Mocs 82, Tennessee Wesleyan 64

Far from perfect. That's the best way to describe this performance.

The Mocs outrebounded TWC by 10, 34-24. They made 62.5% of their threes, and shot almost 52% for the game.

The bad news is that the Mocs shot 24 threes on 56 total shots. That means that nearly 43% of their shots were threes. That has to be more than what Shulman intended when he said he wanted to pound the ball inside.

TWC shot 50% from the floor. The Mocs turned the ball over twelve times, which is not good either.

That being said, the Mocs won the game and won it reasonably handily. Syracuse and Tennessee are two well known teams that have lost exhibition games in recent years. So the Mocs winning should count for something.

The Mocs absolutely have to work on defense before they play Indiana. The Hoosiers are likely to destroy the Mocs with their offense if there is not vast improvement.

Rico White looks like he is ready to play. He made a lot of smooth shoots from long range. He also had five assists without a turnover.

I am slightly disturbed by Zlovaric only playing 15 minutes. I expected him to play a lot more and when you look at the minutes played. I was surprised by this. He had six points and three rebounds. He needs to be a very solid player.

That being said, Early only played 19 minutes, so maybe I am reading too much into that.

Keegan Bell played 32 minutes (leading all Mocs) and scored a team leading 21 points, with four assists and two turnovers. He made seven threes. He needs to keep on working on getting to the basket. I want Bell to be the distributor and the guy getting to the basket. I like that player.

Ricky Taylor scored 17 points, getting to the basket some. He also lead the team in rebounds with seven.

Jahmal Burroughs played very well. Is he going to develop as a senior into a solid contributor? He sure played like it tonight.

Jared Bryant and Lance Stokes both played well as well. Z Mason was not quite as impressive. He had four rebounds but failed to score. Z will have to improve to be a major contributor on this team.

Omar Wattad did not play due to his back injury. He'll be OK, and be back by Indiana more than likely. Not sure what happened to Dontay Hampton, but he was injured too it appeared.

For those worried about Drew Baker- he played three minutes.

I did not get to see the game, since the game was not available via MocsVision like I believed it would be. But I did get to listen to the game.

There is a ways to go. But this is an OK start. They need to improve a lot in the coming twelve days before they play Indiana. Hopefully, they get back to work tomorrow.

GO MOCS!