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  1. Bob Huggins To Be Inducted Into HOF

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    After he got in hot water for calling Xavier fans f*gs, and got suspended for it, he said something along the lines of, "I messed up and made a mistake, and I teach my players that they have to take accountability for their mistakes."

     

    Then he VERY QUICKLY goes and does something far worse, or at least more dangerous, and is like, "Hey! Give me my job back!" Mannn, f**k all the way off. What a manchild and hypocrite.

  3. Transfer Portal Watch

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    I want to register my support of the idea that any player who gets meaningful minutes with the Zips and then transfers is, ipso facto, an attitude-problem, me-first loser who probably smells bad.

     

    EDIT: Forgot money-grubbing.  Money-grubbing NIL whores.

     

     

  8. Game 2- Mississippi State

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    5 hours ago, LoyalZIP said:

    I’m concerned about the lack of size and length.

    Me too.  

     

    I trust Groce, and he's forgotten more about basketball than I'll ever now.  I'm also a card-carrying member of the 3-pointer revolution.

     

    But the thing about relying on the three pointer (because teams are double/tripling Freeman down low) is that off shooting nights, like last night, are gonna happen, regardless if more players besides Castaneda find their shooting stroke. 

     

    Golden State can afford an off shooting night loss to Sacramento or a Game 2 loss in the WC semifinals.  A college team does not have that luxury, where every regular season loss effects tournament possibilities, and each team tournament game is win-or-go-home.

     

    I think therefore multiple scoring options down low is a must.  We've had it in the past. This is, recruiting-wise, possible for us.

    But will Groce ever recruit more than a minimal amount of frontcourt offense?  I don't know, but it was said in another thread that he recruits players that fit his system rather than building a system around the strengths of his recruits.  And his system seems like one that will have a hard time making that deep-ish Big Dance run we all dream of, where you have to beat a team or two of high-major size.

     

    Side note, I still have a good deal of faith in Garvin Clarke.

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  9. MAC Basketball 2022-23

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    4 hours ago, NWAkron said:

    The proverbial early season take:

     

    So after yesterday,  looks like EMU, Toledo, and PCCC are the teams to beat.   Zips will be lucky to get a top 4 seed in Cleveland.

     

    Last night was a bad loss that killed our chances at an at large bid.

     

    Doubt anyone will show up for Morgan State game and probably get skunked in Cayman.  Not a great day to be a Zip.

    You're right, this game was a terrible harbinger of how the rest of the season is sure to go.  Remember last February when we lost to last place WMU? Sure enough, we would go on to get bounced in the first round of the MAC tournament and not play any postseason ball.

     

    31 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

    Huge recruiting fail by Team Groce not grabbing Bates. 

     

    Right again.  Any coach worth his salt would've convinced Bates that, instead of going home, he should...not do that, and play for a conference foe of said home school instead.  Surprised Groce hasn't resigned in disgrace yet.

  10. Game 3- Morgan State

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    2 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

     

    Do you think they market this to their fans as "Men's Basketball program beat PENN STATE Greater Allegheny 130-49" ?

    Related: Penn State Greater Allegheny is one of 14 PSU braches that plays in the PSU Athletic Conference.  

    ALL of the schools are named "Lions" or "Nittany Lions." They all seem to use one of the two common Penn State logos.

    Your own identities, who needs 'em? And who needs games that don't look like practice scrimmages?

  15. MAC Basketball 2022-23

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    Kind of a mixed bag in MAC play last night.  Western Michigan lost by 1 to Minnesota.  Quality wins by Toledo, PCCC, and Bowling Green as well.  But Miami lost at home to a very bad Evansville team (or at least very bad last year, and forecasted to be very bad again this year by KenPom), and as someone mentioned NIU lost to a D2 school.

     

    In fact, 3 D1 teams lost to D2 teams last night, and sadly all were Midwestern teams.  NIU, Missouri-Kansas City, and none other than Cleveland State, who lost to not-that-Notre-Dame.

  16. Game 1- South Dakota State

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    This would be a good win.  It would not be a BAD loss, but it's the kind of game a team like Akron HAS to win to have any hope of being able to snag an at-large bid in the NCAA tourney (as unlikely as that seems in the MAC).  Same with the Bradley game at the other end of the non-con schedule.

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  21. Game 1- South Dakota State

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    2 minutes ago, LZIp said:

    Pretty sure the problem would be on the U’s side. Other ones are working fine for me 

    Just in case, I'm on support chat with ESPN+ (I'm a subscriber).  I'm 16th in line!

    If this is a matter of someone simply forgetting to flip a switch, and Michael Reghi and Jackie Windon are blissfully unaware, commentating into a void, I'ma be mad.

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  23. Zips Basketball- Looking Back to 21-22/Looking Forward to 22-23

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    2 hours ago, zippy5 said:

    I'd probably be excited to look at the AAC or something similar if we were dominating the MAC year-in and year-out - until then, we have no right or realistic expectations to think anyone would even want us, let alone that we'd deserve it. Could hoops hang in the AAC and possibly elevate their stature? Sure.. Football would be (even more of) an embarrassment. The MAC is fine for us

    No no no. That's not the Message Board Way.  For that matter, why hasn't anyone suggested yet that the most practical, just, and right solution would be to swap conferences with Ohio State?

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  24. Zips Basketball- Looking Back to 21-22/Looking Forward to 22-23

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    On 8/24/2022 at 3:55 PM, GJGood said:

     

    Only complaint I have is both Muskingum and Concord.

    That's my only complaint too.  I'm not crazy about even one non-D1 opponent, but two or more feels like what teams ranked 300 or lower do to keep their team from getting completely demoralized.

    But, filling a schedule is probably not easy - who knows, for example, if someone backed out at the eleventh hour. Some of you guys act like we can just name our opponent and venue. 

     

    Bradley and South Dakota State - these two opponents are the ones that set this schedule apart from past ones.  THESE are the type of schools we can challenge ourselves against but also can be scheduled to a home-and-home. It's like they created their own bracket busters. 

     

    SDSU went undefeated in conference play, including their tournament (that being the Summit League, formerly the Mid-Continent Conference which Akron once played in).

     

    Bradley's was less successful, but played in a tougher conference.  Both finished last year in the top 100 of KenPom (Akron was 126).  

     

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