PBS is showing "The Boys of '36" on KVIE Sacramento. It will air on Monday the 9th at 10 pm.

Wow, that's a very sad statement and obviously struggling deeply. I feel for him and hope he finds the peace he is looking for.

I've read the book, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown, which is about that UW rowing team. It is one of the best books I've ever read. It's a remarkable story about the grit and determination of a group of depression era young men as they strive to go to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin during the rise of the Third Reich. Highly recommended! It's also being made into a movie.

13,000 fans Indiana fans...wow...you're making me homesick for Hoosier basketball... :cry:

Welcome to AST and thanks for the supporting the Ags in SoCal.

A couple of quotes from Jen Gross in the Enterprise article about the Indiana game:

“It was sad to fall a little bit short and it was disappointing to see it all come to an end, but I just could not be more proud of my team and everything we accomplished this year,” said head coach Jennifer Gross. “I feel like our players don’t even realize how many new fans they made for our program and how special this group was. Teams like this don’t come around that often.”

“We didn’t play our best. In different circumstances, it might have been a little bit different. I’m extremely proud of our team,” Gross said. “I just don’t think there’s many teams, and that tournament proves that there’s not, that can continually get on another plane, go to an environment where there’s 5,000 people cheering against you, and keep finding ways to win and have to do it again.”

It should be noted that Indiana has yet to travel from home and the Ags had to travel over 7000 miles in less than two weeks. That was a huge advantage for the Hoosiers.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggies-finally-hits-the-end-of-the-road-in-basketball-mecca/

Says a lot about both teams doesn't it! 7800 fans in Bloomington supporting their women's basketball team. I'm not sure we'd get that many fans if the men were playing the Warriors...

He's right out of the mold of Bobby Knight...

I think that says a lot about the Ags. We led Utah going into the 4th quarter and just ran out of gas with our short bench. AJ John picked up two fouls in less than a minute into the game and TJ Shorts picked up his 3rd foul in the 2nd quarter. Both of them had to sit for long periods of time. I think we were every bit as good as Utah so who knows how far we may have gotten if we had won that game.

Can't wait! :cool:

Ha...probably in Bakersfield now that they are coming into the conference!

The Final 4 of the WNIT are all heavyweights: TCU @ Indiana and Virginia Tech @ West Virginia.

That's exactly how it is. The high school basketball season was the highlight of the year in the small town I grew up in. I get nostalgic about it when I see 6000 IU fans showing up and supporting the IU women's basketball team. Indiana was a pretty good place to grow up in but once I got to California a whole new world opened up for me.

We are most definitely on the rise but what will it take to get many more students and fans in the seats to support these basketball teams?

Excellent post-game interview with Indiana's coach, Teri Moren, who is an Indiana native. It was great to hear her say that UC Davis is a very good basketball team that it was not easy to get ready them for on a day's notice. She talks about their strategy to contain Morgan and it's very interesting. If you like basketball game plan strategy, you'll especially like the first part of the interview.

http://iuhoosiers.com/news/2018/3/25/womens-basketball-moving-on-indiana-too-much-for-uc-davis-in-wnit-quarterfinals.aspx

The official attendance today was 6001 and, believe me, they were loud and into the game. Wow, 6000 for a women's WNIT basketball game tells you a lot about the passion for basketball that exists in Indiana. Other than Hawai'i, when is the last time anyone can remember a basketball team, men's or women's, from the Big West drawing 6000 fans for any game?

Bloomington and Davis are very similar in a lot of ways as fairly small, college towns with populations of about 85,000 and 66,000 respectively. Both towns are politically progressive and Bloomington is known in the state as a "small island of liberalism in a sea of conservatism." I'd live in Bloomington if I was ever to live in Indiana again. It's a great community.

I left Indiana shortly after I turned 19 when I went into the service and never returned. After 4 years I was discharged in Long Beach. The Beach Boys had sung songs about California Girls and I was very interested, the geographic diversity of the state boggled my mind, and I had the GI Bill so I could afford to go to school. I was here to stay.

The one thing I do miss a lot though is Indiana's passion for basketball no matter what level of the game from high school to college to the Pacers. When you drive through the small towns surrounded by cornfields you'll see a basketball hoop on just about every garage or barn. Hoosiers not only just love the game, they understand it and appreciate the complexity and beauty of it. I do miss being around that kind of passion for the game and keep hoping that, perhaps someday, we'll see the Aggies get that kind of support from the students and the community.

I loved following both teams this year and hope we have another couple of good rides next season.

Go Ags!

That would seem more reasonable. I just remember Greg Wong saying that "we have a long bus ride ahead," and I took it to mean a 9 hour trip to Indianapolis and I thought, wow, that would be exhausting for the team.

Are we 100% sure that the team bused from Manhattan, Kansas, to Bloomington? Greg Wong mentioned the bus trip before signing off the KDVS broadcast against K State but, today, the Indiana commentators said some about the Ags having traveled 7000 miles recently including a flight to Indianapolis so I'm not sure if we bused or flew...??

I was impressed with how fundamentally sound Indiana is. They played excellent defense and made it tough on Morgan and their two top players, Tyra Buss and Amanda Cahill, had 30 and 24 points respectively whereas they were able to limit Morgan to 13 points on just 5 of 13 from the field.

The Hoosiers also beat us in the paint 36-18 as Buss was able to consistently score off the dribble-drive into the lane and we struggled to score off penetration. I think Indiana's game plan was to take away the interior and make us try and beat them from distance even though we are a good 3 point shooting team. Unfortunately for us, not enough 3's fell, 12 of 30, to make up for the disparity in the paint.

I hope we can continue to build the program also. We lose a lot with the Splash Sisters all graduating. The returning Aggies got a lot of quality post-season exposure in the past two years and playing against the Hoosiers today in the front of a huge crowd gave them a taste of what it will take to become competitive with the best women's programs.