Blue & Gold

We didn't get home games versus Miami, Ohio, or BUGS this year, both our Buffalo game and our Toledo game were on Tuesday nights, and our UMass game got pushed to 9:00 on a Friday night. I don't like so many of our Saturday games being pushed to Fridays. I suppose it's worth it for the tv exposure (CBSSportsNet does a great job), but all season we only had two marquee home games on Saturdays - Princeton & Milwaukee - both fairly early in the year. (I took some friends to the Princeton game & they said, "Oh, it's basketball season already?") Is it asking for the moon from the MAC to give us Saturday home games versus Kent, Miami, Ohio, BUGS, Toledo, and UMass? Every year. Potential season ticket holders should know these matchups are a given. Isn't it common sense that the league's marquee programs should face each other on *Saturdays? Leave the directionals & Balls for Tuesday nights. *When at all possible.

https://x.com/ZipsMBB/status/2027763534352822558 recap video

I've seen a lot of online pushback against losing the field where they want to put the new arena. I've never been to Miami's campus so I have no idea, but here is the essential back-and-forth:

This could be a much different game. KSUcks won't be ice-cold from behind the arc & they'll have Whaley back, who hit the game winner last night vs. CMU. We've beaten KSUcks 6 times straight 🤞 At the JAR it looked like we were in their heads 🤞🤞

Got my $100 t-shirt

I watched their win over UMass & they looked pretty tough. Maybe learning to play sans Freitag?

I DO NOT want to see Miami go undefeated in the MAC & then get boat raced in the 1st round of the NCAA

When I first started following Zips athletics they were one of the best teams in the MAC. Bonzi Wells 🔥🔥

IIRC they announced an attendance of 5,114.

I'm just going by what I've heard on this board (by @Hilltopper,IIRC?). I hope there's nothing to it.

At first I thought the MAC was stupid for doing this but after seeing the terms they'd be negligent not to. I'd hate to lose good rivalries w/ Ohio & Miami. I'd love to add Illinois St. & Indiana St.

Facing UMass in the 1st round would make for a grueling 3 days.

I remember Sheldon Ocker.

👀🔥🔥🔥

They gave us a good game at the JAR

💯💯

Kalamazoo on a cold, Tuesday night in February. Trap game.

I feel bad for Big Dog that they moved his jersey retirement to 9:00. I've been looking forward to this game but if I come to this one I'm going to be flying solo 😕

On postgame Groce doesn't seem at all upset with how we played. He was happy with effort, communication & execution. Just thinks 3-ball simply didn't fall tonight.

It's Big Dog jersey retirement night. 9:oo start time kinda sucks.