Zippy87

The difference between us and Miami is we played Murray State, Yale, and Purdue and they played Mercyhurst, Eastern Kentucky, and Air Force, and had our only H2H at Miami. Fully confident we would beat them at the JAR and will beat them in Cleveland.

Second time in less than a week that someone had Miami beat and choked it away.

Robert is off the injury report and Reid is listed as questionable. Guessing if Reid is out, Freeman will be in the active roster tonight.

He's not playing especially well in conference play: In 5 games: 8.6 PPG, 3.8 RPG, 4.2 APG, 2.2 TOPG 26 FG%, 29 3 PT%

Both Rudy Gobert and Naz Reid are hurt for Minnesota. Enrique may finally be active tomorrow.

Kansas State is 0-5 in the Big 12, last place in the conference, and 9-9 overall. Utah is just ahead of them at 1-4, 9-9 overall. It doesn't look like Johnson or Okonkwo will be playing in the NCAA Tournament again.

I really think this could be Barre if he can stay on the floor. He was really playing well and making a difference before he got hurt.

Hopefully Chabi will be back before we make our stretch run + the MAC Tournament.

The Lyles-Mahaffey x2-Tavari-Shammah looked good today. Easily our best five IMO.

And bad coaching. Buffalo was up 3 with 12 seconds left and let Miami get two 3 point attempts. Should have fouled and put them on the line.

And both will have a lesser legacy at their respective schools for leaving.

Any idea when Gensler's contract runs through? He was a Guthrie hire, so Goodrich may be OK moving on soon if the program keeps moving in the wrong direction.

The comparison is that players in these situations can transfer and get a lot of money somewhere else, but then they lose out on their legacy at their previous school. Nate is getting life-changing money at Kansas State, but loses out on a legacy at Akron that may have ended with a jersey retirement one day and a chance to lead his team to a 3rd straight MAC Championship.

I have no ill feelings toward Nate going after life-changing money at K State, but I couldn't help but think of him when I read this quote today.

Am I wrong for thinking it isn't that crazy to think Miami could enter the MAC Tournament undefeated? vs Buffalo at Kent vs UMass vs NIU at Buffalo at Marshall vs Ohio at UMass vs BGSU at EMU at WMU vs Toledo at Ohio Not having to come to the JAR and only playing Kent once (although at Kent) gives them a favorable road to Cleveland.

21 points, 16 rebounds for Enrique last night 💪

I'm not sure if Freeman had other two-way contract offers last summer, but I am not sure Minnesota is the best fit for him. They've shuffled him back and forth between Minnesota and Iowa but haven't had him active for any games in Minnesota. With Iowa, his usage on offense seems lower than last year with the Mad Ants. Last night, he wasn't even in during crunch time in the last 4 minutes. I really wish he could go elsewhere where there may be more opportunity.

Completely outplayed in the 2nd half. Let's see if they can hang on.

Let's get our guy to Los Angeles for All-Star weekend - vote for Enrique for the NBA G League Next Up game! NBAGLeague.com/Vote

I think they challenged themselves - Purdue, Yale, and Murray State are all projected to make the NCAA Tournament in the most recent bracketology on ESPN. Our problem dating back to the KD years has always been actually winning these games. I don't believe we have ever defeated a program in the Top 25. Our best non-conference wins were probably our NIT wins - Houston, Florida State, Temple.