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  1. 42 minutes ago, LZIp said:

    Early, but JMU is playing physical as hell against Wisconsin. Straight bullying them 

     

    Nearly halftime and they are having their way. Our loss to them was completely respectable. Assuming the MAC/SBC challenge continues and they do the first matchup the same way, we'll play either them or App State next season. 

  2. 49 minutes ago, zipsrowdy88 said:

    Hearing credible rumors that VonCameron Davis will enter his name in the portal.

     

    If this is true, Kent will pretty much only be returning Julius Rollins & Hornbeak. 

     

    Kent's summer school classes are going to include "Which Number is Higher: 61 or 60", "How to Look at the Scoreboard at the End of Games", and "When Not to Foul."

     

    These are, of course, HUGE leaps above their typical summer school classes such as "Counting to 3", "ABC's: Sing With Me", and "Our Truth: Drawing Birds with Teeth."

     

    Rumor has it Pinky is frantically hitting the portal for any ladies with basketball player boyfriends and coaches who have stud sons/nephews/etc. 

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  3. With the unfortunate yet inevitable end for the 2023-24 Zips men's basketball season, we've arrived at the off-season portion of the calendar. The Transfer Portal and TOS Coaching Carousel will be the hot button topics, and I figured it would be good to keep a tracker as the first post on a thread. If anything is missing from this post, please comment and tag me so I see it and can update this post. Go Zips!

     

    MAC Transfer Portal

     

    Akron - OUT - None

     

    Ball State - OUT - Micah Bell, Trent Middleton Jr, Quincy Adams, Jalin Anderson, Joey Brown

    Ball State - IN - Payton Sparks (6'10"/C/Indiana/Balls)

     

    Bowling Green - OUT - Rashaun Agee(!), EJay Greer, PJ Edwards, Marcus Hill(!)

     

    Buffalo - OUT - Kanye Jones, Jonnivius Smith

    Buffalo - IN - Noah Batchelor (6'6"/SO/G/Maryland)

     

    CMU - OUT - Derrick Butler(!), Max Majerie, Aidan Rubio, Jemal Davis, Markus Harding, Paul McMillan IV, Noah Adamczyk

     

    EMU - OUT - Julius Ellerbe, John McGriff, Derik Pranger, Tyson Acuff(!), Connor Serven, Andrew Wells, Javantae Randle

     

    PCCC - OUT - Reggie Bass, LA Hayes, Jalen Sullinger(!), VonCameron Davis(!)

    PCCC - IN - Morgan Safford (6'5"/PG/Miami OH)

     

    Miami - OUT - Ryan Mabrey, Jaquel Morris, Morgan Stafford

    Miami - IN - Kam Craft (6'6"/G/Xavier - 4* recruit 2 years ago)

     

    NIU - OUT - Xavier Amos, Zarique Nutter, Zion Russell, Will Lovings-Watts

     

    Ohio - OUT - Quinn Corna, IJ Ezuma

    Ohio - IN - Victor Searles (6'10"/PF/Ashland)

     

    Toledo - OUT - Ben Wight, Tyler Cochran(!), Ra'Heim Moss(!), Dante Maddox Jr(!)

     

    WMU - OUT - Jefferson De La Cruz Monegro, Seth Hubbard, B. Artis-White

    WMU - IN - B. Artis-White (Staying)

     

     

    Notable Transfer Portal

     

    UMASS - OUT - Joshua Cohen, Robert Davis Jr, Sawyer Mayhugh, Gianni Thompson, Keon Thompson

     

    New Mexico - OUT - Jamal Mashburn Jr

     

     

    MAC Coaching Carousel

     

     

    Notable Coaching Carousel

     

    - Michigan fired Juwan Howard; hired Dusty May (FAU)

     

    - Stanford hired Kyle Smith (Washington State)

     

    - Washington State hired Danny Sprinkle (Utah State)

     

    - Vanderbilt hired Mark Byington (James Madison)

     

    - West Virginia hires Darian DeVries (Drake)

     

    - Louisville hired Pat Kelsey (College of Charleston)

     

    MAC News

     

     

    Notable News

     

    - NCAA is looking at banning prop bets for college athletics

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

    To me, getting over the hump is going to have to be a department-wide mission. Remember "think bigger" from years ago? It needs to become a reality.

