Zags are back!

Zag basketball is back and I couldn't be more excited! The team is ranked #12 to start the season and the non-conference schedule delivers lots of tasty match-ups against the nation's best. I'm excited to see how the Zags stack up! If tonight's 117-72 season opening victory is any indication, it could be a special year. Here are three thoughts stemming from the big opening victory:

- It looks like the 2010-11 edition of the Zags will be able to score from the perimeter. The post scoring was never in doubt heading into the season, but the Zags drained 13 threes led by Gray and freshman, Monninghoff. If the Zags can keep teams honest on "d" with a decent perimeter game, the offense could be one of the nation's best...easily.

- To sandwich in a complaint amongst all the superlatives from tonight's blowout: the Zags played lousy perimeter defense, in my opinion. Too much collapsing into the paint and giving up open looks, and way, way too much fouls on three point attempts (I think we had four)! Against a stronger shooting opponent, that could be an achilles heel. I do have to point out: all our crashing the paint did was yield a 53-12 rebounding margin (in a word....domination).

- Dower is amazing. I can't believe he's a redshirt freshman. That he comes off the bench only serves to reinforce my excitement about our dominant frontcourt. Wow.

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Shenooligans, no more!

Well, for those of you living under a rock for the last 12+ months, I'm married. Cara and I have combined our lives, our finances, our living space, and our love of 80s music to create quite the team. It is now time for us to combine our blogs (Shenooligans and Creating Musing Gabble) into one (The Hoag Life).

You'll get the same content you've come to know and love from me and even better stuff from my better half. You'll get more consistent posting because Cara and I can now deploy a divide and conquer method for keeping our postings current, relevant, fresh and fun. Finally, you'll get to hear from Bounce on occasion. He's part of this family (or "pack" as we like to call it) and he wants a say too!

So, follow the above link to The Hoag Life (that's at: www.thehoaglife.blogspot.com). Find the button to "follow" our blog. Add the blog to your Google Reader. And sit back and allow us to entertain you with our amazing blogging abilities. Come on. You know you wanna...

Cheers,

Matt