I had to follow on the ESPN gamecast last night. BVP, Sears, and Tommy were awesome but it was great to see what appeared to be a few other players hitting big shots late to help build and keep a comfortable margin.

Can't remember if the MAC gives out a 6th man of the year award but Tommy gets my vote!

8K on a Tuesday night is fantastic!

I really think Miami gave us their best and it still wasn't even close to enough. Take out the final 3 ugly desperate attempts and they were 13 for 24 from 3. 54%! Their defense wasn't bad enough to give up 90+ points. It sounds weird but I really think they should be proud to only lose by 13 with the way we played. Miami's guards had a great night. Big men, not so much.

22 free throws made for us and 3 for them. Really the difference in the game. 18 fouls on them and only 7 for us. This is just a norm of the program now as Boals clearly coaches and values drawing fouls and not committing them. I think this, combined with the same approach and dominance on the turnover discussion...is why we are not prone to letdown games against inferior opponents.

BVP...what can you say. What a performance. 9 for 12 from the field and 9 for 10 from the line! A perfect 6 for 6 from 2. Unreal. Credited with 3 steals but had a hand in forcing more turnovers than that. 6 assists, most of them really crafty and tough. And of course 10 boards. If Miami had fans, I am quite sure they would loathe site of BVP and the sounds of his name.

Sears with 11 boards including some that truly defied physics. He seemed better with some nice dishes last night but there are still a few times he needs to bail on some of his overmatched drives and dish it out.

I am fine with Roderick continuing to start and Schmock coming off the bench...but you can tell by who Boals has on the court in crunch time whose job it really is at this point. My heart continues to break as Roderick's shot attempts continually rattle out. Tommy is 14 for his last 26 three point attempts! Insert fire emojis here. A true Godsend as a 6th man for us this year.

Solid crowd. The game was exciting enough to make the patch of lazy students stand for the last 15 minutes or so. How you can possibly be a student with free admission to this team and not happily and aggressively attend every game is beyond me. I expect a GREAT crowd for the home finale next Friday night...as good if not better than the Toledo game.

They use a bunch of made up cutesy phrases over and over and over again that I've never figured out.

SBH, back to channeling his boy down in Mar-a-Largo again. To be precise, I mentioned that he has given us "nothing" in recent games leading up to the EMU game. And I stand by that as he averaged 4 ppg the previous 5 games and 5 ppg over the 14 games before last Saturday.

Maybe the DOJ can request a transcript from last night's chat?

I truly believe Owens is on the hot seat at Miami. Charlie did it better man…. I never got to see him coach but I miss that man. I think he took joy in even seeing the O-Zone get loud.

FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD.

All time performance from BVP. Not sure I've seen such a dominating performance from a Bobcat forward (excluding GT, maybe a couple from Tone Malone?). They had absolutely no answer for this man. What impressed me the most was all the different ways he scored and his ability to finish with the left. 4 assists away from a 30pt triple double, remarkable. The baseline drive and slam with the right hand was absolutely beautiful.

Tommy Schmock. This kid is surging at the right time. Dare I say that he hit a couple 3's from DJ Cooper land?! What a fantastic addition by Boals.

Role players stepped up. No JC. IJ getting first career start. A lot of good things happened beyond just the W.

Just an overall remarkable night in the Convo. That's exactly how a Tuesday night against Fiami should look (and sound) like.

No matter how many times I watch this I still get nervous when DeVaughn goes to the line. And I still get goosebumps when Tommy hits the 3.

Check out his stats against Belmont, Cleveland State, Marshall and Miami. He was a solid contributor in those games. These are not D2 schools. Then he got Covid.

Part of the reason is to entertain along with conveying information. I enjoy it. We can always ask them if we aren't familiar with every term.

Speaking of terminology: Coach Boals keeps referring to various segments of the games as "wars." To me he should be calling these periods "battles" and the whole game the "war." You know we won the battle the first five minutes and the last five minutes and we won the war (i.e., the game). Not a big deal, but his terminology just seems odd to me. But, in the end, he can use any crazy language he wants as long as he's coaching as well as he is right now!

How many announcers from other MAC basketball teams have you listened to? Nationally? This is a comparison I know I can't make due to a lack of sample size. Maybe you can.

Have listened to Many over several decades - easily dozens of announcers. On TV, radio, at home, on the net, on the radio in my car, etc., etc.