Blue & Gold

Nice and-1 for Harney. On tv you can clearly hear someone shouting out coaching instuctions to "Harney..., Harney..., Harney...!"

Yes, but he also called us the Akron Zekes, so that's some serious props.

CB had a pretty nice first half. He's getting better/more comfortable. He's very tricky w/ the ball.

Announcers giving Zeke a lot of props on how he changes the game. One of the announcers called Tree a junkyard dog. Very fitting.

It looked great! Exciting, entertaining, top-shelf caliber basketball played before a hyped-up packed house. Priceless PR.

Then Tree funks on the rim. GREAT sequence for national tv! All the announcer could say after that was, "Oh, wow!"

I think I just saw MamaZeke going crazy after Zeke's nasty, nasty dunk. Yeah, the announcer just pointed out MamaZeke. Stupid T on that, btw.

Did the announcer just say Tree weighs 245?!

JAR looks great on tv! Packed!

Harney slashing to the rim. Me like. Has McAdams touched the ball on offense yet?

I didn't get one.

^^^Can't's offered Javon Bess. I'm tellin' ya, we've gotta get on this guy. He's a baller. He really impressed me when I saw him play in the Dunk-For-Diabetes Shootout and again Pickerington Central on TWC1311.

Yes, "we" (ZipWatcher) need to update the scholarship chart to reflect next year's addition of Nyles Evans.

George Thomas on tonight's matchup.

I'm no Ohio fan, but that's a pet peeve of mine. Most of Columbus State's cheers are for Ohio, not Ohio State. Often, when someone says, O-H, I'll reply "I-O - Go Bobcats!"

Epic bump.

I like Javon Bess. He's a basketball player. Aggressive, always around the ball making plays, can handle the ball pretty well & flat-out just puts it in the hole. I really hope we're looking at him next year.

I hate preseason rankings. It's stacking the deck.

That memory is as painful for me as anyone, but we didn't run the table that year.

I like that Pat is 6'11" and muscular. He's athletic & aggressive & confident. He's going to be a beast and though won't block shots like Zeke (or get into opponents heads - which is huge - "Game Changer") he should be an automatic double-double machine. He's going to be the top C in the MAC for the next 3 years.

Akron.com Team just focussed on improving and winning. That's good.

Akron.com

I believe HS Stripes is giving a hypothetical voice to the NCAA selection committee; that they could/would say that, were we truly worthy of an NCAA Tourney bid, we should have won our conference tourney. In reading his post, I don't believe HS Stripes was saying that this is what he personally believes. Personally, I can't imagine being left out if we continue to run the table (the odds are still against us doing this; it's just incredibly difficult to go undefeated in conference) and lose (to Ohio) in the MACC game.

KD has truly elevated this program. I've been a Zips fan for a looong time and would have been hard pressed to have ever been able to say I'd be confident going into a game with Columbus. This year I'd be confident. It'd be a good game, for sure, but come on now, Columbus State is one of the best programs in the nation. The great thing is that, with KD, we're not falling from grace anytime in the foreseeable future. We lose Zeke next year, and his shoes will be impossible to fill. But 6'11" Pat Forsythe (IMHO) is better as a freshman than Zeke was. He's going to be a monster. If we get Quincy Diggs back, next's year's Zips will be even better than this year's team.