clarkwgriswold

Bench mob in now. Use that energy to put them away.

Starting to see why Groce called him an elite shooter,

Trimble is moderately warm.

Can't let them think they have any hoped in the first minutes of the half. Come out and punch them in the mouth, they'll get frustrated and fall apart.

8 rebounds and 4 blocks in the half for Freeman. Wynn and Dawson both with more minutes than Dailey.

19% shooting for the Flushes.

Your 9 year old is now one thought process ahead of Mr. Pinky.

Danny Pippen 1-9. Beautiful. Technical on the way!

The radio guys are doing fine.

Refs feeling the pressure of the crowd.

The live stars link on the Zips website schedule is giving the stats of the Ball State game. Ugh.

Here's hoping PCCC shoots 13% all night!

Pippen actually takes more shots than LCJ.

I hope they get under Pippen's skin and he commits one of his childish technicals.

Nice kid. I didn't think he was the same after the ugly fall against BG. Glad to hear he's doing well.

Going to have to hit the boards as PCCC is playing a big front line most of the time now.

6'9" 330 pounds with offers from Akron, YSU and Illinois State. I think we have our answer

I remember Les as the play-by-play voice of CSU when they had that NCAA run a hundred years ago.

I think the more likely scenario is that Maishe continues to start but his minutes continue to diminish with guys like Wynn and Dawson taking over more and more of his minutes. It may have already started. In his last 5 games his minute shave gone 25, 22, 24, 19, 18. He must be one hell of a practice player.

It would be classic NCAA to open the doors to extended eligibility yet not accommodate with increased scholarships/roster limits.

I'm with you. I anticipated that Dailey and Currie would both be major contributors. Wow have I been disappointed. I kept thinking Dailey would eventually break out but it's just not happening.

You've already given us as much or more info than we'll get from the Beacon!

On a night where Toledo shoots their normal 45-46% FG and 39% on three pointers instead of 50% and 44% and the Zips shoot their normal 46% and 33% instead of 42% and 32% and the Zips make 76% of their free throws instead of 61% , I don't think there's a significant difference between the two. Toledo was sure the better of the two last night but I am not willing to concede they are the clear favorite yet. I think on a neutral floor at the Fieldhouse, I could see the spread at 3, maybe 4, but the teams are pretty close if they both bring their regular games. The first game was more indicative of the talent differential that last night.

As I have stated on here previously, I think the Zips too often get caught with 4 guys on the floor standing still watching LCJ on offense. However, that is now part of the game in the college shot clock era. I heard an interview of Bob Huggins a while back where he was lamenting the evolution of college basketball offense. To paraphrase Huggins, college basketball has become 15 to 20 seconds of teams running their offense, which doesn't work because every opponent has watched hours of tape of that same offense, followed by a pick and roll or isolation with your best athlete trying to make a play. If you watch the Zips, that's what often happens. They come down, you have motion through the offense, no progress is made and the ball ends up back in LCJ's hands to make a play. To our good fortune, he has he ability to do so most of the time. LCJ is actually much more of a facilitator this year than last, on a team that arguably has fewer playmakers. The approach of most teams this year has been to body him up, try to keep the ball out of his hands, focus primarily on him on defense and run him off of the three point line. That tells me that the coaches in the MAC do not believe too much of LCJ is a good thing for them. As for last night, they gave up 91 points so I'd place the loss more at the feet of the defense than the offense. At the end of the day, it was one loss against a very good Toledo team, a team that might well be 2-0 against the Zips if Toledo's coach didn't have a brain fart in the first game. Time to focus on playing Brimfield on Friday.