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That's pathetic by that voter.

Akron down to 56 in KenPom with today's results thus far. The sky is falling.

Oregon State was Iona's Super Bowl as they lose to Green Bay 80-75.

He has been in multiple games prior to the standard clean up duty moments. Yesterday, they subbed him in multiple times in the first half. I posted earlier in this thread that his weakness(es) being unknown are more impressive because that means he's not an obvious negative when he's on the court.

UMass beats Oregon St. 73-65. Nice win for UMass.

Toledo wins 75-68 vs. Troy.

Out of likes, but agreed.

This looks eerily similar to what Akron did vs. Virginia in the National Championship game in 2009.

Toledo is currently playing Troy in the Coconut Hoops event, down 30-36 at the half. Was hoping to watch this one, but it's on the dreaded FloHoops. UMass plays Oregon State in 30 minutes on ESPN+.

I've had a decent chuckle every time I watch this team dominate D1 competition or think about how we have 5 guys on the bench that would probably be starting or significant role players at the very least on most mid majors. What a job Groce, his staff, and Bud Wentz have done at building this program back up.

Get Illinois State into the MAC yesterday.

Miami OH hasn't played anyone (nor will they until MAC play); they're still riding last year's success and the offseason hype, which infuriates me when some other CBB accounts have them ranked ahead of Akron for these reasons. Kent's schedule is weird because they've played some decent mid majors (Troy & UNCW) but only at home, losing to Troy and beating UNCW. They have yet to play a true road game and their wins outside of UNCW (who apparently was missing a player or 2) leave a lot to be desired. 2 of their next 3 games come against non DI opponents, with the lone DI opponent being a home matchup vs. Austin Peay, so we won't really know much about Kent until they play @Portland, @UMass, and @Purdue in back to back to back games (nice scheduling with coast to coach travel, Pinky). Buffalo has the nicest resume thus far among the 3. 5-0 with wins vs. Southern Miss (gave South Carolina a run for their money before losing by 4 and recently beat UT Martin who has had an incredible start to the season), Big East DePaul, and Vermont. VMI, Bucknell, and Canisius are their next 3, so losing one of those will hurt their solid start, but then they get St. Bonnie at home which will be a great litmus test. Long story short - the MAC has had a nice start to the season. Both Akron and Kent each play 6 teams on the current list - 3 MAC and 3 OOC each. There are two SBC schools on the list, both of which are available for Akron to play in February, so there could be a 4th OOC and 7th overall for Akron. Kent is less likely to add a 4th OOC and 7th overall at the moment having already played Troy. As much fun as the power conference games are for us as fans, these high mid major games need to be where Akron focuses the schedule going forward unless something changes in the power conference mindset or scheduling rules.

Mid Major Top 25 Here is a look at how some national people view Akron & Yale. These are two of the best mid majors on paper with very different styles. Yale is very slow but incredibly efficient. In fact, Yale ranks 320th with 68.8 possessions per game but ranks #22 in effective FG% (58.8%) and #2 in 3P% (45.8%) while averaging 84 PPG (#77 nationally). In contrast, Akron ranks 97th in possessions per game with 75.4 with the 37th best effective FG% (57.6%), 28th best 3P% (39.7%), and 25th most PPG (92.2). Both offenses are potent, but which method will prevail tonight? If Akron dictates the pace, can Yale keep up with efficiency? If Yale dictates the pace, can Akron become more efficient? Yale has some size but it's not a key part of their style. Only one of their two players above 6'7" plays double digit minutes (6'10" Aletan). As @clarkwgriswold mentioned, their team is essentially Townsend. There isn't much beyond him as Yale is only 8 deep. It will be crucial for Akron to control the pace of play as I'm not sure Yale has the horses in the barn to keep up for 40 minutes, unless Townsend is a heroic thoroughbred. Cannot wait for this game. Revenge Tour 2025 continues!

Against the 4 DI teams Akron has beaten, their average margin of victory is 27. Purdue was up by 25 or so when their bench came in vs. ours. Their margin of victory dwindled down to 18 (and could've been even less). Let's not pretend like what we're witnessing with Akron is normal.

This has been an incredible tournament thus far. Helps that Akron is advancing, but props to college soccer for delivering as a whole. Maybe those snobby ESPN/ACC honk commentators from Thursday night are learning their lesson about what a more level playing field actually looks like in college athletics.

It's not like Halligan is filling the stat sheet. The guys in at the end are just playing hard until what is truly the final possession. None of it is running up the score if the other team is playing hard, too. MMK pulled the ball back tonight and we had a "shot clock violation" on the final possession. I'm sure among the coaching fraternity it is being talked about that improving a team's metrics is the name of the game when it comes to March arguments. Hard to fault anyone with that in mind.

Margin of Victory as a metric is something Groce is playing into. He's leaving starters in later than usual and allowing the bench guys to go full bore until the very final possession. He knows he has a Cinderella caliber team that will need every argument possible to get the highest seed possible.

We need to stop referring to BC as a P4.

Akron is top 25 caliber. They are absolutely murdering their competition. Yale, Milwaukee, Tulane, and Murray State. Legitimate top 25 ranking and at large conversations surrounding the results of those games.

3 straight awesome dunks followed by a 3. Wow.

T on Evansville coach.

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Eric has really high basketball IQ.

They are very well coached.

44-36 at the half. Not bad. I would like to apologize to Evansville for hating on them during the Oregon State game. They play hard. They'll beat a decent number of teams this year.