1981 grad

I am not sure this is current but not exactly a long list for Jalen's talents: Ohio State Loyola Chicago Virginia Tech ECU

These guys are bench players from a power five conference who rarely saw the court. I am just not sure if I am thrilled to get guys who failed at a bigger program no matter how highly sought after they were after high school.

We can only go up considering the transfers from last year. (LOL)

On the survey please complain about the loud constant "music" during the football games that overpowers the speakers. Hate it!!!!!

Multi year contractual is an interesting issue for players but I do not think that will solve the problem. If a player leaves and breaks the contract, the new team will happily pay off the old contract to get a star player. However, if a coach signs the player to a contract and he sucks and the coach wants to move on, the school will be stuck with the player or pay him for not playing.

It makes sense to me in that if you are a talented MAC player and you can earn some money and fame transferring to a bigger program, why not sell your talents to the highest bidder. Essentially, Ali went to a bigger program after his success at Akron. However, I think we have found out that a talented MAC player does not equate to success in a bigger program. You also have players who believe they will get more playing time in another program and transfer like Deng Riak. I thought Tavari Johnson might be one of these players and I am glad he is staying with Akron. (thus far). Unfortunately, I think many of these MAC players might be overestimating their talents and can wind up with no division one offers and go to a division 2 program.

I was joking when I indicated that he would go to the Dukes but I bet Dru is at least making a phone call to see if there is any interest.

He must have read your post, now in the portal!!

Had a really rough year coming back from injury. Was not the same player as last year. Rarely attacked the basket and just settled for a 3 point shot. Further, he did not shoot the ball well from long range. I would think the coach guided him to seek another team but that is mere conjecture. Although he was a great guy, this is addition by subtraction with regard to how the team will be next year.

He is heading for the Dukes to play for Dru. Lebron plays one more year and then joins the Dukes staff as an assistant coach to coach his son and build a dynasty in Pittsburgh. You heard it here first.

Does that mean you expect a Zip to enter the portal?

As all of us who watched some very mediocre guard play from our most recent guard transfers and are salivating over Coit, I think character over talent is the right way to go. For those that disagree, close your eyes and repeat the following three times, "Bryan Trimble Jr." Feel better?

I thought Thornton was a bust. He shot less than 50% from the line, could not create his own shot, could not drive to the basket, and did not have an outside shot.

Dru Joyce got the Dukes job. Congrats!!!!! Do we now start a new Dur Joyce page? https://triblive.com/sports/dru-joyce-iii-takes-over-duquesne-basketball-amid-new-heights-challenges/

Antino Jackson made a legitimate impact at the end of the 2014-2015 season. That is when the winner of the Mac got a double buy and it was Buffalo coached by Bobby Hurley. Antino Jackson started the last 10 games and played really well at the end of the season and we won Monday at the Jar, Wed at Cleveland and Thursday at Clev against Kent. And then Hurley did something smart, he pressured Jackson full court knowing this was our 4th game in 5 days and he shot 1 of 10 and we lost by 12. We just ran out of gas. I remember that game and thought KD should have had somebody else bring up the ball to save Antino's energy.

What percentage of these players is the coach telling them they have no future in the program and being forced to leave? I think Garvin Clarke went to a division 3 program after leaving Akron. Maybe some of the transfer will be going down a division.

As much as we complain about the Beacon, that was an interesting article regarding how gambling has effected the players and coaches, and not in a good way. Reminds me of the weirdest telecast of a Zips game when Barstools talked more about the over and under than about the game. Only a matter of time before some student athlete gets paid to fix a game. I can smell a scandal coming with all the money out there and student athletes not getting much or any money and all of the action that is bet on the college games.

We have not heard about any Zip players leaving. The only player I thought might leave is Tavari but I hope he stays as I believe he has a great deal of talent but he needs to get stronger and play better defense. When you look at the remaining roster, I just don't see any players drawing any attention in the transfer pool. I think the only transfer we may have is if Groce tells a player he does not have a future with the team. Prather and Lyles saw the fewest minutes on a team where the subs struggled so that may be a possibility although Prather is a red shirt frosh and has 3 years to improve.

Hey, don't exaggerate, the thread will only be 5 years old on April 10th and I am sure it will keep going to follow KD is his second career if he chooses to become an AD. (LOL)

I am a long time Zip fan and and about halfway through the season when we were undefeated in MAC play and I heard Freeman and Tribble indicate that this team had another gear that they had not played their best basketball. I believed them and thought we were going to have a special season going undefeated in the MAC or at most 1 or 2 losses because the MAC was having a down year. I thought we would would win the MAC tourney and finally have a good shot at winning our first NCAA game. Then we played a tier one team, James Madison, and our bench scored a total of 4 points. I thought that this team lacks the bench talent to beat a tier one team in the NCAA tournament. And then we started losing to some really bad MAC teams. And there was one consistent weakness the entire season, we did not have a player who could knock down 3 points shooter and as a team we were really bad at hitting outside shots. We ranked 262 in the country in 3 point percentage and had the 2nd worst 3 point shooting Akron team in the past 10 year. And Groce knew going into the season he had a stud inside player, Freeman, who could dominate the middle. He had 3 players, Ali, Tribble, and Hunter who could score in different ways. He had 3 guys that had showed potential, Tavari, Nate, and Dawson. All he had to do was to bring in 2 guards that could knock down the 3 so that teams could not double and triple team Freeman. In football terms, if you have a stud quarterback, you search the portal for offensive lineman to protect your stud. In basketball terms, you bring in a shooter that if they double and triple team Freeman he can play inside out and have a shooter make the 3 ball. Instead, he brought in Thornton and Scott who could not shoot the 3 ball and could not create their own shot. Groce, who brought us X and LCJ, picked the worst year to strike out when using the transfer pool to bring in 2 guards. In the latter part of the season teams just double and triple teamed Freeman and we struggled to shoot the 3 ball. I think Groce is a great coach and brings in quality student athletes. I know we won in Cleveland and got to the tourney and should be happy with that achievement. However, I would ask everyone on this board one question, did this team meet or exceed your expectations when we started this season.

Great win for the Dukes. KD finally got that elusive NCAA win. Hope they can make it 2 straight on Saturday.

Having watched the Zips all season, I have the same bad feeling. But if somebody can get hot from the outside, we can compete. I just looked at the box score from the UCLA game and X was the leading scorer (18) with Freeman 2nd (14). Nobody else was close to double digits with Ali scoring 5 on 2 of 10 shooting and Tribble having 5 on 2 of 7 shooting.

At least Arby's is picking us to win it all.

Afraid of contact or getting blocked. He does not go up strong. You would think Groce would work with him on that.

Thanks, my mistake. I saw that Utah State is an 8 seed and we only lost to them by a couple of points. We had a chance to win when Dawson committed a costly turnover. We got killed by Drake the next game. Although we beat SDSU, they are a 15 seed. When you look at the stats of the game at Utah State, Freeman was amazing with 25, Hunter and Tribble were in double digits, and Scott had 4 on 2 of 4 shooting. Everyone else basically sucked on offense just like the game at James Madison and they were a collective 3 of 22. Almost identical to the stats at JMU. The more difficult the defense, the more difficult for our bench to score although we did not have Ali.