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The Zips get a 1-0 win over South Alabama in 8 innings for their first ever NCAA tournament win.

Men's leading by 30 points, women's leading by 20 points. Both with 4 events remaining.

Zips leading the outdoor MAC championship in both men's and women's going into the final day tomorrow!

Going to the 5th inning, Zips lead Virginia Tech 4-1. Winner moves on to play host LSU in the regional championship game at 2pm ET tomorrow.

4 current and 1 former Zip among tonight’s starters! 🔥🔥🔥

BGSU added Jayden Johnson from South Carolina State. It seems like a fairly solid pickup for them. Last season he had a 23 point game against South Carolina and a 25 point game against Tennessee so don't write him off because he played at a low major. https://x.com/i/status/2055365959058084101

That's certainly a better argument than AkronAlumnus was attempting to make. You still listed 2 players who played a combined 7 games last season. Willis will be returning from a broken foot, which he had to get a secondary surgery on after re-injury. That type of injury with a secondary surgery can take up to 3 years for a player to return to 100% per the national institute of health. Sumlin's injury I'm not sure what it was, but it was severe enough that he missed the entire season. Depending on what the injury was it's hard to project what, if any, impact it might have on his game for next season. I would say the injury concerns surrounding both players still leaves questions on how effective both players will be. I will concede there is more certainty there than with the other 2 prior mentioned players that have yet to play.

Akron was a very early adopter of NIL. I've heard jokes about other MAC coaches referring to Bud as the real league MVP. Akron probably still is at or near the top of the MAC in NIL spend, but the gap has certainly shrunk. It's not just in the MAC either. More and more mid-majors are stepping up their spending as well. With more money out there for players to get, Akron isn't going to be able to afford the same caliber roster that it could before. Not unless it doubles or triples it's current spending to restore the same disparity it once had.

I'm not as negative about next season as AkronAlumnus is but I do have lower expectations than last year, for sure. I felt okay when we started off by getting Staveskie but Burton and Hammer do nothing to make think we're on our way to another MAC title. Of course, who knows with every team having so many new players but as Kreed said, on the surface, it's not realistic to say this team will be better than last year.

Michael Nanchoff (great interview) this interview occurred during the 2025 Fall season. Sorry if it was previously posted but I don’t recall seeing it.

This was a great interview. Thanks for sharing. We are lucky to have Michael on our coaching staff. he will make a good head coach some day.

Go zips!

Yeah, i do the same and it's how I get almost all of my Zips gear. Usually either new or gently used. And usually about half the price of what it would retail for.