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Not to mention he flew from Italy to New Mexico then flew from New Mexico to Akron to be at this game.

Against Buffalo it's going to be key to not turn the ball over in the open court. They have great athletes and love to get out and run. I feel it's important to attack the basket. Perkins is really the only imposing force they have in the post. Getting him into early foul trouble would be ideal.

Rebounding is a team effort. If you look at the box score you will see Ken+ had 9 players with a rebound, 6 with 4+ rebounds, and their leading rebounder was a guard with 6. We talked about Riak stepping up to help clean up the glass, but Cheese ended up finishing with a game high 8 rebounds. I love the way he has developed this season. He's stuffing all the stat categories. Ivey 2.0

UB up 11 and Larry Austin fouled out. This game is over.

He did around the 4 minute mark. I'm guessing he just rolled it.

All the Ken+ fans clearing out

Kent now has as many offensive boards as we have total rebounds...

We shot 46% from the field and 38% from 3. Kent already has 9 offensive boards. Everyone needs to box out.

Too many turnovers and missed free throws.

Well that bites. It really kills our depth.

I feel the opposite. I want fans to get rally towels, thunder sticks, or whatever else that improves the game atmosphere. It's the one game we can get casual fans out. Lets make it so they have a great time and want to come back.

I have to imagine it's the Zips sponsors purchasing the shirts, towels, etc. The quantity available I'm guessing has to do more with how many the sponsors are willing to pay for.

I feel it should be noted that Northern Illinois gets the vast majority of their recruits from the Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin area and they consistently compete at the top of the MAC. None of those states are listed in the top 10 above. Texas, California, Georgia, Florida all are known for producing top end recruits so those states are also the most heavily recruited. I feel Illinois/Wisconsin/Minnesota area is a place we can look to get a couple top end MAC recruits that fall through the cracks per year.

The Ken+ board doesn't seem anymore excited about this game. https://csnbbs.com/thread-869976.html

@LZIp, would you mind updating your scholarship chart whenever you have some spare time? I'm interested to see what the roster looks like after all these signings.

I feel an interesting piece of information that I heard from the video, but wasn't include in Captains breakdown is that we only had 5 scholarships DBs before this recruiting class. I see we signed 7 DBs to scholarships in this class so now we're at 12 total. That still doesn't seem like a whole lot of depth, especially if you account for the fact a couple of the incoming freshmen might not be ready to play this year. Captain mentioned we still have some scholarships left for future use. I wonder if we're exploring the possibility of adding a grad transfer to the defensive backfield.

Showcasing how terrible MAC officials are.

I was listening to 1350 yesterday and they said Arth was going to be a guest today. I'm not sure on the time he's slated to appear.

From what I've seen we've won a handful of really nice recruiting battles. Hayes-Patrick and Corey Thomas are the 6th and 8th highest grade 247 has ever given to a Zips recruit. They've been tracking recruiting since the early 2000s. The class as a whole currently ranks 10th in the MAC, but that's more to do with the lack of depth in the class. As a whole I feel Arth has done a good job salvaging this recruiting class the best he could. https://247sports.com/player/quevan-lawson-46039289/

Not that I want Riak taking 3's, but I find it strange the past couple games he's taken some contested 3's, but has no desire to shoot it when left open.

His offer sheet looks really good. https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Adetutu-Daranijo-93549/RecruitInterests/

247 has been compiling rankings since around 2005. Hayes-Patrick has the 6th highest grade ever for an Akron recruit since that time. Thomas has the 8th highest grade. Akron's class still isn't graded highly because it lacks depth due to a late start and many players already being signed in the early signing period. I'm excited to see what Arth can do with a full recruiting cycle. https://247sports.com/college/akron/Sport/Football/AllTimeRecruits/

I thought we looked good in the 2nd half when we were able to get out and run. The problem is Toledo quit missing so we were forced to play a half court game down the stretch. I really don't think there is a good solution to fix the half court offense. I'd like to see us Cheese more at the point. He seemed to create some offense for both himself and other. Perhaps taking some of the ball handling duties away from LCJ will set him up to get better looks. He seems to be trying to do too much at times.

Toledo had no answer for Cheese but we got away from what worked