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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Braketology ESPN

« on: Today at 01:50:34 PM »

Not winning Horizon conference tournament = CIT.

Win both regular season Horizon and Tournament could give Penguins a higher than 15 seed.

Fun to speculate and neat getting some national attention but guys need to focus one game at a time just ask Milwaukee.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU takes first-Green Bay upsets Milwaukee

« on: Today at 09:42:42 AM »

Nice to get some help but the main focus is winning our remaining games.   Got to bring the hard hat and lunch pail.   You're as good as your last win.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NKU Game

« on: February 04, 2023, 09:19:40 PM »

The last time YSU was 19-6 since going D1 was tonight

Can't complain when you beat the team tied with you for first.  Great to see Brandon Rush playing well,now they need to get McBride going.   Might be the best defensive game this seaon by the Penguins. A lot of help defense and the guys were swarming.   Can't understand why they sometimes have trouble inbounding the ball on
the opponnents baseline.
Nice 4 game homestand now need to keep it going on some tough road games.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Recruiting cla$$

« on: February 04, 2023, 09:40:17 AM »

I'm of the mind set that QB recruiting with the guy from Springfield who put up prolific numbers and Vinny balone who also had great stats that we're fine.  also,Beu Brunguard has four years of eligibility.

Worried about the ones that we recruit work out more than the ones  we don't get.   No disrespect to the question since I too liked the kid from WB.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NKU Game

« on: February 04, 2023, 08:55:58 AM »

NKU like YSU has multiple guys who can have a break out game and be that scorer for their team.     Need to make Marques Warrick very uncomfortable.  He's a guy when he's on can carry his team.

Seems like other teams point guards have been our krytonite.  Calvin of Wright State,Chong Qui Ft Wayne,Tre Townsend Oakland,and Davis of Detroit but he's kind of a hybird since he's mostly off the ball.

Thinking out loud it seems that YSU played their most efficient game on the road at Oakland and haven't been able to match that since.   They had major contributions from all 5 starters and as of late McBride and Rush have not been as stellar.   Not saying that the team peaked or not but perhaps the horizon leauge teams are getting a real good scouting on YSU and adjustments need to be made.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Wright State Men's Basketball

« on: February 02, 2023, 09:44:23 PM »

Love Malek Green but please no more 3 point attempts,you're too good inside.
Played to Wright state's tempo though they played great D against us.   Seems like we won that game about three different times but Trey Calvin kept on throwing daggers.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Wright State Men's Basketball

« on: February 02, 2023, 06:13:27 PM »

The Penguins need to play better D than last time at Dayton.   Wright State two bigs were getting easy shots at the rim and Green & Nelson need to push them out deeper or do more fronting.  Guards can help too by swiping down.
Last time we played them Trey Calvin came off the bench and seemed to be off his game.  If he gets going it could be a tough night.   Trey has a quick release and usually gets by his man so McBride will need to be at his best on D.

They had no answer for Cohill the last 10 minutes last time out and I'm sure they'll make an adjustment. I'm not sure they have a guy  on their roster one on one that can cover him so they might try a junk defense

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Recruiting cla$$

« on: February 02, 2023, 05:57:38 PM »

It looks like the o-linemen YSU are recruiting is like the Iowa method were you get an undersized (weight) guy and red-shirt him and get the players in the weight room.  Iowa and other schools that can't get the 5 star 330 lb blue chip will take tight ends who have great foot work and make them into linemen.

As far as our local qb that put up monster numbers,you have to take in account that he is throwing to D7 wide outs and has D7 O-line blocking for him.   Maybe he's an exceptional talent at a small school ?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Recruiting cla$$

« on: February 01, 2023, 07:52:09 PM »

Wasn't that just the recruits for the 2nd part of signing day.  I thought they got a bunch back in December.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Detroit

« on: January 30, 2023, 09:25:16 PM »

I think Dwayne Cohill is the player most responsible for both wins this weekend. Whenever we are down and things are shaky, he takes control and gives us a few baskets to get our confidence up and we moved on to wins in both games. He gets things going good after some setbacks and the others get confidence and get back to producing. He plays his best when we are in trouble. He quits pa$$ing and takes control. Not sure the coach likes it, but it has worked most of the time. Hope all the guys keep it up and we at long last end up in the NCAA tourney.



Dwayne has single handedly taken over a few games in the 2nd half and it has worked out with his 3 point shooting and his drives.   Not sure I like the other guys not getting involved but when Dwayne is feeling it he's seems to become unstoppable.   
One thing I don't like is when something goes wrong he has yelled at his teamates and some of those turnovers are on him.   Needs to keep his composure because there will always be some adverse times in a game and your teamates are there to go to war with you.   Let the coaches do the yelling.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Detroit

« on: January 29, 2023, 04:09:43 PM »

It must of been a heck of a party last friday night .   Guys had a lingering hangover the 1st half .  Couldn't make a shot 9 of 30 1st half.  Defense was slow too.   2nd half was a different team and really liked running another guy at Antoine Davis.

My player of the game was Adrian Nelson 18 points 11 rebounds and 3 of 3 from three.  Played his a$$ off.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Basketball-ESPN2

« on: January 28, 2023, 10:16:51 AM »

https://horizoneroundtable.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/68A63965-43E4-4753-B59C-D341961898C1.jpeg

Best starting 5 in YSU D1 history ?    Hopefully we can talk about this in March!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Basketball-ESPN2

« on: January 27, 2023, 11:15:24 PM »

Oakland's point guard was a pain in the a$$ tonight.  Not a lot you can do when he's hitting threes 8 ft pa$$ed the line but I was hoping someone could slow his drives down.

Oakland's zone was difficult and helped control the tempo .

Cohill stepped up as the leader and credit to Myles Hunter who gave quality scoring in the 1st half.

Nice crowd and it looked like the students showed up .  hopefully the crowds keep coming.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU in Wisconsin

« on: January 22, 2023, 01:35:34 PM »

I was listening to the post game interview and really did not hear anything that should of got Coach annoyed.   I thinked he was pissed about how the game went and was in no mood to talk about it.

I'm sure Coach C and Rob have a decent relationship and coach in his own time will probably tell Rob sorry about losing his cool.  No big deal and Rob surely understands and probably didn't take it personal.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU in Wisconsin

« on: January 21, 2023, 09:13:53 PM »

Milwaukee was the tougher team tonight and might be the most athletic team in the league.    Three out of four is a nice road trip and now the guys need to come home and dominate at Beeghly.

Slow rotating back on the full court press.  Not sure the intensity was at a level to win the game.