Blue & Gold

Can't believe after starting the season 5-3, the season rides on tonight. But the season rides on tonight.

Ga. Southern comes in at 1-2 with their sole win being over NAIA member school Coastal Georgia by a count of 92-43. However, one of their losses was a nail biter to NC State, 79-81. Their leading scorer is 6-4 G Ike Smith, who's pouring in over 20 PPG. Ike is followed in scoring by 5-11 G Tookie Brown (who plays almost the entire game) and.... wait for it... B.J. Gladden, yes, former Zip BJ Gladden, coming in at 11.7 PPG. No other Georgia Southern player comes close to averaging double digits. BJ will be geared up for this game, but I'm going with a Zips win. If BJ Gladden is your 3rd-leading scorer, the Zips should be able to shut down the offensively-challenged Georgia Southern Eagles. P.s. For those who haven't seen BJ play, he's a cool dude. Just wanted more PT than would have been available for him at UA. BJ's got an NBA physique but the game always seemed to move just a little too quickly for him at this level.

Senior highlight film 1st Team D-III Inland District

Exactly. Who knows, with a new arena we may actually be able to bring in some competition worth the price of admission?

East is the new Buchtel.

A really well written game story with quotes and everything! ... by some dude named Brad Bournival(?)... "Special to the Beacon Journal."

Agreed. I would guess Poke's probably too thin to play the 5 against higher level competition, but, as you noted, he's 6'-8", can get off the floor and his arms are so long I think he can touch the floor while standing straight up!

Utomi (my auto correct will successfully change his name to Utopia one of these times) finished with 14 points, on 4-5 shooting (1-2 on 3's & 5-7 on FT's), & 5 rebounds in only 11 minutes. Granted, as Clark Griswold mentioned, Radford was simply atrocious. We'll see.

Another big, strong, fast kid from East Jayshawn Robinson, SS/FS, 6-0, 190

Cute!

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Breathing a sigh of relief. After 2&1/2 games, that 2nd half finally looked like Zips basketball!

There we go. Good start to the second half!

29-14 at the end of an ugly half. We still haven't figured out our flow post-Kretzer/McAdams.

Nice rebound by Olojakpoke. Hope he plays well.

How about them sweet gold shorts they have the kids race to put on during the time out contest. Could our team wear those?!

Pregame introductions. Josh Williams & Noah Robotham look soooo enthused. It looks like they just woke up from a nap.

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I still think Daniel Utomi's a big key to this season. I'm already officially worried about that, but if he fails to make a mark -v- Radford I'll be officially officially worried.