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What seems to be creating so much worry is the last-second win last year at BG that saved us from a 40% shooting night. It won't happen again, and there's no Richaun Holmes to keep an eye on all game. Easy double digit win. And please let this be the game where we keep our foot on the gas pedal the last few minutes. Zips 78 BG 62

I would really like to see Pat have a great game offensively. The last 2 games he got called for travelling and it seems to get in his head and he hesitates on his post moves. Pat had a great year last year and we need to feed the ball in the post and then everything seems to open up. It is always tough to win on the road so I expect a close game. The one difference this year than in previous years is that we have guys who can finish off games at the foul line. At the end of the Central game we had a lineup of Josh, Noah, Antino, Jake and Big Dog. Everyone but Big Dog is shooting over 80% from the foul line. Go Zips!

And frankly its only a handful of the P5 schools that stay in the black as well. And even when its disguised fairly well everyone knows that's its the students who end up picking up the tab for all of the debt. My daughter attends the University of Maryland and I just paid her tuition bill, even with UMD getting more money from the Big Ten I know part of her cost is certainly subsidizing athletics. Would love to know how much of it it is (and she has attended exactly one athletic event while she has been there - the Akron soccer game I went to with her last fall). I heard Chris Christie speak (not a political endorsement just happened to hear him on the radio) and he has a kid a Notre Dame and one at Princeton. He got a letter from Notre Dame which proudly said tuition was only going to up 4% this year (the lowest increase in 40 YEARS) and he said the bill from Princeton had only three lines - tuition, room and board and fees. He said if you got a bill at a restaurant and it just said food you'd probably ask the waitress to break it down into the actual costs. I saw a promo on a Big-12 basketball game and they were proudly trumpeting that student athletes had a higher graduation rate and came out of school with far less debt than the general student population. Gee, could that have anything to do with available tutors, someone watching over your academics (and a high number of majors in sports management and exercise science) and something called a scholarship all because you're good at bouncing a ball or the like? So you have a bunch of students subsidizing other students and you wonder why there's an undercurrent of anger about student debt (though I have less sympathy for those who feel they must attend a private school for art history and pile up a mountain of debt doing so - you have to take some of the responsibility).I love college sports but it terrifies me what it is turning into. Could be a student (or parent) revolt on the horizon. Damn it when did I turn into the cranky old man? Think I'll just become a bitter member of the venomous minority.

Josh's shots hit the center of the twine better than about anyone else I've seen at UA. He's a pure shooter. There's a lot of variables that go into assembling a MAC team that can make an NCAA tourney run. One of those is having three guards that can kill you from behind the arc. Kent had Mitchell, Shaw and Huffman. Maybe even Gates at times. OU had some combination of Taylor, Bassett, Kellogg and Cooper that shot the ball at an elite level. Josh's emergence gives us that X-factor guard that can out-shoot a Power 5 team in the tourney, and Jackson and Robotham are deadly too. Big Dog, Kwan and Pat (can he get at least 85% healthy?) inside gives us the beef to match up with the big boys. And Reggie and Jake give us deadly perimeter scoring and defensive length. I watch a lot of Wichita State basketball, and they are running roughshod over the MVC. It's time the Zips do the same in the MAC. If the Zips are as good as I think they are, tonight is a double-digit win. Maybe even a 20-pointer. It's time to start flexing our muscles against the weaker programs. With Josh getting 20+ minutes, all things are possible!

From the ABJ: "University of Akron men's soccer: Zips' 2016 recruiting class ranked No. 2 in the country according to TopDrawerSoccer." http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/university-of-akron-men-s-soccer-zips-2016-recruiting-class-ranked-no-2-in-country-according-to-topdrawersoccer-com-includes-area-players-alex-mapp-jackson-crawford-1.660565

Yeah I noticed that so I was brushing up on my basketball rules. I came across this at one point and thought it was interesting: https://m.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1lyyr3/explanation_of_why_3_steps_is_actually_legal/

fantastic article on Alex Mapp Welcome to Akron, Alex. We would love to see you play on a team that goes to the national title game ....like your father.....with a "W" at the end of your title game. Center backs are so vital in soccer. Very happy to read that Akron won out over Coastal Carolina and Bowling Green and others. http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2016/02/05/college-family-ties-lead-highlands-mapp-to-akron-soccer/ small part of the article... the Zips were always No. 1 in the heart of Mapp. Part of that was success, but most of it had to do with the fact his father Pete was the center back on the 1986 Akron team that went 17-4-3 and finished runner-up to Duke in the NCAA Division I Tournament.