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Sammy is lost. From the nature in which he was played tonight, I sense the staff has lost faith in him.

The Zips head off to Peoria, Illinois Thursday night to face Bradley. Bradley is 8-4 coming into the game. They were predicted to finish second in the MVC preseason poll with 6'9" junior forward Reink Mast being named to the preseason All-Conference team. Mast, a native of the Netherlands, led the MVC in rebounding last year. This year, he leads Brave rebounding and scoring at 7.4 rpg and 13.8 ppg. 6'9" senior Malevy Leons is second in scoring and rebounding at 11.9 ppg and 6.8 rpg. Bradley apparently has some Dutch connections as Leons is also from the Netherlands.

I hope we continue to play teams that lose X on defense.

This has to be the longest Freeman has ever gone we without a foul.

Limited minutes for Sammy tonight, but he's making the least of it.

Maine is small but their lack of speed makes up for it.

Some real hustle.

Not much of a crowd.

PCCC lost their QB, Collin Schlee, to UCLA through the portal.

Maybe because he was 1021 years old? 😁

Not worried. The Zips lack of size will help make up for the shooting. 😁

He was the 6th leading tackler on a 2 win MAC team. That's pretty solid! There's a Tim Terry who is player personnel director for the Chiefs. If that's dad, he'll get a tryout somewhere out of professional courtesy.

I'm concerned that the Zips will look past this one in anticipation of their huge showdown with Concord.

Here's a blast from the past for you older Zips fans - Tavari reminds me a little of Zips great Eric McLaughlin.

I would say that the Zips have forever failed to master the pick and roll. Even when the pick occurs and the picker rolls and is open the guards have failed to recognize it and get him the ball. It is one of the Zips pet peeves! Enrique has improved his passing from the post but it still needs work. When he gets better at it and his teammates start making threes from those passes, he'll find that he'll see fewer double teams. It's a bad sign that teams are so willing to leave a guard to double down on him every time he touches the ball.

The Black Bears of the University of Maine come into the JAR next Monday to face our Zips. The Black Bears are 6-4 after a rough 2021-2022 campaign that saw them finish at 6-23. The Black Bears scoring is led by 6'3" sophomore guard Kellen Tynes at 15.1 ppg. The team has a little international flavor with London, England's Gedi Juozapaitis, a 5th year 6'4" guard scoring 13.7 ppg while shooting an impressive 45% on three pointers, and Hungarian 6'7" junior forward Peter Filipovity leading rebounding at 6.2 rpg while scoring 11.3 ppg. They were voted to finish last in the America East preseason poll.

That crowd stopped coming when KD left for Duquesne, long before Covid. They've missed some damn good basketball.

He's in sweats on the bench. No idea if injured.

Ugly half. They need to learn to play without the security blanket of Enrique on the floor. Given his propensity to foul, they need to learn to tread water with him out.

When Freeman is out the Zips post defense is awful.

Hunter made his first three of the night. Everybody, put away your popcorn!

Groce just really went off on the refs on the illegal screen call.

They are running a double at Enrique every time he touches the ball. He needs to pass the ball out of the post faster.

Charlie Brown's teacher doing the color commentary.

Garvin in sweats again.