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Way for WMU to represent. I don’t know if I’d consider them the most talented team in the MAC (in fact I think they were picked pretty low preseason), but drilled CUSA’s media darling. Love it.

Think of the coaching talent they have had at The Mount.

Watching Halligan last night and he reminds me a lot of Brian Walsh. Similar game and almost identical size. I like what his size brings to our rotations.

I realize we are well into the season so a single game isn’t going to move the Kenpom needle drastically, but we scored right around our average and did much better on defense yet our ORtg ticked up a couple spots and our DRtg didn’t move at all. 🧐 🤔 😔

The Zips get a 10 days Christmas break before Concord comes to the JAR on December 29th. Concord currently stands at 6-3, playing a bunch of teams that belong on Captain’s list of teams he’s never heard of, including Frostburg State. In the confusing geography department, they’ve also played California of Indiana and Indiana of Pennsylvania. Kraig Gilbert, a 6’8” sophomore forward leads the Grapes in scoring at 19.2 ppg. 6’8” junior forward Boubacar Djigo averages a whopping 14.2 rpg to go along with 14.2 ppg. He played for Lutheran West in high school.

Same here!

Berea Midpark HS

Pretty loaded at TE with Cravaack and Newell, this doesn’t hurt like many of the others. I’m thinking there will be many more coming in the next week or so.

I was listening to the game while driving which can be distracting enough. Reading and responding to Zips Nation wasn’t prudent. But I don’t know what everyone else’s excuse is, shame!! Ha!! Great effort and response to the defensive challenge. Keep it going. Go Zips!!

Ah, the ol' Gaussian Method. I should have guessed as much. 😊

1PM Buffalo @ WMU 2PM PCCC @ UMass Miami @ Balls 3PM CMU @ NIU 4PM BUGS @ Ohio Happy MACtion!

The MAC champ absolutely had their way with the C-USA champ 👀

As they should. I know South Dakota State is top 200 NET, but they almost lost to Balls. Watching their game vs Balls, I was not impressed. Good for us regardless!

According to Kenpom himself, Luck, is the deviation in winning percentage between a team’s actual record and their expected record using the correlated gaussian method. The luck factor has nothing to do with the rating calculation, but a team that is very lucky (positive numbers) will tend to be rated lower by my system than their record would suggest. If a team's efficiency suggests they should have won 10 games but they actually won 12 (especially if those extra wins came in close games), they're considered lucky. If their efficiency suggests 10 wins, but they only won 8 (losing close ones), they're unlucky.

Correction, Akron now ranks 286th among the 365 teams rated by KenPom in luck.

Milwaukee beat South Dakota State!

Brad Bournival of the Beacon did an article this morning on Stefan and Remi being drafted. Quotes from Stefan and Coach Embick. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/mls/2025/12/19/mls-superdraft-akron-zips-stefan-dobrijevic-remi-agunbiade/87844692007/?tbref=hp "This year he came back and really wanted to prove himself," Zips coach Jared Embick said of Agunbiade. "Anytime you can get drafted and show you're on the right path to make the pros is a huge confidence boost. Hopefully, we can take advantage of that." "He's(Remi) more of the modern player," Embick said. "He's strong and physical and has the attributes to fit in the next level. For him, it's about maturing his game to play all around at that level. If he can, like all new players, it'll be a role off the bench as a super sub, and then it'll be more and more playing time from there."

No Nate Johnson one-handed dunk disasters last night.

That's how I interpreted it as well. It definitely seemed like we had fewer breakdowns defensively. Nearly every 3-pointer EMU shot a Zips defender had a hand in their face.

He has dunked in at least 1 game before. My man has hops. Great game tonight.

It's no coincidence that the two kids who play the hardest on defense started tonight. I suspect the message got through.

Wedding anniversary. Told my wife I love her so much, I'm skipping the game vs. EMU. Shot 17% from 3P and still put up 93 points while winning by 21. Alrighty then. That has to scare the crap out of the MAC lol. What an offense.

Can someone explain the "Luck" calculation on KenPom? Zips are negative .268, which apparently means unluckier than average. I can think of a few factors that might affect the luck calculation: Opponents foul shooting percentage. Not much defense involved in foul shooting, so in a game like Yale when the opponent shoots much higher than their average, you had bad luck. Maybe the pressure of a tight game, etc. affects foul shooting, but mostly luck. 3 Point shooting also has a bit of luck involved. Most 3-point shots are not taken unless they are open shots. A good defense may force a few time clock beater shots, but not most. If a team shoots 56% on threes, when they typically shoot around 40%, some of that could be bad defense, but also could be just bad luck. Maybe playing against a team with an injured player is considered good luck. Is this a factor? Or playing without a player who is injured on your team is considered bad luck? Anything else? I do not subscribe to KenPom so maybe subscribers have the answer (or maybe it is just a secret algorithm).

Great win. Very happy with the adjustment. Felt a lot more balanced and complimentary. Need to keep it up!