Captain Kangaroo

The @GoZips Prophecy would be fulfilled!

Is there a next round opponent yet? Game time?

Sans the spelling, you sound exactly like my boss.

There are certain steps you can't leapfrog on the road to becoming a great basketball team. The coach-speak statements of "trusting your teammates" and "making the right basketball play" are true. If you want to play hero-ball, you'll lose more often than not. Especially against a team that plays smarter than you. I saw a fair amount of hero-ball today, and not making the right basketball plays. These players are talented, but until they learn to play together we'll only be mediocre. We grew and improved over the course of last season with our ragamuffin 2017-18 team . I think we'll do the same this year. It's just a process...

7-41 from 3-point land. That's only 14.5% away from 0%.

Ivey and Utomi are streaky shooters. Always have been. 0-17 is a rought start from 3-point land. It can only get better...

31-4 at the half

EMU down 22-2 to Rutgers with 6 minutes to go in the first half.

Home.

In case anyone forgot...Early Signing Day is held in late December. The traditional February signing day will still exist, but 90+% of the D-1 athletes are expected to be signed in December.

Nice game by the Zips. Showed a lot of resiliency.

Can someone put a sock in the sideline chick's mouth? I can't take it...

Awesome game by Jackson.

We need Utomi to get off the schnide if we're going to make a run. He can reel off 5 in a row in a heartbeat.

Boy are we weak in the paint. Might as well roll a red carpet into the lane.

Zips defense has been atrocious.

That comment is simply untrue, and it bothers me that you would post it. The people posting on this site have kept comments towards the players above-board. That is one thing that separates our site from other fan forums. Even the comments regarding the coaching staff (Bowden/Milwee) have been very measured. Your hypersensitivity to the topic doesn't make it otherwise.

Since that’s pretty much the purpose of the thread (updating Zips fans on the rest of the MAC), then “yes.”

Crisis mode

Buffalo moves to 3-0 with a nice 9-point road win against Southern Illinois.

They're legit. I watched the entire game. WVa hit them with multiple haymakers and the Bulls never flinched. Down 11, they just kept chipping away. Hit a lot of clutch shots. Every year there's some hot MAC team that fools everyone into thinking they're legit Top 25. And then they face "real" competition and get exposed. Fearless Forecast - They have Power 5 size and skills. That probably won't get them better than an 11 seed in the tourney, but they're going to be in the Top 25 for extended time this year. Not a flash in the pan...Buffalo is legit.

It will be interesting to see if there is a ring of cheerleaders surrounding the upper deck of the JAR, blocking everyone's view the entire game as they did for Cedarville. For those of you who weren't there...or who sat below...the cheerleaders...sans the final 4 minutes of the first half...stood on the track the entire time. I sat with a friend in the bleachers for the second half. Much better view than my upper-reserved seating.

So George actually attended Saturday's game? That may be the first time an ABJ beat writer has attended a non-Kent regular season Zips game in the past decade?

Do I get partial credit for calling the missed 34 yard FG?

You are correct. And if the Zips turn the ball over 5 times in Ypsilanti, like the did against Miami, they'll lose to EMU too. Sucks that Kato got injured. He looked GREAT in his 3 quarters against NIU. Just when a Zips fan sees hope, Lucy pulls the ball away.