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Picked up a vote in coaches poll. http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/basketball-men/polls/coaches-poll/

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I'd be right there with you Captain if it wasn't for the fact I would have missed the game had it stayed on Saturday as I have an all day obligation in Cleveland that day. I get that being good comes with the price of getting your games moved around to fit national TV schedules, but it blows we will end up only having 1 Saturday MAC home game this season. I wish they would cap it so that no team could have more than 2 home games flexed from Saturday to Friday.

Kent home game moved to Friday February 17th @ 7PM http://www.gozips.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20170130fsx4na

I agree with you Dr. Z We have students and I imagine even some faculty that are native to those countries. Some of them might even be here on visas themselves. I'm not going to get into a political debate on whether the ban is justified or not (You can do that on plenty of other forums), but I'd be disappointed in the university if they weren't hosting some type of open forum to discuss the ramifications of this ban.

Yeah, in general I feel NIU needs to do all the small things to have a chance to win. They need to force turnovers, win the rebound battle, and pray the Zips shooters aren't hot if they hope to win. The one thing NIU does have going for them is they are led by their 6'11 250lb C. With that size he might be able to challenge Big Dog more than some other MAC C have.

Yes, Dambrot said that the team would be flying out sometime today on the post game. I'd be more nervous about the trap game possibility had we not lost in Dekalb last year. Big Dog, Kwan, and company have that game fresh in their mind and know if they show up lackadaisical, they can and will lose.

Their leading rusher and top 2 leading tacklers, not to mention several other starters, were part of their #1 rated 2014 class. I never said recruiting rankings mean everything. I however think it is silly to brush them off as meaning nothing.

Yeah, I mean WMU did have the #1 class 3 years in a row so even though it might not mean everything, it means something. Time will tell how good this recruiting class will be.

I'm not going to pretend to know how good this recruiting class is or isn't, but can we please quit trying to brag about a 6th place MAC finish? I'd hope we'd have our eyes set on something bigger.

They actually had 3 bigs foul out. I viewed Dambrot more so substituting offense for defense. It's why he took Big Dog out on the defensive end for E and why he would take E out and put Big Dog back in on the offensive end. He also let Robotham play defense with his 4 fouls because he is a better option than what he had on the bench. Had he been playing for overtime he wouldn't have risked Robotham picking up a ticky tack 5th on the defensive end.

People are asking why the Bulls don't have a better record. The answer is sure they have some guys that can dribble penetrate, but they came into last night shooting 27% as a team from 3 point land. With those low of percentages, teams can play off them to limit dribble penetration. Against Akron Buffalo went 10/22 from 3 for a 45.5% shooting. When they are shooting that hot from behind the arc it is pretty much pick your poison. Do you play them tight making it easier for them to beat you on dribble penetration or do you give them space and let them beat you with the 3. Unfortunately we don't have guards with the lateral quickness and determination to do both.

JAR is looking pretty well filled with people still filing in. We might be pushing 5k tonight.

It's a matter of what you value. Zeke certainly provided more early on, but IMO at his peak Big Dog is the better player. Not going to argue with anyone that has Zeke over Big Dog as I actually struggled between the 2 for a bit. Just wanted to provide my reasoning behind it.

If only we could find a C with Zeke's defensive prowess with Big Dog's offensive skill set...

I might just be living in the moment, but went with Big Dog for the sole fact that we are 17-3 with him and am not sure we would be .500 without him.

Antonio Campbell getting injured certainly increased our odds of winning at home and on the road against Ohio, but at the same time it robbed us of a team that could have gone ~15-3 in MAC play to help justify the conference as being more than just a 1 team league. I don't think there is another team out there that can go 13-5 or better, especially when you consider everyone else already has 3 losses.

So I stumbled upon the below. I'll highlight the parts I found most relevant. Highest RPI ranking left out of the tournament: • 21 - Missouri State (2006) Most wins to get left out: • 27 - Drexel, Oral Roberts (2012) Fewest losses to get left out: • 4 - Stephen F. Austin (2013) Best winning percentage left out: • .852 (23-4) - Stephen F. Austin (2013) http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25505343/bracketolgy-ncaa-tournament-rpi-numbers-to-know-through-the-years Edit: Excluding the NIT, SFA actually finished the season with a 27-4 record. It appears the non-D1 games weren't counted to get to that 23-4 total. For that reason we should also subtract the Adrian to compare apples to apples.

ESPN website must have reflected it before it was made official. The game has been picked up by ESPNU and will air at 7PM on Friday February 10th. http://gozips.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20170126j436ew

I say it because I feel we have to pretty much be a no brain pick to get in. If we are on the bubble they will compare our best win (Georgia Southern) to a team like Marquette who beat Villanova and we won't get in. To reach that point I feel we need to run the table which leaves us no outs. The probability of going on a 23 game win streak in a conference like the MAC where there isn't easy wins is slim and that's an understatement. When's the last time a MAC team ran the regular season table without a loss?

With this being our first Saturday home game since Marshall on December 17th I feel we will draw a number of people that can't make it to the JAR on Tuesdays nor Fridays. I say we clear 4,000 but fall short of 4,500.

People like to make fun of soccer for plastering sponsorships everywhere, but I'd agree to replacing the Zips midfield logo with the Goodyear logo if it meant eliminating media timeouts. A 48 minute game shouldn't take 3 1/2 hours to watch.

Amen! The city's only obligation should be ensuring the proper infrastructure is in place to support the mass amount of traffic the venue will create. Pro teams operate in a subsidized format where they don't budget for new arenas as they expect the city to pick up a huge chunk, if not all, of the tab. $20 million, or however much, needs to be set aside each year and placed into a fund before the owner or players receive a dime. From there owners/players can split revenue 50/50, 60/40. or whatever they agree to. This money would be used for renovations or new arenas/stadiums/fields. If owners were the ones responsible for flipping the bill you certainly wouldn't be hearing them claim an arena only has a 20 year life before a new one is needed or a large scale remodel needs completed. It would be the complete opposite and we would be seeing more Fenways, Wrigley Fields, and Madison Square Gardens.

I feel Akron pulled the tough West teams, meanwhile, WMU pulled the weak East teams. From a betting perspective I feel better about this bet now than when I made it.

This makes too much sense. What happened to the incompetent University leaders that I once knew and hated? They must have left with Scarborough.