clarkwgriswold

Best Zips half of the season.

Tribble's game and confidence growing with every game.

Good start. 12-5 Zips, 14:42. My favorite 5 had a nice run.

This year's attendance of students hasn't been great, but it has been better than in the past. They are filling up most of the seats behind the basket and there have been 60 to 100 up by me in the north cheap seats. Still paltry but better. The awful showing thus far has been in the blue seats.

Zips- 76 Penguins- 64

Bob, I'll guess 14,267.

Banks is also one of the Zips better perimeter defenders.

Today's ABJ content from GT- Zips-Penguins Scouting Report- https://www.beaconjournal.com/sports/20191121/college-basketball-akron-vs-ysu-scouting-report Review of Tom Hanks new Mr. Rogers movie- https://www.beaconjournal.com/entertainment/20191121/tom-hanks-makes-neighborhood-place-worth-visiting I feel much better informed about the movie than I do about the game.

I think he's still working at figuring out what combinations work best together. I think what will be most telling is who the Zips have in the game at crunch time. That's when you will see who the real top five are. I think it's LCJ, Cheese, Banks, X and Reece are your crunch time 5.

They gave up 12 sacks while the defense held Miami to 8 points less than their MAC average. I think both lines are awful, but the defense wasn't the primary issue when the O-line is a sieve like it was last night.

...and remember, the key to ZNO serenity is the judicious use of the ignore feature!

Amen. That would make 2 NEO College teams they out-efforted in 4 days.

YSU got by NCC 66-60, led by 6-6 junior forward Naz Bohannon's 19 point and 11 boards.

FF: 8 or 10 years ago, I had a rough night after consuming a bad cheesesteak in Oxford. Thursday night will be a similar experience.

Here's hoping! It would be a nice story.

When you play college basketball titans like NCC and SCU, you play on THEIR schedule!

You should have skipped class!

Yes, but that Bowden name is known by every football playing teen in the United States. ?️ This guy gets a vote when he can tell me a Zips game he has watched in the last couple of years.

Much more effort tonight. Some interesting lineups tonight, even some with X and two bigs. I continue to have some hope for Sayles but the kid seems to have little or no feel for the game at times. Moves okay and fairly athletic but every time the ball comes to him it seems like the first time he's seen it. Lots of nice seamless switching on the perimeter tonight. Tribble will be even better when he finds his shot and has some confidence in it. He is aggressive with the ball and strong on defense. I think you'll see him even more when teams pick on LCJ's size.

The 1-2 Penguins come to the JAR Thursday night. They may come in at 2-2 as they play North Carolina Central Tuesday night. They have lost to Louisville and Louisiana (and hope they don't have to play Louisiana State or St. Louis). The following is taken from an article in the YSU website- The Youngstown State men's basketball team was predicted to finish sixth in the Horizon League in a vote by the league's head coaches, athletics communications directors and selected media. Sophomore Darius Quisenberry as also selected to the preseason All-Horizon League Second-Team. Quisenberry, a 2018-19 All-Horizon League Second-Team selection, was the first YSU freshman to earn all-league honors. He scored a YSU Division I freshman record 441 points and led the team in scoring and assists with 120. Quisenberry averaged 13.8 points, 2.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. He scored in double figures 21 times, had eight 20-point performances and two 30-point games. The Springfield, Ohio, native set the YSU freshman record with 51 3-pointers made. He also ranked 15th in the Horizon League in scoring, seventh in assists per game, eighth with 1.3 steals per game, fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio with 1.8 and 11th in free-throw percentage at 79.7 percent.

Lots of Zips getting on the floor for balls tonight.

1-3-1 zone from the Zips.

He caught a pass tonight!

Okay, a strong 10 minutes so clarky can get home early!

18% on 3 pointers.