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  16. How do we take the next step?

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    10 minutes ago, Illini Zip said:

     

    You’re right the big schools will play us, but the when and where is what they leverage. The games are almost always road games for us. So say what you will, but in my mind that equates to about a ten point advantage. And a top level team in a P5 Conference might play us next year, but I bet Minnesota wouldn’t. Minnesota will welcome a struggling Buffalo to their campus instead. Kent State was good by the end of the year, but they were a rebuild and not a threat at all to an Auburn or Alabama. I guess the experience and the bump in strength of schedule has value. But beating a quality team in the OOC is as increasingly difficult as the postseason. I think the best bet is with Thanksgiving Tournaments on neutral courts. We need to keep improving our product so we get invited to some of the better tournaments. 

    I would agree with this. If you look at it in regards to Quad games. I don’t believe big time P5 schools care about anything other than Q1 games. If a school like Arizona is gonna schedule MAC teams at home, why would they care if they are playing a Q3 game instead of a for sure win against a Q4 opponent? 
    Using Arizona as the example, they played 7 non conference regular season game against non Q1 teams.

    4 Q4 games (including central Michigan) 

    1 home Q3 game vs Samford

    2 neutral site games against WVU (Q2) and Davidson (Q3)


    It has got to be really hard to schedule a solo game against one of those top teams while we will be around our current ranking. Our best chance would be like how they played Davidson in the battle for Atlantis. Would we ever make a tournament like that? Probably not, but somehow making a tournament with similar teams would be critical.
    No offense to the Akron basketball classic, that can prepare the team to play in Cleveland with the 3 games in 3 days, but 3 home games while being favored in each game by a decent margin isn’t going to prepare you for teams you will see in the first round of March madness

  17. 2024-25 Post Mortem and Looking Ahead to 2025-26

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    14 minutes ago, RoyalBlu said:

     

    I believe both things can be true; It was a special team ... that dominated in a down MAC season. While I think this was Groce's deepest team, with Harris, I would not call this his best team. And as several posters have pointed out, this team would have struggled against a couple of other Akron teams from the last 20 years.

     

    That said .. one woulld think this team could be much much better next season w/Harris and a couple of more bigs, especially if Johnson & Johnson return as well.

    I would say the Mac was better this year than the last couple of years with the emergence of Miami to go along with the other Ohio schools (minus BG) 

    I still believe that 2019-20 is the best collection of players. But this team was so deep, shared scoring, shared minutes, truly a great team top to bottom. 
     

  18. 2024-25 Post Mortem and Looking Ahead to 2025-26

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    Posted · Edited by Reslife4Life

    I hate that now all this team will be remembered for by media, casual fans, and postseason recaps will be that we got blown out in the first round (again). 

    And I really don’t think it was a matter of a “bad matchup” (we got beat fair and square), people that don’t follow the team like us will just point to that and think this team wasn’t anything too special. Of course this team was special, no other Akron team has ever won 28 games before! And it’s not just due to a down conference, this team was special and I hope people remember it that way

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  19. 2024-25 Post Mortem and Looking Ahead to 2025-26

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    Is the 15 scholarship thing for next year legit? Even in that case, we already played 10 guys this year. While scholarships might expand, there’s still only 40 minutes a game. 
    I really hope this team stays together, but I have no idea. 
    My potential transfers:

    Nate 

    Tavari

    Marvin

    Amani? 
    Now after I wrote that, all 4 of those guys have spent their whole careers at Akron so maybe they won’t actually. 

    It just sucks that after the season ends the entire roster could be different next year 

  23. 2025 NCAA Tournament

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    19 minutes ago, ewbrooman1 said:

    Why not the JAR? They did it for soccer. 🤨

    I have no idea, unless barley house is paying for it to be the "official" watch party, but I highly doubt that. Barley house might have 5 employees on their whole staff

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