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In the Post Mortem thread I guess i should reiterate my appreciation to Akron and the MAC for the guard play we were graced to enjoy this year. LCJ, Marreon Jackson, Jason Preston, Justin Turner. Good grief, that is some top shelf talent!

I had to search for this post. I posted this on December 7th. We went on to smash OU during our first matchup & I figured well of course, 'cause what do I know? Lol. But Boals has done a great job getting OU to gel into the team that worried me back in early December.

#OneMoreYear

The 2020-21 season is now behind us giving us only next season to look forward to. This thread kept us rolling through the last off-season. Have at it.

For the whole team, I hope. The coaches need to figure out the best players for the positions, and the players have to perform during all of their minutes in those positions. I don't think we've seen either, yet. It will help to have Pol Hernandez back.

It’s kinda nice knowing we gave them all they could handle while we were still learning to walk. I’ll be rooting for them in the dance.

Congrats to the Bonnies on being the regular season and tournament champs in the A10. Pretty sold showing for a middle of the road A10 squad.

If they'd want us and if the administration would want to make the financial commitment...

ESPNU @ 8:30 p.m. tonight.

GT apparently isn't aware that every college basketball team had to deal with the Covid crisis. No, may point is that the type of mid-majors I would like to see in a conference don't have FBS football programs which makes their addition impossible under the Zips current conference/program situation.

Hey , I give credit to OU, they deserved it. Wh

You mean go to a conference that may not have men's soccer???????????????????? UH -NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Again, bulls are 2 or 3 steps slow tonight because of last night's gam

Whoa... Slow your roll. Sincerely, People who like summer and warm weather

Can't disagree with anything you guys have said. Spot on. To get a little deeper into the root of the issues that plagued this team all year, I think Maishe Dailey being the bust he was isn't something Groce was able to patch up at the end of the day. Aside from Tribble, Dailey was the only other options behind LCJ with the skillset to attack the basket and win matchups at the rim. Great teams these days must shoot the three well, but the teams that take it to the next level have at least 2-3 guys they can rely on to get to the rim and put up a high percentage shot or get fouled and make free throws (see Cheese, X). Perhaps Groce could have done something different or planned better to avoid that happening, but that's above my head. He trusted a 6'7 athletic and gifted P5 transfer senior to step up into a role that he was most certainly capable of filling. The Toledo game made me hopeful, but a whole lot of nothing came from that. Groce missed on that one, that's all there is to it. As the season went on, Mike Wynn became one of the more reliable transfers with Trimble being so streaky. I will feel very good about those guys after another offseason. I contend that with a normal offseason and normal season in general (and it should go without saying that there are no excuses, I'm just making an observation), Akron, Ohio, Buffalo, Kent, Ball State, and Toledo would have made for one of the best and most competitive seasons of MAC basketball we've seen. As good as most of these teams were, they all could have been a good bit better. I could be wrong, but all of these teams had so many great pieces that got robbed of the consistency that makes teams perform their best, whether that be a proper preseason/nonconference, a regular Tuesday, Fri/Sat game schedule, pauses and stoppages, players being unavailable because of an airborne virus, etc. Nobody really got into much of a groove besides Toledo and Akron for a few weeks and now Buffalo as of late. That's a shame for the fans. Going forward, I would be shocked if any of Akron's seniors return. Ditto Pippen at Kent, most likely the case at Toledo and BG as well if I had to guess. Ohio and Buffalo are loaded even if they have seniors that leave. The Zips have a lot of experienced and quality pieces, and there is a lot of evidence of strong player development on this staff, so I'm feeling good going into next year. I'm curious to see what those freshman do and which of them play immediately too. It could be a rocky start as I'm sure they'll need every one of those nonconference games to tune up, but I have no doubt that Groce can bring back yet another championship contender.