Gameday!!! I'm very excited to see the Zips at the JAR one more time this season. With a win tonight, the Zips would take a 5-game winning streak into the tournament, which is something I don't know that they have done before, at least recently. Also with the win, they would get their 21st overall on the year, 14th in MAC play (which I believe ties their record for MAC wins [2013, 2017, 2020]), and it would give the Zips a 40-16 league record the last three seasons, tied with Toledo over that stretch, assuming they beat BG.
CMU has shown flashes of brilliance and huge growing pains throughout the year. In the Zips' game at CMU, they got a no-show from their best player and almost snuck that one past the hard-to-watch Zips of earlier this season. Not long ago, they almost took down Toledo and Kent, and they did in fact beat Kent earlier in the year. While I don't think there is much faith in their new coach, they have shown they can beat teams. Poor perimeter defense in key possessions in Mt. P kept them in it against the Zips last time, I would love to see Akron limit those opportunities this time around. In this streak, the Zips hammered EMU, beat BG handily, dismantled OU despite the final score, and beat Ball State decisively. It's been strange to watch this Akron team not play in close games every night over the last couple of weeks. With that said, I wouldn't mind seeing the trend continuing by giving the fans another night of high-scoring dominance to build more excitement for Cleveland. Cleveland is the reason, folks!
The Zips opened at -14 and the line has remained there. Even with the Zips playing well, I feel that's a lot of points and if I were to bet would probably take the Chips. Either way, I'm pumped to see this team play. Go Zips!!!