Good call on that. Now that you mention this, I remember going to Fifth Third Arena and being excited to hopefully see the local kid from Beavercreek finally suit up for the Bobcats for the first time.

We were 4-0 and coming off the 2005 NCAA tourney trip. Jerome did make his debut that night.

Then we promptly got whooped by UC.

That was just a couple weeks before the UK game in Cincinnati we discussed previously where we led throughout only to lose it at the end.

That team ended up 19-11 and bowed out in the conference semis to Kant Read State after a much celebrated off-season and non-conference schedule (started 6-1 and almost beat UK). In fact we were 10-2, 4-0 in conference that year then went 9-9 down the stretch (the Jeremy Fears debacle).

Let's hope this years team is entirely different.

Really surprised to go through Stetson thread and not see one person make a comment about IJ. Now that he's healthy, I see a strong dude who can guard an opponent's big and move quickly. He impressed me with his communication on defense against Stetson. I think he can hit the 12-15 foot jumper....block shots and rebound. I really think he's going to play important minutes moving forward his freshman year. Without DWIII....we need IJ.