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At the moment Akron would not be one of the four teams to make the Big East tournament, but they do control their ability to do so. At the moment they sit tied for sixth place with St John's and Butler. St John's holds the tie breaker over the Zips but the Zips hold it over Butler. Standings are as follows (although the East and Midwest division leaders will each get a slot regardless of point totals). Georgetown 13 Creighton 10 UConn, Seton Hall, Providence 9 St John's, Zips, Butler 7 Villanova 6 Xavier 5 DePaul 1 Marquette 0 The "easy" way for the Zips to get in is win their last three. Then it won't matter what Creighton does in their other two games because the best they could do would be to tie the Zips and the Zips would hold the tiebreaker. But barring passing Creighton, they need to sneak ahead of three of the four of Uconn, Seton Hall, Providence and St. John's. The good news is all of them play each other at least once and some twice, so we probably want to root for a lot of ties. 😂 And the Zips really need to take advantage of playing two of the three bottom teams before they get to Creighton. If they can pull off two wins and at least a tie against Creighton, I think they're in. Going to be an interesting last few weeks.

Good post. I find mid season firings silly as well. They mostly just satisfy blood lust but loud alumni, boosters or members of the press. It doesn't give a school a head start in any search. It's just dumb.

16 days until Zips basketball.

We gave up 42 points to a team that scored zero last week. Well he's not a defensive genius. 😊

Friday October 17th Creighton 1 Villanova 1 Butler 1 Xavier 1 UConn 1 St. John's 0 Providence 1 Marquette 0 Saturday afternoon October 18th Georgetown put a 3-0 beatdown on a very bad DePaul team #8 Maryland went to Columbus and stomped a mudhole in the Buckeyes...4-0 Terps Ohio State record drops to 5-8-0 Current Big East standings (and yes, I am extremely thankful that the Zips do not play in the East division) Big East - Eastern Division 1. Georgetown 4-0-1 13 points 3 way tie for 2nd 2T. UConn 3-2-0 9 points 2T. Seton Hall 2-0-3 9 points 2T. Providence 3-2-0 9 points 5. St. John's 2-2-1 7 points 6. Villanova 1-1-3 6 points Big East- Midwest Division 1. Creighton 3-1-1 10 points 2T. Butler 2-2-1 7 points 2T. Akron 2-2-1 7 points 4. Xavier 1-2-2 5 points 5. DePaul 0-4-1 1 point 6. Marquette 0-5-0 0 pts Next week schedule Saturday October 25 Creighton (10) at Butler (7) 1 pm Akron (7) at Xavier (5) 2 pm Seton Hall (9) at St. John's (7) 4:30 UConn (9) at Providence (9) 7 pm Villanova (6) at Georgetown (13) 7 pm DePaul (1) at Marquette (0) 8 pm The Zips need desperately to get revenge against Xavier. As Big East opponents, the Zips have fared very poorly on the road at Xavier. 2023 - a very frustrating 0-0 tie in regular season. And then, a very painful season ending loss in the Big East Conference quarterfinals...1-0 loss at Xavier in 2023. Xavier's pitch is not the best. The zips need to step on their throats early and compete for 90 minutes. 3 points are a must on Saturday afternoon.

Our Zips need to focus on that which they can control...the games ahead of them. At Xavier will also be a tough match.

Come on CBS/ESPN - get your crap together regarding the JMU game.