University of California Davis Aggies

[LIONS90045]

University of California Davis Aggies

Record: W 3 - L 8
Member Big West Conference

Roster:

0 TJ Shorts II G 5'9" 160 lbs Senior
1 Damion Squire G 6'0" 175 lbs Freshman
2 Stefan Gonzalez G 6'2" 195 lbs Junior
3 Gio Nelson G 6'4" 186 lbs Redshirt Freshman
5 Siler Schneider G 6'3" 183 lbs Senior
11 Caleb Fuller G 6'5" 210 lbs Freshman
13 Matt Neufeld C 6'11" 225 lbs Junior
20 B.J. Shaw G 6'6" 180 lbs Freshman
21 Colin Russell F 6'10" 221 lbs Senior
22 Joe Mooney G 6'3" 187 lbs Junior
23 Rogers Printup G 6'4" 205 lbs Junior
25 AJ John F 6'8" 225 lbs Senior
30 Cameron Ba G 6'3" 175 lbs Freshman
42 Jonah Underwood F 6'8" 220 lbs Junior
44 Garrison Goode F 6'7" 225 lbs Senior

ucdavisaggies.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

Leading Scorers:
00 Shorts II, TJ 14.8
05 Schneider, Siler 9.4
22 Mooney, Joe 7.5
02 Gonzalez, Stefan 6.1

This may be one of the Lions toughest non-WCC games of the year. Forget the Aggies record, these guys can play ball. They play defense, rebound, can shoot and score. The core of last years 22-10 team, which went to the NIT, return to lead the Aggies along with 4 redshirt players.

5’9” Senior T. J. Shorts II is another Anthony Ireland, who last year won both the Big West Player of the Year as well as the Newcomer of the Year awards after transferring in from Saddleback College.

I watched the second half of their Dec 22 game vs Arizona in Tuscon and it took a last second shot by Arizona to avoid an upset. The Aggies overcame a 15 point first half deficit to catch the Wildcats but lost 70-68. UC Davis shot 58% in the second half during their comeback.

The Lions need to shake off their poor overall play in the Riverside game to be competitive in this contest.

Gametime: Friday, Dec 28, 7 pm in Gersten.
Video: TheW.tv

[nbdlion22]

Davis' record doesn't reflect their level of talent. they lost to Arizona by 2.
They are a team that knows their identity, while the lions unfortunately do not. Lets see how this game goes.

[LIONS90045]

Lions are 10 point favorites but I'm nervous about this game leading into our WCC schedule.
Go Lions!

[thx4leavinjimlynam]

Looking forward to a bounce back performance tonight. Last time we were defeated we came back with a very strong outing against Fullerton. Hopefully tonight is a repeat of that impressive display.

Go Lions!

[LIONS90045]

McClendon dressed! Good.
No Cameron sighting however. I guess he is leaving.

[nbdlion22]

Another different starting lineup.

Dameane hits a bailout three to save the lions then gets a charge. Dunlap Immediately pulls dameane. Same ol sh*t

[nbdlion22]

Dunlap has gotta be the dumbest smart guy I’ve ever seen. Terrible coach. He’s too in his own head

[LIONS90045]

That’s the spirit!

[thx4leavinjimlynam]

Great to see Markusson utilized and enjoy watching Eli pass the ball. Very impressive.

[lmu2015]

cant complain about the results. i agree that the substitution pattern was a little erratic but that was a good bounce back performance. I would really like to see CMD cut the rotation down to 9, in my opinion it would be Batemon playing 40, Markusson + Douglas playing 30+, then McClendon, Scott, Williams, and Quintana all playing in the 15-25 range, and Alipev/Johansson/Herman playing inconsistent minutes (depending on match up or who has the hot hand) to round out the rotation.

Obviously Johnasson and Bell stepped up tonight, but i still dont see them as players that will consistently contribute. McClendon definitely looked rusty, but he just doesnt bring enough on offense to play more than 25 minutes per night. Ideally Scott would return to form and be getting 30+ minutes a night but as of now he just isnt there yet (just does not look assertive on offense).

Douglas did not play well tonight (just like McClendon he looked a little rusty).

But all in all that was a good bounce back win and everyone should be feeling good going into league, I dont think anyone in this board thought we would be 12-2, regardless of how easy our schedule ended up being/lucky we are/any other reason that diminishes the 12-2 start. This team has definitely exceeded expectations so far, and hopefully we can keep it going in league.

I still believe we are the 6th best team in league right now (behind Gonzaga, USF, Saint Marys, BYU, and USD), but i do think we have the potential to go 8-8 in league, get top 5 in the standings, and get our first 20 win season since 2011-12. Go Lions.

[slblions08]

After a pre-season full of arguments it seems as though everything is true.

Dunlap Fanboys

1. LMU's record is impressive (although I would subtract 1 of the DIII schools from the list since we only used to count 1). So I would say 11-2 is really their record. No, nobody though this would be our record. 3rd place before conference play is great, and they have a shot at a 20-win season not seen since 2010-2011. The RPI was high and we got mentioned in national discussion with those new rankings.

2. Our win over Georgetown looks better now that Patrick Ewing, or maybe his assistants, have let Mac McClung play more. georgetown started off with a nice record before crashing in Big East play last year, hopefully they come up better this season.

3. Dunlap is credited with bringing in Batemon who will be on the All-WCC team. He also developed Markusson. He also brought in Dameane Douglas who will be an impact player for the program.

Dunlap Haters

1. Dunlap seemingly alienated another transfer in Cam Allen due to his overbearing coaching. It sucks to force a promising JUCO transfer to transfer yet again in their college career. Hopefully the kid gets started on a grad degree.

2. Their blow out loss to UCLA kind of exposed that this team isn't ready to actually compete. (UCLA has since been losing to albeit much better programs than LMU, but Alford once again on the hotseat and nowhere near being ranked)

3. The program and coaching "genius" of Dunlap hangs on Batemon. They still lack imagination on offense no different than the Max Good, dribble dribble years, except rather than have many offensive options in that era, they basically just have Batemon and a prayer. Life after Batemon looks pretty empty (yes Douglas is going to be good but not the offensive controller that is Batemon).

4. The close wins both show ability to close out tough games, but also shows that they are hanging on by a thread and they'll have to increase their level to win any games from Gonzaga, San Francisco, Saint Mary's, BYU and San Diego.