clarkwgriswold

I see AJ Brown hasn't played since the Akron game and their board. He had 15 points and 5 rebounds against the Zips in late January.

The Bobcats have a couple of freshmen that impressed me, AJ Brown and Elmore James (who played at Brush). I suspect Boals won't leave Wilson on an island guarding Enrique tonight again. Wilson is a very nice player, but his lack of lateral quickness hurts him on the defensive end.

I think you are right, I had them mixed up.

Prather had a walking boot on his foot at Tuesday night's game.

Yikes. Down 31 points with 5 minutes left to a team that's 3-7 in the MAC.

His pained expression pretty well sums it up.

I fixed it. I think my inner psyche did not want to acknowledge the Toledo game!

The Zips head out to Athens Friday to face OU. It is a 7:30 game on the CBS Sports Network. The Zips beat the Bobcats by 6 at the JAR on 1/28. As you will recall, Enrique ate Dwight Wilson's lunch, scoring 32 points and pulling down 15 boards. OU scoring in that game was very balanced with 4 players scoring between 14 and 16 points. As you may recall, they were down 17 at half to the Zips and rallied to get the final deficit back to 6. OU currently stands at 13-11/5-6. They've won two in a row against Miami in Athens and at DeKalb. Wilson continues to lead scoring at 15.9 ppg while pulling down 9.7 rpg. They are third in the MAC in offense and 5th in defense.

I thought they were bad when Freeman was on the court and covering guys like Milliner. He and Hunter both suffered from having to guard smaller quicker players. They were getting blown by or giving cushion and closing out too slow on threes.

I guess I should have worn my cup. If I never have to see Enrique regularly guarding a guard on the perimeter, I will be content. The Zips seemed to be ill-prepared to deal with Toledo's 4 guard lineup. What an awfully officiated game. The refs were also awful for Toledo. So many missed calls mixed with calling tacky tack stuff. Toledo is a decent team but damn, that was winnable.

Enrique's worst game in a long while see so far.

Ugly half. Zips doing a lot of trapping on defense. Not quite sure why the Zips keep putting a big (Freeman and Lyles) on Milliner.

Lucky to still be in this one.

To make up for NWAkron, I am doubling my sense of dread for this one. As a conditioned NEO sports fan this one just feels like the perfect storm for a swift kick in the n*+$ coming off of the PCCC high.

They're going to shoot them from the t-shirt cannon. It could get ugly.

Vegan.

Thanks for all of your hard work in keeping this up and running!

Nice to see ZipsNation up and running again!

PCCC Flashes- this is what a locker room video is supposed to look like.

I really think this may be the best job Groce has done since arriving here. Bandaogo and Ali bail, Dawson goes down, Clarke out for a substantial period, 4 freshmen getting regular minutes... He's earned every cent of his pay this season.

That would be great, but we'll be back to the same type of crowd we had last week with Miami. At least a third of the lower bowl will still be empty. This year is the best showing from the students that we have seen in a very long time. I think Groce and the players engaging with those kids it is really paying off.

The Sprockets can score the basketball. They're first in the MAC by a whopping 6 points a game. On the flip side, they're 11th in team defense. This game may well come down to which team controls the pace.

I think that should be a popular comment. It is a rivalry and I sure like poking fun at them, however, Groce telling us more than once that he and Mr. Pinky are good friends goes a long way in helping to promote that sportsmanship.

Mr. Pinky is just good enough to keep his job but not good enough to have someone come calling with another job, He's the Crash Davis of college basketball coaches. I'll give him some credit. He made some very nice and gracious comments in an article yesterday about last year's MAC championship game and made similar comments following last night's game.