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There ya go TennZip ... Kentucky 2-1 winner in 1st OT.

League champs.....and automatic qualifiers and today's finals 8 teams known as of this morning 15 finals today PAC 12 league winner - #2 Oregon State Ivy League - #58 Princeton West Coast Conference - #55 Santa Clara League winners Atlantic Sun - #39 Lipscomb defeated #42 Central Arkansas Big West - #86 Cal Santa Barbara def. #128 Cal Irvine Horizon - #85 Oakland def. #109 Cleveland State Patriot - #81 Loyola Maryland def. #110 American Summit - #78 Denver won a shoot out against #76 Oral Roberts ACC final - 4) Duke vs. #11 Notre Dame Atlantic 10 final - #17 St. Louis vs. #84 Duquesne Conference USA final - #9 Kentucky vs. #82 Florida Atlantic Missouri Valley final - #14 Missouri State vs. #143 Evansville WAC final - #13 Grand Canyon vs. #36 Seattle American Athletic final - #6 Tulsa vs.#60 UCF Big East final - #3 Georgetown vs. #15 Providence Big Ten Final - #12 Indiana vs. #25 Penn State MAC final - #27 Northern Illinois vs. #34 Georgia State Colonial final - #10 Hofstra vs. #44 Elon Metro Atlantic final - #61 Marist vs. #121 Rider American East - #8 New Hampshire vs. #50 Vermont Big South - #51 Campbell vs. #124 High Point Southern conference final - #54 Belmont vs. #112 Mercer Northeast Conference final - #92 LIU vs. #118 St. Francis Brooklyn I bold highlighted 7 leagues where an upset could vault a team into the tournament ....and reduce the number of at large teams below the zips I believe that the MAC final.....will be at 1 pm eastern time. Every one will have different opinions. I am strongly rooting for NIU to win the final. IF GSU wins, I think that NIU will still get an at large bid....as they were regular season champs....and would have lost in the conference tournament finals. As of this morning, West Virginia is 19 in RPI and Akron is 26. If GSU wins and if NIU gets an at large bid, the MAC would need to have 4 teams in the tourney for both Akron and West Virginia to get in. If GSU loses, I do not think that they will get in the tourney. We have all seen in past years...how the committee loves the power 5 conferences I am fully confident that the committee will give 7 at large bids to the ACC and 4 at large bids to the Big East ACC - 1. Duke/Notre Dame loser other 6 -5) Pitt ; 7) Clemson ; 20) N. Carolina ; 22) VA Tech ; 31) Louisville ; 32) Wake Forest Big East - Georgetown/Providence loser other 3 -23) Creighton ; #28 ) Villanova ; #29 St. Johns committee last year screwed west virginia and took Charlotte from Conference USA hopefully, Kentucky can beat the upset kid...Florida Atlantic if they do, I still think that the committee will give 3 at large bids to conference USA 16) Marshall ; #18) FIU ; #33) Charlotte if the committee....shows their usual love for ACC, Big East and conference USA...that accounts for 14 of the 25 at large bids (assumes Kentucky wins) that leaves 11 bids contenders for those 11 bids PAC 12 - #2 Washington ; #24 UCLA Big Ten - Penn State/Indiana loser and #21 Maryland ...will the power 5 loving committee show any love to #38 Michigan MAC - GSU/NIU loser ; #19 WVA ; #26 Akron west coast conference - #30 Portland ; #35 Loyola Marymount if we exclude Michigan and worst case....there are 7 upsets....there are 9 good teams competing for 4 at large spots I feel good about zips chances....if there are no upsets...if there are 4 or 5 or 6 upsets, I just do not trust the NCAA committee other teams ...that do not deserve bid....but a few years ago...the committee gave #44 NC State a bid...and screwed several teams in low 30's #40 Rhode Island #41 Northeastern #42 Central Arkansas #43 Cornell #45 VCU #46 Stanford

Missouri State wins 3-0 to make the NVC a one team league first upset of the day....as Vermont (#50 at start of the day) upsets New Hampshire (#10 at start of the day) 1-0 to get American East automatic bid congrats to the catamounts...gaucho dan shows Vermont jumping to 30...and UNH only droppong to 11 New Hampshire drops to 16-1-2 New Hampshire has non league wins over Providence 2-1 and Michigan 1-0....New Hampshire is a quality team Vermont had tied them 1-1 in regular season Grand Canyon leads Seattle 1-0 at half time... if the day ends with only 1 upset ......in the 7 leagues that I high lighted, that is a good day

I love it.....Great news for the zips Nick Markanich is a beast......... 4 league upsets avoided in the 7 leagues to watch.... and Missouri State is looking great let's go, New Hampshire and Grand Canyon if those happen, I am going to join SBZipfan....on the lock band wagon nerve wracking day......

