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There is also no such thing as MAC refs. The guy ref'ing an Akron/CMU game on a Tuesday night can spend the night in a hotel and make a two hour drive to Columbus the next day to work the OSU/MSU game. MAC pay isn't really great in comparison to the B1G. No ref is going to risk their career fixing games for Miami. Edit: I should say unless they are involved in illicit gambling rings.

I was more being hyperbolic than making an actual conspiracy theory claim.

more likely the refs dislike the coaching who habitually abuses them and points his finger in their face. I doubt the mac commissioner has instructed the refs to help them win.

I came here to post this exact thing. Instead, I will share that after reviewing our season results, I see that nearly every victory except for Eastern Michigan on the road was a double digit beat down, and we lost two single possession games. The other school has been scraping by on close victories all season. Their time is coming.

I thought the same thing. Then, on the other end, he jumped (not straight up) into the offensive player who was shooting and there was no call. The MAC badly wanted Miami undefeated.

TOS to NIU

Zips jump from 56 to 52 in NET rankings. Akron 60 in KP. That other team is 53 and 90 disrespectively.

Another season ending with 6 injured players on the bench. Some good news is that our top recruit from last year whonwas injured in the state finals in Indiana and never saw the floor for us is back practicing and should be ready to play in 26-27. We also have one of the finalists for this year's Ms Ohio Basketball signed for next. Ryan and Bud are already working on who to target in the transfer portal. Eventually our luck has to change.

A loss on senior day to end the season.

No code needed, just go to this link and change the quantity from 0 to however many you need. https://gozips.evenue.net/event/MB25/MAC01

Anyone going up to the match?

So you’re saying you want a rematch…😄

Too bad this is a picture of him taunting the Ohio U. fans after having a terrible night individually.

Personally, I like Young in the game at the start because then he can guard the opposing teams best PG. He's our best perimeter defender.

He should start all 5 seniors from here on out IMO.

Didn’t watch the game, but I’m surprised the MAC allowed an undefeated season. But perhaps that’s the result they wanted as has been speculated on here before. That free throw advantage is significant as the away team. Just saying.

We shot 60% from three. Ever since the Kent game Young has been lighting it up from the outside. If the Zips stay hot from the three point line we will be tough to beat. With the seniors starting, I wonder if Groce might be tempted to keep Scott in the starting lineup and sit Halligan who has sturggled on offense. With Young coming off the bench with instant offense, it might be a consideration.

Chilly? Groce was pissed. I sit behind the opposing bench and there coach was yelling to his players we are going to keep playing hard and pressing in the last minute of the game when down by a dozen. And then their star went down with a concussion.

I clearly need some caffeine.

That's shown in the stats. They have 7 guys that average double digit points. That demonstrates moving the ball and finding the good open shot. I think one of the keys is Evan shutting down Suter. Suter is no longer their biggest threat but he's the gu that gets it all going. Shutting him down would be a big advantage.

You are right. If they have that many good 5 point shooters we are in deep trouble. 😉

I am still a bit nervous about Miami TBH. Particularly when they have Atlason on the floor. Akron likes to trap frequently on defense, but Miami moves the ball around well and can field a lineup of 5 terrific 5 point shooters to make us pay. Personally, I feel we should trap less and play more man to man defense. They don't have any post player that commands a double team against our smaller front court. What's important is being able to run them off the 3 and limit them to contested 2s.

Main stream media probably hasn't watched a MAC game that Miami didn't play in.

I have. Miami BG Ohio Akron Akron beats Miami for the championship

The mainstream sports media still begs to differ. I will side with the professional oddsmakers.