Let'sGoZips94

When pigs fly, it will happen. The MAC prestige that was built up through the 90s/early 00s is gone as our commissioner clutches his "tradition" pearls.

I like both Scott and Thornton. I think they both fill voids on this team that would otherwise be felt without their presence. Quite frankly, we have too many misses occupying scholarships from previous classes. Lyles and Prather especially, but also Tavari to an extent. It's always going to hurt when you have 2 scholarship players beyond their first year who are either struggling to contribute or not contribute at all. It's not as much an issue of missing talent that isn't on the roster; it's about the talent on the roster being missing.

You're going to see more and more teams play Enrique Freeman how Miami did. I mentioned it earlier, but bringing the help against Enrique from the weak side is genius and is really going to cause problems for us unless Groce makes adjustments. The 2010 Akron Men's Soccer team lost to Cleveland State. It refocused them and they won the National Championship that year. Praying this is our Cleveland State.

He was huge for Cleveland State when they had their little run in the Horizon a few years back.

The one guy you have to take out of the play given his track record this year, and you don't.

My thoughts exactly.

Completely bowls over Freeman going for the rebound and no call. It's unbelievable.

That 3 by Freeman is the most "I'm the man" shot he has taken in a long time.

The genius in the gameplan by Miami is they're sending weak-side help to double Freeman, instead of the defender on the wing. This takes away the easy outlet for Freeman, and forces the open man to be on the opposite side of the court - over the double team. Really well done by Steele and props to the players for executing. Akron is in the bonus the rest of the game. 11 minutes to go. 8 pt game.

Another missed layup on a fastbreak by Scott.

Love the aggression to start this half. Keep it up!

Dawson with 4 fouls. Him on the bench for a while might be addition by subtraction this game.

LOL. Anytime Mirambeaux lowers his shoulder it should be an automatic charge. I like the Tribble possessions to get inside.

Thornton has really good, active hands.

How about 2 bad plays in the same possession out of the timeout?

Miami in the bonus for the rest of the half.

I came on here to post "nobody say $#!% about the success beyond the arc thus far." Too late. Hope you didn't jinx us.

Good article. Camryn Justice is an Akron grad I believe and has been getting some big run as a Cleveland sports journalist recently. The more eyes on Freeman and the Akron program, the better. Getting to be a bit embarrassing though the lack of self marketing by the University itself.

154 or something like that. 2 A10 games got postponed or something, so it really thinned the lineup. College basketball rocks.

This really is a strong selling point.

PCCC goes down at home to Ohio. Beautiful.

I had to double take. I thought this was a GP1 post. There are only 18 profitable programs in the entire country. The entire system is broken and the G5s are taking the worst of it.

When's the last time we had 2 regular season games on ESPN2?

Best in the MAC Chris Payton put up a staggering 10 pts and 2 rebounds in this one. Demolishing the stat sheet.

ESPN has the JMU game listed as TBD for time on Saturday, Feb 10th. With that being MAC/Sun Belt weekend, Friday night MACtion on ESPN/CBSSports is open, no? Any chance this gets flexed?