clarkwgriswold

True. I think some of that's Groce's design by necessity, driven by the lack of quality offensive bigs.

That's my biggest fear. I cringe every time someone passes the ball to Riak. Reece is more competent offensively but is undersized against some bigs. I will give Reece credit for knowing his offensive limitations as well as always going up strong. After those two, there's no depth. On a night when the 3 ball's not dropping, they could run into some trouble. On a related note, Mark Kostelac has played in 5 of 15 games at Walsh, averaging 7 minutes and 1.6 points a game.

I assume the game ended too late to get to press. Last night's game was fun. Nice to see the crowd get into the game. It appears that the Zips are finally starting to gain some attention from their success. Some day, when I get a little time, I want to go back a couple of years and find some of the very critical posts about Groce as he was struggling with a roster thrown together at the last minute. It should be entertaining for those of us who encouraged patience and painful for the "Chicken Littles" who were so critical.

The Zips head to lovely DeKalb, Illinois to face the Northern Illinois Huskies Tuesday night. The Huskies were picked to finish second in the MAC West in the MAC Preseason Poll, with senior guard Eugene German being named to the All-MAC West team. Northern Illinois won 17 games last season and advanced to the MAC Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2003. They stand at 8-7 going into Saturday's game with Eastern Michigan. German leads the Huskies and the MAC at over 20 ppg, while dishing out nearly 4 apg.

That's the most fun I've had at the JAR in a while. That's just the type of game I was expecting from X. I think the MAC knows the Zips are here now.

I would prefer for them to continue to step on their necks than try to eat clock.

Nice moment when Reese came off of the floor. Groce took him aside put his arm around him and talked to him for about 30 seconds.

Damn refs.

Ummm, this is a little fun.

Need some X and Banks this half.

Showing your age Captain!

Showing your age Captain!

Nice run for the Zips. I don't care if Teague hit one bomb. Riak needs to stop leaving his feet that far from the basket and playing him so close.

First T-shirt cannon of the year. NWAkron's PTSD is kicking in.

Lucky to be down only single digits.

Refs nearly as bad as the Zips.

Pass it to the guys in the YELLOW jerseys.

Zips out of sorts. Must have thought the game started at 7.

Teague blowing around Riak whenever he wants.

This team is good. Zips need to pressure the ball coming up the floor as they're not a great ball handling team. They play defense as intensely as the Zips, but trap less.

Too many turnovers.

This has the feel of a game that could get chippy. I'd like a rule that Riak can only shoot off of rebounds. LOL.

Not an awful crowd. Feeling a big game from X tonight.

It would be nice to get Emmitt Smith there again!

Game night. Hustle home from work, grab some quick food, jump in the car.....oh wait. Set alarm, take nap...