Blue & Gold

Very versatile lineup here. Shammah could play on the wing. Marvin could play in the post. Tribble could run the point.

I'm still apprehensive about our lack of front court depth. But Enrique is almost too good for our own good. No difference-making upperclassman post player is going to want to transfer here to ride the bench. (Man do I wish we still had Aziz, but he's a prime example of Enrique being almost too good for our own good.)

4:00 p.m. 3/27 Where we stand: PG: Shammah...... Thornton..... Tavari W: Dawson......... Prather W: Tribble........... Nate............ Marvin P: Sammy.......... Darrion P: Freeman....... Amari

💯 The only reason he's on our radar here is because LCJ3 subtweeted him when Ford announced he was transferring. That's the lone trail of smoke around this one. Rasheed Bello on the other hand...

They lost via a bottom of the 9th 3-run walk-off bomb 😭😭

I’m anxious to see if we’re able to schedule any Big East teams now that we’re a member in soccer.

Exciting game today. We’re up 9-7 in the top of the 9th. Sounds like there’s a decent contingent of Zips fans at the game.

I don't really know how it works, but I think we had a couple of players on the team last year, didn't we? Maybe they don't get paid & are just on the team to stay in shape during the summer?

Noticed that Duquesne’s Maceo Austin entered the portal. KD was recruiting him to be a Zip out of high school.

This Toledo ESPN+ broadcast is outstanding.

Owen Murphy also got an offer from Houston 🤨

Ouch. Projected starter. 🙁

The morning of 3/24 Where we currently stand: PG Shammah....... Tavari W: Dawson.......... Prather W: Tribble............ Nate.......... Marvin P: Sammy........... Darrion P: Freeman......... Amani

Rasheed Bello tweeted that prior to Shammah committing, so I wonder if our offer is still on the table?

I almost just posted the same. Selfishly, of course I wish he was still in the blue & gold. But this turned out to be a good move for Aziz. If he were still here he'd still be a reserve next year too.

Good point. With Freeman's dominant presence in the paint we really could run a 4-guard set, especially if one of our guards is the 6-5 bruising junkyard dog Mikal Dawson.

According to VerbalCommits.com Markeese was at Butler before transferring to WMU so, unfortunately, he's going to have to sit out a year. ...Unless he's a grad transfer?...

8:30 p.m. 3/20 How we currently stand: PG: Tavari...... W: Dawson.... Prather W: Tribble.......Nate......... Marvin P: Sammy...... Darrion P: Freeman.... Amani Currently 3 open scholarships

It is. I like Garvin but I feel this is going to be a win-win. Garvin's a nice, solid player but just not quite at the upper-MAC level. We'll almost certainly land a more consistent scorer and he'll transfer to a lower major & get more PT & be able to develop more, e.g., Josh Williams. (Josh was a guard on the Zips team a few years prior to Groce's arrival.)

I'm really hoping for 3 immediate impact players - one immediate impact front court player in addition to 2 guards As we currently sit I'm apprehensive about our bigs: Freeman - an all-time Zips great Sammy - stretch 4 who really likes to hang out around the 3-point arc Amani - nice potential but only averaged 2 PPG & 1 RPG (GoZips.com a mess. It took me 5 minutes to find the stats.) Baker - will be a true freshman Marvin - will be a true freshman On the other hand, Enrique is probably going to average as many minutes as he wants next year, so maybe relying on Amani is sufficient to simply fill in while Enrique catches his breath?

Awesome! Where'd you run into him? I've seen Jaimie sitting in 1st row seats behind the opponents bench a handful of times. His son, Max, is a very talented player with Wadsworth. I think Max is going to be a senior next year. We are getting OLD! 😭😭

Indeed. I had my heart ripped out a handful of times last season 😩😂