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Akron travels on the road this Saturday to face the Redhawks who are still winless in conference play. Akron, who has yet to win a game on the road this year, likely won't have a better opportunity to pick up a road win than this game here. I hate throwing out must wins this early in the year, but if we hope to be a top 4 seed in Cleveland, this is IMO a must win. Miami is led by a pair of sophomores Nike Sibande and Dalonte Brown who combine to average 31.1 ppg and 9.7 boards. Kenpom ranks their offense 104th best in NCAA and their defense 284th, which is be dead last in the MAC.

We don't know how many punches were thrown nor the proximity of the other players/coaches were to intervene. The guy throwing the punches was a 7 footer who actively hits the weight room. He wouldn't need to land many blows to do damage. I'm under the impression the coaching staff and the other 15 or so players did what they could to break it up as fast as they could. It's an unfortunate incidence, but let's just not jump to conclusions.

From my seat in the JAR it looked like Riak passed up what looked to be an easy path to an uncontested dunk with about 30 seconds left. Instead he passed it off then settled for a 15 footer at the end of the shot clock. We got lucky that layup got missed after that Riak mid-range jumper. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. Overall, I was happy with the 40 minutes of effort.

If I had to guess there are probably 2200 shirts left. Not everyone rush in to get one at once

Rumor has it that he has a face that makes you want to punch it...too soon?

I demand our players get chipotle and guess what New Mexico State is going to pay for it.

We can use all the help we can get.

I feel we'll settle upon an 8 man rotation with Poke and Walter only getting a minute or 2 here or there. I don't see where Poke will be able to pick up meaningful minutes. There is no way I want any combination of Riak, Sayles, and Poke on the floor at the same time. That means there is only 40 minutes to go around for all 3. Riak and Sayles are both capable of giving you 20 minutes so it leaves Poke as the odd man out.

So everyone in attendance will get one.

I agree, LCJ is in the middle of a severe 5 game slump and really we have no option but continue riding him in hopes he will figure things out. Cheese is listed as the backup pg, but he looks much better when he's playing off the ball compared to when he's trying to create offense for others

Why would you put yourself through that torture?

I would have penciled this in as a win 2-3 weeks ago. Now Akron's play has gone to crap while EMU is now starting to look like the team that was picked to win the MAC West. If we drop this we're 1-3 with 2 games still left against Buffalo.

Given how gloomy the men's team is looking I figure I'd look to see how the lady Zips are doing. They're now 11-3 overall and 2-1 in the MAC. The lone conference loss being against CMU whose just sitting outside the top 25.

This is what I saw as well. When they went cold offensively in the 2nd half they started to look like they didn't want to be on the court. NIU got every 50/50 ball plus some they had no business getting. NIU played with a lot of confidence and hustle. We quit.

If we want to be a 3 point shooting team how about we get some players that can shoot a 3 pointer...

We're going to have to make a 3. They're packing the paint to prevent dribble peneyration.

NIU scoring a lot this 2nd half off broken plays.

Risk is getting buckets, attracting defenders, and creating open looks for teammates. Where has this been all year?

Attacking the basket early, I like it.

EMU just pulled their starters up 37.

PCCC is also down 20 to EMU

The Keith Dambrot years aren't the problem. It's all the years the proceeded those. Let's look at the number of tourney appearances by the schools ahead of us and see how well they did in those appearances. Miama - 17 appearances, 4x Sweet 16 Ohio - 13 appearances, 3x Sweet 16, 1x Elite 8 PCCC - 6 appearances, 1 Sweet 16, 1 Elite 8 Ball St. - 7 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 CMU - 4 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 Toledo - 4 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 WMU - 4 appearances, 1 Sweet 16 Akron - 4 appearances, 0 tourney wins I don't see how anyone can argue against Miami, Ohio, Kent, and Ball St in those top 4 spots. After that it gets a bit clustered, but the teams ahead of us all have 1 Sweet 16 run.

I thought Mexico was going to pay for it?

Budget wise, having Akron at #2 is pretty accurate. Ohio and Akron pretty much go back and forth year to year on who spends the most money on men's hoops. Below are the most recently published numbers. The JAR is still serviceable, you're right. It wouldn't make much sense for an athletic department that already runs deep in the red to spend money on a new arena when the current one is still structurally sound. That being said, I'd definitely say there are 9 MAC teams who have a nicer arena than ours.

It actually sounds fairly accurate to me.