ClevelandZip

A cruel reminder that no matter how hard you work and how well you perform, nepotism wins. We’ll see if Bronny at least ends up better than Thanasis Antetokounmpo in the NBA. Bronny really needs to stay in college and improve his game.

I’m an idiot and saw the orange “OSU” and said OK State. It’s Oregon State he’s going to. So I guess not a power conference team unless you count the PAC-2 as a power conference.

Toledo’s Tyler Cochran to Oklahoma State. I guess he’s not going to a 4th MAC school.

Ra’Heim Moss to Oregon Toledo taking Ls already and it’s not even March in Cleveland yet.

Jalen Sullinger to Furman University. Really scratching my head at this one.

I guess they saw everybody complaining about the 4 hour college football games last year and decided to make them 4 and a half hours!

Found this on a WVU meme account. Doesn’t seem the person who runs the account is too upset about it.

Interesting graphic I just saw on Reddit. I believe this is as of today but I can’t vouch for the source.

Well that’s still cool. I agree, hang the banner! Wish they had this available back when I was in college!

That’s awesome! I’m assuming this is a club sport, right?

Basheer Jihad to Arizona State https://twitter.com/TiptonEdits/status/1778513363644928108

I was wondering when we’d hear something about him. I wonder if Groce would give his son more playing time than Tom Izzo gave his son.

I would think he’ll get some P6 offers but Groce getting him would definitely be amazing!

They are trying to sell Quaker. Not sure who would want it, though.

So they’ve got a history. Maybe this is the real reason they haven’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 1980. Either that, or they just suck!

It’s especially apparent that LeBron is not going to help his hometown team if he won’t even shout them out or give them shoes like he did for Duquesne. It’s a bummer the Leaf Filter guy was a football player instead of a basketball player, because his donations would go a lot further with the basketball team. I still appreciate what he does for the football team, though.

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/zips/2024/03/21/university-of-akron-zippy-mascot-gets-new-bobblehead-march-madness-zips-creighton/73050647007/ Didn’t know I needed a Zippy bobblehead, but I need this Zippy bobblehead.

Wish I could have gone to Pittsburgh today. Regardless, I’ll be turning the game on the TV at work and will do absolutely no work the whole time. I hope there are a lot of Akron fans at the game. Go Zips!

Very good points. I personally don’t care about the CIT because they get teams like BUGS, who even their fans would probably admit are the 5th best MAC team this year. If all the mid-major conferences would agree to not go to the NIT and agree to send their regular season champ and/or 2nd best team, that could be a much more interesting tournament than the CIT. They definitely are money grabs, but the power conferences got to where they are today with shameless money grabs. Mid-major conferences need to find some new income sources of their own if they want to survive and compete at a higher level.

The mid major conferences need to band together to create their own tournament for those who don’t make the NCAA tournament. Let the NIT die if the NCAA is adamant about stuffing it with teams that don’t want to be there. I hope Indiana State or one of the others dominates the P6 teams this year. After all, North Texas won last year. The mid major conferences can sell the media rights to the mid major tournament to a streaming service hungry for content like Amazon or Apple and make a little much needed cash. OK, now someone who’s not me take this idea and run with it! Lol

Here is an odd combo for you: I’m doing my master’s at Kansas State currently, so they’re my second favorite team. Even had a couple guys who went to the Elite 8 last year in my class last spring! That being said, if the Zips ever play K-State, I hope the Zips crush them. I’m trying to ration my likes, but I want to like everyone’s posts. What a win! Go Zips!

No one should bother looking to see if I posted anything negative about the Zips in this thread today. I was positive the entire time. You can take my word for it… Anyway, I am going to get tickets on the opposite side of the court tomorrow to be by the Zips fans. Tons of Blobcat fans near us tonight. Though, I did enjoy their salty tears at the end.

I really can’t fathom Groce’s rationale of letting Dawson come back next year.

This team is an absolute embarrassment.