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That was basically the Ohio vs. Louisville game. I’m hoping for a better result, but Vegas is pretty good at what they do.

blOSUcked this season 😆

Purdue is 19.5 favorites. I hope we can cover at least but that’s a friendly line for us I feel

Time to go 🕺 Our Zips have earned it!!!

To illustrate @Illini Zip's insights, this year (albeit only 3 games into the season) our starting backcourt duo is averaging: Tavari: 13.3 PPG, 5 APG Scott: 14.3 PPG, 4.3 APG

Groce has said in the past that the criteria to play the point in his system is being able to break down the defense in the half-court, distribute the ball, run the fast break quickly while staying under control and be an efficient 3 point shooter. The deeper the shot the better. It doesn’t matter how they beat their defenders as long as they can do it regularly. For some it’s speed and quickness, others it’s shiftiness or even brute size and strength. All usually have to be good playing off of ball screens as well. You combine what @Blue & Gold posted with the fact that Jashawn Ladd shot 41% from deep last year and you have another point guard in the making. Maybe not his first couple of years, but very likely in time. https://bleacherprospect.com/2025/05/27/top-performers-from-the-3-stripes-gold-session-ii/ https://gatorswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/11/11/indiana-basketball-recruiting-rankings-top-30-players-in-class-of-2026/87204242007/ I know what you’re thinking…everyone can’t play point guard. True. Jashawn would likely have double-duty, half the time run the point and the other half play as a shooting guard. I think the smaller, quicker 6 foot guard is the mainstay at the position and I can see us bringing one in every 2 years. If they redshirt for a year even better. The other years, bring in true combo guards. At Illinois, I witnessed 6-1 point guard Tracy Abrams share the job with 6-4 ultra athletic, shooting guard Brandon Paul. It was kind of like the thunder and lightning dynamic you see football teams utilize with running backs. I bring up Brandon Paul because Jashawn looks like a poor man’s Brandon Paul. Expect to see this guy hanging on the rim quite often. Look at how easy dunking is for this guy. He’s just a junior in high school here. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/basketball/friday-night-fast-break-play-of-the-game-nominee-ben-davis-jashawn-ladd/vi-AA1xpj26 This dynamic of a point guard and combo guard sharing lead guard duties is nothing new during Groce’s Akron era. We started out with Virshon Cotton and Malcolm Duvivier. Then LCJ and Tyler Cheese. We then struggled partly due to Covid and partly due to Garvin Clarke’s failure to get north and south in the half-court. Thank God for Xavier Castaneda. As a shooting guard he held down the lead guard duties mostly by himself. Tavari was a freshman, but not at all ready for prime time. Since Tavari has taken the reigns he has shared the job with Tribble, Nate Johnson and now Shammah Scott. So don’t be surprised if the 5th year senior version of 6-5 Josh Henderson or RJ Jones becomes the next Tyler Cheese. I witnessed injury (and other shenanigans) at the point guard position derail Groce and Co. at Illinois. Together we witnessed Garvin Clarke’s failure handicap the Zips for a year or two. And now we are in the NIL era where you could see our future point guard leave at any time. In my opinion you can’t have enough lead guards on the roster. I suggest we grab one per recruiting class of alternating skill sets and size. And I think that’s exactly what we’re doing. 🙏

There are some great games in there, you'd assume that in the first four where there are direct Zips opponents it would be best for them to win. Funny that the worst matchup of the day by RPI numbers is the Big Ten final.

Kansas would've been a fun matchup this year. I believe they're quite young, led by an Akron-connected Darryn Peterson, son of former Akron standout Darryl Peterson.

Sunday November 16th Key Tournament Final games I will let others (smarter than I am)...fugure out the results that might be best for the Zips to receive a high seed All ratings shown are RPI as of 12:45 am on Sunday morning November 16th Ivy League Final - 11 am - broadcast on ESPNU #18 Cornell at #1 Princeton Big East Final - high noon - Boyds, MD #12 UConn vs. #17 Georgetown American East Final - 1 pm #4 Bryant (16-1-4) at #3 Vermont (13-0-5) Atlantic 10 final 1 pm #97 Dayton at #24 St. Louis Sunbelt Conference Final 1 pm #37 Central Florida at #14 Marshall ACC final - 1 pm........broadcast on ESPNU...game will be at Cary , NC #8 SMU at #2 Virginia Southern Conference final ...2 pm...... #27 UNC-Greensboro at #21 Furman Big Ten Conference final ....3 pm....game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network #34 UCLA at #26 Michigan

RPI final update for games on Saturday November 15th these results are after SAn Diego's win over Oregon State San Diego moves from 7 in RPI........up to #5 Maryland was at #5......when San Diego game started.....Maryland ends the day at #6 Portland drops from #6 to #7 Number 8 thru 11....look like this 8. SMU 9. Indiana 10. High Point 11. Akron 12 thur 17 look like this 12. UConn 13. Stanford 14. Marshall 15. NC State 16. Seton Hall 17. Georgetown Cornell started the day at #21 in RPI Cornell did not play today....but they ended the day at #18 in RPI Oregon State loss dropped them from #21 in RPI....down to #23 The Oregon State loss probably hurt Indiana and Stanford a little bit as the biggest non league win for both the Hoosiers and the Cardinal was over Oregon State.

