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Toledo finally cooled off from the 3 line and Zips are really hustling on boards. This team is athletic and it is great to see the turnaround on the rebounding. Poke is getting some shots. Great comeback. Go Zips!

They played pretty well. However, much of the scoring was from outside. Still need to work on getting some points in the paint.

Zips playing much harder tonight. Really fighting hard on boards, jumping passing lanes, etc.

I must admit that I miss screaming at Bobby Hurley.

2 free throw attempts? Seriously? STOP. SHOOTING. THREES.

Really? That's our record? Where did you find that information?

Duvivier doing all he can.

I think it's a win to only be down 10 considering Toledo shot 57.7% from the field and 56.3% from beyond the arc in the first half.

Patton with the boards tonight!

Something everyone can agree on

I think you're misunderstanding those of us that poke fun at the 21 game thing. Winning a lot of games is good. I want to win a lot of games against good teams, too.

I mentioned that those private schools don't have football, but some of the other mid-majors do have football. The Info's financial situation certainly hurts UA's athletics budget, specifically men's basketball, but we still turn revenue that ranks in the upper half of the MAC, a conference that has had several schools make serious NCAA Tournament runs (OU , Can't , etc.). I apologize for my fixation with the NCAA Tournament. I didn't realize millions upon millions of people filled out brackets for the regular season, and took time off work to watch a day's worth of regular season college basketball. The NCAA Tournament is one of the greatest events in sports, and I'm sorry for my wish that Akron has success in the tourney. Myself and a few others are being realistic. We had a coach that, in 13 or so seasons, had zero NCAA Tournament wins despite consecutive 21+ win seasons against low-level competition. In 4 years of that same time period, our current coach took our rival, OU, to the 2nd round and the Sweet Sixteen. My takeaway from those stats is realistic optimism that we made the right hire to take this program to the next level, which is winning in the NCAA Tournament. I don't see a banner in the JAR for our 21+ win seasons; I do see a banner (I believe) at the Convo that shows their 2nd Round and Sweet Sixteen accomplishments.

They've now exceeded 10 wins last night by knocking off GW to go 2-0 in conference play, and 11-4 overall. I'm sure everyone (even those who are so vehemently bashing Keith) expected some instant improvement. But, none of us probably expected the A-10 standings to look like this in January, especially when the real reinforcements are not coming in until next year. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/conferences/standings/_/id/3/atlantic-10-conference

clarkwgriswold and kreed....I pretty much agree with both of you. But, I sense that the posts from dre22era and a couple of others is a rebuttal to those who've been posting since Groce's hiring from some kind of "he's God" viewpoint. And it continued right through the time we were beating some scrubs at home, talking about how we might still be able to win the MAC, and proclaiming that everything Groce was doing was better than Dambrot, etc. It's crazy. Just go and look at the number of people who predicted that the projected MAC Champ (WMU) would be our first road win. They toyed with us all night, and that's with their best player only hitting 3 baskets all night ! Once again, I really think that a few people were so angry with Dambrot's departure that they've taken their thoughts about what the new regime can accomplish this year to a wildly unrealistic level. I'd think the tournament out in Hawaii should have brought everyone back down to the current reality.

Then I am afraid you're waiting for him to be a miracle worker. Given the circumstances of KD leaving and the related fallout, this was at best going to be a 15 to 18 win team. This team is young and thin, especially at the bigs. What we're seeing should not be unexpected. If they're here in a couple of years, they hired the wrong guy, but to give up now is woefully premature.

Congratulations to KD. Beating Dayton (even in a down year) is always a good thing. We all knew that Dambrot can take a horrible team and make it decent (we've seen him masterfully do that at Akron). So no one will be surprised if he can do that at Duquesne. The question is whether or not he will be able to take that next step and win NCAA tournament games.

Who is CBS Sports Net breaking in as the scoreboard operator for this?? They need to hire someone with some experience, because the score always seems to be either not changing after baskets, or changing out of nowhere!