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Blurb from yesterday's Detroit Free Press- After a sluggish conference start, the Eastern Michigan men enter the tournament with momentum, having won their final six games, including a pair of victories over West Division champion Toledo and wins at Central Michigan and Western Michigan. The third-seeded Eagles (20-11, 11-7 MAC), who will wait until Thursday to face the winner of Monday's game between No. 6 Western Michigan and No. 11 Akron, last appeared in the NCAA tournament in 1998, when former standout Earl Boykins led EMU to a conference tournament title. NBA prospect James Thompson IV is averaging a double-double for the Eagles at 15.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. Elijah Minnie leads the team in scoring at 16.8 points per game, while Paul Jackson is averaging 14.9 points.

George was busy recovering from the Oscars. That's his Super Bowl.

Yep.

I kept it on. I'm not sure why, other than I apparently didn't have anything else to do (AKA don't have a life).

Amen.

There were times in the middle of the season that I worried Groce may be on the cusp of losing them. Just their body language looked bad when they were down. From those slumped shoulders and rolled eyes, Groce rallied this team to where they've now won the two most important games of the year.

Did anyone else get the momentary panic when Virshon went flying into the basket padding on the last foul, envisioning WMU picking the last guy on the bench to shoot the free throws for an injured Virshon?

Naaaaah, it's clearly not giving up as many as you score.

The Zips really need Malcolm's shot to come around. He hasn't had a decent shooting game since the first PCCC game. In the 5 games since, he is 16 of 57 (28%) from the field and 8 of 36 (22%) from three point territory. They've also been shaky from the free throw stripe in the last two, at 29 for 47 (61%). To keep this season going, those two things need fixed quickly.

Lot of heart shown tonight.

Going to have a tough time settling down to be able to sleep!

Whew.

Don't reach over Mark, don't reach over.

OK, time for heroics. That was a 3.

Going to have to make free throws.

One handed sloppy effing pass!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The color guy is awful.

Where has the Zips FT shooting gone?

Thanks for the dumb foul Moore!

The big man leaves Patton to double. Need to exploit that.

Welllllll......$h!+.

Around 6 and half minute mark.

Need Parrish to step up now with Jimond out.

Really missing the Earl of Sandwich commercials tonight.

Strong finish!