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While we are playing the Anteaters, there are a bunch of away games for MAC teams. Western Michigan at UCLA? Kant at Oregon State. EMU got doubled up by 50 at Syracuse last night.

Agree with Skip-zip. I have a very good friend who worked for a company that received free tickets because they were a company that had a contract with the school. The school gave them two floor seats and four lower reserved seats. Every season my friend would get all of those tickets for FREE which included VIP passes to the Evans lounge. He said the tickets and passes were just placed in the lunch room for anyone to take them. It rather ticked me off that this guy would get all of that for free. However, that company stopped contracting with the school, and now he has to buy his own. Of course, all those free tickets got him hooked. The point being it's just insane that thousands of dollars of VIP tickets were just left there for the taking and no one wanted them.

Was nice to see the band playing during Winter break. Usually, they aren't around.

No complaints. Awesome, fun game.

So if it's a one possession game and under 30 secs need to make sure CMU doesn't have the ball last.

the upper level bleachers behind the teams aren't bad seats and are general admission. Even the bleachers behind the backboards can be a good place to watch the game.

You may be right. I just looked at a pic from the game and the floor had "Fort Wayne" written on it. I guess it was a neutral court. Stand corrected...as usual.

IPFW was at home against the Hoosiers.

I love the Zips no matter their record and I admittedly don't know much about the mechanics of the game. Just a long time fan who schedules the winter months around the games. That being said, Dambrot cant will these guys to make 3s or free throws. And he can't seem to make Big Dog condition himself. The only way a team like Akron or any other MAC team can win one of these games or win a NCAA tourney game is to get hot from 3 and go 90% at the foul line. It's hard for me to blame the coach when I think the level of talent is baked in to these players from day 1. They may improve here or there and may learn to hustle more on defense, but mid major teams aren't going to sneak some amazing prospect into their program in this day and age.

To GoZags:. Then don't!

Meanwhile Michigan and UCLA are tied at 50 at half having made 22 three pointers between them. And ESPN has Michael Hughes listed as our top performer!

Did anyone else see Michael Hughes getting right into the face of Noah when the half finished? He looked serious. Was he open on the last possession?

Let's not hijack this uplifting thread with sweaters, Canadians, or flushes.

I'm not sure I can spare a square.

Glad they noted toilet paper should be "clean."

This has to be a joke. We can't throw items on the floor during play.

Good game by the Zips. I think they could have gotten the deficit down to 5 or 7 but would have been next to impossible to get the lead on Creighton. Announcers were really positive about the Zips.

all these missed opportunities. reminds me of the NCAA tourney games with Gonzaga or ND .

watching game. Buffalo was down 1 or 2 at half to Creighton and lost by 20+. Let's see if Zips can hang around.

1. Zips beating Kant in overtime to win the MAC tournament and then not knowing a fight broke out until I came home from the Q and watched the replay of the game. 2. After Carlos Medlock drained the 3 for EMU, Steve McNees drove the floor and swished a three falling backwards to tie the game. I watched the end game on STO and was stunned. 3. Waiting to leave for a co-workers going away party until the the Akron/Miami triple (or was it double) OT MAC Tourney game was over. I never made it. If I recall, almost our entire first string had fouled out.

I thought it was a fun game. Nice seeing Noah score eleven straight points. Poke is a really good free throw shooter. Dunn-Martin seems like one of those little MAC players (usually on another team) who could start lighting up the three point line late in the game. But it is hard to get the crowd into a game like that when you expect to win by 40. I wonder if our new president, a basketball fan, could order the pep band or just part of the pep band to stay around on Winter break so we don't need a member of the AV squad playing the national anthem and fight song by putting a tape recording of it up to a microphone. The cheerleaders and dance team stick around, but I assume that is because they are part of the athletic department.

And we will continue to tell ourselves that it's better to have the same coach year after year rather than having one amazing season and then losing the coach. To paraphrase a line from a chick movie, "Would you rather have 30 minutes of wonderful or a lifetime of nothing special?"

Heading up. Go Zips. Let's punch our ticket to...Des Moines??

All respect to our friends at Bobcat Attack, Kittens fell into that #2 seed. And they play Simmons 40 minutes and Campbell close to the same. Campbell was walking down the floor. SUNY Canada isn't as depleted as when they played us a few weeks ago. So it will be tough but the Zips got this one.