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Personally, I'd rather Toledo just stay the one seed as I'd like to avoid having to face Toledo as long as possible. Perhaps hope someone like Ball State upsets them in the semis

Congratulations to the Swimming and Diving team. Most successful team on campus. 2nd straight MAC title 9th title in the last 10 years. It's now on to the NCAA Div. 1 competition.

1-1 Final at RMU. Among the highlights...Great PK save by Mitch Budler and an outstanding golazo by Josef Paulus for the tying goal.

In case you missed it and/or are curious, Coach Jackson said she is having a girl yesterday on the postgame radio interview. Nice addition to the two boys. 👶👦🧑

My vote is for Stan Heath given how he's brought out the full potential in Bates and kept his team engaged for 40 minutes every night.

I read over this thread and the Buffalo game. Most posts are about Ali dribbling, dribbling, dribbling. However, ultimately was a team effort to get by Buffalo with Dawson, Wynn, X (with late 3 to tie at half), Tribble all making big contributions.

Akron "playing down to competition" is something previously mentioned in this thread. It caught me by surprise, and the poster who wrote it didn't accuse this team of doing so regularly, but it did get me to thinking. In the Groce Era, specifically the contending years, how often does Akron play down to lower competition? By this, I mean losing these games. Many times they can be close, but you can't blow everyone out every night. I based the determination of bad losses on the team's KenPom ranking. The "Contending Era" of John Groce at Akron started in 2020. That team lost 4 conference games. vs. Toledo, vs. Buffalo, @ Kent, @ BG. Technically, the blowout loss at BG was the worst of the losses as they were 168, but the UB and Toledo games were at home. While the Zips did technically play down in those games, I don't consider them to be really bad losses. In the wacky 2021, Akron went 12-6 in MAC play, losing their final 3. Two really bad losses in the early stages of MAC play had us reeling. @EMU and @NIU back to back, with EMU being 289 and NIU 337. Last year, @WMU was 329 and home vs. NIU was 297. Both really bad losses This year, the worst MAC loss by the numbers is @ Ball State, and that is without X. You could say that the Toledo loss at home was one they should have won, same for @ Ohio. But as far as this year's team goes, they have been really good about being consistent and winning when they are supposed to win. What does this all mean? Nothing really, I just find it interesting. In the regular season, this team hasn't really left a whole lot on the table. They were alone at the top of the MAC after 5 weeks and if they come out on top tomorrow, they will finish the season without any head-scratcher losses in MAC play. More numbers for funsies: Groce's final KenPom rankings by year at Akron, ranked: 1. 2020 (82) 2. 2019 (108) 3. 2021 (112) 4. 2022 (126) 5. 2018 (255) Akron currently sits at 104, and was as high as 95 after beating Kent at home. Again, these numbers are largely meaningless, but tell an interesting story about the program, and the conference as a whole. Remember, the 2019 team lost tons of close games, and tended to play good teams really close. The MAC was pretty loaded that year. Close losses at CMU, at Kent, home vs. Buffalo, at Ball State, and at Bowling Green were absolute killers. LCJ shot <30% from three that season, which really is hard to believe.

The ABJ's been using this same picture for high school sports articles for about 2 weeks. The article is actually supposed to be about boys basketball scores... but when you click it leads with bowling 😐

Our performance at the MAC indoors is flat out unacceptable. The new HC was supposed to have rebuilt Sn Jose State's program but they did not have the history nor expectations of our much acclaimed program, both men and women. I hope someone on this board can offer concrete reasons why we will be back on top where we belong. At one time both men and women had broken into the top 25 ranking in the country.

Literally.

Okay, I'm a little sensitive to this, but in the last week GoZips.com has posted two pictures of our women athletes that to me are a little off color. A softball player and a track athlete, both with their hands positioned on either side of their, well, breasts, like their showing them off. I think the intent was to highlight the Zip logo on their jerseys but I haven't seen a male athlete posed that way yet. It's just a little weird!

That's good. Maybe Cavs fandom will be another inducement to keep him here.

Another player which could really be helping us this year is 6-6 PF Jermaine Marshall. He's a junior starter at Samford. Samford is currently 21-9/15-2 Southern Conference. Jermaine is averaging 12.6 PPG & 6.5 RPG. The Transfer Portal is rough.

Following recruiting is just exhausting nowadays. Two signing days...constant turnover with the portal...players coming and going throughout the entire year... I miss the days when there was one signing day, no portal, and you'd get surprised by maybe two or three roster additions in summer camp. I have no frigging clue who 70% of the Zips starters will be when September rolls around.

Senior night, right? Does Enrique walk?