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Gray needs to have the ball in his hands.

The drive by Gray set that whole thing up.

I like Lyles taking shots 2 feet from the basket a lot more than 23 feet.

Inhaling? 😉

Did Arkansas State just show an ad where they had mowers in their artificial turf football stadium?

Nice opening game win. 81-73. Down 15 early in the game. Nice contributions from several portal transfer players.

Wow from down by 8 at the half to up by 8 at the end of the third quarter. 23-7 quarter.

Man have they stepped it up defensively in the second half. Georgia state has yet to score. Zips lead by two.

Opening game against Ga State, the offense looks ok, need a bit of work on the defensive side. Down 42-34 at the half.

And still only one loss in two years of regular season conference play. Man where would the Zips be if they hadn't choked those two away against Temple and IU-Indy? But that's ok, maybe make some folks underestimate them.

I'll be there - whether Georgetown makes it or not. 🤣

Don't like that Georgetown dropped to number four. Partly because I think they're the second best team in the conference, but even more so the semifinals will be held about 40 minutes from their campus.

Full Big East tournament matchups. https://www.bigeast.com/calendar.aspx?path=msoc

DePaul sneaks through as the eight seed. Hope I don't regret my wish. 😊

Count out a John Groce coached team at your own peril.

Eight minutes to go - UConn has yet to get a shot in goal. Of course the Zips have only one. Defense has been carrying the Zips during the conference season.

Nope.

It also says a Emil has 18 goals this season - incorrect for an article published on Nov 1st.

I'm grateful all of the Zips games weren't on Flo.

Enrique 4 - Bronny 2 😉

It even has the railing.

Really disappointing - I thought with the way they started the non-conference season they could at least sneak into the bottom of the MAC tourney, but in looking at their non-conference opponents, almost all of them are toward the bottom of RPI numbers. Guess it was fools gold. 😞

And if we lose our first game, how soon will the John's next endeavor thread start? 🫠

We also got pretty lucky. The Zips have shut out every opponent in the Big East except the two that are guaranteed not to make the tournament. Dodged two bullets there. 🤣

So I did a little analysis on who the Zips opponent will be in the first round of the tournament. The Big East uses points and then the best result against common opponents starting with the highest seed. The current standings: 1. Akron 21 points (clinched top seed) 2. Georgetown 16 points 3. Providence 14 points (by virtue of beating UConn and tied St John's) 4. St John's 14 pts (tied UConn) 5. UConn 11 points 6. Creighton 10 points (tied Providence) 7. Seton Hall 10 points (lost to Providence) 8. Marquette 8 points Outside looking in Xavier, DePaul 5 points Eliminated: Butler 3 points, Villanova 1 point. So not trying to figure out all of the permutations of all the seeds, but trying to figure out who the 8 seed will be. It cannot be any of 2-4, they have too many points. It cannot be UConn because if Marquette wins, that would knock Creighton (whom they play) below UConn in the standings. If Marquette ties Creighton they are the 8 seed. If Marquette beats Creighton and Seton Hall wins or ties, Creighton is the 8 seed. If Marquette beats Creighton and Seton Hall loses, Seton Hall is the 8 seed because they lost to Providence while Creighton tied them. If DePaul wins (they have Butler) and Marquette and Xavier lose, DePaul gets the 8 seed because their best result is a win over Creighton. If Xavier beats Providence and Marquette loses, Xavier is the 8 seed, no matter what DePaul does (Xavier will have the best result amongst the highest seeded team). So there are still five teams possible for the eight seed, so now you know your rooting interest. Personally, I'm rooting for DePaul, Creighton and Providence. ☺️