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Mr. Pinky being cute on Pippen and Hamilton not playing- “Just unavailable to play,” said KSU head coach Rob Senderoff, when asked why Pippen and Hamilton did not play. He added that the team had to “adjust on the fly” to their unavailability.

I think there are 8 teams with a chance to win the MAC tournament.

The number one scorer in the MAC, LCJ, at 21.6 ppg vs. the number two scorer, Turner, at 19.9 ppg. The number two rebounder, Freeman (I hear he's a walk on) at 9 rpg vs. the number four rebounder, Plowden, at 8.1 rpg. BG is averaging 79 ppg while the Zips are averaging 78.6 ppg. I am hoping we see the BG of the past that struggles in the tournament. I fear that they are just now becoming the team the coaches anticipated when they chose them to win the MAC in the preseason.

I really wish the MAC would settle on a provider rather than bounce back and forth between ESPN and CBS. I pay for ESPN+ to watch the Zips as much as possible and it aggravates me to have random games bounce off to another network where I am forced to either: not watch; pay to watch; sign up for a trial that I then have to cancel; or download some non-Google store app to watch an unauthorized feed stolen from the net by some Russian hacker.

The MAC Tournament bracket has been released. While there are still some uncertain seedings, the MAC has set UA/BG as the #3/#6 matchup. https://getsomemaction.com/tournaments/?id=145 The Zips beat BG convincingly (69-57) at BG on January 19th. BG returned the favor at the JAR on February 26th, beating the Zips 83-71. BG had an awful mid-season swoon, dropping 6 straight, but has recently played well winning four straight before dropping an OT Game to Miami on Tuesday. Hopefully, with the Miami game not being played, the Zips can use the 9 day break to get their legs back under them for BG.

So, just to clarify, the Zips will not wrap up the regular season Friday night at 7 at the JAR Friday night.

Makes you wish they already had their Covid scare. I was under the impression it made its way through the team in the preseason.

When I first saw senior night was on the last night of the regular season I thought it could be a problem in this weird year.

I'd have opted for shutting down two weeks ago so that I didn't have to watch what we've seen in the last three games. It will be one year on Saturday since we were last in the JAR. Sigh.

In this 3 game slide, Trimble has scored a combined 15 points (9, 6, 0).

I'd be hesitant to make any changes this late in the season with the MAC tournament quickly approaching. I would however look for more substantial minutes for Dawson and Wynn who have more dimensions to their games than some of the other reserves. Also, as some have suggested, Trimble needs to look to do something other than be a spot up shooter.

Only if the game is actually Saturday!

It doesn't get unappealing for the average area fan until an unwatchable product is put on display in it. Once that's fixed, the rest will become appealing as it will no longer be "lipstick on a pig."

I suspect that he may have seen the writing on the wall that this administration is not going to get behind the athletic program financially. He probably also saw that they were not going to renew him and made the preemptive strike.

I guess that looks better on the resume than being let go.

The Zips wrap up the regular season Friday night at 7 at the JAR Friday night with Senior Night against Miami. Miami comes in at 12/10/9-8. The Zips and Redhawks faced off in Oxford on February 12th with the Zips winning 83-76. The only person smaller than LCJ in the MAC, Mekhi Lairy, led Miami with 24 in the loss. Dae Dae Grant leads the guard heavy Miami attack at 13.5 ppg. Delonte Brown leads the team in rebounding at 7.2 rpg while scoring 12.5 ppg. They are fresh off of an OT win over BG.

Miami gave back the lead, going to OT.

Miami taking it to BG in the second half.

The only important season starts next week. I have all kinds of ideas of what's gone wrong but at the end of the day my *** is sitting in my recliner in Tallmadge instead of in the bleachers above the Zips bench. From that perspective I watched the bench intently with an eye on how the players and coaches were interacting and you could tell a lot about the team. No such luck this year. These kids seem to enjoy each other but I can't imagine a team having more chemistry than last year's squad or the perfect mix of personalities to encourage, cajole, joke with and admonish each other they had. That type of mix helps a team to overcome slumps and limit the damage. I'm not sure this team has that.

Bovine- 79, Zips- 73.

Reece and Freeman have to stay out of foul trouble or they'll get killed on the boards. Also, guys like Dailey, Wynn, Dawson and Tribble need to crash to help out. Buffalo is a on a 3 game win streak where they've won by an average of over 20+. Not feeling good about this one.

I think it is equally or as more important that they not let the other team score more than them.

They probably don't get to a second game if they lose the first. 😁

Could you please work on the game time now? 👍