Another nice win for the good guys. After a strong first half where Raynaud was dominant, we saw a comfortable 18-point halftime lead evaporate down to 5 after Blakes picked up his 4th foul and a dumb turnover resulted in a Davis dunk.

Agarwal hit a clutch 3 (only points on the day) and Cammann had a huge and 1 and we pulled away to win comfortably. I’m perfectly happy with this win given how cold our shooting was.

Some thoughts:

Ty Johnson is a talented guard who gashed us for 26 points. With Blakes in foul trouble, we didn’t have a good way to guard him and relied on a lot of 2-3 zone in the 2nd half.

Gealer shot 1-10 but the shots were close, no concerns with the game he played (0 turnovers and good FT shooting). We do need Blakes to stay out of foul trouble and lock down the opponent’s top perimeter threat. He is our 2nd most valuable player after Raynaud.

Raynaud had a huge game, controlling the glass, making 5 of our 8 3s and somehow only picking up his first foul late in the 2nd half. STUD.

This is clearly a 7 man rotation, with 192 of the 200 minutes going to our core guys. Batson and Saran say limited action in the first half. Nobody outside our core 7 saw action in the 2nd half.

Smith said that Agarwal was the team’s 2nd best rebounder and I took it as hyperbole but he was all over the glass today.

Sellers has alternated awesome games and stinkers (today was a stinker). Could his Cardinal debut also be his career high for points (like Ziaire and Michael Jones?) I still like his game and ability to contribute defensively.

There was good kid turnout (I brought 50+ Cub scouts!) but the student section was pathetic. I’m not sure they deserve those primo seats if they can’t even get them halfway full. Muir’s “box” was almost entirely empty as well.

One more easy tune up before the Santa Clara and GCU games. Let’s run the table!