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I switched to the Cavs game. Looking forward to next season.

Has neither team attempted a 2 point shot yet? I know the announcer said that WMU hasn't and I haven't seen one from the Zips.

So in 2019 we have no FCS opponent and in 2020 we will most likely start the season with one. That seemed like the two biggest wishes from the thread on the noncoference slate this season and they are going in both directions in the next two years.

Cute. The guy that has to pick apart every single comment on this site accuses someone else of trying to start arguments.

No, that would be allowed. Its also why you can throw an inbounds pass into the back court. You do not have possession unless you hold the ball inbounds.

I mean a shot counts as loss of possession. That's why every defensive rebound doesn't count as a steal.

They never had possession. The free throw counts as a missed shot. Its an open ball until someone grabs it. A tip doesn't count for possession.

Wow, absolutely no flow to the offense. but somehow it is working so far. Lets hope that the Zips can start getting some shots a little closer to the basket.

He played a few minutes in the 1st half. He had two really bad, unnecessary turnovers and got benched.

What a SWAT!!

Ok, I understand that Parrish/Cotton are in Groce's doghouse or whatever, but I really want them in this game right now.

I would expect the last scholarship to go to a freshman. Currently, we will have 0 freshman next season. LePear is coming in as a Sophmore I alao agree that Hester seems to be more of a typical 2 guard, but we already have a pretty good one in Ivey. If he is the best option for point, I could see him starting there even if it is not his best fit. I would love to see Utomi move to the 3 spot, but I fear he is doomed to play a majority of his minutes at the 4 for at least one more season.

I haven't seen anyone post this yet. I apologize if I just missed it. The NCAA has released the attendance data for every team last season. Akron had the second largest increase in attendance for all of FBS from 10,337 in 2016 to 19,569 last year. Obviously winning must solve all problems! Or, maybe last year was the number fudging year to keep our multi-year average up. Another interesting note is that the MAC was dead last in attendance league-wide at 15,394 per game. The Sun Belt came in 9th with over 2,000 more people per game. You can also really see the divide between the P5 and G5. The lowest average attendance in P5 (ACC) was 48,442. The highest G5 average (American) was 28,669.

Yep. I don't blame the Zips, they are playing hard. BSU had a great gameplan to take advantage of the size discrepancy and things have been falling their way.

Smith is giving a heroic effort on Moses, but I'm not sure how long he can keep it up. BSU definitely wants to get him more involved than last game. Kostelac is soo close to being a good player, he makes great initial moves but he goes to far with it. It seems like everything from setting screens to post ups he just wants to push it a little more than he is allowed. When he learns the boundaries, it will be a night and day difference.

Torrey Patton chose UA over Duquesne. Jack Ballantyne and David Collins both had UA and Duquesne in their final schools before signing elsewhere.

You are the one who said that he never had true success at OU. If he could still recruit there, then he shouldn't have a problem now.

Also interesting is that ESPN has Alce listed as a fullback and the top fullback overall for the class of 2018. They only ranked two players, but is this the first time ever that the Zips have gotten the top nationally ranked prospect for his position? http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/playerrankings/_/position/fullback/class/2018/view/position

Interesting tweet. Alce says that he is not signing until 1PM. The university is not allowed to advertise signings before they happen are they? Maybe just doing the picture ceremony at his school at 2?

My old high school football coach used to have a favorite saying when asked about officials: "Referees aren't biased, they just all suck. If they were any good they would be giving up their Sundays instead of Fridays." Obviously this is another level up, but it still applies. The "good" officials are in the NBA and there is a whole lot of complaining about them even at that level. Referees at this level get minimal training, terrible pay, and bad travel schedules. I have always respected officials because there is no way that I would put myself through what they do. If it really was an issue to the NCAA, there are many solutions but they would all require more money to be spent, so they won't happen.

I honestly don't see what you saw from their freshmen that showed that they were so far ahead of ours? Delonte Brown: Had a nice game, scored about 10 points right away and then trailed off and finished with 17. Nick Sebande: Scored 12 points by shooting 33% from the field. Jalen Adaway: 6 points Isaih Colemen-Lands: 6 points Michael Ritchie: didn't play. I didn't plan on only posting points scored, but when I looked at the box score nothing else jumped out at me either. The only player who truly killed us was Ringo and he is not a freshman. Am I missing something? Miami is a team that is carried by their one very good, Junior guard. Their big, Sophomore center also gave us problems because we had one guy eligible over 6'7". One freshman had a pretty good, not even great, game against us and it proves that our new guys suck? We have had our freshman have multiple just as good if not better games than Brown had. Is it just because they beat us in this one game on their home court? This is an honest question.

16 steals in a quadruple double! This tweet was 'liked' by Rob Fulford, I hope he can bring it home. I really want this kid on the Zips.

Lucas Smith is getting the start today! JG putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to playing the hardest workers.

In terms of actually scheduling the classes, this should actually make things simpler and easier to look at. The 50 minute classes with 15 minutes between caused weird start times due to classes starting every 1 hour and 5 minutes (7:45, 8:50, 9:55, ...). 75 minute classes allow classes to start every 90 minutes at only the top and bottom of the hour (7:30, 9, 10:30, ...). 3 hour lab sessions also will now fit into the usual time slots instead of just being scheduled seemingly randomly. As other people have said in the thread, it was only intro level courses and specific majors that have ever really scheduled classes on Fridays even before this change. This change is probably negative for science majors, but I can't imagine that they would make the change with no foresight into how they plan on making labs work in the new structure.

This week is a national cancer awareness event for all of college basketball. Its called Suits and Sneakers, or something similar.