One day later and losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament still doesn't feel any better, particularly since yesterday Northern Iowa knocked off the Midwest's top seed Kansas. Today's game between Michigan State and Maryland is for a trip to the Sweet 16 and a showdown with UNI for a chance to go to the Elite Eight. The lane violation call is still being talked about around Spokane and it's not Aggie fans who are doing the talking. Most Aggie fans have long since gone back home. We'll share a quick anecdote with you from yesterday. We were sitting in a sports bar with Jason Groves from the Las Cruces Sun-News and during one of the afternoon games that was showing in the bar it seemed like every time anyone would shoot a free throw one of the bar patrons would strike up a quick conversation about the lane violation. There were even a couple of "Hey! That's a lane violation!" comments. Anyhow, if it's any consolation to Aggie fans, you have company in feeling that making that call was a bad decision by the official.

Jason Groves also talked to Coach Menzies yesterday about the other controversial decision by the officiating crew, the decision to not look at the clock after Hernst Laroche's three point attemp fell short and careened out of bounds off a Spartan player. Menzies told Groves, "I didn't understand the explanation why they couldn't look at the clock," adding, "I thought it was something that could have been reviewed." We poured over the 2010-11 NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rulebook last night and could find nothing in the rulebook restricting officials from reviewing the clock to ensure that the proper amount of time was put back. Watching the various replays it appears that the Aggies should have had 0.6 seconds instead of 0.3. It may not seem like much but those three-tenths of a second are the difference between being able to catch-and-shoot and just being able to get a tip-in (that's even in the rulebook as well). But we digress.

The season is over and there's nothing that is going to happen to change that. The Aggies had a magnificent two-thirds of a season. Starting with the Pepperdine victory the Aggies went 19-5 and had winning streaks of five, four, three, four and three and aside from the losses to San Jose State and Fresno State on the road, they probably could not have done much better down the stretch.

Jonathan Gibson finished his career with the Aggies with two NCAA Tournament appearances. He's the first Aggie to do accomplish that feat since the teams from 1990-1994 made five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

Gibson also finished out a stellar senior season in which he joined the 1,000 point scoring club. He finishes his career with 1,541 points, sixth all-time among ALL Aggies. It's even more impressive considering he scored all but 81 of those points in his final three seasons. He bested his previous career-high of 24 points four times this season and tied it three other times. He set a new career-high of 30 points against Oklahoma Panhandle State and then two nights later set it again scoring 31 points against North Carolina A&T. His 595 points scored this season are fifth best in Aggie single season history. He finishes his career sixth all-time in field goals attempted (1,215) and ninth all-time in field goals made (530).

This season Jonathan Gibson also turned in the most prolific three point shooting season in Aggie history. He drained 106 three pointers this season on 261 attempts. Both are new single-season Aggie records as Jonathan surpassed Denmark Reid's 104 made three pointers in Friday night's loss to Michigan State as he hit 4-of-9 three pointers. Reid set the record during the 1997-1998 season attempting 240 three pointers making 104.

Jonathan closes out his career second all-time in three point field goals made with 259 (Eric Channing hold the record with 283 made) Jonathan Gibson's 650 attempts are the most all-time as he surpassed Eric Channing on the career attempts list. Gibson is a career 39.8 percent three point shooter which is 8th best in Aggie history.

Jonathan Gibson will go down as one of the best players in Aggie history and is definitely one of our favorites. He closed out his career unlike many seniors do, he turned in a good performance in his final game. Gibson scored 16 points on 5-of-13 shooting, 4-of-9 from three point distance, 2-of-2 from the free throw line and had an assist and two steals. Two very prominent four-year seniors went played their final games yesterday and neither one of them finished well. Villanova's Scottie Reynolds finished with eight points on 2-of-11 shooting while Kansas' Sherron Collins finished with 10 points on 4-of-15 shooting.

On to today's links...

Aggie Men's Basketball
Shannon Shelton of the Detroit Free Press writes that the lane violation in MSU's win is getting a lot of discussion.

Steve Schrader of the Detroit Free Press notes that the critics are on NMSU's side when it comes to the lane violation call.

Austin Burton of DIME Magazine talks about the MSU/NMSU game.

David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Free Press writes that the close loss to Michigan State will provide some added motivation for the Aggies heading into next season.

Aggie Baseball
The NM State athletic website recaps the Aggies' split at UCSB.

Aggie Track and Field
The NM State athletic website recaps the Aggies' first outdoor meet.