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Nice story on Miami, but doesn't give enough Akron credit (steel sharpens Steele 😉), doesn't even mention the very close loss in Oxford and talks about the last team before Buffalo getting and votes in the AP ranking being Kent in 02. While correct, the 12-13 Zips team was ranked briefly in the coaches poll. Too much glorification for a team ranked 339 out of 365 in strength of schedule.

Anybody want to pony up to try to get him a statue outside Infocision?

Not the greatest announcing Duo I've ever heard as they just gave credit to Kent for all the assists they've gotten in this game.

Buffalo having a rough 3 pt shooting start. 1-11. Oof

One advantage of playing at the JAR. When they show a game on ESPN you can actually identify who the players are.

Lyles is shooting almost 44% on threes. And it's not a small sample size.

15-2 start when will they be able to not let them back in? Especially missing Buffalos leading scorer.

My son gets an athletic digest. In it, it said about Indiana - "A program that had been the worst in Power 4 history and the losingest in FBS history just won the national title two years after getting dragged into quadruple overtime by 2-10 Akron,"

Congrats to Indiana but also helps to have a billionaire booster like Mark Cuban behind you in addition to a terrific coach.

Anyone remember David Coit from NIU? Hasnt lost his scoring touch. Just put up 43 for Maryland tonight.

Same for us, right? Right?

29 point turnaround after the Zips were down by 14.

How did Amani Lyles turn himself into such an effective three-point shooter?

And it did despite Buffalo hitting three late threes.

I'll still take the Tavari 25 any night.

Anybody know what the halftime spread on this game is today? 😉

Buffalo up 48-46 on Miami at the half.

Watching the women's game at Kent. They had some people out on the floor cleaning up during a timeout. I was wondering if they couldn't have gotten someone other than a homeless guy off the street to do the cleaning. Then they said it's Kent's President and everything made sense. 🤣

Dang it - got really excited initially when I saw North Texas quarterback transfer. 🤣

Well since EMU and WMU look to be involved, we might as well just throw CMU and NIU in there as well. 😊

Also you wonder how much lack of NIL money might have had to do with this. There a no P4 schools named (although there were some Big East schools). If you're already getting paid enough, no reason to take the risk, but if you're making nothing and see all the other schools paying their players big money that could be a root cause.

I always thought two things were going to ruin college sports for me. Gambling and paying the players directly. Not that I don't think that they have a right to get a gain out of what they're producing, but just flat buying teams doesn't get me excited for college sports any more. I will even admit I'm a little less excited for Akron season knowing that they have kind of bought their team as well. It's why soccer is my favorite sport at Akron and not just because they're good, but because I believe that it's about talent, evaluation and skill and not just money. Yes, I know that you still have to have some talent evaluation even with the money but the playing field is not even.

And I'd really like for this not to happen because if it does, there's a good possibility that Akron becomes the odd man out since they're only an associate member in soccer. If both schools join then maybe they'd be safe.

College basketball point shaving scandal ensnares 17 schools. Three of them are MAC schools, Western Michigan and shockingly, Ohio and Kent.

UMass wins their second straight - albeit against some bottom feeders.