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I didn't say they own it, but they play multiple regular season games there every year. Summit County/Akron tried to build a multi-purpose arena and it got so much disapproval that it didn't even make it to ballot. What's going to suddenly change hundreds of thousands of taxpayers minds?

Can we just lay these new arena talks to rest. The University is trying to correct a projected $45 million budget deficit by 2019. Paying for a new arena is counter productive to that. Since day 1 all Kasich has done is cut state funding a crossed the board for pretty much everything. The state certainly isn't going to contribute anything. The city tried and failed miserably. A new basketball arena probably isn't likely for another 20 years when Infocision is nearly (assuming they don't refinance) getting to the point of being paid off. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/12/university_of_akron_to_pay_mor.html

They play a pretty small front court. Their starting PF comes in at 6'5, but puts up pretty solid numbers 12.5 points 6.8 boards on 60% shooting. Kwan needs to exploit his size in the post. Something he failed to do against Gonzaga. Their starting C is 6'7 217lbs, but has missed the last 4 games due to an abdominal injury. No clue if he will be healthy by Saturday. The guy starting in his place comes in at 6'9 222, but has only played about 15 minutes each game accumulating at least 4 fouls in each. Nobody has the size to handle Big Dog 1 on 1. Their 3 starting guards each average 31.8 minutes per game or more (Elmore, Loop, and Browning). Jon Elmore is the only player in D1 basketball averaging 23+ points and 7+ assists. 62 of 65 of Loop's shot attempts have come from 3 and he is shooting .484 from 3. Browning is their 2nd leading scorer and posts efficient numbers a cross the board (.495 FG%, .400 3P%, and .909 FT%). Edit:Offensively we just need to keep doing what we've been doing and feed Big Dog. They will have no option but to bring the double. We should be able to bait them into fouls in the process. Defensively I'd have Robotham and Williams (when he's on the court) babysit their 3 point specialist and have Antino and Ivey guard their dynamic play making guards.

It was IPFW arena or at least an arena they play in frequently. They have 2 different venues. One that seats 2700 where they play a large chunk of their games and another venue that seats ~13,000 where they play select games. It's my understanding the 2 schools co-hosted a tournament. I don't know the full details, but I believe Indiana got 3 home games out of it and played 1 road game at IPFW. Edit: Found the details http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/iu/IPFW-gets-home-game-against-IU-9581651

And UT-Arlington (Sun Belt) was at Saint Mary's. They happen. Gonzaga had to go on the road for years and knock teams off before teams would agree to come to the Kennel.

Why does that matter? Gonzaga didn't get to being where it is at by comparing itself to Pepperdine. IPFW knocked off Indiana this year and UT-Arlington knocked off St. Marys. Every year these type of upsets happen.

People have been saying that about Akron since ~2009. We know we're as good, if not better, than a lot of those 13-15 seed teams that spring those early round upsets in the tourney or those teams that come out of nowhere to beat a top 15 team in the regular season. We just for whatever reason have fallen short time after time doing it ourselves. I'm not in the camp of it will never happen because statistically speaking we should be due. I can understand however how Zips have grown tired of hearing guys like Dickau telling us how good we are and that we will be making some noise come tournament time. As someone previously said the Zips are like a bad rendition of the movie Groundhogs Day. Year after year the season ends in disappointment and we fail to take that next step. We've pretty much been stuck in a 7 year rut.

NIU hasn't neither, but I believe your're right in everyone else has.

Including both Antino and Hughes missing the front ends of a 1 and 1. Missing the front end of a 1 and 1 is pretty much a turnover.

Ivey got fouled on that 3 pointer with 7:37 left. We didn't score another point the rest of the game...

I'm getting tired of moral victories. I'd like to be able to spring the upset just once.

Next practice can we just shoot free throws for 2 hours?

Difference in this game is free throws

http://www.wccsports.com/schedule-list#!/all/all/2016-12-10 Click on demand content

I'm watching on my IPad. Perhaps try a tablet or maybe your phone.

Ivey starting over Williams...About time.

Btw the stream on wccsports.com is way better than that college insiders.

Well boys gametime is here...

Laziness has nothing to do with it. Apathy is the problem. In their minds there are countless better ways of spending their time over watching some basketball team that isn't good enough to get its highlights shown on Sportscenter.

Poke would get murdered playing the C position with the size and mass Gonzaga has in its front court. Unless desperate I'd be shocked to see him playing there.

This got me thinking Akron hasn't made something like 16 straight tournaments, hasn't made an Elite 8, and has never had a top 10 rating. Quit trying to compare apples to oranges. If you want what Gonzaga has, we need to become nationally relevant. At said point not only will students make it more of a priority to show up, but so will Joe Akron.

I was going to say I thought Root was a regional broadcast similar to like Fox Sports Ohio or Fox Sports Detroit. What airs on the one station, with the rare exception (excluding the filler content), doesn't air on the other. In this case Root Sports Pittsburgh will be airing the Penguins game at the same time Root Sports Northwest is airing the Gonzaga/Akron game.

Minutes will certainly be available to him at the 4 if he can bulk up some. We don't really have a successor for Kwan.

So I went up to Akron and met up with some friends with the intention of us all going to the game. Needless to say we got to BS'ing, lost track of time, and didn't actually make it to the game. Out of curiosity what was the penalty, if any, for the TP throw?