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  1. Looks like we have our answer.
    4 points
  2. My vote is for Stan Heath given how he's brought out the full potential in Bates and kept his team engaged for 40 minutes every night.
    3 points
  3. Word on the street is we get a schedule tomorrow. Midweek MAC games are the last thing ESPN decides on so we get to be the last to know what the fall will look like.
    2 points
  4. Here's the tourney simulator. http://bball.notnothing.net/bracket.php?conf=macm Frankly, doesn't matter to me who plays whom in what round. Trivia: in 2021, Ohio (at #5 took out #4 Kent State, #1 Toledo, and #2 Buffalo. In 2022, Akron did the same in reverse: Akron as #4 took out Buffalo, Toledo #1, and Kent #2. This is what I came up with.
    1 point
  5. Noticed Sparks dressed and warming up. As I suspected, he's not ad injured as they made him out to be
    1 point
  6. The video of Joey’s goal from his IG story. What a strike! https://youtube.com/shorts/vJs1Vm5z67s?feature=share
    1 point
  7. Apparently an assistant coach from Hoban called someone from STVM a "meanie-head," which, of course, is enough of an offense to cancel the game. Words are violence, after all.
    1 point
  8. Personally, I'd rather Toledo just stay the one seed as I'd like to avoid having to face Toledo as long as possible. Perhaps hope someone like Ball State upsets them in the semis
    1 point
  9. Akron "playing down to competition" is something previously mentioned in this thread. It caught me by surprise, and the poster who wrote it didn't accuse this team of doing so regularly, but it did get me to thinking. In the Groce Era, specifically the contending years, how often does Akron play down to lower competition? By this, I mean losing these games. Many times they can be close, but you can't blow everyone out every night. I based the determination of bad losses on the team's KenPom ranking. The "Contending Era" of John Groce at Akron started in 2020. That team lost 4 conference games. vs. Toledo, vs. Buffalo, @ Kent, @ BG. Technically, the blowout loss at BG was the worst of the losses as they were 168, but the UB and Toledo games were at home. While the Zips did technically play down in those games, I don't consider them to be really bad losses. In the wacky 2021, Akron went 12-6 in MAC play, losing their final 3. Two really bad losses in the early stages of MAC play had us reeling. @EMU and @NIU back to back, with EMU being 289 and NIU 337. Last year, @WMU was 329 and home vs. NIU was 297. Both really bad losses This year, the worst MAC loss by the numbers is @ Ball State, and that is without X. You could say that the Toledo loss at home was one they should have won, same for @ Ohio. But as far as this year's team goes, they have been really good about being consistent and winning when they are supposed to win. What does this all mean? Nothing really, I just find it interesting. In the regular season, this team hasn't really left a whole lot on the table. They were alone at the top of the MAC after 5 weeks and if they come out on top tomorrow, they will finish the season without any head-scratcher losses in MAC play. More numbers for funsies: Groce's final KenPom rankings by year at Akron, ranked: 1. 2020 (82) 2. 2019 (108) 3. 2021 (112) 4. 2022 (126) 5. 2018 (255) Akron currently sits at 104, and was as high as 95 after beating Kent at home. Again, these numbers are largely meaningless, but tell an interesting story about the program, and the conference as a whole. Remember, the 2019 team lost tons of close games, and tended to play good teams really close. The MAC was pretty loaded that year. Close losses at CMU, at Kent, home vs. Buffalo, at Ball State, and at Bowling Green were absolute killers. LCJ shot <30% from three that season, which really is hard to believe.
    1 point
  10. New offer to JUCO WR Shemar Kirk. Purdue came in with an offer shortly after. Kirk looks explosive on film and reminds me of Daniel George.
    1 point
  11. Following recruiting is just exhausting nowadays. Two signing days...constant turnover with the portal...players coming and going throughout the entire year... I miss the days when there was one signing day, no portal, and you'd get surprised by maybe two or three roster additions in summer camp. I have no frigging clue who 70% of the Zips starters will be when September rolls around.
    1 point
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