Huskies win 2-1 in second O.T.

I was shocked at the display of sanity the likes of which we rarely see.

A lot of good things obviously, which was helped by playing a pretty awful team. But the Zips made the awful team look awful, which is always nice. I think Castaneda’s shooting is the best thing we can take away from this one. He was pulling up, spotting up, right at the line, a few feet behind the line. Swish swish swish. Reminded me of a good Trimble game. Speaking of, he threw a bunch up there again but I think he took better ones tonight, which is good. Freeman made a 7’ center look stupid all night. Aziz is definitely a work in progress, he needs to bulk up a bit more and play to his size. Agree Dawson’s leadership and attitude and play were awesome. I love the student section so far. They showed up and we’re LOUD. I missed that feeling in the JAR. That may have been the biggest student crowd I’ve ever seen for a non conference game, especially against a lower division team. Hopefully once this team gets rolling they keep showing up and made life tough for the visitors. Hopefully the general public fans come back out too. Go Zips!

At WVU the students were chanting "6 more years " at KJ.

It's based on facts, my friend! Unless the committee decides to invent entirely new criteria (like must finish in top 4 in conference), the Zips are in.

Can add Eddie George to the list?

Vermont wins, 1-0 Missouri St wins, 3-0 Notre Dame over Duke in the ACC final, 2-0. (No impact on Zips, both getting in regardless.) Grand Canyon up 1-0 at halftime.

a few upsets avoided Hofstra beats Elon 3-2 ....so the Colonial should be a one team league Tulsa beats UCF 2-1 to make the AAC a one team league St. Lois defeats Duquesne 2-1.... let's go, Kentucky !!! in games at halftime Missouri State is in good shape as they lead 4-13-2 Evansville 2-0 at half time New Hampshire and Vermont 0-0 at half

Penn State 3-0 final over Indiana.

They care, they want to win the league!

Penn State win would help the zips and hurt Creighton. Creighton's signature non league win is over Indiana. Penn State winning the tourney...would mean that both the zips and West Virginia would have wins over ACC regular season champ Pitt and wins over regular season and tournament Big Ten champ Penn State. That would be great for MAC teams.

I think that was Kato's one good game as a Zip.

I bet Wynn transfers to open up a spot

Wynn & Kalle sightings!

That’s probably the answer to @Illini Zip’s question in the recruiting thread.

I understand she's been sick and is just now coming back up to speed. Whew.

True. But I already have that factored in.

Walton’s gotta be graduating, right? 😂

talk about messing up a possible at large bid... Cornell came into today with an RPI of 29 on their home field , they played 1-10-4 Columbia 1-1 tie....drops Cornell to #46 ...according to Gaucho Dan live RPI

I've always had a hunch there were a lot of students at each game but just scattered about the JAR. If they make them sit in one section it will be full every game imo

Not in again today. I hope she's not experiencing knee issues again. That poor girl's had enough with two ACL's in her short life.

IMO, the Zips are a lock for a bid. Going strictly by RPI, the last-in team right now would be #38. And I believe there are now only 4 conferences (Missouri Valley, Atlantic 10, Colonial, Conf USA) in which a below 38 RPI team could still bump a team with a higher RPI than Akron. If all 4 have upset winners, the last-in team is #34. And Akron will end up in the mid-20s. So the committee would have to pull 10 or so teams with RPIs below #34 and put them in above #25ish Akron. And there just aren't ten teams with RPI below #34 that look better than Akron.

If his name was Joe Smith, would you be interested? This just in. The Zips are going hard after one of the Mannings to be the next coach...... Cooper Manning.

Beer sales and better seats for the students?! What the heck is this common sense, and what have they done with the old Akron athletics/marketing department?! To bring us back to normal, this game is NOT on TV, and the University has neglected to offer up a stream of some sort, either on their Facebook page or something else.

That's the kind of thing I mean when I say that the Zips players don't do the simple things I taught 6-year-old fly football players. I taught those children as safeties not to let anybody get behind them. I also taught them to stay at home on defense. Repeatedly, I see zips players break those very simple rules that I could get 6-year-olds to follow. That's the result of bad coaching.

We're a day from being back in the JAR. As much as we complain about that barn of an arena, it'll be nice to be back. NWAkron's t-shirt cannon PTSD should be kicking in any minute!

Seattle scores again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2-2 with1' 53" to go