Hawaii was the only favored team to win in the 4 games tonight as they beat Cal Poly 69-56.

CSUN 70 Santa Barbara 67: The last place Matadors came from behind in the final 5 minutes to upset the conference leader in Northridge.

Long Beach 93 Irvine 88 in OT: The Beach beat their arch rival in OT after tying up the game in regulation going the length of the floor and getting fouled with 0.6 seconds to go and then made 2 clutch FT's to send the game into OT. Irvine coach, Russell Turner, had to be restrained after the game when he when he went after one of the referees.

Fullerton upset Riverside 64-58 in a game that was closer than the final score.

Bakersfield 68 San Diego 64 in OT: The Roadrunners won their second straight on the road after upsetting Riverside in OT on Thursday.

Anybody can beat anybody in the wild, wild Big West!

De-fense! De-fense!

To continue my praise of Rocek and Borra, with Angiwe out Hawaii seemed to change their offense to get the ball inside. #3 was effective in the 2nd down low. But they took the 7 foot Alaskan off the 3 point line in the first half and posted in the second half. He had 7 points in the half, but 4 turnovers. TOS were result of the bigs working hard, and the wings having fast hands. They couldn’t get their offense going despite having our best interior defender out.

I’ll watch the replay later - curious how many left handed drives Pepper scored on. That guy is a baller!

Pepper boggles my mind. Several times tonight I turned to my wife and said "that was impossible." And then he does something else amazing.

This team has more depth than in recent years

Go Equestrian Team.

That was SO much fun tonight. Good crowd of nearly 2000, loud when we needed it. We held them to something like 3 points the last 7:00 of the first half and took complete control.

Good minutes from Leo, Nico snd BORRA. We’ll need them the rest of the way.

Les seemed really emotional at the end giving big hugs to Pepper, TY and Adebayo when they came out. His post game comments really praised the teams heart.

TY and #3 were REALLY going at it. Chicago vs Vallejo. I’m guessing Ty will be on opponent fans least liked player list!

Like AgAlum mentioned, they don’t really give a lot of details on specific guys. We were talking to the WR coach ( the old timer on the staff) and he said he got the 4 guys he tracked. The kid from Heritage, it sounded like, had a couple snags in early recruiting (he was supposedly committed to Reno from what an area coach told me), so that’s a good get. All 4 have explosive speed and dynamic abilities.

TE was an area of emphasis since we lost 3 upperclassmen, 1 or 2 unexpectedly. Sounds like Castles’ monthly income at Tenn is more than maybe all assistants!

We can’t announce PWO …..but we can send them a committed’ graphic that they can post.

Amusing story about how Plough was the first one to offer Brock Purdy out of some small Arizona HS. Apparently his calm confidence was evident back then.

Each positional coach talked about the various recruits that they were responsible for. You know Hawk, he talked about big picture stuff, while he wants to win a championship he’s focused on having a championship program, etc. From watching the videos, it looked to me that they were after speed and size on the receivers. One recruit didn’t stand out in my mind, but a good crop overall.

Coach commented last night we have some walk ons that he’s not able to announce until the student makes it public on social media. Full house last night at the signing party. Lots of new faces on the coaching side. Spring training right around the corner.

Speaking of former Ag greats, Garrison Goode was at the game Saturday.

Good question. Paige Mintun’s last year was 10-11 I think. At 6’3” she could drive, post up, and step out and hit a three.