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Thank you to Charlotte, Dayton and Vermont for taking care of business today.... Zips need to beat teams like IU-Indy and Temple next year......so the team and fans are not sweating it out next year on the weekend before selection Monday.

I was listening also and the announcers were really questioning why the Zips did not sub. If you look at box score, Georgetown subs played 302 minutes against the Zips Zips subs played 107 minutes and it probably would have been under 50 minutes if Emil and Ashton did not get hurt After Ashton got hurt, Daragh played 43 minutes After Emil got hurt, Nathan Ferguson and Conor Filsinger combined to play 23 minutes. Zips were clearly exhausted at the end of the game. If the Zips get in, they will have to play on Thursday and Sunday if they want to get to the sweet 16. I would love to see Maximus Barboto and James Buebendorf get playing time on Thursday night. Nicolas Beier, Daniel Firek, Stefan Dobrijevic and Simon Guardiero are also quality players.

Dayton up 1-0 at half. St Louis playing with 10 players after a red card in the 32’. Good for the Zips if it holds.

Bump for update.

Portland beats Oregon State. Oregon State goes from 21 to 30. Zips hold solid at 34. St Louis, who has a win over Portland, goes to 35. UCSB, who also has a win over Portland goes to 38.

You never know what the NCAA committee is going to do......... As NYCZIP pointed out, AKron, NC State, UCLA, Western Michigan can all be impacted by teams on their schedule....still playing UCLA lost to Michigan on PK's in semis....so UCLA might get a bump tomorrow if Michigan upsets Ohio State Akron could get a bump if Georgetown wins Western Michigan has a win over Vermont...so they might see a bump with a Vermont win UNCG has ties with Charlotte and West Virginia...so they would probably benefit from those 2 teams winning According to NCAA.com.....below are the games schedule for tomorrow Michigan vs. Ohio State 3 pm Big Ten Network Wake Forest vs. Clemson noon ESPNU St. Louis vs. Dayton noon....... Long Island U. vs. Fairleigh Dickinson noon FIU vs. Charlotte 1 pm Georgetown vs. Providence noon - fox sports 2 Rider vs. Iona 1 pm Princeton vs. Penn 1 pm Bryant vs. Vermont 1 pm Marshall vs. West Virginia 1 pm Furman vs. ETSU 2 pm

they dominated game.... but it was a huge fluke goal own goal at 80 minutes.... UNCW center back tried to head it back to GK GK was further away from goal than the CB thought and the headed back ball went over the GK's head for a goal Great result for the zips....

https://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2024-11-10/2024-ncaa-di-mens-soccer-championship-selection-show-info-bracket-dates

1 pm EST tomorrow on NCAA.com

Looks like it's likely gonna be penalties for WVU and Marshall (5 minutes left in 2nd OT), which would count as a draw for record and RPI purposes.

Unfortunately, Marshall and West Virginia are still playing... they are in overtime West Virginia tied UNC-Greensboro during the year a West Virginia win could greatly benefit UNC-G someone very wise in the state of New York....yesterday said the possibilities are dizzying 😧

Exactly. I keep finding myself wondering how we're even close to the cut line but then I have to remind myself about those back-to-back losses. Hopefully the committee keeps in mind that those matches were over two months ago and not reflective of our current form.

Vermont wins 2-1

Thanks for all these updates everyone. I hope the Zips get into the tournament. The Big East regular season champs, especially Beto and Emil, deserve the opportunity to continue to showcase their talents.

Vermont goes up 2-1 4:53 left. Vermont stadium is full. Band, cheerleaders looks amazing

vermont goes 2-1

Watching Penn/ Princeton. Princeton up 2-0 58’. The Zips are head and shoulders abov both these teams.

Georgetown wins the Big East they were the better team... this will be a result that will help Akron

Thank you for your work on this page

If FIU does end up beating Charlotte, there would be 12 league winners with RPI’s above 40. logically, that would say that the top 16 seeds and the 16 teams hosting Thursday night games would be comprised of the 10 league winners with high RPI’s and 22 at large teams with RPI’s below the low 30’s. if the zips are one of the last 4, they will probably be on the road against a team with an RPI between 29 and 32. Western Michigan and Michigan ( if they lose Big Ten title game) could be likely opponents

Watching Big East title game on Fox Sports 2. Georgetown leads 1-0 nearing halftime. Announcers talking a lot about the Zips, including that they subbed very little in first half vs Hoyas and tired late in that game. GU keeper Manske made a great stop to preserve their lead vs PU.

Not if Jim Grobe was coaching us.

Another excellent episode.

You can’t really be that stupid are you?

The way I'm looking at it, according strictly to RPI and nothing else, we're four spots ahead of the cut line with 3-4 potential "steals" left. Tomorrow, we'll want: Dayton over Saint Louis Vermont over Bryant Charlotte over FIU Penn over Princeton (If Princeton lose, we'd also likely jump them in the RPI and be 5 spots ahead of the cut line.) So things are looking good, but for some extra comfort, we could use the games above going the right way.

Hofstra won….

NC State has a loss to High Point who lost their conference championship game tonight. The RPI stuff across everyone’s schedule is dizzying.

At least some of us thought that the defense might have been the strength of the team this season. There are some individually good players no doubt. But as a unit this group of players and coaches has shown little ability to help control a game enough to help the team win. They have been pretty much getting gouged by the run and big plays all season. NIU did exactly what it wanted to do. That was to be rugged and beat up the Akron defense on the ground. We are way past trying to figure out why the offense does what it does. Three seasons in, this is not where the program should be.

Here is an article about how the Pacers have had to rely on 2 way players this season because of injuries and how these players have stepped up. Includes a quote from Freeman. Good stuff!! https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyeast/2024/11/13/indiana-pacers-surviving-while-relying-on-new-two-way-contract-players/

Must win.

The reason we play the money games is to make up for the lack of ticket sales revenue from our most expensive sport. Football! Imagine if we could average 20k attendance for 6 games. If we just grossed $15 per fan, that would be $1.8 million in revenue. Then would could get by with a more manageable OOC schedule.

It's more than a place for higher learning. It's a taxpayer supported public institution. As such, it needs to be responsible with the taxpayers of Ohio money. I find it disheartening that only one in three employees are full time faculty. The scandal is not the cutting. The scandal is the poor management of universities throughout the country. This mismanagement has resulted in students having to pay an enormous amount in tuition and fees to support a bunch of people nobody can exactly figure out what they do for a living, or what their value is to the students. These additional fees have largely been paid for with student loans that harm both the student and society long term.

Even if you have to throw up in your mouth a little. 🤮🤣

Just switched to Vermont game. Bryant tied it with 7:00 left. Huge crowd at the game

Pickerington North would kick our Ass