ZipCat

The culture of Resume Building ... Every transient administrator at UA wants to put "University Athletics Rebrand" on their Resume. Who cares if it is actually an effective rebrand or not, they'll be long gone by that point.

Let's pray my magical Undergrad ARoo Coffee cup can delight the Basketball Gods into giving the other Akron Players a 2013 Jake Kretzer at OU shooting lights out performance...

If the Zips make it to Saturday I will be there as well...

I will say I enjoy that a significant amount of these prognosticators haven't updated our logo from the Z to the (not my favorite) New A logo.

Updated 3/19. On to the Point Guards, look at the MBB forum for the poll.

Vote for your top THREE picks in terms of the Point Guard position. Top choice is the starter, second is off the bench, third is third off the bench. Please read all Special Notes before voting: I compiled this list using this resource. Most players on this list are because they were listed as the starting PG in their senior year, or multiple years. Players may appear on multiple lists depending upon the positions they played. Vote based upon the position listed. Any players who played multiple positions will be re-listed on those voting lists later. For Example: Nick Harney was listed as a backup PG, but also was listed as a SF and SG. If you don't think he was the top-3 Pg or SF, but a top-3 SG than vote for him when the SG part rolls around. The Poll only allows for 10 options, so I'm giving the 10 best options I can come up with from the resource provided. This is just for fun, don't take it too seriously. My tenure of hardcore following the Zips was 2010-2016, and then only casually after that so I'm trying my best here. 😆

And they all had success prior to moving. Anyone under the dilusion that Akron is going to be Creighton and Butler...I just don't know what to tell you. We can't even own the lowly Mid-American Conference on a Regular basis...unlike Creighton and Butler that regularly owned their respective conferences prior to moving.

But they both had notoriety prior to those moves...so I don't agree that you've rested any case. Creighton has been in the NCAA 26 times. The Sweet 16 5 times (3 prior to the move to the Big East). Like you're resting no case, Creighton bolsters my exact point I was making. Their notoriety as a Mid-Major was made Long Before this era of Basketball.

Butler rose to national spotlight in the 90s. Creighton has been a noteworthy team since the 1960s...I fail to see where these two programs contradict anything I said... Out of curiosity, can you name a program in the past 20 years that has risen to the National Spotlight/Conversation in the past 20-years that was because they won a non-NCAA tournament?

Alright folks ... everyday this week I've been drinking coffee out of the ol' ARoo mug from undergrad. Let's hope the positive vibes payoff!

My dad talks about Gonzaga from like the 80s...so they were able to make a name for themselves in a time that normal people who wouldn't know who they were did, at a time when information wasn't what it is today. Who won the NIT or CIT last year? I doubt even 0% of people could answer that question.

I'm going to be honest...I do believe the ship has sailed on any hope that Mid-Majors will elevate to where the power-conferences. It's just a delusion. Akron, Kent and Ohio haven't become perennial power-houses that the nation at large cares about despite having a nearly 20-year domination between the three schools, with Ohio even making the Sweet-16. Mid-Majors that have become something on the national-scale, either fall quickly because they cannot hold onto the coaches that made them that (Shaka Smart and VCU comes to mind) or they built it during a time when there was more parity almost a half century ago at this point.

It was a ZipCat is too hopped up on The Zips winning and typed the wrong name. 🤣 Freeman is currently listed as a F, but has been previously listed as a PF and C. He will be on the PF list.

And let's be real ... nobody cares about those tournaments. They're just shameless money grabs. The ONLY one that matters is the NCAA.

I anticipate that the Guard polls are going to be a bloodbath...because there's been a lot of good guards over the past 20-years, so picking the top 2-4 is tough.

I honestly almost didn't include him on the list ... but he had a significant amount of playtime for a backup C, when looking at the stats for C's from 2001-2024 ...

It's a first crack at this, I'm obviously going to make some errors (ala accidentally listing Garvin Clarke here). But maybe with time it can be perfected an in the future make a 2.0 version. Certainly makes for some fun conversation!

Freeman will be listed as a PF when that poll is up, which is how the Zips list him on their roster.

Yeah I misread something when I was putting this together...my bad, next one will be better. LoL.

Fine, I guess I won't do it then. Was looking to have a little fun ... but since everyone is more knowledgeable w/e.

Have suggestions to improve it? I just went through the stats over the years of players listed Center.

Vote for your top two picks in terms of the Center position. Top choice is the starter, second is off the bench.

Updated: 6/2 Hello everyone! For fun/interest I thought it would be cool to do a weekly poll of each position to see who ZipsNation believes is the ideal All-Star team. This is the thread that I will update with the ZipsNation All-Star team as selected by ZipsNation. Now we are onto Point Guards, so look for the separate poll in the MBB forum. If we could put all these players together on the same team, how far could it go?

You forgot the Broski on the floor who has the same pose ...

THIS is why I love the Internet... 😆🤣