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Looks like someone finally made all four shots to win the audience contest.

I never saw Pollock, but I did see Almost Famous. Kate Hudson should have won. 😉

Mohammad Habhab is tough. 6-9 & skilled.

Tied after 3Q.

Tied at the end of 3.

Those t-shirts are the same t-shirts worn by the Ohio State football team. Easy way for young Christian athletes to witness & remind themselves "Jesus won" - that they're just playing a game that's intended to be fun; take the pressure off. Jesus won the greatest victory. Love to see it. *And people actually wonder how Groce continually recruits such high character kids 😆

my uneducated theory was that all those missed 3s led to a bunch of those offensive rebounds. the buffalo teams back in the day would punish on 2nd chance points.

Wow. Maybe their last chance at a win this season and...

Zips also without Ni'Rah Clark their leading scorer. Rhodes and T. Clarke out too. 🤕

I'll bet he would if he could get a win out of it. It wasn't that long ago that Akron was decent and Buffalo was the class of the league. Now this.

Definitely odd, especially the timing. I'll be curious to see if it was a one-time deal. Young just can't seem to get his shots to drop this year. He's playing good defense and is taking care of the ball better. I'm hoping he starts hitting more shots but I trust our player development. He's ahead of where Tavari was as a sophomore IMO, and we see what he has become.

At least our coach isn’t wearing heels!

only knew because I watched the game. just like anyone who watched Pollock knew Marcia Gay Harden would win the Oscar.

The defense was good, but the rebounding was awful. If Can't could have knocked down open shots, it would have been much closer.

And zips losing by 12 at halftime 😬😬

The battle for the basement has begun.

I thought Cian Medley was a good player for Kent, very quick, and played really tough defense on Tavari. He had full court pressure on Tavari a few times and really made him work to bring up the ball. I was really suprised that he sat the bench the last 10 minutes of the game. He averages 10 points a game and we held him to 3. He did not shoot the ball well but the same could be said for every Kent player. Tavari leading the team in rebounds does not surprise me. One thing we are doing better is the guards coming back to the hoop looking for long rebounds. With Kent shooting poorly from long range there were a lot of long rebounds. Also, when I played street basketball there was a term, "following your shot" which meant after you shot you went toward the basket to get your own rebound. At least once a game an Akron 3 point shooter would pick up an offensive rebound if he would follow his shot, espcially when shooting from the corners. Finally, Kent missed a lot of open 3 point shots and shot 1 for 23. Maybe we start a new contest at the Jar: "the Kent challenge." Give somebody 23 three point shots and if they make 2 they win.

Also did not know Tavari was the leading rebounder for Akron with 9!

Zack getting on the floor with a broken nose and fighting for a ball 2 seconds into the game is a perfect snapshot of John Groce basketball. Evan, Amani and Chabi did a good job on Gillespie and on offense the Zips got him in some disadvantageous switches drawing some of his fouls. On to EMU with the knowledge we'll see a different team in Brimfield in 3 weeks.

I saw that they were shorthanded but didn't know the details.

And the one @Westie mentioned

The post-game @Illini Zip was referring to.

I think we were ~45 when NET was first released this year. The Murray State loss dropped us ~20 or so spots and we have slowly climbed back up.

Akron is ranked 50 in the NET. Is that their season high?

Tavari was funny in the post-game interview messing around with Hardman and Lyles. Not a side you see too much from Tavari. Worth a watch. At the time we debated what the loss of Tavari to the portal would have meant to this year’s team. The fact that Young has hit a wall with his offensive growth answers that clearly for me. Tavari has been exceptional all around. One of my biggest issues with Tavari in the past besides not holding his own defensively was he was always a shoot first point guard. This year he is actually looking to distribute and because of that he is far more dynamic and effective. Good on him. 👍