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Rybak's in the game now, missing a three....Finally Dials hits a jumper but Creighton answers immediately. 44-28.

Romeo misses the fast-break bunny. Good metaphor for tonight. Still 40-26. Creighton starts the second half flat, Zips have not taken advantage.

Word. Maybe Ced can give us a spark to start the second (he sat most of the first half with two fouls).It's not over yet, though. LET'S GO ZIPS!!!!! He actually has 3 fouls. Both him and Milum do. If those guys are gonna be a factor they are gonna have to be careful in doing it. Well feck. I thought it was two.Oh well. Sampson Simpson, I stand by mah story! Let 'em loose anyway, let's go for broke. Too bad Milum hasn't made any semblance of a repeat performance from Temple. He frankly looks like he's in over his head.

Word. Maybe Ced can give us a spark to start the second (he sat most of the first half with two fouls).It's not over yet, though. LET'S GO ZIPS!!!!!

And I would say that he is slightly fond of the phrase "nothing but nylon."Alright, Zip ball. Drain a 3. Cut it to six.EDIT: Nope, instead another Milum TO.

These last two minutes (down by 11) are crucial. I don't want another Nevada.

I could be wrong, it happened very fast, but that dunk looked like basket interference to me. Bah. Down by ten again.

30-22 Creighton, 4:13 left

ANOTHER throwaway by Dials, and Creighton is playing walkons now. Nice.

Shite. Had a chance to tie it a minute ago, Dials commits two straight TO's and now Creighton is up by 8 again, 23-15.

Dials and Peterson are heating up...Zips back in the game, hopefully Dials cuts it to one at the FT line after the timeout...

Finally get our first FG with 4+ mins gone. They look out of synch. Better now than later. Creighton looks loose and confident, though. 10-4 Creighton.

Is the game tonight supposed to be on ESPN360? I successfully signed up for the video offer @gocreighton.tv on another thread? But yeah, I also can't get ESPN360 for the reason FTR mentioned and hence could not watch the Akron/Purdue football game last year.

Yep. I couldn't even listen to the local broadcast on CSTV.com (a privilege I pay $7 a month for), because, according to gozips.com, the ESPN rights to the NIT are THAT all-encompassing. Put it out of your minds, it can't happen.

Satire at its finest.

Some people will always, always, always see the glass as half-empty. The accomplishments we are achieving this year are great, but would've been outstanding if not for the coaching lapses in this game or that game....woulda, shoulda, coulda. Players sometimes have bad games, coaches sometimes make bad decisions.I'm just glad no one like that is making the UA hiring decisions. Otherwise we'd go through two coaches a year in every sport, a la Steinbrenner in the 80's going through managers in the 80's.KD....THANK YOU for what you have done for this basketball team!!!

It is the teams first win in postseason play at the D1 level. What I find sad, is your need to try to diminish this win with your vitriolic comment. We get bashed a lot from our MAC foes for our unimpressive past. I think it's because they see the present and are worried about the future.

I'm not telling you what to wear. I'm also not trying to talk down to you. Your telling people how to cheer is foolhardy. In the first place, all you will accomplish with this dialogue is to piss off long time Zip fans and the ones that don't leave will tell you to piss off. So, you're left with a whole lot of piss on you at the end of the day. Are you part of some cheer police? Of course not. Did you act the way your parents wanted you to? I doudt it, I didn't. Can't you step back and see that you're at the wrong end of this argument. People can't be coerced into doing something they don't want to do much less be insulted into doing it. Can you point me to where SGM said, "You must cheer for Ohio State?" Because that's what you seem to be accusing him of.On the contrary, I'm getting the message that those of us who cheer on Ohio State in addition to Akron have "piss attitudes" and are just a hair shy of being traitors. Seems to me you're the one telling people who to root for.Like all of us, I hope Akron can reach the top levels of the NCAA someday. If Indiana can support 3 BCS schools, Ohio can damn well support TWO. (Can we really count Cincitucky other than as a technicality?) I won't say jealousy is involved, but I think a lot of people not only want to see Akron rise, but they are looking for someone to blame that they aren't at the top yet.

Thanks for not making me the first to have to say it out loud. The lack of athletic talent will be on full display in Philadelphia this week. Get ready for an ugly one the way this team has played since the Nevada game.How about some more harsh reality. The reason we did not get a home game is that our stadium is so small compared to Temple. We've never even sold more than 4,000 tickets for an early MAC Championship game. Temple could have 4,000 walk ups buy tickets. The NIT needs to fund the tournament so they give games to teams with bigger stadiums and play the percentages. Eh....Temple's no Nevada. We might lose big because the team is in a funk, but if they can find inspiration to play hard, it should stay reasonably close.

YOu can watch the quarterfinals (and semis and finals if you were so inclined) on collegesportsdirect.com, for nine bucks a game or 25 bucks for the whole tournament.

Mostly because that guy's a troll who's not giving us grapevine info but just talking trash. Anything can happen, but also keep in mind this thread was a month dead before you brought it back.

More practice maybe, but 20 NIT games do not equal the exposure of 1 NCAA game.

Plus, no ranking system is gonna be perfect anyway. I don't have a beef with the RPI formula (or what I know of it, anyway).

The first poster seems to be asking which would benefit the program more, not which you would LIKE more. I'm pointing that out because some people seem to be approaching the question as if it's asking which one you would prefer.But the answer is STILL getting knocked out of the NCAA's in the first round. By a mile. It's great that the NIT final four is on ESPN and in MSG, but do recruits make a point to watch the NIT? Do you? Quick, name the final four participants from last year's NIT.I'm grateful for any post-season trip this team will take. But there's no question that making the NCAA's, even they lose by 100 in the first round, benefits the program more. It's the Big Dance. It's what people cut out of work early for. It's what people fill out their brackets for. They can say to recruits, "We are 2006 MAC Champions. As champions, we represented the conference in the NCAA tournament. That will grab them exponentially more than "We beat some middling BCS teams and made it to the NIT semifinals."EDIT: Me and Feat the Brown Roo made the exact same point the exact same way, but I missed his post the first time around. Great minds think alike!

I'm glad to be playing a team that's slumping a bit. They had a chance on Saturday to wrap up the MAC West title at home against NIU, but lost by double-digits. Then last night they had to come back to beat EMU at home.But you never know. We will be in for a dogfight Thrusday if we are too busy looking ahead to the semis/finals.