kreed5120

Watching Zips basketball this season will have that effect.

https://twitter.com/MACSports/status/1098048013073899521?s=20

If we don't make it to the top next year, I'll seriously begin to question Groce. Pretty much everyone is graduating their best players so the MAC should be down. Meanwhile, we return everyon besides Ivey. We also will Xeyrius Williams eligible and heavens knows we need a big man who isn't a complete offensive liability. After next year we lose Cheese, Banks, Utomi, Williams, and E-Man. Personally, I think that will be a rebuilding year.

So let me get this straight. A team that hasn't been able to shoot the basketball for the past 3 months is going to miraculously start making shots in a week and a half for no other reason than it's March? Then again we heard for years how the Q depth perception made our great 3 point shooters of years past not so great. Perhaps the same depth perception issue will alter our not so great shooters shots enough that instead of missing, like they normally would, they will turn into makes

It's beginning to look like their is a decent chance this team won't even make it to Cleveland. If we don't finish with one of the top 8 seeds, I don't see us winning a road game to get there.

Well second game in a row...

So who do you guys having missing this 3?

He must have been referring to getting 3 point shots off, not making them.

Turner has been hitting a lot of difficult shots this second half. Wish we would have taken advantage in the 1st half and built a nice cushion.

Just gave up a 4 point possession to give BG the lead. I guess this is the part of the game we have our meltdown.

Right now Akron's path to the final based on the standings of today would be we'd host WMU the first round then play Toledo in the quarterfinals. In the semi-finals we'd play 1 of EMU, Ball State, or BGSU. I'd prefer to see Toledo surpass Kent as the 3rd seed, which I think they will, that way we would play them in the 2nd round and give Buffalo a tougher opponent on their side of the bracket. Playing WMU - Kent - BGSU is probably the most manageable path to the finals we can get, assuming no upsets on our side of the bracket. The hope would be that someone on the other end of the bracket would knock off Buffalo.

The MAC already regularly schedules the Horizon Leage teams. I looked at a handful of Horizon League schedules and all of them already had at least 3 MAC opponents. Detroit had the most with 6 MAC opponents. There is no point in having a tournament against them since we play them so often anyways.

Have to give it to Akron this year. They put up a better fight than I anticipated against Clemson and Nevada. I didn't know they had it in them to go from worst defense in the MAC to best defense in 1 season. Now if only we had an offense

It's not worth having one unless we get a conference like the A-10 or MVC to agree to it. Like you I don't see that happening. The CAA would be a better long-term option over the SoCon. The SoCon has been around since before the NCAAT, which has been around for 80 years, and not once has the SoCon had an at-large bid. Its been a historic season for the SoCon compared to how they normally do and still they are ranked as the 12th best conference this year. Most years they're in the 18-23 range.

I never said couldn't. I just see many being turned off to them due to it, especially 4* and 5* athletes who have a long list of options. You know the type of players you need if you hope to build a power house program. You're naive if you believe it has no impact. Do you not think teams recruiting against them aren't bringing up the issue? Edit: I really don't care to have a debate on Liberty athletics on an Akron board. You think they will be a great team in 5-10 years. I think they will be about what they are currently. Only time will tell which of is correct.

They can have the nicest facilities in the US and it wouldn't matter. Good luck trying to recruit African-American athletes when the university president is a neo-nazi/white supremacist apologist. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-trump.html

I stream the sports I want to watch for free. No point in paying $20/mo when I can get the content I want (Akron games) for $5.

There went any chance of getting a top 4 seed. Cheese needs to be the running the point to close out games. He's a much better decision maker in crunch time.

I say that and LCJ comes up with the steal. I guess that's why I'm not the coach.

Can we just have Cheese, Banks, Utomi, Ivey, and Riak on court to finish this game? I have no faith in LCJ to make the right play on offense and he's exposed on defense.

Hopefully we can bring this same level of intensity in the 2nd half.

SoCon is having a historic year. Even with that they currently rank 12th in average net rankings while the MAC is 8th. The only notable OOC win that conference has was Furman beating Villanova. The top 3-4 teams in the SoCon have propped their numbers up against the other 6 members of the conference who all frankly suck. Currently 4 SoCon teams (10 team conference) have a NET ranking of 240+. For comparison the MAC only has 1 team with a NET of 200+.

To each their own. I cut the cord two years ago. Like LZlp I have other means to watch what I want on TV without paying for an expensive cable package. I however didn't have the ability to watch ESPN3 stuff. Watching Akron games wasn't worth me paying $80/mo. It's well worth $5/mo to me.

They added tons of new content that wasn't on ESPN3 (MMA, MLS Live, Serie A, Kobe & Peyton Manning player breakdowns, exclusive shows & full 30 for library, other misc sports etc.). This might not be stuff that interests you, but there is no doubt that ESPN+ has way more content than ESPN3 ever had.

I just can't stand Liberty. They're an embarrassment of a university. Pretty much a University of Phoenix with a centralized campus and outdated beliefs.