Game 17- Ball State

[clarkwgriswold]

Ball State comes to the JAR Tuesday night to face the Zips.  The Cardinals stand at 4-11 headed into Saturday’s game at UMASS.

 

The Cardinals have the lowest scoring offense in the MAC, scoring 67.2 ppg.  However, they give up the lowest point on average at 69.2 ppg.  Safe to say, they slow things down.  6’2” sophomore guard Davion Hill leads scoring at 10.9 ppg.  6’4” junior guard Armoni Ziegler scored 10.2 ppg while contributing 4.8 rpg.

[clarkwgriswold]

Mike Lewis got off to such a great start when he showed up at Ball State 3 or 4 years ago.  I really thought he was going to build something and be consistently competitive in the MAC.  Since a great first year it's really gone downhill.

[Zips1991]

Obviously we need to get wins in these next two games (Ball State and WMU) as these games are followed by probably the toughest four-game stretch in our conference schedule (away at Buffalo and Ohio, then home against Toledo and Can't).

[NWAkron]

47 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

Obviously we need to get wins in these next two games (Ball State and WMU) as these games are followed by probably the toughest four-game stretch in our conference schedule (away at Buffalo and Ohio, then home against Toledo and Can't).

just get to cleveland.  

[Zips1991]

2 hours ago, NWAkron said:

just get to cleveland.  

Well, I don't think that's gonna be an issue. At least I hope not! 😅

[Zips1991]

Akron is favored by 20.5 points with an O/U of 154.5...maybe Vegas is starting to catch on to our lower scoring games. 

[clarkwgriswold]

30 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

Akron is favored by 20.5 points with an O/U of 154.5...maybe Vegas is starting to catch on to our lower scoring games. 

Ball State gives up the fewest points per game (67.4) in  the MAC while surrendering the fewest (69.8).  I think it has primarily to do with those numbers.

[NWAkron]

Their defense will travel.

Edited 15 hours ago by NWAkron

[zippy5]

10 hours ago, NWAkron said:

Their defense will travel.

I think it's more their lack of offense will travel

[blueandgold]

I see that everyone is really excited about this game tonight. Lol

[csims0917]

Students return tonight! Lots of student promos going into the game. Hopefully they can get people to show up

[NWAkron]

This is Primetime MAC basketball, folks.  Excitement is building!!  Two sons of Indiana fighting it out.

[kreed5120]

Ball State board doesn't seem all that interested in this game either. Game thread was just created an hour ago and nobody besides OP has left a comment.

 

Edit: There was a separate thread created yesterday titled "Can this game just be cancelled?" It was about the round 2 game against the Sun Belt. I clicked on it thinking it was about the Akron game thread. One of Ball State posters commented that he thought it was about the Akron game. It gave me a good chuckle reading.

Edited 8 hours ago by kreed5120

[roopride]

Go ZIPS. Getting you all fired up.

[Reslife4Life]

Get hyped: Conner groce on fire from 3 in warm ups 

[Reslife4Life]

Also it looks like chabi doesn’t have a cast any more, looks to be more of a splint

[ewbrooman1]

Apparently nobody told the team tonight is supposed to be a a Gold Rush. Or most of the fans. 🙄

Edited 4 hours ago by ewbrooman1

[Reslife4Life]

Lewis doesn’t wear a suit anymore I guess

[ZZZips]

#3 on the trainers table.  Knee or ankle? Pray for a quick cure.

[Reslife4Life]

Might see 40 3pt attempts today

[MDZip]

Glad they're hitting a lot of three-pointers. Would have preferred they saved it for someone else instead of Ball State. 🙂

[clarkwgriswold]

The next time I gripe about the Zips perimeter defense remind me of Ball State's.

[Reslife4Life]

That was the first time I’ve seen groce actually turn down his players request to challenge an out of bounds call

[Reslife4Life]

Whether intentional or not, good execution of the 2 for 1 at the end of the half

[Reslife4Life]

I would say that today’s game of basketball with too many 3s has had a bad influence on youth basketball. But these kids at halftime are launching threes and coming closer than I would on most shots