Let'sGoZips94

Yes, Rutgers and South Carolina are beatable for any average-to-above-average G5 program. My expectation for the program is to exist in that category.

I don't think it's as much about cloning their work ethic as it is Groce continuing to build his culture here. Banks, X1.0, Cheese, LCJ, X2.0, and Duvivier were all guys that have played the game the right way while wearing the Akron Blue & Gold under Groce. We've seen the most growth in the individual games of Freeman, Tribble, and Ali because they've been here for 3+ years, but we would've seen the same growth with any of the aforementioned players if they were here for longer than a year or 2. Guys like Prather, Nate Johnson, and Dawson will be instrumental next year in cementing the foundation that has been built by Freeman, Tribble, Ali, X1 & X2, Cheese, Banks, Duvivier, and LCJ. Incoming players like Sharron Young could be extremely special if they see what Akron is under Groce and choose to stay & develop for 4 years.

2 winnable P5 games and a challenging conference schedule. JoeMo is gonna have to earn his money this year.

Wow. So Groce was coaching Akron while recruiting AND officiating (the T he gave their player) NIU. Incredible. His agent is going to use that to get him a salary closer to Frank Martin this off season. 😂

Stats play for both sides, though. For every basic 3PM/3PA stat, there's an advanced metric that shows the 3PM might be negated. His minutes right now are going to Prather and Nate. I'm 100% ok with that as we approach Cleveland.

Is WMU the 8 seed currently?

As poorly as we've played, we're at 70 pts with 5 minutes to play.

Prather 👀👀👀👀

Congratulations to Coit on winning the RayJ Dennis Scholarship to a P5 next year!

Not only was it overturned, it was overturned 10 plays later after a media timeout.

Groce and Ford are coaching their asses off. Groce is on a different level this game. Just looked at the NIU player and T'd him up himself after the refs didn't.

Does UMASS coming to the MAC mean we get an upgraded officiating pool? Frank Martin's $1.6M salary won't stand for MAC officiating.

The zebras must think the tickets everyone paid for have "Akron vs NIU w/ Special Appearance REFS" on it.

Prather is heating up offensively and getting more comfortable. He has one more week to get it going, and if he does, he and Nate Johnson would be like 2 big time trade deadline acquisitions for Cleveland.

Not atrocious. Probably 1/2 or 3/5 capacity.

Enrique can sign the cast "Actual best player in the MAC." Damn shame. PCCC's really going to miss his single digit production.

LCJ was 70 pts away from being the 5th all time scorer in Akron history, and he was robbed of most likely 3 games in Cleveland and potentially 1-2 games in the Big Dance. That's criminal. Also pretty wild that in 7 years, Groce has produced 2 of the top 7 scorers in Akron history.

I don't think it matters. The failure by UA to not have player merch, especially Freeman, available to the public is an absolute failure.

I can't speak for VCU, but Richmond would be able to make the James Madison leap to FBS in football. They have a good football program.

If the 3 additional schools were something like WKU, Richmond, and Illinois State, how good would that be for the MAC? Illinois State has a better football program and comparable basketball program to Rhode Island, and would geographically make more sense.

Nate Johnson.

I will say I think there's some rust that showed from what we didn't see - 3 pt shot attempts. Without looking at the box score, did he have a 3PA?

Saving grace of my night. Wow. Kowalchoke never ceases to disappoint. Thank goodness for that underachieving scumbag.

Free throws. Free throws. Free throws. Insert the old school face emoji hitting the brick wall.

LOL! ANOTHER PHANTOM FOUL!