Live from the South Bay

STANFORD -- It is 39 months to the day that UC Davis' football team rode down here for its scrimmage with the Cardinal. Remember that innocent time, when any minor whiff of anything sort of major college athletics set the whole program's heart a-twitter. That scrimmage was the first Division I milestone for the Aggie program. Since 1,000 Aggie fans watched a practice there have so many other big moments -- many of them, interestingly enough, involving Stanford -- that it's hard to work up too much extra lather for a game against the Cardinal at Maples Pavilion. UCD is in the Division I athletics business now, and sometimes that takes you into places like this for regionally televised contests. Honestly, it's probably another milestone that the entire athletic department hasn't dropped everything and hit the road for this game

Only a couple of pregame updates at the moment. Brook Lopez is expected to suit up for Stanford today. He is one two seven-foot freshman twins for the Cardinal. UCD probably won't be able to counter that sort of size, especially without 7-foot-2 Michael Boone (academics). UCD's Kyle Brucculeri is on the trip and taking shots on the court right now during the pregame, but UCD people are saying that he isn't expected to play.