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To summarize: Bad defense + good team shooting lights out = 115 points On to EMU.

Stan Heath brings his 6-5 EMU Eagles to the JAR Friday night to face the Zips, coming off of exam week. Like many other teams, EMU had to completely rebuild, returning only 7.9% of their minutes from last year. 6'9" redshirt Central Michigan transfer Mohammad Habnad leads the Eagles with 14.9 ppg and 8.1 rpg. 6'7" redshirt senior guard Addison Peterson, who's on his 5th college team, averages 11.5 rpg and 5.1 rpg. They have wins over Georgia State, Cincinnati, Detroit Mercy, Oakland, NJIT and Cleary. Their losses are to Pitt, UPFW, Louisville, Butler and and IU Indy. Stan Heath, the John Wooden of Ypsilanti, will have them ready.

Groce has said again and again that the way this team gets being just being good is by improving defensively. Clearly, they're still just good.

Groce may have a coronary if they give up 100.

Chippy game.

I got the feeling early when Joe told me that the Zips coaches thought Murray State was more talented than Yale.

This game just has a bad feel to it.

Okay, we need 20 guys to all kick in a buck and we're going to @kreed5120's to watch the stream. He's providing the grub.

2-way. All day. Every day.

Another thought would be to offer these tickets or a discount on them the upper reserved and general admission season ticket holders.

Here's the number for Victim Assistance- (330) 376-0040.

I'm not a soccer guy and can't say that I understand most of the rules, but one thing about the game that has frustrated me in my limited knowledge is just how many calls by the officials are largely subjective.

I too was skeptical of Lyles and figured at best he'd be a 10 or 12 minute guy some day and was likely a transfer portal candidate. As for Scott, I always had faith in him as it was obvious Groce had faith in him as he played him more and more at the end of games as his first season wound down. That's always a good measure of Groce's feelings about a player.

Probably the most talented, definitely the deepest. One area they continue to get beat on defense is on the perimeter. They are dedicated to playing help defense which has the defenders on the off side of the ball sagging into or close in the lane when the ball is on the other side of the floor. When the opponent swings the ball quickly they're caught responding late leaving open threes. They're also getting occasionally beat by cutters to the basket.

The Zips head to Vegas next Saturday to face to the Murray State Racers in the Jack Jones Classic. The Racers are 7-3 with wins over Bellarmine, Morehead State, George Washington, Little Rock, Nicholls, Mississippi Valley, Omaha, Northern State and Xavier, and losses to SMU, Middle Tennessee and McNeese State. Of their three losses, two came in the Caymans against Middle Tennessee, 90-87, and McNeese State, 73-70. Their other loss was 102-91 at SMU. From the Bellarmine website going into their game with Murray: MSU shoots 29.3 threes per game, 36th-most in the country, and ranks 99th connecting at a .360 clip. Defensively, the Racers are in the bottom third of the country allowing 77.3 points per game, a trait that could spell good fortune for the hot-shooting Knights on Saturday. Javon Jackson, playing at his fourth school in as many years, averages a team-best 16.3 points for MSU, 4th in The Valley. The senior guard has taken 116 shots, 52 more than anyone else on the team, but is shooting just .388. Fred King, a former Louisville commitment who played three seasons at Creighton, shoots a team-best .733 and is second behind Jackson with 12.2 points per game. On the perimeter, Bellarmine will need to keep an eye on Mason Miller, who is shooting .512 from deep.