1981 grad

This is a lateral move and it just tells me that Groce wanted out of Akron. I am sure he had his reasons. Mayber he is getting more money or more money for players. Lets hope that Dustin Ford or whoever turns out to be the next Akron coach continues our succes. My only concern is that Groce will take some players with him or that our recruits now decide to head for another program. KD took several players and it took Groce several years to recover from late recruiting.

I brought up the attendance issue because this board is wondering why Groce is making a lateral move. The only time I have heard him express his frustration is with the attendance so I checked the attendance for the college of Charleston. I understand Groce's frustration is that the Zips had their highest win total, the longest home winning streak, and three out of four years we went to the NCAA tourney and he is playing in a half empty jar. I would also be frustrated. Every person likes to know that there hard work is appreciated and Akron fans just do not show up to support this team. I really hope that Groce stays but I could also understand why he would want to leave and play in front of 4900 fans instead of 2200 fans.

And the attendance. We average 2200 fans while Charleston averages 4900 fans.

When Tavari decided last year at this time to enter the transfer portal, Coach Groce spoke to him and told him "to think about what he already had." Tavari then decided to take his name out of the portal and had a great season. I hope that Coach Groce decides to follow his own advice.

Watching March madness and crying over our stupid picks.

My take on Groce is that the only time I feel his disappointment with the Akron program is that no matter how good the team, we play to an arena that is only half full except for the Kent game. He always encourages fans to show up to the games and considering our home winning streak, we should draw better. The people on the board know that Akron does little to nothing to promote Akron basketball and the half time show of 3 or 3 frat basketball was dismal considering that was our biggest crowd of the season. I hope the pressure that he felt at Illinois is fresh on his mind because with a new program comes the pressure to win. Hoping Groce stays in Akron. Go Zips.

I would like to see Bowen return to see if he could develop other parts of this game besides 3 pointers, driving to the hoop, rebounding, jumper. I thought his defense got better as the season progressed.

I thought we needed a game like we had at Kent where the 3 ball was being shot at a high percentage. This team when it is shooting the 3 ball at 40% or above can hang with the big boys but that just did not happen today. It was not the defense because we had the open looks and we made some tough 3 balls. It is just playing at your best in the NCAA tourney. The Zips did not play their best in Cleveland and we were able to win. Not going to happen today.

We were only down 6 and then we scored 8 points in the final 9 minutes. Was TT that much better than us or did we just have another bad game? Really difficult to be competitive when your best player only scores 4 points and has 4 turnovers. I thought TT had a good game plan of collapsing the defense in the middle and forcing us to shoot from three. We could not make a 3 the second half. Game over. Very proud of our seniors. The Zips had a great season. But we will have to wait for next year to get that elusive tourney win.

Our three point shooting killed us in the second half. We missed wide open threes and cannot do that against a good team. Also, Tevari having the worst game of the season.

Tevari will pick it up in the second half. He has had some balls just fall off the rim.

Amani picking up that 2nd foul was big. When he went out they started their run. Groce put him back in.

Just keep it close in the first half. Lately we have been a better second half team.

Good game thus far. Zips are able to penetrate. We finally got a call going to the hoop.

After watching Miami struggle against MAC teams that we beat by double digits and then lose to Mass I was very surprised that they pulled the upset. However, maybe losing the Mass was not a bad thing in that the pressure of an undefeated season was gone, they did not have to play 3 games in 3 days which is a grind and were well rested, and they got to play an NCAA tourney game an hour from campus.