While we’re only 2 games into MAC Play, it doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that we’re going to “live and die” by the play of our Starting 5, with the Big 3 of M. Jackson, W. Jackson and L. Knapke providing the bulk of our scoring on a game by game basis. We can only hope that S. Littleson can bump his average up some as we need him to be a more consistent scorer, specifically from the 3 point line. As for D. Alderson, I think he is who he is, which is a 4-8 points per game player who might give us a double figure scoring game on occasion. In looking at our bench, whatever scoring, rebounding and defense we get out of from K. Saunders, A. Smith and L. Maranka will be a bonus as none of the 3 have shown any consistency yet to have much confidence in how much they will help the team for the balance of the season. This is no knock on these 3 players as we got to remember that this is the first year for both K. Saunders and A. Smith to play Division 1 Basketball while L Maranka was supposed to be redshirting this season. We really miss having A. Edu and M. Acunzo available as I think they could have provided us with more consistency coming off the bench. With that said, it is going to take a tremendous coaching job from TK to “squeeze” all of the potential out of this team that is lacking in depth for them to have a realistic chance in Cleveland come March. Based on what he has accomplished since his arrival at Toledo, I’m sure many of you are not too optimistic that is going to happen! But that is why they play the games!