It's SJSU versus UC Davis on Wednesday

This one is going to be an interesting matchup as neither squad offers much of an inside game so it may very well be who shoots well enough/defends well enough to defeat the other.

What has set back the Aggies is the season-ending injury to 6-foot-7 JT Adenrele, nominally their solely effective in-the-paint player. He injured his left knee back in mid-August and won't be returning until next season.

Forward Josh Ritchart stands 6-foot-9 but he's more comfortable facing the basket than with his back to it. He's bringing 17.3 and 6.6 boards an outing with one third of his shots having come from beyond the three-point line. He's also shooting a remarkable 63% overall, 56% from long distance. Why he is shooting but 56% on his free throws is inexplicable. Last season, Ritchart finished at 44%, 36% and 72% overall.

Junior backcourter Corey Hawkins is the top scorer for Coach Jim Les at 17.6 points per game, plus 5.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists. He is shooting 42%, 24% and 74% respectively and 25/13 are his assist-to-turnover figures.

Senior backcourter Ryan Sypkens is mired in a mysterious season-long slump, averaging 9.6 points per outing with 39%, 38% and 1.000% accuracies. 69 of his 87 shots from the floor have been trey attempts. However, he buried 46% of his trey attempts back in 2012-13.

Darius Graham is a redshirt freshman starting at the point, putting up 7.4 points and a team-leading 4.4 assists each time out. His assist-to-turnover ratio is 44/25. The underclassmen is shooting 48%, 45% and 65% respectively.

Davis stands 2-7 (0-3 at home, 0-4 on the road, 2-0 neutral site) with wins versus SIU Edwardsville and Loyola Chicago (were not going to count them beating Holy Names University). TheAggie  losses are to Portland, Utah, Portland State, Sacramento State, Idaho, Seattle and Nevada.

Playing small this season has calculated into a 30.2 - 36.4 rebounding deficit versus opponents, plus a 178 - 224 free throw attempt deficit.

UC Davis plays Stanford on Friday.

The lack of size hasn't hurt the Spartans boardwork -- just a minus nine overall. SJSU is getting out-shot 39% to 43% overall but owning distance accuracy 37% to 34% alongside 75 more attempts over opponents. The free throw attempt deficit for Washington Square is minus 63 so that is somewhat similar to the Aggies.