Great write up! I loved the scene at the end with the Tower Bridge glowing in the background and the beautiful scenes of Ladybird driving along the river. Classic visions of the Sacramento River in the morning or setting light.

Yes, St Francis is a private, Catholic, all girls high school in east Sacramento. High academics and great sports teams. The whole movie was filmed in Sacramento.

It's an outstanding movie. The move won a Golden Globe Award and the lead actress, Saorise Ronan, won a Golden Globe for a lead actress. The average critic's score is 99%. The director, Greta Gerwig grew up in Sacramento and attended St Francis High School. Wonderfully written and both touching and funny.

Ladybird, played by Ronan, does say something like "I'm not going to a boring agriculture school in Davis."

Huh...got me...??

I agree, this has to be emotionally rough for Chima and for his teammates also.To make things even worse, I believe that his parents were going to come to Davis and see him play and now...??? Real shame all of this has happened...

They could fly into St George, Utah, and from there it's only a 50 minute drive to Cedar City.

#freeAggiefans

What a great program this is for kids with chronic illnesses. Not only is this wonderful for the kids but for the Aggie players too:

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/021118aai.html

In all likelihood Morgan will be the all time #1 scorer ever in women's basketball before she graduates and, when the team plays like they did yesterday, they are a pleasure to watch.

Even if Chima is not reinstated this season I believe his eligibility would be over. As I understand it the NCAA allows 5 years to complete 4 years of play. An additional year can be petitioned for due to injury but it wouldn't be allowed for a suspension.

I believe that Chima could be reinstated at any time including the post-season if the the Aggies were to get there. Realistically, however, without Chima, given what I have seen so far, we are going to have a tough time in all of our 5 remaining conference games. We are very much a middle of the league team without him in the lineup and we really have no who can replace his talent. Shorts, Schneider, Onybalu and Goode are giving it their all but we fall off quickly after that and it hasn't been enough to fill the void yet.

From today's Davis Enterprise:

Trailing by two, the Aggies had the ball out of bounds under the basket with five seconds left after Fullerton was called for traveling.

During a timeout, UCD head coach Jim Les drew up a play where Shorts would inbound the ball to Rogers Printup, who would attempt a game-winning three-pointer if it were available. If not, the ball was to go back to Shorts for a drive down the lane.

“That was the plan and five seconds is plenty of time to get a good look,” Shorts explained.

The ball went to Printup as planned, but he did not have an open shot, so he fed Shorts, who drove the lane in heavy traffic to attempt a shot that had fallen several times earlier in his 21-point night.

“Those are shots that I’m used to finishing, especially in traffic and over taller men,” added the 5-foot-9 Shorts.

“I tried to get it just over the front of the rim and it just so happens this one came out. Those things happen.”

Added Les, “We got the ball to the right guy for him to shoot a good shot and you have to accept the result. I’ll live with giving T.J. the final shot every time. It just didn’t happen to fall.”

“The bottom line is we had some really good looks tonight, but they made their big shots and we just missed ours,” Les said.

Fullerton coach Dedrique Taylor, who played three years (1995-97) at UCD under Bob Williams and later served as an Aggie assistant during the 2000-01 season, said it was just another crazy Big West Conference game.

“That was Big West basketball at its best,” Taylor said.

“Every team has a chance every night, at home or on the road. It certainly mumble-jumbles the standings, but we’re back in the thick of it now. Obviously, they were a man down and that really hurt them. He (Moneke) went for 29 points and 12 rebounds against us last time. If he’d done that tonight, we wouldn’t have had a chance.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggie-men-drop-nailbiter-to-titans/

In the post-game radio interview Les was very discouraged and didn't have much to say except that he was "very discouraged with the way we played defense." I noticed that Les was pulling players out of the game with regularity every time there was anything that he thought was a defensive mistake or lapse. He's a smart coach but I think it must be pretty tough to play for him at times.

I honestly don't know. Unfortunately, I don't think it's a good sign that we haven't heard anything in a week.

Some students had a sign at today's game that said #freechima.

Ags down 33-26 at the half. 0-8 from 3. Ahmad has 20 for Fullerton. Pretty good crowd but flat energy on the building. Students are asleep.

Welcome back. Bring us some luck!

Ags win 72-46. Dominating performance and their 20th win.

58-30 Ags at the end of the 3rd

39-19 Ags at the half. Aggies are playing outstanding on both ends of the floor. Impressive defense and 8 from downtown

16-10 Aggies at the end of the first quarter