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I’m about 95% sure we land this kid. I’ve only talked to one person about it, but it seems like he realizes how good of an opportunity he has here. We shall see.

Happy Malik Zachery day everyone! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Williams is playing it looks like. Practiced this week and looked good, but I wasn’t there. Just what I heard. Good news for sure

Must win. This is one of the worst offensive teams in the country. Zone D is really good, and they are great at getting hands in passing lanes (#1 in the country in steals per game), but if we want to be a contender, you can’t drop this game. I have been sticking up for this squad, because I think improvement has been there defensively and individually with some young guys. Losing this game would make me doubt this team big time, and erase some of my optimism for the MAC tournament. Let’s get the job done, and look decisive doing it!

Talked about it in my game preview at the site, but Western Michigan crushed this team in the paint and transition. Wouldn’t be surprised to see UB feed Mballa early and often, and deploy those bigger lineups.

Just got confirmation back that Gabe Grant was not injured for this game, for those who were wondering.

I reached out to the team to try and see what was wrong with Gabe, if anything. I didn’t get a response, and this guy usually answers if I have an injury related question.

I would not sleep on the impact Fagan can make. Grant and Nickleberry haven’t exactly been great, and his advanced metrics and per 40 stats were fantastic a year ago in very limited minutes.

Fagan looks really good today. Moving well, playing fast, shooting well. I’d be shocked if he’s not playing.

Did my preview for the website last night. Mballa has a nice matchup against a lanky 6’10’’ freshman who isn’t very fleet of foot. Good bounce back spot for Graves as well with his matchup. Jordan vs Malik Johnson should be fun!

He is 100% a teacher. Constantly stopping practice to get these guys to play within a team concept and do their job

Agree on your spread prediction. I thought the same thing. And I’m not sure if I have ever seen a team that’s worse shooting free throws. If Army somehow gets hot shooting 3s, I wouldn’t be surprised if UB starts hacking a little on the inside to throw off rhythm and send them to the line.

He was out there moving around today, but not doing full team stuff at all

Definitely raising my hand in saying we werent talking about playing zone all the time. Simply pointing out that if, for some reason, our usual aggressive man to man doesn't work, this team has crumbled multiple times against zone. I also think there is a 0% chance we do it, but it doesn't hurt to bring it up as our opponents weakness

-4.5 now for Vandy...pretty decent line movement there

Spot on post man. I'm doing my preview now and in regards to the aggressive perimeter defense and struggling against a zone you hit the nail on the head. This wasn't just Tulsa either, in 2 other games I watched they did the same thing, but they were able to win due to inferior competition

Not necessarily on topic here, but could you imagine if we played Dartmouth now instead of game 1? The team is so much more in sync. Bowling Green beat them last night and all I could think was, man, I want that back

Agree on Hardnett 100%

Excellent team win. Faster paced than I thought it would be, but that definitely played into UBs favor. Loewe did better than I thought he would, he's a nice player for them. By the way, if Jayvon connects on that dunk over knight and sends him to his grave, it's all over sportscenter

Yeah I mean Johnson shot 57 for 153 (37.2%) from 3 in his career at Middle Tennessee. 25.6% this year is really low. I gotta think that starts to normalize. Well, I hope at least.

Just posted my full game preview for this tilt on my site. I think Knight will have a nice day, and probably Van Vliet too, but I'm fine with it. UB has a serious advantage at guard, and this team will have a really hard time defending us due to lack of overall speed and athleticism. Just don't give them wide open looks at 3 like DooleyBull06 said, and we should be able to run over this team. They are shooting at an unsustainable clip, I expect some regression

Site has been completely redesigned! Still a work in progress but we're making it happen! Thanks guys!

Thanks guys! It's up and running now, just need to change up the design a little bit to be a little more user friendly on the mobile version. I have a Web guy helping me out in the next week!

Hey guys! Just wanted to let everyone know that I've created a new website called UBcourtside.com . Before and after each game, I'll be posting detailed game previews and recaps, among other things. Also, if you're interested, follow @ubcourtside on twitter! I'm going to do some ticket giveaways for women's and men's games, give out interesting stats about the team I come across, and give updates as I scout our upcoming opponents. I just joined this forum and I plan to be very active on here as well! I'm not affiliated with the university at all, just a season ticket holder and a rabid college basketball fan. Go Bulls!