Congratulations to Brian Quinn (the father of former Zip Great Aodhan Quinn) Brian Quinn is the head coach of the San Diego Toreros. This is Brian Quinn's 8th year as the Torero head coach. The Toreros just won their 4th straight West Coast Conference title (no conference tournament.) The West Coach Conference(WCC) has 3 of the Nation's best teams. Tonight, #7 RPI San Diego played at #21 RPI Oregon State to determine the league Champion. In the United Soccer coaches rankings, 3 WCC teams were ranked in the top 10 Portland at 6 ; San Diego at 7 and Oregon State at 10. In RPI (when the game started), Portland was #6 ; San Diego was #7 and Oregon State was #21. Coming into the game , these were the league standings 1. Oregon State 6-0-2 2. San Diego 6-1-1 3. Portland 6-1-2 San Diego needed to win to win the league title. A tie or a win would give Oregon State the league title San Diego wins 4-2 so final standings are 1. Sand Diego 7-1-1 ; tie for 2nd Portland and Oregon State 6-1-2 Game was much closer than 4-2 Game was 1-1 at 67...when San Diego scored on an outstanding corner kick at 80 minutes, Oregon State scored to tie it at 2-2 on a perfectly timed run. Brian Quinn asked for VAR.....it was very close...but the goal stood with 10 minutes to go, Oregon State was tied and was going to win the league 1 minute later, San Diego scored on a great free kick....25 to 30 yards beautiful strike Oregon State had to go full tilt....to try to tie it up...San Diego got a take away and scored to make it 4-2 One of the best soccer games that I have watched in a long time. Brian Quinn is a very good college coach. I will root for San Diego in the NCAA's and I really hope that they are not in the Zips regional. The torerros are a very good soccer team.

Four teams fighting for the final three spots and the Zips are the odd team out with a loss to Toledo. They had an ok year finishing at .500 in conference and above .500 overall but still very frustrating as they beat every team that made the tournament except Miami and 17-1 Ball State. What killed them were a number of losses to teams that ended up below them in the standings including cellar-dwelling Kent State. 🤮

Kansas only beat Princeton by 19, bring 'em on! 😊

Western Michigan earns an NCAA tournament spot. Broncos improve to 7-9-4 with a 1-0 win over top seed Evansville.

Yes, it is.

Isn’t the game on Big Ten network?

Congratulations to Beto Ydrach and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

Big South Conference Final #34 Gardner Webb at #15 High Point High Point wins 3-0 to improve their record to 13-1-4 Akron stays at #10 in RPI High Point jumps from 15 in RPI ....all the way up to #11 Gardner Webb drops from 34 to 36. High Point may play in a weaker conference......but they have been very impressive against teams ranked in RPI top 43 High Point vs., Top teams 2-1 win over Georgetown 3-1 win over #43 VCU 2-2 tie with Marshall 3-0 win over #36 Gardner Webb (regular season) - Gardner Webb had a regular season win over West Virginia 2-2 tie with West Virginia only loss is to #27 UNC Greensboro (UNCG plays #21 Furman tomorrow) 3-0 conference championship win over #36 Gardner Webb 4-1-2 record against Quality opponents Georgetown, Marshall and UNC Greensboro all play in conference finals tomorrow.... if those 3 teams all win, High Point will jump over Akron in RPI. Western Michigan and Evansville 0-0 at 71 minutes

The Summit League final......had a result.....that should be good for Akron for RPI purposes When the game started, Kansas City was at 14 for RPI and Denver was at 29..... A Kansas City win over a high RPI Denver team...could have moved Kansas City ahead of Akron in RPI. Denver is the Summit league champion with a 4-2 win over Kansas City. as a result of the loss, Kansas City Roos drop down to 20 in RPI. the Denver Pioneers move from 29 in RPI.....up to #23 in RPI The Denver win was good for Georgetown. Georgetown has only lost 1 game since August 25. Their one loss was on October 7 to Denver. Before the Denver win, Seton Hall was 17 in RPI and Georgetown was 18 in RPI. After the Denver win, Georgetown is 16 in RPI and Seton Hall stays at 17. The Georgetown-UConn winner will deservedly jump ahead of Akron for NCAA seeding purposes. In a regular season game. Portland got a 1-0 win over very low RPI St. Mary's as a result of the weak opponent, Portland dropped from 5 to 6. Big Ten regular season champ Maryland moved up from 6 up to #5. As a result of the Kansas City loss, High Point moved up to #15 in RPI. With a win over #34 Gardner Webb, High Point could move up in RPI. High Point just scored to go up 1-0 (57 minutes)

Their 1 win coming against Illinois State (respectable) where the viral highlight is the Ohio player missing a dunk at the buzzer with the whole team around him. Iconic.

Congrats to Sinisa and team, but more importantly, I believe that CSU win is good for the Zips since we played / defeated them this season.

Congratulations to zips all time soccer great Sinisa U. He is the head coach of Cleveland State. the Vikings advanced to the NCAA tournament with a 1-0 win golden goal at 103:44

Ohio falls to 1-3 after a 106-81 loss.

A bit of RJ Jones, #10.