Captain Kangaroo

It’s about as insightful as me saying Caitlin Clark can shoot.

If Thornton wouldn’t have transferred, they probably have been 10-18/4-11 this season.

Prop #2: Lyles gets his foul #1 within 23 seconds of entering the game. +105

Prop #1 - Ali gets a technical after draining a three, high-fiving Enrique and exclaiming "yay". +105

How do you break a Kent grad's finger? Punch him in the nose.

Hunter - maybe. Tavari - yes. Everyone else...Bad. We're 25 games into the season and Dawson, Scott, Ali, Tribble and Thornton (for the past month) make me cringe when they hoist a three. Ali brings a mid-range game to the table, and has a knack for run-stopping buckets. Tribble's floaters also help us ride out some dry spells from beyond the arc. If the other guys are struggling from 3, they don't bring much else to the offensive side of the table.

Is he a big Swiftie?

White hot. Dawson is 2-16 in his last three games.

Prather had two "hustle plays" that really stood out in the Buffalo game. The latter was a tip-away to stop a Buffalo fast break...he hauled ass down the court and prevented a wide open transition 3. I'm all for giving him minutes and putting some pressure on the guys who've been above him in the pecking order. Or, taking their place.

Thornton is a veritable Reggie Miller amongst that crew @ 38% Hunter 36.7% Freeman - 35.3% Tribble - 33.3% Scott - 30.9% Ali 29.9% Dawson - 29.6% Note - Tavari's 51.3% leads the team. 💪

You're right. I should have specified "young at the guard position". Buffalo is a mix of bad transfers and freshman. They're terrible.

Buffalo is a small, young team that wasn't even remotely impressive the last time they played the Zips. The Zips need to atone for their sorry performance in Virginia last week and take care of business tomorrow. Zips by 17. The "WE-want_WIL-son" cheers will unfortunately fall on deaf ears.

Roughly a week ago Groce said Nate was going to have the hard cast removed, with a soft cast replacing it. There are varying degrees of a "broken hand". I think Nate got a worse one than we'd like. If he's serviceable by the MAC Tourney I'd be ecstatic.

This is definitely the textbook definition of a "necrobump".

Regarding Chris Riddle - saw DePaul is sitting at 3-21 this year.

I’m hearing Joe Moorhead.

A basketball "Chuck Amato"

What could he possibly do? He'll be 67 years old. Maybe he'd serve some purpose as a Coach Emeritus on Groce's staff? No way he could handle being an AD. Where I work, you're done at 70. Put on an iceberg and pushed out to sea.

Hence the reason why most people no longer subscribe to the Beacon. Hard to believe that’s the place where the likes of Chris Broussard, Michael Holly and Brian Windhorst were writing.

I agree with you post 98%. I would change “right now” to “for the past 25 years…”

To paraphrase one of our opponent’s message boards earlier this year - “The Zips are Freeman, Tribble, Ali…and a bunch of guys.” Dawson and Hunter are virtually invisible. Get well soon Nate. We need you.

The Kent fan that needed to copy Clarke’s PCCC cracks me up. Nothing worse than an unimaginative wannabe copycat.

JMU Message Board? No mention of Saturday’s game. Maybe there’s an alternative site?

Terry Bowden said the traditional NSD would become a non-event. He was right. Unless you're a new coach who was hired too late to put together a December class, the first Wednesday in February is now much ado about nothing.