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Just get to Cleveland. Right?

Not a great weekend to be a Zip.

#SaveMelissa. #FireGroce. #LostTheTeam. #Toledo'sB&%*$H

their offensive #s were fine. But even if they made a few more FTs that wasn't going to make the difference. of course, why do the other teams win with similarly lax defense?

And the shady Chris Jans was their coach last year. I'm sure he left a clean and respectable program. Coach Heiar comes from LSU which is also a program beyond reproach.

Zips have the roughest road to finish the season, having Kent and Toledo on the road and Ball State at home, followed by Ball State who has Toledo and Kent at home with a stop in Akron. Zips will be the 4th or 5th seed again...maybe make it up to #3 if Ball State stumbles and Zips pick up an away game against Toledo or Kent. But that seems unlikely.

That's what is great about CBS games. They don't live for months in the ESPN cloud.

It's been a long season, and he and X carry the team. I'm not rationalizing but if the Zips were rolling right now, I would be wondering when they were going to hit the wall. They get an extra day before EMU. Give the guys some rest.

Zips won a few games this year because of a serious advantage at the FT line. That's been reversed these last two games. They will fix that by Cleveland.

Agree, I'm joking around for the most part. Read the WMU and NIU threads from last season. Yikes.

23-46 9-18 7-14 50.0% 50.0% 50.0% shooting 50% across the board

wow, 70-52. Time for panic posting: "has Groce lost the team?" "Melissa Jackson on line 2."

as Clark said during the last Ohio game, go ahead and double X and leave Freeman open. Toledo's response: Why not both? Ohio took up that challenge.

What's so pathetic is that after that win the OU blog was going on about how Groce will be off to a Power 5 conference and taking Freeman with him after Zips make their tourney run.

Ole JG.

sometimes you have to hit rock bottom.

It was a fun ride for awhile. Curtin has been pulled back. Team exposed. This team reminds me of 2021. X is trying to carry the team like LCJ did. Semifinals exit. But Groce won't be pulled away. Silver lining.

they are shooting 50 and 54 % respectively. the problem is at the foul line but even making 4 more would leave the Zips in a tie. They don't need SHOTS. They need STOPS. they couldn't get those stops against Toledo and Ohio isn't as good at Toledo so the lead is only 4 instead of 10. Look for Ohio to pull away in the first 4 minutes. Maybe they can re-group in Ypsilanti like they did last season

Groce's February malaise.

The film is in the can and Toledo and Ohio have been watching it.

They will try and follow Toledo's game plan but likely don't have the personnel to pull it off? Toledo's plan: hack, push, grab, touch, double, trip, straddle, nudge, shoulder, bump Xavier and Freeman to death until the officials tell you to stop. The officials went along with the plan.

The MAC Tournament looking like a pipe dream. On another note, BG coach not likely to be around much longer but for the opposite reason.

"Just get to Cleveland" isn't a slogan that inspires confidence.

It won't be me, but someone will surely post that Jackson's "lost the team."

Outscored by 21 in the 3rd quarter after being tied at half. That's what can happen in DeKalb.