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Ugh, wish I could say I was surprised. He was probably recovering from that trip to Toledo. Oh, wait, that article was written by Beacon Staff.

Looks like he's getting a lot of playing time- 18 minutes a game.

He's just such an angry 4 year old that I loved yelling at him. He's awfully successful however.

I must admit that I miss screaming at Bobby Hurley.

The 9-5 Buffalo Bulls (going into the 1/6 Ball St. game) come into the JAR Tuesday night to open up the Zips’ home MAC season. The Bulls opened the MAC season by beating Toledo 104-94 at home. Their record is a little deceiving as they’ve had close losses to Syracuse, Cincinnati and Rhode Island. 6 foot Missouri transfer senior guard Wes Clark and 6-3 junior guard C.J. Massinburg lead the Bulls scoring at 21 ppg. Massinburg also leads rebounding at 7.9 ppg. Buffalo was voted as the top team in the East in the MAC pre-season poll, receiving 24 of the 30 first place votes. Massinburg and junior Nick Persons were named to the pre-season All- MAC East squad.

Did we go from awful against dribble penetration and good against the perimeter under KD to good against dribble penetration and awful on the perimeter with Groce? LOL!

I hope I am wrong Captain! Still early.

That's quite a trio when you add Jackson to Fletcher and Sanford.

I really wish we could get past the persistent "Dambrot argument" on here. There's way too much knee jerk reaction on both sides of the "argument." Just because a poster supports Groce, likes some of the changes and may have been unhappy with certain aspects of the team under Dambrot (i.e. strength of schedule, lack of tournament success...), that doesn't mean they don't appreciate everything KD did for this program. On the other side of the "argument", one can be an unabashed KD supporter and still wholeheartedly support the Zips and Groce. I for one, was critical of some of the aspects of the KD program, but appreciate everything he did. He certainly made UA basketball relevant. If I'd have been overall unhappy, I'd have voted by not consistently renewing my season tickets and showing up to every game. I'm certainly not giving up those 20 win seasons and MAC titles. Thus far, I'm happy with Groce and that will keep my butt in the seats with good memories of KD AND hopes for Groce's future with the Zips.

The Zips are in for a long season on the road. I'm afraid the misery continues tonight.

Do I think a UA NCAA tourney run is probable? No. However, I've seen enough of teams like CSU, Richmond, George Mason, VCU, Davidson and so on to think there's not a shot under the right circumstances. Also, what were once great Cinderellas like Butler, Gonzaga and Wichita State have transitioned into becoming powerhouses, so I am not willing to concede UA can't some day have a run.

About .500. But I've only been here 6 years.

Happy to do it Zip JD!

The Zips head into Toledo Friday night to take on the 8-6 Rockets. The Rockets finished last season 17-17 and 9-9 in the MAC. Gone from last year’s squad are three starters that all made significant contributions. Senior G/F Colorado transfer Tre’Shaun Fletcher leads the 2017-18 Rockets in scoring (18.1 ppg), rebounding (8.4 rpg) and assists (3.6 apg). The Rockets also have West Division Preseason All-MAC guard Jaelan Sanford who averages 16.1 ppg. The Rockets were predicted to finish 3rd in the West in the MAC Preseason Poll.

Yes, and he eats them with condensed Campbell's tomato soup.

Then I am afraid you're waiting for him to be a miracle worker. Given the circumstances of KD leaving and the related fallout, this was at best going to be a 15 to 18 win team. This team is young and thin, especially at the bigs. What we're seeing should not be unexpected. If they're here in a couple of years, they hired the wrong guy, but to give up now is woefully premature.

Soooooo, I guess he's playing.

Amen. Sounds like the blogger is already printing his Sweet 16 tickets. I think we start seeing the fruits of Groce's labor next year too, but the blogger's just a tad too optimistic.

I think we have an unpolished player in E-Man and two undeveloped freshmen and our home games have been against teams with less than stellar bigs. What we saw early was an apparition.

The Zips travel to Kalamazoo Tuesday night to face WMU. The Broncos were voted the top team in the MAC-West in the combined media/coaches preseason poll. They are 7-5 and have an 11 point win over CSU and a 21 point win over App St., common opponents that the Zips beat by 10 and 5 respectively. The Broncos are led MAC player of the year candidate by 6-3 senior guard Thomas Wilder at 18.9 ppg and 6-5 junior guard Josh Davis at 7.8 rpg. We finally get to start seeing where our Zips line up in the MAC.

Yep, tough to gauge much from that game. I'm starting to get a little frustrated with Parrish, especially his defensive lapses. He just got lost on defense a couple of times tonight. I also wasn't a fan of him stopping and trying to get backcourt called on Concord as the ball came back up the floor. I'll be curious to hear what the deal is on Cotton. I wonder if the Ivey spat wasn't an early indicator of some issues.

That might be me from the quality of this game. Concord makes Radford look like the mid-60's Celtics.

...and on cue, the noggin bounces off of the hardwood...

How long until there's a serious injury from the dizzy basket race?

I'm going. Not sure if it is my team loyalty or a bad habit!