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Feels like we should be set on offense aside from the TE position. Nice that we kept Williams/Mason/Gant/Patrick. Still feels like we have a lot of work to do on the defensive side.

I'm perfectly fine with Miami winning every game until they lose to the Zips in Cleveland.

Lebron paid homage to UA and the city with his new shoes which included the UA logo- https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/nba/2026/01/18/lebron-james-nike-23-shoes-pay-tribute-to-akron-zips/88243766007/

Malik Henry was fantastic tonight for the Canadian national team in a friendly against Guatemala

Figured it out from Zippy’s Instagram post. It’s the mascot for Goldfish Swim School a place in Hudson for kids swim lessons. Put him up there with the Texas Roadhouse armadillo for the best random mascot that frequents akron zips games

Shoeless Joe Jackson was innocent and belongs in the Hall of Fame. That’s my only contribution.

They announced Reese on the scoreboard at the game today. Nice touch.

Just saw that. Good for him, but seems a bit crazy. Also, he just entered a few days ago and somehow ends up at Texas? Feel tampering-ish to me.

There were some objectively terrible Akron teams prior to Dambrot coming to Akron. That was before my time though. I would imagine the defense was worse on some of those single digit win teams. I do think it's lazy to just look at points allowed as the sole measure of a defense. Like your mentioned pace can inflate the numbers. I still think outside of Groce's 1st season this is probably his worst defensive team. Like you, I don't necessarily think it's all effort. They just often try to trap and then are slow in rotating. Not having a rim protector certainly plays a part, but I feel that would be something we could overcome if we boxed out better and defended the 3-point line better.

elijah alexander is committed and on campus

But college football can’t have midseason transfers from a professional league. So it evens out.

Sweet cross by Malik Henry!

https://open.substack.com/pub/akronzippedup/p/akron-zips-mens-basketball-weekly-7a3?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Excellent write up from ZippedUp. "Pesky MAC West squads". 😀

This needs a deep ZNO investigation. Could H.R.Pufnstuf be positioning himself to replace Zippy? Could this signing be the avenue in which H.R. weasels into UA? I smell conspiracy.

Any relation?

Hopefully Chabi will be back before we make our stretch run + the MAC Tournament.

Umass loses on the road to NIU, welcome to the MAC!

They actually called a dribbler for a carry. What's next, a call for 3 seconds?

Anybody know what the halftime spread on this game is today? 😉

Watching the women's game at Kent. They had some people out on the floor cleaning up during a timeout. I was wondering if they couldn't have gotten someone other than a homeless guy off the street to do the cleaning. Then they said it's Kent's President and everything made sense. 🤣

He does seem to be moving okay as far as walking goes so it doesn't appear it would be long term.

Well since EMU and WMU look to be involved, we might as well just throw CMU and NIU in there as well. 😊

It is sad that we are having this discussion. Sports betting will ruin collegiate sports if the NCAA does not ruin it first. I respect Groce in that he recruits high class scholar athletes who know right from wrong. I hope he can continue to have a pipeline to these athletes.

I’m also out today. Got into a car accident this week so I might miss going to a game or two😢. Go zips!