1981 grad

We had 3 turnovers and 2 airballs to finish the half. Freeman cannot hit a foul shot. Just really bad basketball the last 2 minutes. We are down 6 and it could have been worse.

Now 3 fouls in 3 minutes. (LOL) At least this was a hustle foul and not a stupid one.

The guy has played 2 minutes and has 2 moving screens. I think that will be his extent of his time in the Cayman Classic. Freeman back in with 2 fouls.

Freeman has 2 quick fouls. Dawson struggling once again. Good to see Tavari with a couple of quick baskets. Pretty even game thus far.

Dawson played bad all game. Not sure why he was in the game at the end. We played poorly and still had a chance to win at the end. Hopefully we can learn from the experience and come back strong tomorrow. The large number of mistakes at the end cost us this game reminded me of our football team.

Dawson really having a bad game along with several other zips. Maybe it is the back to back games.

This sucks!!!

That last possession was bad. Passed up numerous shots and Freeman never touched the ball.

The color analyst made some good points. When Freeman has the ball down low there is no need to have somebody cut down the middle. Just draws another defender. Also, he indicated that Hunter needs to be more active down low and rebound. When Freeman is out he needs to be a rim protector.

We wore out FIU as they lost to Marshall by 11 today.

Tavari has changed his game this year. Really playing under control and not turning the ball over. He seems to be more of a facilitator than a scoring threat. His offense has been limited because he has not driven inside that much and his floaters have not been falling. I have not checked the stats but I believe he has less than 4 turnovers all year.

I just looked at the box score and saw we had 19 turnovers. We made some real ugly passes. That will not win us many games. However, we shot 40% from the three and I feel like this team is a better shooting team than last year. I also like that Freeman led the team in shots. He took over in the 2nd half. The team made a concerted effort to get him the ball in the 2nd half and that was the difference in the game. I cannot say that any of the guards stood out tonight.

Freeman had a monster game. I love that he feels confidant to shoot a 3 ball in the clutch. He also had some nice drives. His only weakness today was that he missed some foul shots. The first game is always the toughest and hopefully we will play better tomorrow.

Freeman has gotten beat up in the paint and no calls at all. On the one play he got mugged and the Zip drove to the basket and they called the foul on Freeman. We have gotten some bad calls in this half. However, we still need to win this game.

Running a great offensive set with Sammy at the foul line and then passing the ball to Freeman under the basket. When we run the ball through Freeman good things happen.

I thought they did a much better job later in the half getting the ball to Freeman. There is nobody that can match with him. Need to keep feeding him the ball. We are really giving FIU fits on the offensive end. They are really having problems finding open shots. I think I just witnessed the worst foul shot ever by a college player. Not only did it not hit the rim, it only made it half way to the basket.

Having problem getting the ball to Freeman. When they get it into him he is being double teamed. We have made some outside shots but not a very good offensive flow to the Zip offense.

No, this is just the camera angle for warmups. I think we played in this tourney 2 years ago and it was very professional but was a high school sized facility.

The coaching staff? (OK I am still upset about the punt from the 30)

happy to read your post. I would prefer a field goal attempt from 46 over a punt from the 30. However, a 6 point lead with 2 minutes left and a team that continues to lose games is not ideal. If they make the first down. Game over.

I think JoMos decision to punt from the 30 yard line and the ball going into the end zone netting 10 yards sort of sums of this season of futility. Had he gone for it on 4th and 12 and made the first down, game over. Consider that our kicking game has had problems all season, what was he thinking.

I am going guess we are the only team in college football to punt from the 30 yard line.

The night was not a complete loss. We beat Hidelberg in basketball.

Ugliest field goal kick of the year but who cares.

I agree!! I looked at the replay and it looked like it was out before he hit the ground. The ref who was closest did not make the call but a sideline ref that could not see the play.