While both PictoBlox and Scratch are used in educational settings, PictoBlox places a stronger emphasis on AI, Machine Learning, Robotics and STEM education and integrating physical computing. It also offers various extensions related to Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Music, Animation, looks, motion, sensing, operators, face detection, object detection, NLP, Chat GPT and more that you can find out here. These extensions provide additional blocks and functionalities to interact with specific hardware devices. There are many additional features PictoBlox offers, a wide range of extensions, including ones for integrating popular hardware platforms like Arduino, Lego and micro:bit. The blocks in PictoBlox are also larger and more visually appealing with a more interactive User Interface. PictoBlox runs block coding even on Android smartphones and iPhones. While Scratch is an amazing educational platform for kids to start their first coding project, PictoBlox offers a more streamlined and simplified interface, making it easier for young learners to navigate and use. PictoBlox has a slightly different user interface compared to Scratch. You have to come out and play well.PictoBlox’ block programming environment is based on Scratch 3.0 and Google Blockly, hence the basic functionality is similar. You can’t come out and just play to win a game anymore. If you don’t play well, you’re going to get beat. And if you play to your standards and you’re playing lesser talented teams, you should win the game. “We have to play to our standards, and we have standards. Our message is consistent: It’s that our biggest opponent is ourselves. “I’m in charge of the program, so I have to make sure opponents don’t get overlooked and they get treated with respect.
“I can’t let the team overlook anybody,” Dutcher said. New Mexico was 20 in NET … and lost at home against 273 Air Force.īoise State, Colorado State, Nevada and UNLV, all in the top 100 of NET, all have lost Quad 3 or 4 games this season as well. The margin between the best and the worst, honestly, is not that big.” You have to respect the game, respect your opponent. “When it comes to Quad 3 teams or Quad 4 teams, when you’re a Quad 1 team, it’s easy to have the mindset that you’re just better and talent-wise you’re going to win. That’s when the coaches do a good job of stepping it up, and it rubs off on players. “If anything, they’re even more amped up for Quad 3 and Quad 4 teams, because human nature, you’re going to let down a little bit.
“I just know how the coaches approach it,” said Aguek Arop, who spent five years at SDSU as a player and is in his first as a member of Dutcher’s staff. Baylor and Texas Tech both lost sub-100 games in 2018. His assistants notice a change in demeanor in the days leading to a game against a lesser opponent, the urgency in meetings, the attention to detail in film sessions, the purpose in practice.Īnother stat: Of the current top 50 teams in Kenpom, only Baylor and Texas Tech have gone longer since SDSU’s last loss against an opponent ranked 100 or worse (83-70 at 188 New Mexico on Feb. That’s what happens when you hang all these titles. We know we’re going to see everybody’s best shot, so we owe it to them to give them our best shot. “We’ve had good teams, good players, good coaches,” Dutcher said. Everyone else is well into double figures, topped by Air Force with 35. Boise State has lost five, Utah State and Colorado State seven each, Nevada nine. The Aztecs have yet to lose a Quad 3, Quad 4 or non-Division I game in the four-year history of the NET. No one else in the conference currently has won more than five in a row. The next longest active streak in the Mountain West belongs to Utah State, which has won 22 straight Quad 3 or lower games. SDSU is 57-0 in Quad 3 or lower games, defined as your opponent being worse than 75 in the NET at home, 100 on a neutral floor or 135 on the road - viewed by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee as “bad” losses. Quad 1 and 2 are the highest quality opponents, Quad 3 and 4 the lowest. The NET metric has been in existence for four seasons now, ranking every Division I program from 1 to 362 and sorting games into four quadrants.
Which might help explain an incredible statistic that, as much as the banners hanging in Viejas or its fearsome defensive identity, defines this program.