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His team is 19-0 and he was tournament MVP. You need to take a close look at the photos in that article. The guy is ripped! A man amongst boys. http://www.news-record.com/sports/hsxtra/greensboro-day-beats-northwest-guilford---in-haeco-men/article_82210770-8fc9-11e4-9edf-e7be1e6840a2.html?mode=jqm

No irony just facts. The JAR, early season home opponents and the halftime entertainment suck. Actually I think we are on the same side of things when it comes to the JAR. I do however think we see it from a fans view and are missing a much larger picture. The JAR sucks...will opponents not come here because the arena sucks or because they may get beat or because the can find a closer cheaper game? Who cares. It is not our job to find teams to come to the JAR. There are people making great money to do just that. The if you build it they will come type of thinking is crap. I am in favor of building a new arena because I would personally benefit from it. That being said somebody needs to play devils advocate on this one as everything is not adding up. Taking a non biased look at the situation would yield surprising results. Maybe the athletic department doesn't care if the team performs any better than they have for the past 5 years. Maybe appearing in the MAC tourney championship game is enough for them when paired with 20 relatively meaningless wins. From this viewpoint it would make sense to do very limited work on the JAR. I have seen no proof that the University is prepared to back the rhetoric about thinking bigger. I am also not convinced there is a true business case for a major renovation or new arena in the current political environment. I am also convinced that they have KD chasing 20 win seasons (that is why we are watching so many crap home games). The basketball program has been on cruise control for years in terms of burden on the department. KD is locked in, they are winning, and the JAR is still standing. It is obvious that the push surrounding the program (not knocking the team or coaches here) has dwindled over the past few years. The zips are one (at least) punch, five pounds of weed, and a flying dinner plate away from being the easiest team in history to manage as an administrator. Why make work if you are the AD?

I'm not sure why there is an obsession with shooting 3s this season.

Correction: BJ did play the first 6 minutes of the second half against Marshall. Not sure why BJ went to the locker room tonight and then returned but didn't play after that. He looked more confident and under control in his 5 minutes tonight before leaving the floor. Coach is bringing him along slowly. If BJ keeps progressing he may get more minutes later in games. Same with Aaron who's starting to get more minutes and playing more under control and with more confidence. But the confidence award tonight has to go to Big Dog, who matched his career high with 13 points. He played more like he was at the end of last season. It's just one game, so we'll have to see if this gives him the boost he needs to start performing like this on a more regular basis. It seemed as if the Zips had way too many turnovers, but it turns out they only had 10 while Coppin had 22. Coppin just plays a wild mayhem game that makes it appear that everything is out of control.

Dayton travels so well that they had a huge cheering section of hundreds of Dayton fans when they played at the JAR. VCU had very few fans at the JAR, so I'd say VCU attracted way more Akron fans than Dayton did. Coach Dambrot really liked the home-away series with Dayton. But after that close call at the JAR, Dayton dropped UA and replaced the Zips with a home-away series with Miami that's continued over the past six seasons. Only Dayton can say why they prefer an ongoing series with Miami rather than UA. Maybe they prefer the 80-mile Miami round-trip drive to the 400-mile Akron round-trip. As far as attracting bigger name schools than Dayton, VCU, Temple, etc., I think most Zips fans understand that there is absolutely nothing to be gained by a really big name team traveling to Akron. They would not get much credit for beating UA, and a loss would be terrible for their NCAA tournament resume. That's why the big name programs play most of their OOC games at home and only rarely travel to a smaller name school.