Blue & Gold

Yesterday was NLI day but apparently Ben Davis HS is having their ceremony on 11/20.

Found this scouting report on Jashawn Ladd. It's from last summer. "The best player on the best team in the 3 Stripes Gold circuit is no doubt Jashawn Ladd from Ben Davis high school in Indiana. Ladd is a long wing that has a nasty crossover, good Jumpshot, and explosive first move to the hole. He often beats guys with his second move, finishing outside the frame of the backboard with great touch. His athleticism is extremely difficult to stay in front of, and his ability to play above the rim made him a fun watch. It was no surprise that Ladd already has a D1 offer from Miami (OH) and will no doubt collect more as his team finished 8-0 in the circuit, qualifying for the 3SSB finals in July. Ladd was a strong piece to an excellent team, who played the right way and coasted through Adidas Gold like it was nothing."

There were no takeaways from the game last night. PSU-S was terribly undersized. They had 3 nice, smallish, guards but that's it. Their best player, #0, was only 5'8" but could shoot the lights out. He was a chucker for sure.

Yes. It'll be on 640AM WHLO

Watched the replay last night and Halligan really stood out in his limited minutes on the floor 🧐🔥🔥

Zips X feed was on fire yesterday so instead of posting ~20 highlights, here is the link to X.

Can you elaborate on that? I've noticed Kowalchoke doesn't seem to like Groce much.

I believe I read somewhere - can't now remember where so I cannot reference it - that this was our largest margin of victory over an FBS opponent in 23 years? I know it's been a while but that stat still surprised me.

Could this be why Cody Head hasn't played?

After watching us struggle vs. YSU w/ Evan M. & MMK playing so many minutes together, I'd tighten up our rotation & relegate MMK to ~2-3 minutes tonight. Can't afford to just have a warm body out there on offense vs. JMU. I'm projecting tonight's starters to be: PG: Tavari... Young G: Bowen... Shammah (MVP) W: Eric... Stankovic W: Evan... P: Amani... Barre Barre will only get ~10 minutes as I'm betting Groce tries to play Evan in the post when Amani is resting. Ultimately I don't think this will work as Evan just isn't big enough. Lineup to close out the game: Tavari Shammah Young Evan Amani I think Stankovic's minutes will increase and Bowen's minutes decrease as the season progresses. I want to see Stankovic & Eric take a couple 3's tonight. If those two start making the defense honest from behind the 3-point line we're gonna be a buzzsaw.