NWAkron

The Zips players are tough as nails and I hold no misconceptions that they are perfect angels on and off court and in the lockerroom. And the Kostelac incident was a black eye. But the Flashes are low hanging fruit on this issue.

Whatever. Please. This is a sports message board. That's what we do at times. Trash the rivals. And BTW, they have a history of this going back to Singletary's gut punch. And the antics at the JAR last year. We all don't like each other. That's the fun of it. As for your "play ball" comment, maybe you should have directed that toward the kent players who trashed the Zips on social media. They should worry about playing ball...not the anonymous denizens of Zipsnation

As for the Toledo/Buffalo game, the most interesting aspect is that I learned that Coach Whitesell comes from a fascinating family from Iowa Falls. Two of his brothers were Hollywood actors and a third is a billionaire Hollywood agent formerly married to Jeff Bezos' girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.

They certainly re-grouped after the embarrassing loss in the MAC final. They came into that on a 14 game winning streak, having won 16 out of final 17 games. they have now doubled down on defense. They will force the Zips to shoot tough 3s and look for the transition basket. Ball State totally got punked at end of the first half. The announcers called it. We were giving Ball State a lot of props for beating the Zips. this was a dismal performance.

putting my bias aside, they do come off as arrogant pricks led by Santiago.

thanks!

The St Peters of Portage County

you know there's nothing wrong with having a B.S. and and maybe a MBA in your back pocket if the basketball thing doesn't work out or there's an injury.

To quote a song: Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong.

Probably getting set to retire

20 hours since last post from @LoyalZIP. Any thoughts on games tomorrow night? Our friends, well sorta, at Over the Pylon are worshiping Ravenna Tech. I want Zips in a 1, 2, or 3 seed come March so maybe more losses for BSU would be better.

So Zips are about #4 after Code Red, Toledo, and BG? The manner they lost to BG was bad but understandable loss I guess.

I guess Channel I mean Tribble will be guarding Norman. Zips didn't play well against Broncos last year and had one of the craziest endings ever at the JAR.

That dunk is on Zips Instagram along with the chest bump. Whoever does social media for Akron loves Tribble.

Get your popcorn for Friday night on CBSSports. 6:30 tip off Ball State @ Ravenna. 8:30 Toledo @ Buffalo.

Watched some of PCCC/EMU game. EMU is bad. They were in striking distance and turned it over on 3 straight possessions.

yes. watching now. coming down to last shot. yuck. and with 17 seconds and the ball WMU works the clock down and settles for a Brian Walsh style jump shot...with the same result.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/date/20230117/group/14 Some of the lines in these games are generous.

Would rather Freeman be the tournament MVP!

I think stats matter apart from "scoring margin." Good to know who is a bad FT shooting team...EMU is good from the line. And Freeman's been consistently at the top for the first 4 games.

Looking at conference only stats: Zips are: #1 in Defense #4 in Offense #1 in scoring margin #1 in FT % #2 in opponent field goal % Freeman #1 in scoring Freeman #1 in rebounding

Can't add anything to what's already been said. Hopefully, we aren't singing a different tune around 8:55PM tomorrow.

WMU was scary in that 2nd half but maybe it was the BG defense? CMU lucked into Cleveland last year and came within a point of knocking out Toledo. They have a good coach. He's no Stan Heath. This will be a brutal week for the Zips. Buffalo is a shadow of its former self. They still offensive rebound like crazy but didn't see much else going for them.

They may have been without Zarzuela.. But still.

Zarzuela v Castaneda