     

    Get the improvements to the JAR mentioned here done. Work to actively assist players to get NIL deals.  Market and promote your team effectively. Don't take Groce for granted like Larry Williams did with Dambrot. If you want to be a respected mid-major who can make noise in March, you have to act like it first.

     

    If you want to become the next Butler/Creighton and elevate yourself out of the MAC, sure. In the meantime, this is simply a coaching staff mission: find some shooters. 

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

    The two teams that pulled off the biggest upsets today had scoring guards lead the way - Oakland (Gohlke, 32) and Duquesne (Grant, 19). When we came close against UCLA. Castaneda led the way with 18. When OU won in 2021, they had Preston and Sears. When Groce's OU teams made their runs, they had DJ Cooper.

     

    You get the point. It's hard to pull off an upset without a guard who can score in bunches and break down a defense. 

     

     

     

    This. Please be "him", Sharron Young. 

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  6. 37 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

    Between graduating seniors and players already in the portal, every top MAC team is losing quite a bit.

     

    Toledo is losing Cochran and Moss, the #2 and #3 scorers.

     

    Kent is losing Sullinger, Santiago, Bass, Payton, and Freeman, so 4 of their top 5 scorers. 

     

    Ohio loses Hunter, Brown, Wiznitzer, and Mitchell, so 3 of their top 4 scorers. 

     

    BG loses Agee, Spurgin, Towns, Phillip, Thomas and Humphrey, so 5 of their top 6 scorers this year. 

     

    It will come down to who does the best in the portal and Coach Groce can start every conversation with 2 of the last 3 MAC Championships, so I like our chances. 

     

    This is spot on. And depending on who stays, Akron has a good chance to have the best core returning. 

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

     

    Bur why does it matter that he didn't?

     

    I'm guessing by the "LeBum" comment that nothing he could've done would've been good enough anyhow.

     

    Because the guy has a brand built around being a "kid from Akron" but chooses to publicly support Ohio State and a Pittsburgh school. You can have your love affair with "The King". I will gladly stay off that train. 

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

     

    Because he didn't give our team shoes before the game? 

     

    Our guys get a ton of LeBron gear sent to them - one of five schools in the nation to partner with him I believe. It shouldn't surprise anyone though that he goes the extra mile for his former coach and someone he considers a brother in Dru.

     

    It's not hard to tweet "Congrats to Akron on making the tourney." Or maybe LeBum is like Kent and can't tweet the simple stuff (like the final score). 

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

    Do we think we lose anyone to the portal? 

     

    I don't know that I think Lyles is a D1 rotation player, but he's probably back because the depth there is so poor.

     

    Lyles is a mystery. He has the body to bang down low but hasn't put it all together yet. The DI game might be a bit fast for him.

     

    Tavari, Prather, and Lyles are the likely transfers IMO. However, I'm sure we'll have a surprise or 2. 

  10. I'm very bullish on next year. On paper, we have the following...

     

    Mikal Dawson - SR - G

    Shammah Scott - SR - G

    Nate Johnson - JR - G

    Tavari Johnson - JR - G

    Ryan Prather - SO - G

    Sharron Young - FR - G

    Eric Mahafey - FR - G

     

    Amani Lyles - JR - F

    Marvin Musiime-Kamali - RFR - F

    Darrian Baker - RFR - F

    Rich Brisco - FR - F

     

     

    Admittedly, I know very little about Brisco and Marvin. I'm going to echo an earlier sentiment, though, and say that Sharron Young is a future star. He is potentially Mark Sears/RayJ Dennis caliber. Baker has star potential as well.

     

    Dawson needs to find his game again.

     

    Scott needs to improve his crap to be a mid-30s for 3P%. 

     

    Nate Johnson needs to take the next step.

     

    Tavari needs to improve everything. 

     

    Prather needs to figure out whatever will get him on the floor more. 

     

     

    The Transfer Portal needs to bring us a true big and a true shooter. Those are my wishes. Based on who we've been connected to this far, we're looking in the direction of a shooter at least. This is a very pivotal off-season to keep the momentum of this program moving forward. I trust Groce and his staff. 

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  11. Creighton is a smarter team. Freeman in foul trouble is off Kalkbrenner to start possessions, and McDermott's game plan is forcing a switch to get Freeman back on Kalkbrenner.

     

    Their execution all game has been damn near flawless.  

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