clarkwgriswold

Glad to see the Zips play with some energy. I'm sure it has been a rough week as JoMo's father passed away on the 20th.

That was a hell of a start! The fans are going crazy. Both of them.

I'm going to keep rooting for Dru as he is a Zip through and through. He walked into a tough situation with graduations and transfers and I'll wait to see what he can do over a couple of seasons with his own recruits before deeming his brief tenure at Duquesne a failure. I'll also not judge his decision to take on the challenge. There aren't many people who would pass up an opportunity at what is essentially a promotion to the top position in your organization.

The word on the street is that they don't have a serviceable backup big and that they have a weak OOC schedule. Also, the teams they have lost to have just wanted it more.

I sure hope. I am rooting for the kid. He's unfailingly polite and a real student athlete.

Marvin Musiime-Kamali did a nice job of spelling Okonkwo after Amani went down today. I'm starting to worry a little about Jojo Harris. I really want him to be the next Xeyrius Williams but I'm a little afraid he could be the next Maishe Dailey.

So good I won't fix it.

He seems to have some natural talent but he does not appear to be in shape. Maybe it is his body type but right now he looks out of place, and now he looks out of the rotation. At the preseason reception, I initially though he might be one of the managers.

The Zips get 9 days off before the Norse of Northern Kentucky come to the JAR on December 3rd. The Norse currently stand at 1-4 but have games against Bellarmine and College of Charleston before they head to Akron. The Norse record is deceiving as their 3 of their 4 losses are to Purdue, Cincinnati and Florida State. The Norse were predicted to finish 3rd in the Horizon League in the pre-season poll. 6'7" graduate student guard Trey Robinson and 6'5" senior guard Sam Vinson were naked to the Horizon pre-season first team. This far, 6'4 grad student Josh Dilling leads the Norse in scoring at 12 ppg. Vinson is scoring 10 ppg while Robinson, who was the Horizon DPOY last year, scores * per game while leading the team in rebounding at 6.8 rpg.

Some highlights from Groce on the postgame: 1) It was the most complete game they played all year; 2) He wants to play FASTER!; 3) The defense took a step and was better and is now about average, but they need to make more steps yet; 4) As mentioned above, they hope Amani's injury is just a sprain and that he'll be back soon. Imaging tomorrow. You could see that Groce was occasionally frustrated by the slow pace Tavari was bringing the ball up the court at times today.

The Hornets have some fight in them

Like or dislike the schedule, the other three teams in this tournament would all compete in the MAC. This three days have been good for the Zips' growth.

Now in a boot on the bench. Ugh.

Amani on the trainer's table shoe and sock off. Injured ankle earlier.

From looking at the scores this could be the best game of the 3.

Groce going all Mad Scientist on us!

If we're able to pull that off I am going to insist that all games be held at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday mornings to ensure that the MAC games are the only football games happening at that given time in the whole USA to draw in that huge TV crowd.

Ummmm, that was the point.

That poor damn horse.

...and we need a viable back up big... That horse has been beaten to death. 4 of the 12 OOC opponents are top 25 mid-majors.

Some players to watch- Nebraska-Omaha: Marquel Sutton- 6'9" junior forward- leads team in scoring (14 ppg) and rebounding (6.4 rpg). JaSean Glover- 6'4" junior guard- second on team in scoring at 11.8 ppg. Lamar: Andrew Holifield- 6'10" junior forward- leads team in scoring (16 ppg) and rebounding (7 rpg). Alexis Marmolius- 6'1" junior guard- second on team in scoring at 15 ppg. Alabama State: D'Ante Bass- 6'6 junior forward- leads team in scoring (16 ppg) and rebounding (8 rpg). TJ Madlock- 6'3" junior guard- second on team in scoring at 15.8 ppg.

No big names but they appear to be sold squads. There are no Concords, Ohio Wesleyans or Heidelbergs.

It helps when you play the worst team FBS football. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

PCCC has had two leads all year. Our Zips are the victims to one of them. 🫣

Here's the deal on the case against Burns and how this usually works. When there's a debt like that the bank sends numerous demand letters/correspondence in an attempt to get the debt worked out on their own. When that fails, they turn the debt over to the lawyers who send at least one demand letter. When all that fails, they file suit. The complaint then goes out to the debtor by certified mail. When that mail gets claimed, and here it was signed for by what looks to be another member of his household, the time to file an answer starts to run. If an answer is not timely filed, the plaintiff can file for default judgment. That's what happened here on November 13th. The court hasn't yet granted that motion so there's not a judgment.