This will be a successful team if the jump shots are falling..if not there is no size inside to fuel a long run.

We have two senior forwards who are both 6'9"....often times they're both on the floor together, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say about our size.  We play in the MAC, where teams are far from huge, so that should be plenty of size.  The problem is that this team has absolutely no desire what so ever to rebound the basketball/defend around the rim.  Rebounding is all effort.  It's about toughness, positioning, and desire.  And the 2 big men I'm talking about above didn't have any of those traits right now.  For whatever reason Ivo thinks he's a shooting guard all of the sudden and just floats around the perimeter...leaving Reg by himself most of the time and he's not the quickest on his feet so he can't always react to where the miss is going to go.

Personally I think our best rebounders are Ricardo and Walt; unfortunately these guys are guards.  But they're tough and both have a quick second jump to go up after loose balls.  And I really think we've got to find a way to get Jon Smith more minutes...he plays way bigger than he is, is tough around the rim and challenges people defensively.  Yeah he's limited a bit offensively but you can't make the argument right now that we absolutely need Ivo's and/or T.J.'s "scoring" right now because it's spotty at best.

Anyway, I'll stop ranting now...we HAVE plenty of size to compete (Belmont's forwards were both 6-7" by the way) however we don't seem to have the toughness/willingness right now to be physical around the rim.

Here's to hoping our guys have their heads on straight, put this one behind them, and come out ready for Akron.  Go Bobcats!

Can't recruit size either. Small ball and an occasional big guy blossoming into something special is the way for non-power schools to make major noise.