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Loss sucks, but I didn’t expect us to go undefeated in conference play and frankly I didn’t want us to. All about the MAC tourney and I wanted us to be knocked down a peg at some point before going into it. On one hand, an upset to Miami looks bad, but I suppose I’d rather lose to them than a Kent, OU, or Toledo.

It's college basketball, not the NBA. Not like we can go out and make an in season trade to add a missing piece. We have to run with what we got.

On the bright side, maybe this will be good for them in the long run. They weren't going to go undefeated - learn that they can't coast to wins and turn it on when they want and still come out with a W every time.

Yes, usually when people start getting overly ambitious and talk about seeding or at-large (although not applicable this time), we have one of these humbling losses. I posted before that it had been 70+ years since the MAC last had an unbeaten team in conference play. Back then there were much fewer conference games than there are today. I like this team, but I don't think they're remotely as good as that Wally Miami team, that Elite 8 PCCC team, or that Buffalo team of a few years back. If those teams couldn't run the table in MAC, why would anyone think this Zips team could? What's important is that we don't let this snowball. Accept we had a bad night or our opponent played one of there better ones. I didn't watch the game so I can't speak to it. Identify areas of improvement and work to become better.

This is Akron. There's never going to be big NIL money involved. A little money to help a kid get by, sure, but they're never going to compete with the major conferences. As for Bronny and Duquesne, that would kill two birds with one stone for Lebron. It would give his kid a place to play where he could be the star and it would ensure his buddy Dru stays in line for the head coaching job.

It took a while this time around, but we finally got the post loss Monrowe incoherent word salad after all!

Does anyone else feel like it is time to experiment and get Dawson out of the starting lineup to generate more ball movement and offense? After he fouled out, Tavari came in and I thought the team played better.

Zips women squeak by with a 61-59 much needed road win at NIU. Huskies had three shots to tie it on last possession with final close in attempt rolling around the rim and falling off. 🫣

Classic case of just too much of an uphill fight. Hopefully lesson learned and they’ll get angry.

Embarrassing loss. They've played down to lesser teams all year and finally got burned by it. All you can do is hope they learn from it and that it's a wake-up call for this group.