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Sayles tended to get pulled quickly for missing defensive assignments and not rotating on defense. He also never seemed to box out. Most, if not all, of his minutes were due to injuries and foul trouble to our other bigs. Groce mentioned several times during the season that Sayles didn't get into games due match up issues. During the bad fall referenced earlier in the post, he hit his head and appeared to be knocked unconscious. He never seemed like same player after that and never seemed to re-adjust to D-I basketball. Sayles always appeared to be a hard, working good kid. When he announced he was leaving the program, he sent a message thanking the team, program and fans. Everyone here is rooting for him to have the best possible ending to his career. I hope Stony Brook is a good fit for him. What does your fan base think of Geno?

Agreed. Reece is the next strongest, but the better big men on the schedule gave him trouble this year.

He kind of looks like Rob Senderoff had a more socially awkward cousin.

Ouch, I hadn't seen the numbers, but it looked like a purely financial move. Thanks for the recon.

Times are tough, but I'm doing video conferences for work instead of in person meetings. I'm not trying to minimize the COVID-19 pandemic, but it sounds like a cop out to me (and a salary dump). It will be interesting to see what other teams do in the coming months. There is no practice or meetings and the kids aren't even on campus, so she could have postponed the search as well. I agree she is in a tough spot. I'm just glad its no us.

....followed by Banks taking the ball away on the game winning drive attempt as time expired. I'm glad the MAC gave him the credit he deserved and put him on the All Defensive Team.

Fair question. Change my earlier reply from all to most successful programs see assistants leave for coordinator or head coaching jobs elsewhere as they climb the ladder and move on.

Any word on if we are going to be a the Clevelander again?

As much as he can drive us crazy, he stabilized the defense all season. Also, unlike some of our past bigs (think Big Dog) he can hit foul shots late in the game. Lastly, Groce ended the quest for 3 pointer so no more anxiety when Riak gets the ball at the top of the key.

Successful programs lose coaches every year. Look at any winning program and you will see they turn over complete staffs ever 2 or 3 years. This shows me Arth is bringing in good people on his staff. Now he needs more good players and hopefully we will have something to root for here.

Welcome back to Zips Nation. There is nothing wrong with occasional disagreements or differing points of view as long as we all remember we are in this together and Kent still sucks. On to Cleveland....

Excellent, please put out the news as soon as you know. Thanks.

I prefer Canada, Can't and the Bobkittens, but to each his own. It is fun having so many opponents to get after.

Great win today. I agree with the board that Cheese is most likely a good kid, but he and Banks jaw with the other team all game, every game. It has been a common sight to see the refs have to get between both of them and the other team. Reece was doing this at the start of the season, but he appears to have grown up. Cheese and Banks need to get control of their emotions and act like the seniors they are. This is their last shot at the tourney. We need both of them to have their heads in the game the rest of the way. Go Zips!

Close loses to good teams and cupcakes aside, KD has really improved a down and out program. That being said, I have really enjoyed watching Groce build this Zips team. Here's hoping the Zips shooters get hot in March and the team makes a run.

At least Bob Dyer doesn't write about Zips hoops. They are too good a story for his column.

The biggest coaching issue was EMU trying to bleed the clock up 2 pts with almost 4 mins left in the game. Their offense is bad to begin with and holding the ball forced them into multiple bad last second shots and a shot clock violation or two.

In the post game interview, Groce stated the decision to foul and extend the game was based on the the two stats Kreed just cited.

Take off, eh!

Buffalo's Student Athletes of the Week are sponsored by Tim Horton's. Just more proof that it is in fact a Canadian school, eh.

100%. Plus neither guy jumped ship during the rebuild as transfers came and went. I have a lot of respect for them staying here and working hard, especially Sayles after all the injuries and limits on this PT.

Riak - Sayles' hands don't shoot 3's.

The fact that they raised ticket prices for the upper reserved section during a rebuild is crazy. They need to market like the Rubber Ducks and just worry about getting people in the stands. I would try $5 GA and family plans with food vouchers, parking, etc. for single games. We never got a lot of students, but have the AK-Rowdies basically folded now that a lot of the die hard students from the first row on the base line have moved on?

They have flown in the past, but usually its a miserable bus ride that awaits the team. Frenchie occasionally talks about the haunted hotel they have to stay in as well.

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