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James Madison comes into the 2025-26 season after posting a 20-12 record last season with a loss in the Sun Belt Final to Troy. From looking at their roster, they have a ton of new faces. Included in these transfers are the following: · Paul Jones, a 6’4” sophomore guard who averaged 7.6 ppg and 3 rpg last year at Winthrop where he was named to the Big South Conference. · Bradley Douglas, a 6’4” senior guard transfer from Geogia Southern where he averaged 12.6 ppg, 2.3 rpg and 2.2 apg. He’s on his 5th school in 5 years. · Cliff Davis- 6’2” senior guard transfer from Rio Grande where he averaged 12.1 ppg and 4.5 rpg. · Paul Lewis, a 6’2” guard who started at Vanderbilt then transferred to UTSA where he missed nearly all of last season due to injury. · Justin McBride, a 6’7 junior forward transfer from Nevada (Previously Okla. St.) where he averaged 7.8 ppg and 4/1 rpg. · Ike Cornish, a 6’6” senior guard transfer from Nicholls who averaged 7.7. ppg and 2.2 rpg. He started in Maryland and spent a season at Ohio U. · Eli Wilborn, a 6’8” junior forward who was a teammate of Barre at Duquesne where he averaged 5 ppg and 3.5 rpg last year. · Gabe Newhof, a 6’9” senior forward who was an NAIA All-American at Spring Arbor last season, averaging 21.5 ppg and 7.2 rpg. From looking at the roster JMU appears deep and experienced and will again be towards the top of the Sun Belt standings. They’ll also likely still be in transition mode with so many new faces. I'll keep updating as more info and previews become available.

$20 a ticket GA. Hmmm.

Stop making fun of my script "Akron"!!!

Nobody called you an idiot or even implied it. It's a forum - an exchange of ideas and opinions. If there was an easy answer to all of this it would have been found by now.

I don't think anyone wants to shut it down. They want to see a different approach as the last couple of decades demonstrate that this approach isn't working, and it's not going to get any easier with the changes in the college sports landscape.

Agreed, but some of that also comes back to team discipline and that is on the coaches.

They've tried with Ianello...and Brookhart...and Bowden...and Arth...and Motorhead....yet here we are. Maybe it's not all about the head coach?

Make sure to check out the Zips men's basketball Instagram today. It has pics of the players in their first year and now. They're great, especially to see how kids like Amani and Tavari grew up.

24 days until Zips basketball.

Fantastic (outside of the red zone).

I think the slip of FCS instead of FBS is somehow....correct.

1st drive- 1 and goal from the 4. Incomplete pass, stupid penalty, interception. 1st drive in second quarter- nice drive, missed 37 yard field goal. It just never ends...

All of the major networks are in a bidding war for the game.

Me too. He's in their online roster.

They are brining in a guard from Israel- https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/kent-state/2025/10/08/omer-hamama-kent-state-university-mens-basketball-team-ncaa-signs-grant-in-aid-agreement/86588319007/?tbref=hp

The mobile tickets are ready! The mobile tickets are ready! The mobile tickets are ready!

I think this is BG's year. Somebody had to say it! 🤣

They're still the Mets.

It pains me to say it, but history tells us PCCC will be in the mix. The school and boosters have committed money to Mr. Pinky so they'll be around.

I know of an area college coach who had a player come to him after the season and tell him he was considering entering the portal. The coach apparently thought this was a ploy by the kid to get more love and be asked to stay. He told the kid he'd recruited him once, wasn't planning to do it again and showed him the door. LOL.

It all depends on whether the coach leaves the door open. There's no hard and fast rule.

Time to start talking about an extension!

30 days to Zips hoops!

John Heisman was the coach.

I'm out of town and watching this on a feed. Did the zips really get called twice in this drive for top many men on the field?