Blue & Gold

Being 6'8", hopefully with a good off season of work Oggie can play a stretch-4 type role next year. That'd give us PG: Sharron(6'0") / Perkins(6'0") G: Head(6'3") / Henderson(6'5") (Henderson may start & be MAC Freshman of the Year next year - the dude is crazy good) G: Eric(6'6") / Halligan(6'5") P: Oggie(6'8") / MMK(6'6") C ??? / Barre(6'10") We need a starting ~25 mpg big for next year.

With WMU & Miami both building new arenas, CMU, Kent, and Akron will be the only schools left in the MAC using glorified high school gyms as arenas.

I think we're going to need two post players in this year's TP class.

I can't be there tonight but the crowd looks nice on tv

NIU playing hard

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It is. Tuesday night in Mount Pleasant 3 days following a Kent game? We've gotta come out ready to go.

Walk on probably?

I'm a big LeBron fan but I'll admit he is kinda... eccentric. (He was world famous as a teenager so it's understandable). When KD left for Duquesne LeBron wrote a letter to UA endorsing his former high school coach Dru Joyce Sr. for the job. When Dru was passed over he felt disrespected & I think that's when LBJ put some emotional distance between himself & UA. Hopefully he gets over it. I'm crossing my fingers he moves back to Akron (at least part time) after he retires & gets involved in the community like his high school friends Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton, & Willie McGee have done. Those guys could be living in condos on a beach somewhere but they're all involved in various aspects of STVM/iPromise enterprises. (So are Josh & John Williams, btw.) Yeah. The poor iPromise kids largely come from... suboptimal... home environments so though they've been given every publicly-funded academic advantage known to man they still have failing academic progress ratings. LeBron also built very nice, new condos for the families on the corner of Maple & Exchange but the families aren't taking care of them, as there are already holes in the walls & often-broken windows as well as homeless sneaking in to sleep (& defecate) in the hallways 🤦‍♂️. A young lady was just shot & killed in there a week ago 😕

I think I like playing Kent on the penultimate week of the regular season as opposed to the final week/game. Miami's got two potentially tough games this week in Toledo & Ohio, while we have what should be (🤞🤞) two easier matchups cruising into Cleveland. Miami's next two weeks could potentially look like: Toledo, Ohio, UMass, Ohio, Akron (🤞) If they don't lose at least one of those games, then 🫡 to them

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