clarkwgriswold

I think the EMU in arena technology runs through DSL.

https://www.ballstatedailynews.com/article/2021/12/sports-ball-state-mens-basketball-cardinals-basheer-jihad-feature?fbclid=IwAR1g2mhW28WTlZ8vNsFvH6b9MmJpQUgW0kTaKvgkOynn70pHqenigurrzg8

The Zips on the perimeter often look like they're predisposed to make the quick catch and pass rather than looking for their shot and it sometimes results in passing up a good shot.

EMU's Yusuf Jihad is the brother of Ball State's Basheer Jihad.

Feed keeps cutting out.

Nice start. Scares me after the Miami game. LOL.

Agreed, but the counter to that is what Canal Park brought to downtown. In any event, it had very little support from anyone even before the Main Street construction mess.

Yahoo Sports says the line is Zips -11.5. DraftKings has it as -11. Under/over 137.

KD's incident at CMU and Groce's record at Illinois have very much benefited the Zips. At the end of the day, nothing is happening with an arena until the Summit County community gets behind the idea and polling numbers from 8 or 9 years ago tell us that's not happening. Also, this isn't the Proenza era where the school can just throw money at new facilities.

I think the guard depth makes up a little for none of them being a star. Groce can keep them fresh and mix and match to get the most out of them. This team needs a 3rd guy to emerge regardless of position.

Funny, when big Dog left the board lamented the lack of a dominant big man. When LCJ left, many lamented the loss of a high scoring guard until X picked it up. Now X is gone and we're hearing how bad the guards are.

Sorry, I misread your post. Not to keep this rolling but I think if there's a flaw to be exploited it will be in our shortage of bigs if and when they get up against a bigger squad or if Freeman gets in foul trouble or hurt.

It's all about the matchups. Groce's biggest successes were primarily built around guard play.

If the NCAA actually believes NIL with level the playing field they're stupider than anyone ever thought. There's no way a MAC school is ever going to be able to match the monetary resources of the collectives of P5 schools. Also, the intent of NIL is to let the kids share in the profits of programs and to avoid the anti-trust and other implications raised by kids struggling financially while the schools are making money with them.

The greatest shortage in college basketball is in viable bigs. At the MAC level, they are even more rare. You'll certainly run into the 6'10" kid in the MAC but they're much more often a " Mark Kostelac" than they are "Enrique Freemans". I think Groce is likely trying to get more viable bigs but the market is what the market is.

Stan Heath has a 26-55 record at EMU and 236-262 record over 16 years as a head coach. He started 30-6 at PCCC. That's a pretty rough ride. Acuff's 21.8 ppg going into Saturday was 5th in the NCAA. EMU Starters in their last game: Tyson Acuff- 6'4" guard- 21.6 ppg Arne Osojnik- 6'6" guard- 7.7 ppg Orlando Lovejoy- 6'2" guard- 9.4 ppg Jalin Billngsley- 6'8" forward- 6/8 ppg Javantae Randall- 6'11" forward- 1.7 ppg 6'8" forward Jusuf Jihad also plays a bit, averaging 7.6 ppg.

This is Akron. There's never going to be big NIL money involved. A little money to help a kid get by, sure, but they're never going to compete with the major conferences. As for Bronny and Duquesne, that would kill two birds with one stone for Lebron. It would give his kid a place to play where he could be the star and it would ensure his buddy Dru stays in line for the head coaching job.

Ohio went about it in a little bit of a different way, doubling Enrique with the near defender and quickly retreating quickly on the pass out of the post and was relatively effective. With Sammy and Dawson being ineffective, the doubling of the post will continue as there's no disincentive to doing it.

On an unrelated note, App State beat James Madison yesterday dropping JMU into a third place tie in the Sun Belt. App. State has handed JMU its last 2 losses.

I would say that with Sammy and Dawson struggling and Nate out, Tavari may be the guy on the team other than Enrique and Ali to go get a hoop in the clutch.

The Zips stay on the road this Tuesday heading to Ypsilanti to face 9-11/2-6 Eastern Michigan. EMU is coming off of a ten-point home win over Buffalo. Their only other win was over PCCC. All-MAC 6’4” junior guard Tyson Acuff leads the Eagles and the MAC at 21.6 ppg. No other EMU player scores in double digits, with 6’2” sophomore guard Orlando Lovejoy as the second leading scorer at 9.4 ppg. They are 10th on scoring and 7tn is defense in the MAC. They’ve already won more games this season than they won all of last season during the Emoni Bates mess of a season.

The team needs more that 6 points total from Sammy and Dawson. I think Ali was likely pressing because there was so little help from anywhere else. Curse you Brad Bournival.

There always seems to be at least one of these steaming turds in every season. I just didn't feel good about this one going in.

Run the damn offense.

Now get some damn stops and make shots!