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Spoiler alert: JMU cracked under pressure.

The MAC is going to win round 1, and UMass, Toledo, Ohio, and Kent all lost.

Pretty incredible win.

Evan is incredibly athletic

Video board guy needs to not work the video board going forward. They replayed Shammah tripping the JMU player and the ref saw the replay on the jumbotron and called the refs together.

I mean they're shooting 43% from 3 on 14 attempts in the first half and only put up 39 pts. Good shooting masks a lot of problems. Let's see what they look like in the second half if we start making our shots. Chemistry is exposed under pressure.

JMU is shooting 40% from 3 vs our 22%. That's the great equalizer.

These refs are in mid-season form.

The average height for the team is up a few inches without increasing the tallest player's height - and we look substantially bigger and longer. We are going to be a problem.

Head not dressed by the way. Heck of an effort here. 11-0 run.

One of my favorite intro videos of all time.

Zeke especially since I believe he is retired from basketball. I could see LCJ's schedule being too busy during the season to honor him at the moment.

No surprise they're playing UMass. Can we dub that the 1990s Has Beens game?

Zips Basketball posted to their FB story a graphic that read, "Welcome Kaleb Khairi." Anybody know anything about this? Several posts on social media pop up but they're all in Arabic.

Meanwhile, every Cinderella that has made a run in football or basketball has seen interest, engagement, and enrollment increases in the years following their run(s). Here's the life lesson being learned: strong athletics athletics are good marketing tools for universities.

If anyone goes to the Trading Card game and doesn't want their cards, let me know. I am a big time card collector and will ironically be unable to attend due to my weekend shifts at the local card shop.

$5k for each school's collective.

Side note: Pretty sure every Zips opponent that has had a "Blackshear" on their team has had said Blackshear absolutely destroy the Zips.

Based on your recap, I think it's likely Groce was forcing the guys to play in uncomfortable ways. Frustrating for fans but it's good coaching if true. Odd that Brisco didn't get any PT. Wonder what's up with that. What I haven't heard yet is that we looked slow and weak. As long as those two attributes avoid becoming the descriptors of this team, we'll be quite competitive.

Load management with his heart condition maybe?

The card shop I work at on the weekends had a Panini redemption for an Enrique Freeman rookie auto. After learning that I PC Freeman, the shop owner gave the redemption to me. The card arrived today from Panini. Love seeing Zips on official sports cards!

I was wondering the same thing. - What were your expectations for Head that he is exceeding in practice? - I think our front court is going to surprise some teams. We're larger on average and more athletic. - This team, theoretically, should play faster than last year's squad. We're a few guys deeper at each spot and healthy (knock on wood). - Love this. The $20 ticket price has been validated with this information. Good for both programs.

Balls in midseason form.

You're right. I forgot he fled Notre Dame for LSU on his own accord.