example of Aggie Pride.

42-38 Hawaii at the half. Gonzalez 6-7 from 3 is pretty much all the offense we've had.