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Anyone know how many scholarships we ended up getting funded?

I watched a decent chunk of that video @Illini Zip posted on 2/15. Dawson seemed to do a good job at both finishing at the rim in traffic and at hitting open 3's. It's just a chunk of 1 game, but I feel he would be an instant help on the offensive end. I feel he has some improving to do on the defensive end of the court. I'd expect the team culture and Groce stressing defense to earn minutes will help him make big strides in that department.

I'm excited about the Zips long-term outlook with Arth as head coach, but I'm not feeling good about this season. We lost a ton of talent on the defensive side of the ball on a team that only went 4-8. Combine this with the fact we're going to be implementing a new system on both sides of the ball and I don't think it's going to be a pretty season. I say Akron finishes 4-8 this coming season. The nice thing is we should be starting sophomores and juniors, maybe even a freshman or 2, at about every position so we should be returning pretty much all our starters the following season.

My ill-informed opinion is that he will go in the 5th round.

It's still February. Did you guys really expect for them to start marketing the MAC tournament already? We'll probably hear about any promotions the week of the tournament.

I'd much rather host OU over Ball State the 1st round. I actually feel Ball State has talent, but for whatever reason has been underachieving all season. For the 2nd round, I'd obviously like to stay on opposite side of bracket as UB. Between the other 4 teams (UT, BG, CMU, and Kent) contending for the 2-5 seeds, the only team I wouldn't like to face in the 2nd round is Toledo.

He must have provoked by his teammate fighting for inside position.

We really need to go at least 2-1 in these next 3. That should secure us that 6/7 seed. This weekends game against OU we really need as on paper it's the most winnable game we have left. The last 2 will be tough, but I feel we can split those.

I actually think a Kwan Cheatham type player is what this team is missing. We desperately need a big that can space the floor to open up the lanes for Cheese, Ivey, and Banks. He'd also help fix our rebounding woes. Edit: I'm hoping we get that out of Williams next year. It's a big reason for my optimism next season.

Akron isn't good enough offensively and Buffalo is too good defensively for us to waste 15-20 seconds of the shot clock before setting into our offense. It's why we had 3-4 shot clock violations and some other desperation heaves at the basket as the shot clock was about to go off. I understand not wanting to get into a track meet with them, but we need to find a better balance. We had way too many empty possessions.

The home team supplies the broadcasters. Those were Buffalo employees, not ESPN employees. Akron home announcers are just as bad.

Nothing to see here folks. Just another late game road collapse like we've seen all season.

Defense has played well. We just need to limit Buffalo to 1 shot per possession. Buffalo is killing us on 2nd chance points.

It's the 2nd half that has done us in all year on the road. Lets see if we have it in us to finish strong.

We need Riak in the game whenever Perkins is in. E-Man doesn't have the size to man him.

I'm pretty sure every point Buffalo has scored has come off an offensive rebound. Need to box out.

Combining our performance on the road with the fact Buffalo has won its last two games by a combined 70 points, I'm not feeling good about this one. I hope we can just keep it close enough throughout that we have a chance at the end.

Last I heard is the MAC has an agreement among its members to not play at an FCS school. I'm not sure if that has changed or not because it was mentioned previously that we were contemplating playing @Chattanooga to avoid paying the Arth buyout. I personally could live with a 3 for 1 deal.

Sure, I can see how it can be construed as an indirect attack on Trump, but the person I was directly attacking and named as a neo-nazi apologist was Liberty's president. Personally, I feel the issue is non-political. It was mentioned in the article that few to no prominent Republicans came out in defense of the white supremacists "are very fine people" comments. I feel the consensus among Republicans would be that the neo-nazi group is a hate group and we shouldn't be condoning any acts of violence they contribute to. The same would be true for any other hate group.

We will be returning nearly the entire team. We have a bit to go before we're legit MAC contenders, but we should in theory be even better next year.

If UA decides to add a trolling team to it's athletic program they should recruit the hell out of Zipmeister.

If anyone has tried to turn this political it would be you. None of my argument was based off of whether he was a conservative or a liberal. It frankly doesn't matter to me what political party he affiliates himself with. I'm a moderate who votes both sides of the ticket. I'm not trying to push a liberal agenda here. I simply just brought up a comment he made and my personal opinion on how I felt it would have a negative impact on recruiting. Others disagreed and that's fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

It's certainly possible to get the 4th, but the team I feel we'd need to worry about is CMU. They have a much easier remaining schedule compared to ours and I'm not exactly sure how the tie-breaker with them would work since we split the season series. I can see them going 3-1 in their next 4.

Akron is currently a 6th seed so the earliest we'd play Buffalo would be the finals if the tourney started today. All the teams are still bunched so a lot can still change between now and the end of the season.