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The Zips head to Vegas next Saturday to face to the Murray State Racers in the Jack Jones Classic. The Racers are 7-3 with wins over Bellarmine, Morehead State, George Washington, Little Rock, Nicholls, Mississippi Valley, Omaha, Northern State and Xavier, and losses to SMU, Middle Tennessee and McNeese State. Of their three losses, two came in the Caymans against Middle Tennessee, 90-87, and McNeese State, 73-70. Their other loss was 102-91 at SMU. From the Bellarmine website going into their game with Murray: MSU shoots 29.3 threes per game, 36th-most in the country, and ranks 99th connecting at a .360 clip. Defensively, the Racers are in the bottom third of the country allowing 77.3 points per game, a trait that could spell good fortune for the hot-shooting Knights on Saturday. Javon Jackson, playing at his fourth school in as many years, averages a team-best 16.3 points for MSU, 4th in The Valley. The senior guard has taken 116 shots, 52 more than anyone else on the team, but is shooting just .388. Fred King, a former Louisville commitment who played three seasons at Creighton, shoots a team-best .733 and is second behind Jackson with 12.2 points per game. On the perimeter, Bellarmine will need to keep an eye on Mason Miller, who is shooting .512 from deep.

Yep. You're right, it's definitely hopeless. Just keep Joe for the next two years and hope we can find a D3 coach for half the salary in 2027. Winning is impossible, so let's save money. Hell, may as well just get four money games (why waste time with a fifth home game since it's not like there's any reason to care) lined up every year to help pay for other programs.

That Joe Moorhead obviously isn't the answer doesn't mean Akron will hire the right coach. Both definitely can be true, especially when things are so hopeless here. Good try though.

That makes this loss tougher with the higher seeds losing but still an unexpected season. Great job guys!

I was coming here to post the same

Agreed. Classless to get in Tyler's or any player's face.

Thought Barre had an excellent game for the minutes he was in.

https://gozips.com/news/2025/12/6/mens-soccer-akron-falls-to-saint-louis-3-2 this link has a link to the Akron press conference and it also has a link to the St. Louis press conference It also has a PDF box score...which shows attendance of 1,918.

WOW. Given that, any idea how much the overhauls cost? Has to be north of $10mill total

Yes this wasn't a "big win" but it was an excellent performance imo

I had over 159.5...it ended up 159.

It was built in 1933

Was worried that we were going to struggle but we won by enough in my opinion. I know Tulane isn’t great but we’ve been so bad in true road games OOC I’ll take it.

So the Big East had two chances to get to the College Cup and got neither. The College Cup will be a 15 seed, a 16 seed, and two unseeded teams. St Louis last won in 1973, and none of the other three have ever won a national championship.

WOW! Every home team lost in the Elite 8. Crazy!!!

I think the outlook for 2026 Zips Men's Soccer is bright. This was a very successful season. Qualifying for the exclusive 4-team Big East Tournament by winning the last regular season game on the road at Creighton and getting to the NCAA Elite 8 are huge accomplishments. I feel awful for our seniors - Mitch Budler, Daragh Reilly, Ashton Kamdem, and Stefan Dobrijevic - who have done so much for us and deserved a trip to the College Cup. Thank you all for your time at Akron. It has been a pleasure watching and supporting you all. BEST WISHES!!! Once a Zip Always a Zip!!! See you around!

Better Zips teams than this one did not make it this far. We have been lucky this postseason. The pain comes from the knowledge that this is the year when somebody is going sneak off with the CCup.. it could have been us.

Not going to happen now. They have been eliminated too.

I find it funny when they talk about Akron's magic number for scoring being 85. Almost any team would win every game if they scored at least 85.

My over 163.5 bet is in peril!

The portal hasn’t been too bad for us in recent years. If we can keep most of the talent that isn’t graduating I still think we can build upon this. Maybe a new stretch like the mid 2010s

Wow….a disappointing game, more like a disappointing half. I am not usually positive but if you would have told me that Akron would make it to the elite eight at the beginning of the year, I would have been elated. Soccer is a brutal sport. The best team doesn't always win. The dominant team doesn’t always win. Losing any player would have been tough but losing Dreas was a backbreaker. He is a wonderful player and is able to do some much for the team. I hated the style of our penalty kick (see my post above) but at the end of the day - if we played with 10 men for any length of time we were going to lose. It just is tough because the bracket really broke Akron’s way this year. It is so tough to win a championship in soccer. One day we will get a second star but unfortunately not this year. I have no complaint with the players today (besides the penalty kick). I just think this wasn’t meant to be.

Hard to argue with a personal reason like that. And I am in Raleigh right now, so if the Wolfpack win, they essentially get a home game right next door in Cary. Woulda been way to convenient for me to see the Zips in the College Cup, which is probably another reason it didn't happen.

They mix in some nice graphics and stuff throughout. If I didn't know better I would think it was a real cable broadcast. Kudos to their production team.