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St. Mary's just beat USC 71 to 36. I'm not feeling as bad about the Zips 20-point loss. 😂

1986 NCAA game vs Penn State, shootout win, I believe it was on Thanksgiving weekend. That win took the Zips to Fresno Sate for a Semi-Final game and then the following weekend to Tacoma for Akron's first appearance in the NCAA finals vs Duke.

Also in 1986, game in the Jar against Cleveland State. In a sense it was a rivalry game between two up and coming coaches- Bob Huggins for the Zips and Kevin Mackey at Cleveland State. The atmosphere was beyond electric. The previous game Akron beat Kent before some 5500 fans; the Cleveland State game had an announced attendance of 7186! The JAR never had close to that many seats even with all bleacher seating on the upper level and behind the baskets. The aisles were completely packed. People jammed themselves together; the fire marshals must have been sent to a bar somewhere for drinks. The place was rocking! The Zips won that one but it was the atmosphere that made it super special.

Another one I think of often:

Don't know a lot of the internals and history of the program, but it seems like a program meant to support the region's businesses that ended up with dreams of turning itself into Berkeley and winning Nobels. My hunch would be that this was, to some degree, Proenza driven. All that seemed to happen is that we lavished attention on a group of faculty who managed to catch Duke's eye and then bail on UA.

Miami v Ohio for the MAC Championship.

Finally showed up. And it was $35 not $55. I think they did a pretty good job on it.

Toledo's missed FG with 2 seconds left.

OK, not a Zips game but I'm going with it.. #24: Dwight Smith Super Bowl XXXVII Highlights | Top 50 Super Bowl Performances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUeXYQojlqw

will be interesting to see how many CMU guys enter the portal with the coaching change.

Offer to Kaelin Drakeford of Eastern Illinois. Edit: Looks like we also offered his brother earlier in the year. Ashton is a 2026 prospect.

Game-winning TD ... around 1:25:25 and beyond

Many good memories; this rises to the top for me…

Sorry Bowden floor 😂🤣

Great thread!! My memory sucks so I cannot remember the opponent but the opposing team had the ball with 3 seconds left and the game is tied. They throw the ball down the court and nobody touches it, Akron Ball. No Akron player gets open and we throw the ball into Big Dog who turns and drains a three pointer at the buzzer. ( I am certain not the play KD drew up.) First time all season he shot a 3. Akron has had some dominant centers including Zeke, Big Dog and Freeman. Also, last years game against Kent and it was Kent's third last possession. Kent player gets a rebound and goes to score to take the lead and Freeman blocks it from behind. It was an amazing block!!! Kent then scores on the next possession and then the Kent player fouls Tribble because he thought they were behind. (You can't make this stuff up) Tribble makes both free throws for the win.

I understand they only took that game for the payout. It helped to fund the entire athletic program including basketball program that had a staff that regularly failed to come up with a competitive OOC schedule.

https://gozips.com/news/2024/11/25/mens-basketball-nate-johnson-named-mac-player-of-the-week

Zips OVC Championship game over Middle Tennessee in 1986 to get them into the tournament.

2005 MAC Championship. Zips rally from 14 down against Northern Illinois and win with 17 seconds remaining in regulation when Luke Getsy connected with Domenik Hixon on a 36-yard touchdown pass. The first Buchtel College game in 1891 defeating Western Reserve Academy 22–6 in Hudson, Ohio was a doozy too!

2011 MAC Championship game. The Zeke block, McNeese block, and ensuing chaos on the Akron side of the arena... Pure cinema. A close second is the first game of the 2009 MAC Tourney vs Toledo. Humpty Hitchens and Brett McKnight delivering that win for us that started 4 wins in ,4 days to win the MAC. After that game, we got home and watched the Syracuse/UCONN 6OT thrilled in the Big East tourney. Perfect night of basketball.

This is the one I was gonna say. The "EIEIEIO! TO THE COLLEGE CUP WE GO" hit differently after standing in the cold through PKs.

Moorehead describes preseason schedule as "ridiculous and non-sensical." Not a fan of previous AD, I assume.

It's always nice to win... but the fact remains the season was a disaster... winning vs Colgate and Kent State almost dont even count... and winning your last game of the yr is too late.