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That Duvivier crossover and dish for the Sayles dunk was a thing of beauty

Saw some things I liked, and some I didn't tonight. Defense was very good in the first half, rotation was nice, crashed the boards.. second half seemed like we were a half step behind getting back. Lot of 3 on 2 fastbreaks that led to some fouls. Not sure if that's a depth thing and not much left in the tank but that needs addressed. Offensively a lot more movement than I'm used to seeing from a Zips team. A lot of cuts to the basket that we didn't recognize and make the pass for an easy basket, but that will get fixed as they gel. Utomi, man. I haven't seen another MAC game yet but I'm pretty sure no one has the talent of Utomi, Ivey and Duvivier. If the 4-8 guys can continue to develop we'll be a force in the conference, per usual. Little worried about our inside game, but I'm sure some Warriors fans were thinking that a few years ago. If we can use our speed and athleticism to impose our game and make teams adapt instead of playing someone else's game, they'll be alright.

Man if Utomi can keep developing on that inside game and banging like that, I'm not sure who in the MAC is going to slow him down, let alone stop him.

Reghi just talked about our old point guard Alex Avila. Crazy, he didn't even play baseball here and made it to the bigs

This is a fun team to watch. Movement off the ball, crashing the boards.. I'm not ready to say we're better than the typical Zips team at this point in the year, but the rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We're going to be just fine.

Duvivier three straight triples and Cotton with a great drive to the rack. Looking good and playing some good defense

They nice

You've shifted the goal posts quite a bit now. There's a difference in wanting the conference as a whole to do well and rooting for your arch rival. That's all I'll say on it as this is a Chattanooga thread and this argument could go on for a while.

I picture no scenario in which I'm sitting at home on selection Sunday thinking "man if only Kent won more games"

Anyone happen to watch any Chattanooga hoops yet? If I remember right they played a pretty fast paced havoc-style game when they made the tourney a year or two ago. Not sure if Paris continued that or not

This is payback for the MAC bball tourney being in our backyard all these years

Because Kent being good has helped us in that regard before? You think Wichita needed anyone else to be good in the MVC to become a power? Gonzaga didn't need anyone. We sure as hell don't need Kent.

It's damn good news every time they lose. I hope they lose every game they play, and lose to us by 100.

The first and only thing I think of when I hear UT Chattanooga

9 point underdogs

There are going to be enough in total, but you're going to have conferences like the B1G unable to fill all their spots with a few playing in NY6 bowls, and conferences like the MAC with more teams than bowl contracts. Those bowls have to fill their spots from somewhere

Besides NIU in the Orange Bowl, it'd arguably be the best bowl a MAC team has gotten into. The ACC calls it one of their "Tier 1" bowls. It's a fun place and beats the heck out of Alabama

Thinking we'll be around 10 pt dogs. We've overcome worse odds this season

Yesterday it was pretty evident the plan was to play it safe, protect the ball and make Kent beat our defense. The football equivalent to watching sausage being made, but the end result was fantastic.

I'd rather get revenge on Toledo.

That graphic is slightly confusing lol

My cousin wrestles for OSU and they have a pin chain. They fully admit they got the idea from Miami but the kids love it. Whatever gets the players motivated, who cares if it's original or not.

Yeah. For me it's not so much of this being that big of a deal, but an overall continuation of athletics continually shooting themselves in the foot. New scoreboards? Let's use standard definition video and not show player stats. Brilliant!

Here we go again