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gauchosean

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Hope your boys enjoy their trip out to Santa Barbara, we are looking forward to our first real game of the season and giving your boys another loss! It should be a tight game, we are young and while hopeful for a good season still not sure of what to expect.

By the way, do students and alums from Weber get good deals on BBQ Grills? :D

GO GAUCHOS!
 
gauchosean said:
Hope your boys enjoy their trip out to Santa Barbara, we are looking forward to our first real game of the season and giving your boys another loss! It should be a tight game, we are young and while hopeful for a good season still not sure of what to expect.

By the way, do students and alums from Weber get good deals on BBQ Grills? :D

GO GAUCHOS!
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gauchosean, thanks for the post. Much like you with UCSB, we're still not sure what Weber is going to do this year quite yet. We lost to a great USU team at home by 6, and that was shooting 10% from the 3-pt line (2-20). Many rolled in and out, so for us to miss eighteen 3's and only lose by 6 to Utah State says a lot about our D. I can guarantee you that we won't shoot that horribly from 3 again this year. I am worried about the kid you guys got from LMU, he looks quite solid. Why did he leave LMU after setting a freshman scoring record? Anyways, I wish I could go to California for the game, but I'll be stuck in the snow going to class. I agree that it should be a tight game, so good luck to the Gauchos at the game and for the rest of the season.

About the Weber grills...we get that one a decent amount...haha.
 
Gauchosean

Since you mention that this is your first "real" game and you don't know what to expect from your young team, I will predict Weber wins this game by about 8 points. Weber plays hard D and rebounds the ball very well. Do you remember your days back in the big west when Utah State kicked your butt on a regular and consistent basis? Well, coach Rahe is a protege of Stew and his teams play the same hard nose defense and rebound the ball very well. It is not the most exciting ball to watch, but it leads to victories.
So, you can expect that you will get blocked out and that you won't have many open shots. And, if your ucsb team is like those in the past, we can expect you to give up shots after you get tired of playing defense after about 15-20 seconds and Weber should get some good looks at the basket. We should also expect a very small crowd in your glorified high school gym and thus the home court advantage will be minimal.

As for the grills, we get good deals on those just about as often as you ride a horse in Patagonia.
 
Welcom Gaucho,

weberhoops.com article



11/15/09
Tues: WSU @ UC-Santa Barbara
Weber State will travel to UC-Santa Barbara on Tuesday, November 17th to take on the Gauchos at 8:05 PM. Currently the Gauchos are 1-0 with a win over (DII) CS-Los Angeles. Last season the Gauchos finished 4th in the Big West Conference after being picked to be one of the top teams. This season the Gauchos have been picked 2nd (six 1st place votes) behind Long Beach State (twenty-three 1st place votes).

The Tuesday night matchup is just the 3rd ever meeting between the Gauchos and Wildcats. The first meeting was in 2003 at the Top of the World Classic in Fairbanks, Alaska. Weber won 91-82, WSU went on to finish that season 26-6 overall and undefeated in Big Sky play (16-0). The second meeting was last season at the Dee Events Center where the 'Cats won 70-63. All scores were led by Steve Panos with 21 points and 5 rebounds in just 23 minutes.

UCSB will be led by a 6'5" guard in Orlando Johnson, a preseason All-Big West selection and also the younger brother of former Weber State basketball player Robbie Johnson. Robbie played for WSU from 1990-94 and is #3 in school history for career steals with 156.

Johnson is a transfer from Loyola Marymount, he sat out last year as a redshirt and did not play against Weber State. From uscbgauchos.com:
Johnson's one season at Loyola Marymount was an outstanding one...Set school records for freshman by scoring 383 points and averaging 12.4 points per game...Also tied LMU's record for rebounds by a freshman with 152...Led the Lions in scoring and rebounding, tied for the team-lead in blocked shots with 12, and was second on the team with 40 three-point baskets...Johnson scored in double-figures 20 times in 31 game...Also scored 15 or more 12 times and 20 or more four times...Scored a career-high 26 points against Wagner, 25 against UC Riverside, 23 against Presbyterian, and 21 against Mercer...Had a season-high 11 rebounds three times...Had double-doubles against Boise State (16 points, 11 rebounds), Portland (16 points, 11 rebounds), and Pepperdine (17 points, 11 rebounds)...Made a season-high four three-point baskets against UC Riverside...Hit two or more three-pointers 10 times...Johnson shot 41.2% overall, 32.0% from three-point range, and 64.2% from the free throw line...Averaged 2.1 assists per game and had a season-high of six against Boise State...Earned West Coast Conference Player of the Week honors.

Gauchos Bio
Established: 1905
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Undergraduates: 17,726
Postgraduates: 2,833
Nickname: Gauchos
Colors: Blue & Gold
Arena: The Thunderdome, capacity: 5,600
Conference: Big West
vs WSU: 0-2 - 2003 and 2009

UCSB Schedule (1-0)
Nov 14 Cal State-Los Angeles W 85-57
Nov 17 Weber State, 8:05 PM
 
If anyone is interested, you can watch the game via Big West Tv. I'm under the impression that the online feed is like Big Sky Tv, and that it is free. Don't quote me on this, afterall it might not be free. I'll try to find a link.
 
So, I don't have the right programs to run Big West TV (its administered by CBS College Sports, so it makes sense that its a piece of shiz), I guess I'm going to be all about KLO tonight unless CATCAT can help me figure out whats wrong with my computer.
 
I assume that they will update their list of games later today, but this is the link to Big West TV for today:

http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=bigw&media=150264
 
NICE REFS... Kinda one sided in the second half. 17 - 5 on fouls. Also, whats up with all the 3's? When Weber was taking inside they got back into the game, granted, there were four straight fouls on Weber to give the Gauchos a nice chance to get the lead back. WOW, no matter, terrible Refs.
 
Another very slow start. You can't fall behind 14-0 and expect to win on the road. Lillard and Bull hardly scored in the first half.
 
When interviewed at halftime Robbie Johnson who raised his bro Orlando Johnson (because their Mom died his Freshmen year at Weber) said he would have loved to have Orlando come to Weber, but he was not on Weber's radar. WTF. Robbie said he would have moved to Ogden with his bro so he could go to Weber. How in the world did we drop the ball on this kid. 6'5 215lb. guard who set all kinds of records at Loyola Marymount as a Freshmen. Makes me kinda sic to hear that.
 
An 0-2 start is not what was hoped for nor expected. I am not really that worried yet. Last night, they had about the worst start you could ever see and had a big hole to dig out of.

In the second half, they outscored the other team. They shot the ball much better and rebounded the ball well. Their defense and rebounding is solid. As is typical with a Rahe team, the offense comes around later as the emphasis is on defense and rebounding the ball. If the offense does not click and adjust by the time we get to Big Sky play, then I will start to worry, but not yet.
 
Granted, Weber shot the ball terribly last night, but what is really interesting is that Weber made two more baskets than the Gauchos (Weber had 19 and the Gauchos had 17).

Weber got homered!! Weber shot 12-18 from free throw line, while the Gauchos shot 27-39... WTF?!? In my opinion thats what beat the Cats. I hope you can win a game especially if you are shooting 21 more FT's than the other team.

Weber should never go back to Santa Barbara, especially if the Refs are going to be one sided. Weber was down by 2 with 9mins to go. Santa Barbara was in the bonus with 14mins to go. Weber never got into the bonus in the 2nd half. Sounds like a fair ball-game to me.
 
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