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Yes, I am aware. I made that post during the selection show when the matchup was first announced. One of the committee chairman came on later in the show to clarify.

I am super frustrated that Kentucky and Akron play within 25 mins of each other these are the 2 games I wanted to watch the most on Friday. I also would have much preferred night games the early start times just don't have the feel like the night games for NCAA tournament. They stuffed all the interesting games in the early time slots on Thursday and Friday and most of the night games are likely the boring huge mismatches or 2 majors against each other which I care much less about. Stupid NCAA

This actually is not true. They said they were the first of the 4 teams that were last in to get in so it would have taken 4 more bid stealers to knock them out. They said once they selected all 68 teams they did a seed scrub and as they compared Miami OH vs each of the other 3 teams in Dayton those other teams won out with the predictive metrics and pushed Miami OH to the last team in the seed list for at large teams. They first select all the 37 at at large teams then they seed them. WAB was 37 for Miami OH a big reason they were safely in the field. Their NET of 64 and kenpom of 93 are a big reason they got pushed below NC State, Texas and SMU for seeding purposes.

Nice to see a little info: https://x.com/zipsfb/status/2034027028073066961?s=46&t=pkxH-CxvRVOLJ6Q8hd7_3A This article says that they play at UNLV - thought that was a home game?

FIFY. 😊

Excuse you. Alexa Bliss is an athlete.

USA today article that they seem to do every year on famous alums from the schools that make the NCAA tournament. They didn't even use any athletes for us this year.

I just hope everyone has fun

The Zips need to remember that there's no I in team.

Physicality. Whoever comes ready to play.

Well, I was hoping mine would come before the game on Friday, but if you haven't gotten yours yet, there's no way I will. lol

and whoever has a more viable backup big.

Maybe your mailman is wearing it.

It's going to come down to which team wants it more.

If not now...when?

"Thanks, John." - Pat Summerall

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/tourney/2026/03/17/march-madness-upset-predictions-final-four-picks-to-help-fill-out-ncaa-tournament-bracket-2026/89193610007/ It's fun to see all the upset picks but no one should expect it will be anything other than a tough uphill battle.

I shared what 200+ men's basketball programs were spending yesterday. The women's data was hidden behind a pay wall, but someone provided it for me so thought I'd share. This would be for the 2024-2025 academic year. Edit: It should be noted this figure doesn't include revenue sharing or 3rd party NIL.

No problem! Took me a while to figure out how to get images and such posted due to the file size restrictions.

Thank you

Future tip: right click the image/GIF and select "Copy Image Address" then paste it here.

@clarkwgriswold while everyone else talks about their new Zip swag... https://tenor.com/2pw1.gif

Waiting on my hoodie from the collective, ordered March 8th.

To Travis's credit, I heard him on a show last week crediting the Zips and saying how they got overlooked as a great team with everyone focusing on Miami's undefeated season.

He was also complimentary of Miami and the MAC as a conference this year.