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Darlington Nagbe is joining Ohio Premier Soccer Club as a Staff Coach. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSOLS9HEWz8/?igsh=b2R6Zm12a2M4cTl3 I’m certain Darlington will be excellent at helping develop soccer talent. 👏👏👏

Stan Heath brings his 6-5 EMU Eagles to the JAR Friday night to face the Zips, coming off of exam week. Like many other teams, EMU had to completely rebuild, returning only 7.9% of their minutes from last year. 6'9" redshirt Central Michigan transfer Mohammad Habnad leads the Eagles with 14.9 ppg and 8.1 rpg. 6'7" redshirt senior guard Addison Peterson, who's on his 5th college team, averages 11.5 rpg and 5.1 rpg. They have wins over Georgia State, Cincinnati, Detroit Mercy, Oakland, NJIT and Cleary. Their losses are to Pitt, UPFW, Louisville, Butler and and IU Indy. Stan Heath, the John Wooden of Ypsilanti, will have them ready.

Murray State is a quality mid major. Akron isn't going to beat anyone worthwhile without effort and intelligence on D. That's just a fact. Giving up 97 to Yale was a red flag. Allowing Murray State to put up 115 in 40 minutes is flat out embarrassing.

I didn’t see the live action, but it sounds like Barre is improving which would help with drives to the hoop. But the wide open perimeter, poor free throw shooting and rebounding (second chance points) are whole team issues. The good news is we still have time to figure it out. The bad news is we are now likely to get another lousy seed if we make the Tourney.

Groce has said again and again that the way this team gets being just being good is by improving defensively. Clearly, they're still just good.

Zips women lose 85-59. They may be able to take some solace in the fact that it's one of the smaller margins of victory Michigan has had so far. Heck, they beat Notre Dame and Purdue by a lot more. Not sure how the Wolverines worked their lineups today.

That Kent State MAC home opener should be electric at UMass, Dec. 20th. Frank Martin will likely look to curb stomp the Golden Flashes to send a loud and clear message to the rest of the league!!!

Shooting 50-percent from the field, 40-percent behind the arc ... and losing by 15 to fellow mid-major is a head-scratcher. Would love to run this one back tomorrow if we could just to see if this sticks. Problem is, in two quality mid-major losses Zips have let Yale and Murray State shoot 60-percet and win. The positive is ... that's what it's going to take to get the job done against the Zips! The negative is ... it's already happened twice with 2/3rd of the season still to play.

I think we were around #16 in kenpom offensive rating and moved up to #14 after the game. We were around #150 in defense heading into the game. Now we're at #206. You have to go back to 2018 to find a year our defense was rated this low.

Our offensive rating goes up, but our defensive rating goes way down. 🤦‍♂️

Thank you!! I haven’t laughed that hard in such a long time.

115 in regulation is embarrassing

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Does anyone know what the record is for the most points scored against the Zips. We might be approaching that number.

We’re on the receiving end of the Miami game (home) from last year.

They hit 100 already. They will go for 120. They are just red hot from the 3 line in the past 5 minutes. Murray State is just playing lights out from beyond the Arc.

Defense was optional today. To Murray State’s credit, they didn’t seem to miss either!

Groce may have a coronary if they give up 100.

I cannot remember the last time we hit a three and they are drilling open three pointers. We collapse in the paint leaving guys open for 3 pointers.

Chippy game.

Joe Dunn says he and David could take the Murray State announcers. 🤣

I feel the talks of this being Groce's best Akron team was premature. We've been able to run up the score on the bad teams we've faced, but haven't been able to beat the good teams on our schedule. Our best win is against #161 Iona. Hopefully Groce can use this as a teaching moment as this is the worst Akron half-court defense we've seen in maybe 5 years. I think we have the bodies and athletes to improve, but we need to play smarter defense and be more disciplined.

The Zips are just not helping themselves on defense. They need to move quicker to the ball on both defense and on rebounding. I do not think the refs have been one sided. We are 6 of 12 from the foul line.

Officiating seems awfully one-sided but only listening on AM640

Plenty of time left. Go Zips!!