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A different type of win. Lots of turnovers and fewer trips to the foul line than the opponent. BUT...ironically, I was telling someone today about Freeman and Castaneda and how Zips have two guys on the floor who can go off for 30.

Seedings as of tonight: 1. Suffield Tech (beat Ball State and Toledo) 2. Akron 3. Toledo 4. Ball State 5. NIU 6. Buffalo (beat Bowling Green) 7. Bowling Green 8. Eastern Michigan (correction. thanks ZipsRule)

Total fail by BGSU at home. CMU had a chance but missed FTs and Suffield Tech pulled away. There's going to be a meltdown in Nelsonville

Zips seem to be doing ok.

The OU grads I know are very good people. Two obtained their doctorates in Physical Therapy at OU and they are amazing PTs and super nice guys. I think it's just their basketball fans.

How it stands on Monday? 1. Suffield Tech 2. Akron 3. Toledo 4. Ball State 5. Buffalo: beat NIU and BG 6. Northern Illinois: Beat Garrettsville 7. Bowling Green 8. Ohio: beat Central Michigan Suffield Tech v Ohio Akron v Bowling Green Toledo v NIU Ball State v Buffalo

when I looked at the MAC schedule at beginning of season, I had this and the early Ball State game circled as potential and likely losses. They will pick up a few more losses for the rest of the season. Looking at last year's schedule, Zips were at 2 MAC losses coming into the 1/28 Toledo game which they lost at Toledo. Then they won back to back with Miami and at DeKalb. Next thing we know, the bottom dropped out, and I was ready to cancel my vacation days for the MAC tournament. I like what @LoyalZIPsaid about winning the last two games differently. However, I thought they would win those even when it got close. I expect a let down tomorrow night, heading into Friday.

Word.

If you look back on some clips of the 2019-2020 season the crowd was sparse as usual for many of MAC game. the final few games against Ohio and Kent were really crowded. There were a decent amount of OU fans there yesterday, including their former guard, Tommy Schmock, who clearly likes his beer. I don't much care about Joe Akron. but I do know the fans who are at these games love this team and the coaching staff.

Whatever happens this week, it's so "nice" or whatever adjective to have Groce and his staff on the bench and even better that they don't need the likes of Carry, Payton and a washed-up Jim Christian to succeed. Side note. This is crazy...Tribble was here with Jeremy Roscoe...and is only a junior.

Probably second year. During the empty gym year, they won a tournament game.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-xfI1sKVm/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= freeman and hankerson. High level character.

Tell that to Kitten Attack. Calling for Boals' head. I thought his team played really well today

OMG. What an ending to the Central/Western game. Great crowd in Mt Pleasant. Incredible comeback. Some missed FTs from Norman sunk WMU. Sold out rivalry game between teams with 13 wins total.

Cardinals flying into the Bermuda Triangle today. I thought NIU was on a roll but it's the MAC.

Clayton. Go figure.

Clayton for OU doing some damage. Until he got greedy with that quick 3 attempt

Saw that run coming. Zips missed a few chances to blow it open. They got tight.

Feel a little better about things right now. Well, at least until they started playing Sweet Caroline. Barf.

Boals stares down that ref a good minute. Will need an escort to his car.

Groce keeping legs fresh.

Long afternoon ahead of us. Defense left the building again.

In the meantime, hopefully the Zips are remaining focused on the task at hand today and Tuesday

@LoyalZip would have a better take. I see how Kent wins. They hustle and have hands everywhere. If the opponent isn't disciplined and focused, the game could easily get away from them. But Kent throws up a lot of shots and a lot of misses...at least last night. I think Freeman is going to have a lot of trouble. That being said...Kent certainly wasn't this amazing team circa Buffalo 2018-19. Side note: it was apparently Pajama Bottom night at the MAC Center. Nothing but Klass with a capital "K" in Ravenna.

For some reason, I feel better after watching that mess of a game last night.