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It's no coincidence that the two kids who play the hardest on defense started tonight. I suspect the message got through.

Pretty loaded at TE with Cravaack and Newell, this doesn’t hurt like many of the others. I’m thinking there will be many more coming in the next week or so.

No Nate Johnson one-handed dunk disasters last night.

Wedding anniversary. Told my wife I love her so much, I'm skipping the game vs. EMU. Shot 17% from 3P and still put up 93 points while winning by 21. Alrighty then. That has to scare the crap out of the MAC lol. What an offense.

Goes to show you what a defender Greg Tribble was!

The Zips get a 10 days Christmas break before Concord comes to the JAR on December 29th. Concord currently stands at 6-3, playing a bunch of teams that belong on Captain’s list of teams he’s never heard of, including Frostburg State. In the confusing geography department, they’ve also played California of Indiana and Indiana of Pennsylvania. Kraig Gilbert, a 6’8” sophomore forward leads the Grapes in scoring at 19.2 ppg. 6’8” junior forward Boubacar Djigo averages a whopping 14.2 rpg to go along with 14.2 ppg. He played for Lutheran West in high school.

Can someone explain the "Luck" calculation on KenPom? Zips are negative .268, which apparently means unluckier than average. I can think of a few factors that might affect the luck calculation: Opponents foul shooting percentage. Not much defense involved in foul shooting, so in a game like Yale when the opponent shoots much higher than their average, you had bad luck. Maybe the pressure of a tight game, etc. affects foul shooting, but mostly luck. 3 Point shooting also has a bit of luck involved. Most 3-point shots are not taken unless they are open shots. A good defense may force a few time clock beater shots, but not most. If a team shoots 56% on threes, when they typically shoot around 40%, some of that could be bad defense, but also could be just bad luck. Maybe playing against a team with an injured player is considered good luck. Is this a factor? Or playing without a player who is injured on your team is considered bad luck? Anything else? I do not subscribe to KenPom so maybe subscribers have the answer (or maybe it is just a secret algorithm).

Ah, the ol' Gaussian Method. I should have guessed as much. 😊

The MAC champ absolutely had their way with the C-USA champ 👀

According to Kenpom himself, Luck, is the deviation in winning percentage between a team’s actual record and their expected record using the correlated gaussian method. The luck factor has nothing to do with the rating calculation, but a team that is very lucky (positive numbers) will tend to be rated lower by my system than their record would suggest. If a team's efficiency suggests they should have won 10 games but they actually won 12 (especially if those extra wins came in close games), they're considered lucky. If their efficiency suggests 10 wins, but they only won 8 (losing close ones), they're unlucky.

Brad Bournival of the Beacon did an article this morning on Stefan and Remi being drafted. Quotes from Stefan and Coach Embick. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/mls/2025/12/19/mls-superdraft-akron-zips-stefan-dobrijevic-remi-agunbiade/87844692007/?tbref=hp "This year he came back and really wanted to prove himself," Zips coach Jared Embick said of Agunbiade. "Anytime you can get drafted and show you're on the right path to make the pros is a huge confidence boost. Hopefully, we can take advantage of that." "He's(Remi) more of the modern player," Embick said. "He's strong and physical and has the attributes to fit in the next level. For him, it's about maturing his game to play all around at that level. If he can, like all new players, it'll be a role off the bench as a super sub, and then it'll be more and more playing time from there."

That's how I interpreted it as well. It definitely seemed like we had fewer breakdowns defensively. Nearly every 3-pointer EMU shot a Zips defender had a hand in their face.

Great win. Very happy with the adjustment. Felt a lot more balanced and complimentary. Need to keep it up!

Guarding the three point line

Lyles, Young, Evan Mahaffey, Tavari and Zach Halligan? Good for him. 🙂

Big Money Program?