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I'm with you Captain. The injury that may play a factor in this game is Jalen Jones, UTA 2nd leading scorer, got injured in SunBelt semifinals and is out for the year.

So because there wasn't 5k+ fans in the arena that means the players who were found crying in the locker room after the game didn't care? That's perhaps one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard on this forum. I'm seen uninspired teams play in front of sold out crowds of 10k+ fans and I saw an inspired Bowling Green beat us in their house in front of a crowd of less than 1,900.

The common factor in pretty much all our failed scheduling attempts have come from opposing coaches having no desire to play us.

Getting the opposing coaches blessing is perhaps the most important part of geting any deal done. I wouldn't call someone lobbying for them to schedule a home and home with Akron only for Sampson quickly nipping it in the butt "close to happening." In fact I'd say it's the opposite.

During national signing day I'm pretty sure Bowden insinuated on a radio interview that it is a very likely scenario that Woodson wouldn't be ready by game 1.

Explains Dunn's confusion in thinking we'd host against UTA.

D'Antonio appears to have Marshall trending in the right direction so that is 1 team that can improve our OOC schedule moving forward. I'd like to see 2 more quality home and homes even if that means we have to sacrifice a home game per year to achieve it. Perhaps we can use that money we save buying fewer games to pay more for teams like Georgia Southern to help compliment the home slate. There is value in our type of scheduling if you are a Miami or Bowling Green and just need wins like we did in the early 2000s to build support for the program. We've moved past that and need to focus on scheduling more teams that better prepare us for March.

Even with that OOC schedule it was pretty evident given their 12 seed that they wouldn't have made the tournament had they not won their conference tournament. Kind of shows the uphill battle facing the Zips and other mid-majors.

I watched the American East championship game and Vermont has to be the worst D1 gym I've ever seen.

A shame with a nice, new arena like that they still only averaged 2,327 or roughly 33% of the capacity. Serves as a reminder a new arena doesn't guarantee swarms of new people will attend games.

This year the double bye would have been a mess with 4 teams tied for 2nd place.

These are some of the examples of snubs we had in the early 2000s, but it also illustrates have far we've fallen as a conference. We no longer produce NBA players. Ball State alone beat a 1 seed and a 8 seed in the same season. This year arguably our best OOC win as a conference as a whole was Ohio knocking off NIT 6th seed GT. It just seems so many programs like Miami, Ball State, and Bowling Green who once invested in their basketball program quit caring

I agree, I'd say it's quite the opposite. Sometimes he just tries to do too much instead of taking what the defense gives him. You can question the effort of some players at the time, but even when Kwan has a bad game it's not because he didn't give forth the effort.

Yes, he must need better sources.

Kwan 35 points away from 1,000. Would certainly require at least 1 more Zips win.

TV is saying we'll be playing Monday at Arlington at 8PM. The 1, 2, and 3 seeds in our region have all lost.

If you click on his tweet you'll see he said UT-Arl arena is under renovation. The TV broadcasters however said winner of BYU-UTA hosts Akron. We'll find out whose right if this score holds.

Both these teams like to push the ball. Already 41-38 with 7 minutes left in 1st half.

Most single season wins in Zips history.

We win!

come on just 1 stop away

Make these for the love of God.

He has 4 fouls.

Houston 10-10 from the line. Must be nice having a team that can make their free throws.

Allowing fast breaks off made buckets. Come on guys get back on D.