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Nearly 16 minutes left and we're already at 6 teams fouls. We've played great defense the entire game, but Kent is going to have opportunity for free points the rest of the game. Cheese has to be smarter than that.

Whittington has been Kent's entire offense. I wish we'd attack him in hopes of making him pick up his 3rd foul.

I've gone to 1 football game @ kent, but never a basketball game. I don't like giving them my money.

Excuse my ignorance, but is it common in the college game for the offense/defensive coordinator to double as a position coach?

Maybe Alabama is keeping him around so they know what not to do on offense.

Alabama has hired Milwee as an offensive analyst. https://247sports.com/college/alabama/Article/Former-Akron-Zips-OC-AJ-Milwee-returns-to-Alabama-Football-as-analyst-129810946/

You forgot the MAC Championship game as well, unless you think a 6-2 conference record won't be good enough for us to win the MAC East.

I feel Ivey has a higher basketball IQ, but Cheese is a more explosive scorer. Both stuff the stat sheet.

Gardner-Webb wasn't even a good FCS team, which made it all that more embarrassing. They finished the year 5-6.

Speaking of Appalachian State, what ever happened to the return game we were supposed to give them? Did we just buy ourselves out of the deal?

Saul already has one foot out the door. His contract is expiring and even OU isn't dumb enough to extend him.

I pulled the below off the Zips facebook page. The women's team needs to win 1 of its last 2 to clinch a 1st round home game or needs EMU to lose one of its last 2. It seems highly likely we'll have a double header. I haven't made it out to a women's game this season, but I'll try to get there before half-time to my support if they do indeed clinch. I encourage others to do the same.

What's nice is that all the games that matter to us start 30 minutes after us.

I'm well aware of what the bracket buster was. It was organized by ESPN. It started out as an 18 team event featuring the best vs the best, but it eventually grew to having 100+ teams with a bunch of meaningless match ups. After conference expansion ESPN did away with it because with the exodus of big name schools to bigger conferences, there was no way for them to monetize it. If ESPN can't monetize it, nobody can. No, I really don't think UB/Murray State would pull big ratings. Big East fans would watch the Georgetown/St. Johns game instead. Big 10 fans would watch the Wisconsin/Michigan game instead. Big 12 fans would watch the Kansas/Texas game instead. I could keep going. Whose going to watch Akron/Stony Brook game outside of an Akron/Stony Brook fan? Literally any match-up between two bottom feeding P6 teams would produce better ratings. ESPN already owns Loyola Chicago's media rights. If they wanted their games on ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPNU, they would be on those stations already. They are instead relegated to ESPN+ on a regular basis like the MAC is. I'm not denying the games were fun. They were. I just don't see them ever returning. Literally no team outside on Gonzaga on that list (who would have no interest in participating anyways) has drawing power. Basketball schedules aren't made years in advance like football. Both Murray State and Buffalo were expected to be good heading into this season. They could have very easily agreed to schedule one another. They for whatever reason choose not to.

The majority of the big name schools found their way into one of the P5 + Big East & AAC conferences. There are very few compelling match-ups between mid-majors that would produce the TV ratings to justify it being worth ESPN or whatever networks time. Even some of the big name schools, like Gonzaga, who are still in a mid-major conference won't have interest in the bracket buster. They will just pay an Akron or Valpo to come to their place during the normal OOC season. Not to mention the broadcaster putting the tournament on would need to have media rights to both conferences. I liked the bracket buster tournament, but it returning just isn't going to be a reality. The best the MAC can hope for is some sort of MAC/(insert random conference here) challenge. Even then it seems the conferences worthwhile of having one against are already singed up to compete against another conference. ACC-B1G SEC-B12 B10-Big East A10/MWC - Future MVC/MWC - I think this one is ending C-USA or MVC would probably be the 2 best conferences to reach an agreement with. Both are a ghost of their former self and both MAC teams already schedule so I'm not sure if it's moving the needle any.

My ideal scenario would be Akron beat Kent, Toledo loses, and BG wins. This would mean Akron would play BG in the quarterfinals instead of Toledo. I feel we match up better against BG than Toledo. Even in our loss @BG, I thought we were the better team.

Yeah, with an unbalanced schedule the 1st tie-breaker should be conference SOS. Akron played a much tougher MAC schedule than NIU did so Akron at 8-10 who had to play UB, BG, CMU, and Kent 2x should be viewed better NIU playing WMU 2x.

A 3+ team tie-breaker is resolved via combined records against one another. It would go 7) NIU (2-1) 8) Akron (2-2) 9) Miami (1-2)

Anyone know what station will be broadcasting the Ken+ game? I didn't see a station listed for it. All the other MAC games had ESPN+ or ESPNU next to them.

I really don't feel like trying to sort through the scenarios that would enable the Zips to get a 1st round home game with a loss to Ken+ so lets just win to secure the 7 seed

Groce should have benched LCJ weeks ago. It might have been the wake up call he needed. It seemed to be what he needed. We scored 49 against OU. We already have 44 in the 1st half against BG.

Going to need it with Riak's 3 fouls.

I feel that last year was easily Utomi's best season before dropping off this season. He hardly saw the court under Dambrot while he was an extremely efficient #1 scorer on a team that didn't have much offensive firepower. He's probably the player I've been most disappointed in this year despite him being our best offensive weapon. I really thought he'd be in heavy consideration for 1st team All-MAC this year. I still have faith he will turn it around at some point. Whether it will be in Cleveland or next season I don't know. He's just too good to be shooting like he has been over the past 2+ months.

I'm not exactly sure where to place this so I figured I'd just start a new topic https://watchstadium.com/news/college-football-bowl-game-changes-to-begin-in-2020-03-05-2019/