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I would like to see a minimum of 25-30 3PA tonight. They are in a slump, they're playing timid, and it looks like we've reverted back to our December play. I don't know if Groce is intentionally have them play a half court style to work out the kinks as this is what we'll see teams try to do all of March, but I want to see the confidence and swagger return.

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I'd like to see that to, if good threes are available. I just don't think the threes are readily available as much anymore as the MAC coaches have finally figured out that the best way to attack the Zips is to sell out to defending the three. In the first 10 MAC games, the Zips averaged 31 threes a game. In the last three they have averaged 19 a game. I think that decrease has been caused by the MAC teams now focusing on preventing the three as opposed to the Zips passing them up and I suspect we'll keep seeing that trend. Here's hoping that when that happens the Zips are prepared to attack inside and in mid-range. I hope that tonight they run Payton Sparks ragged. I remember an NIU game at DeKalb years ago when they had a decent Euro center that beat Big Dog down the floor over and over for easy points and ran him ragged. I'm hoping Okonkwo and Amani do some of that tonight.

Only disappointment is that I can't find myself or MdZip in the crowd scene!

With the peanuts we’re making from ESPN, I would hope the conference is not pushed into anything by ESPN.

the struggle is real..

Akron -8.5; under over 156.5.

I'm glad every MAC school got super rich by having CST NIU for all these years.

I agree with your argument and I like your schedule for Cleveland. But I would also be open to the idea that only Seeds 1-4 are guaranteed a trip to Cleveland using your format. Let 5-12 battle it out on campus for a couple of rounds to earn the right to play 3 & 4 on Thursday.

This seems like the best alternative. It also would eliminate the need for the MAC to rent the arena for Wednesday for the women. Those games could instead be played Thursday before the men's if it adopted the same format. You would have 4 Thursday, 4 Friday, and 2 Saturday games in total between the men's and women's tournament.

I'm curious if the MAC will revisit their format at some point. Dropping to the current 8-team format was allegedly in response to the pandemic. I do think there needs to be some additional advantage built in for the top 2 or 4 seeds. Option 1: 2016-2020 Format The top four seeds received byes into the quarterfinals; seeds 5-12 played first-round games at the campus of the higher seed. Winners of the first-round games advanced to face the top four seeds in the quarterfinal round in Cleveland. Option 2: 2012-2015 Format The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds received byes straight to the semifinals, with the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds beginning tournament play in the quarterfinals. Teams seeded 5–12 played an additional two rounds. Option 3: Brand New Format Could they adopt an SBC-Style tournament? I'm guessing this would be too much. My preferred idea would be to cut the number of teams to 6 and award two first round byes. This cuts out your teams who, quite frankly, don't deserve a shot, awards an advantage to your top 2 seeds, and still maintains three nights of good basketball. How it'd look today: Thursday #4 Ohio vs #5 Kent #3 Toledo vs #6 Ball State Friday #1 Akron vs Ohio/Kent winner #2 Miami vs Toledo/Ball State winner Saturday Championship

Perry will always be loved in Akron for his fierce mid-field play and his golazo to tie the NCAA semifinals game against Michigan.

Wow, this topic got hijacked in a hurry! I don't come to ZNO to read personal political commentary, and I don't think anyone else does either. I come to escape all of that. Everyone here is united in their love and enjoyment of the Zips, so let's keep it on topic.

Here is some perspective on the national debt. If we paid the $34 trillion national debt off $1.00 per second without interest accumulated, it would take over 1.1 million years to pay it off. 1.1 million years ago, Homo Erectus was the dominant humanoid on Earth. Someone needs to snap the country out of this insanity or something will.

The pathway we are on as a nation is not sustainable. The interest payments on our national debt is destroying our economy. The reckless spending of the last 10 years cannot continue. The past administrations strategy of essentially just printing more money is about to have the bill come due. Trillions of dollars in low interest rate short term debt will need to be refinanced soon at double the rate. The IRS has 45,000 employees. The few new hires that DOGE is trimming are not going to delay tax returns unless the remaining employees decide to take some type of work action to slow things down.

Cut first, think second. Seems to be the norm in our nation right now. Wait until Social Security and tax refund checks don't show up in citizen's bank accounts on time. Then the impact of these decisions will begin to hit home.