Exhibition- Youngstown State

[Captain Kangaroo]

Game story and extended highlights

[kreed5120]

YSU getting 12 offensive rebounded and outrebounding us in total wasn't great. Those were issues that plagued us early last season as well. You have to limit 2nd chancs point opportunities, especially when a team is shooting as well from the perimeter as YSU.

 

Hopefully we can get more from Barre or Brisco once real games are being played. 

[NWAkron]

All that $$, effort, travel, and time to recruit a guy that can't play defense.  Guess Groce is down to a 14 man rotation.  Maybe 13 because Cody must have fallen out of favor between Tuesday and Wednesday night.

[ZipsFan31]

The biggest concern for me was hearing that briscoe and barre played a total of 2 minutes. That puts its all on Amani. I love MMK as he is a hustle player.  But he is not skilled enough to be our back up big. 

[Blue & Gold]

Didn't YSU get the better of us in a scrimmage last year too?

[NWAkron]

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Groce didn't want James Madison to collect any film on this team.  #3DimensionalChess

[Let'sGoZips94]

Side note: Pretty sure every Zips opponent that has had a "Blackshear" on their team has had said Blackshear absolutely destroy the Zips. 

[Captain Kangaroo]

YSU was a basketball desert for a half century. I spoke to the late Dan Peters (former YSU HC and Zips assistant) and he said it was virtually impossible to win there. It was a football school in the hood, and any decent players went to MAC schools.

 

Low and behold YSU has won some games lately? They've cleaned up their campus and actually recruited some talent. And, their arena is basically a "red JAR". 

 

It gives me hope that someone could one day turn the Zips football program around. Our FB is nowhere near the loser program that YSU basketball was for 50 years.

 

They even lost a serviceable big (7' 3" center) to USC, and apparently haven't skipped a beat.

 

Having mob money to pay NIL doesn't hurt, I'm sure. 🙃 

[kreed5120]

15 minutes ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

 

Having mob money to pay NIL doesn't hurt, I'm sure. 🙃 

Point shaving scandal incoming?

[zippy5]

2 hours ago, NWAkron said:

All that $$, effort, travel, and time to recruit a guy that can't play defense.  Guess Groce is down to a 14 man rotation.  Maybe 13 because Cody must have fallen out of favor between Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Bummer, no more Head