[Dr Z]

Well coached team. Congrats to OU, when the Eff is our time!?!?

[Dave in Green]

Kudos to OU for representing the MAC well in the first round of the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years. But they're built for the short run, not the long haul. Odds are they go cold and get destroyed in round 2 as they did last time they were in this position.

If anyone thought the Zips weren't getting enough respect this season, get ready for next season when OU will be walking on water with the national media. The Bobkitties have taken over from Can't as the MAC team that can actually win NCAA tournament games.

[UAZip0510]

Count me in as those supporting OU. When they came to the JAR, I kind of expected their fans to be a little cocky, considering they had just made the Final Four. They were extremely classy though, and Smart is fun to watch. Go VCU!

[Districtballer]

Count me in as those supporting OU. When they came to the JAR, I kind of expected their fans to be a little cocky, considering they had just made the Final Four. They were extremely classy though, and Smart is fun to watch. Go VCU!

Thanks guys, we have our garbage bandwagon fans just the same as any successful school, but our core fans who have been around a while and seen us through the bad and the good are as knowledgeable and cordial a fan base as they come.

Hopefully you guys can help root us on to a victory against the Hoosiers of Indiana tonight! Down with the Big 10!

[Zip_ME87]

Go Rams!

[Dave in Green]

VCU up on Indiana at the half, 42-41.

[Dave in Green]

VCU up by 5 with less than 4 minutes left.

Man, I just have to say how much I love VCU's style of play. One of the announcers just summed it up pretty well when he noted that VCU is "relentless" on both offense and defense.

I really like that term relentless. I like it when the players are always sharp and crisp, lunging for balls on defense all the time and moving so fast on offense all the time that someone is always open.

I would love to see the Zips play this style of ball. I would love it if KD spent some time with Shaka trying to emulate that style of play.

The one thing that concerns me is that the Zips players just don't seem to be in great athletic shape. I don't mean they aren't athletic, because they are. But they seem to lack endurance. In spite of many slow, deliberate offensive possessions and in spite of all the subbing that goes on, I frequently see Zips players sucking air and bending over as if they've been running a marathon.

If I could wish for one thing, it would be that KD would put all the Zips players on a serious endurance training program so that they could play flat out on offense and defense for the whole game without tiring out. I want to see Zips players begging to stay in instead of asking to be subbed out.

Otherwise I fear that the Zips may not be spending much time in the NCAA tournament, and that I'll end up watching my second favorite team (VCU) making a run through the tournament every season because they are physically fit enough to be relentless all the time.

[Dave in Green]

Well, crap. VCU loses by 2. But I still love their relentless style, even if they missed shots near the end that could have won it.

[Z.I.P.]

Well, crap. VCU loses by 2. But I still love their relentless style, even if they missed shots near the end that could have won it.

Ahhhhhh! That's a shame (and three Big Tens still dancing). Worse for me is being able to see only one game at a time (watching on Armed Forces Net this year from On the Road). I still haven't seen one play from OU's huge win over the Wolverines! I expect Shaka and Districtballer's club to go much farther next year's tournament. I would love for Akron to get them somewhere in the 2013 dance. That's probably the only way we seem them again.

[UAZip0510]

One of the TNT announcers just said he's been told Shaka will be the next coach at Illinois. Hear anything like that Districtballer?

[akzipper]

So glad they lost!! One overrated team down, one to go.

Today we are all Indiana and USF fans!

[mes102]

One of the TNT announcers just said he's been told Shaka will be the next coach at Illinois. Hear anything like that Districtballer?

I hope it's not true...Just because i want Groce to get it...so he can take Cooper and everyone else with him too...

[UAZip0510]

I hope it's not true...Just because i want Groce to get it...so he can take Cooper and everyone else with him too...

Can't see Cooper transferring at this point

[GP1]

Man, I just have to say how much I love VCU's style of play. One of the announcers just summed it up pretty well when he noted that VCU is "relentless" on both offense and defense.

If I could wish for one thing, it would be that KD would put all the Zips players on a serious endurance training program so that they could play flat out on offense and defense for the whole game without tiring out. I want to see Zips players begging to stay in instead of asking to be subbed out.

Smart learned a lot at Clemson and Florida where he gained experience working with teams with a ton of athletic talent. He knows how to take that athletic talent and do something with it. That is what a young coach really learns at big time programs. We don't have anyone on our staff with that kind of experience.

Here is how you get players in game shape beyond just weight training. Instead of playing every player under the sun during the OOC schedule, get 7-8 guys in game shape by playing them more minutes. We don't need a nine man rotation. We need 7 good guys and two to take up minutes. Figure that out and the players conditioning won't be a problem.

[Dave in Green]

If you analyze the number of players the Zips and VCU played this season and the number of minutes they averaged, there's not a significant difference. The VCU players did not get into better shape by having fewer players playing longer minutes in games than the Zips.