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And yesterday, you said Dawson would have made the difference last year. And for last night Ali would have made the difference. If only Groce nabbed Bass before Kent did...Bass would have made the difference...

you hit the Trifecta: Pick and Roll Wing Big all in one post.

Rabid fan base?

!00% agree on Dawson. if not the MAC tourney winners, definitely a 1 or 2 seed. This game was as ugly in person as it was on TV from what you all are saying. At the gym, there are no stat boards, so I had no idea, literally, that Freeman scored 27 points. I remember the 2 threes and his getting mugged and tripled by a hustling and scrappy FIU team along with some missed FTs. Amazing how much he scored in the face of the onslaught. I was super-impressed by FIU. I couldn't believe how they kept up that pressure. They looked like one one of those first round NCAA teams that gives a top 2 seed tons of trouble. Loud and angry Zips contingent with some colorful comments for that one ref who looked right at the FIU player locking arms on Freeman and shook his head "no big deal." He didn't ignore it. He gave permission.

From what I recall, the team doctor warned them to stay away from banana boats.

Spent a very enjoyable evening at the James A. Rhodes Arena. Arrived after the football game started and left long before the football game ended.

Tonight Halligan and Wilson became Kretzer and McAdams. A new day for the Zips.

Zips getting sloppy. Scott, Thornton, Dawson off the bench is nice.

Shooting is cooling off. Zips suffer when Freeman is out

Why can't Groce recruit Ashland?

The score doesn't reflect how close this game really is.

Goodness. This will be like Ball State v Goshen Apostolics.

Let's not get too excited. The Zips had trouble with CSU in a scrimmage!!🤣 FWIW impressed that they are ranked above Humpty Hitchens and James Madison.

Noah v Miami. soft tissue? 🐑🐑you may want to write a strong letter to Coach Groce and AD Guthrie 🐑🐑

Playing what team is worth the risk of injury? Dawson was injured in practice.

Excitement is continuing to build. I have two lower bowl paper tickets with Evans Lounge passes. If anyone wants them, please direct message me.

CSU ... WAS A SCRIMMAGE! do you know the difference between a scrimmage and a real game?

Yes, I look forward to all Zips games but it's not really about me.

The first 5 minutes seemed like deja vu, but this isn't last year's team. last year they would have gone into halftime 8 or 9 down and needed a big run or a bunch of free throws to eat into the lead. For a few moments i was like...gosh the Zips need Castaneda...but the power guys are making the points this year not the guards (even though the MAC is apparently a "guards" conference).

As much as that game will be a buzz kill, I think the staff planned something light between these two tough match ups and a trip to Cayman where they will play 3 tough teams in 3 days.

Excitement is building.

USM was one helluva streaky team. #22 fouled out and that was game, set, match. Zips ran over them after that.

In watching that replay a few times, I have a couple questions I wonder if you or someone else here could answer: 1. So the white kid pushed the JMU player so he could break away and catch the inbounds pass? It did like a push so he could get better position? 2. was that a legal screen by JMU's #22? Looks like JMU legitimately squeezed Santiago to free up the JMU player?

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/38859656 for your viewing pleasure. PCCC up by 5 with 3.8 seconds left. What could go wrong?

Briscoe, Young, Mahaffey.