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Honestly at this point I don't think it matters much. I remember having these discussions when the West winner got the automatic #2 seed and the Zips (and everyone else had to fight through several games to get to the championship but with the Zips having a number one seed and only having to play two games to win it all they are going to get two pretty good teams no what. I have faith in them though, on a "neutral" court I believe they can take down anyone in the MAC. Bring 'em on!

Yep, no way that game could even be close. OU sneaks out with a two point win (by scoring the last nine points in the game).

Back to back MAC! And for good measure the ladies have locked up the East as well.

What is with Treadwell's free throw shooting the last few games? 11 for his last 13. Wow.

A typical stadium seat is between 16-18 inches.

Just so folks know if you want to get in on this here are the current standings: 1. Ian Clark, Belmont - 406 votes 2. Jake Cohen, Davidson - 402 votes 3. Billy Baron, Canisius - 402 votes 4. Tommy Brenton, Stony Brook - 361 votes 5. Ryan Broekhoff, Valparaiso - 323 votes 6. Jackie Carmichael, Illinois State - 288 votes 7. Jerelle Benimon, Towson - 262 votes 8. Zeke Marshall, Akron - 254 votes 9. D.J. Cooper, Ohio - 250 votes 10. Isaiah Canaan, Murray State - 246 votes Zeke is hanging tough but he still needs a lot of help!

Even though Buffalo is far from an elite team in the conference, this is still a game the Zips have to take very seriously. The Bulls are wildly inconsistent, but have an all-MAC player and they have plenty of games where they have played good teams (including us) very close but have been blown out by some of the conferences lesser teams. Plus Buffalo has been a difficult place for the Zips over the last couple of years, but if they play with the kind of effort they did at OU, they come out with a 72-65 victory. I will be glad once the W is in the standings. I also believe that this is the last big hurdle to an undefeated conference season, I fully believe the Zips handle Miami easily and will take down Can't in front of a sold out crowd at home.

Adidas just unveiled new uniforms for six NCAA teams. I'm sure they are hoping all of them make the tournament. I don't think it's a bad look, but Nike are you just going to let Adidas scoop you like that? Where's your pride? LeBron, get your boys on this and let's get a little more National Pub for the Zips. Some sweet new uniforms for a national television audience could await.

Could have mentioned that they have now moved the Zips up to position #1, meaning the most likely to pull off an upset. Bleacher Report also had this story on how the Zips could do it which has some elements of stories I've read before but I don't remember this being linked.

Clever catch.

C'mon man, give Can't some credit.

Lost in the men's great run is the fact the women are having their best season ever. Beat Ohio (who granted is one of the worst teams in the MAC) 98-80 and missed a shot at the end that would have given them 100. They are playing very good ball (though they didn't play very good defense tonight) and still lead the MAC East with two games to go.

That is cool to see but the AP rankings are the ones that are generally accepted. So how could the Zips get in there this week? It's possible but a few things have to happen. First the Zips have to beat Buffalo. Not likely the Zips are passing any team above number 20 and either all of the teams above the Zips also won this week or did not play a mid-week game so in order here are the possibilities. #20 Butler @ VCU - VCU is ranked one spot above the Zips so it would probably be better for the Zips to have Butler win. Tough game and if Bulter loses it is possible that both they and VCU make the top 25. #21 Notre Dame @ #22 Marquette - One of these two is probably knocking the other out of the top 25. Probably doesn't matter who Villanova @ #23 Pitt - possible upset but not a great chance of it. Villanova really needs this to stay on the bubble though so maybe Oregon State @ #24 Oregon - don't see this upset as being too likely Utah State @ #25 LA Tech - USU is not bad but still not a likely upset (#26) Colorado State @ Boise State - Chance of an upset at least (#27) VCU (previously discussed) (#28) AKRON! - Best chance for an upset for other teams was Wednesday. So our best shot is to have CSU and VCU lose and that will put us in. Others losing just gives us a better chance.

I do want to congratulate the prescient OU student with the "The Streak Ends Tonight!" sign. He was correct, Ohio's 19 game unbeaten home MAC streak is indeed over. On the game site on ESPN, there were 534 comments which I have to think is also a Zips record. Also a gutty performance by Brian Walsh coming off an injury. Interestingly, he and Reggie Keeley had a somewhat similar imapct on the game in about the same amount of minutes. And even though they returned pretty much the same team, part of the big difference between OU last year and this year has to be Ivo Baltic. I remember him playing fairly well last year in the MACC, according to ESPN, his line from last night was one attempt, no points, no rebounds and he fouled out in 13 minutes of play. When one of your bigs that you counted on from the previous year pulls this kind of a disappearring act, it has to effect the rest of the team. Glad it has been helping the Zips but I actually feel a little bad for the guy.

This game is too big not to have a separate in game thread

Hey can you guys have your fight on your board?

No OU party When the Zips celebrate with "Frosting" on the cake

Yeah I was looking for that anywhere too. I went and checked USA today because it was their poll and couldn't find the Zips with the number 24 next to their name but I did find these:

I advise all of our fans attending the game to take their own water and to get in and out as quickly as you can. The Convo may start approaching third world status and we want to avoid another Carnival Cruise Line or Superdome type situation. Team - get the Win and get out as quickly as possible as well.

This week's SI is sort of a slap in the face to college basketball. The cover is about Spring football kind of displacing NCAA basketball. Anyway, the background is NCAA basketball and Zippy can be seen up in the top right corner. And my apologies for making the OSU haters (and lovers) wet themselves.

Huh, that's odd, I didn't even look up that high because they list Wichita State as ORV on the main page (they got a #21, a #23 and a #25), but the Zips actually had a 21, two 24's and a 25 and they weren't called out. It's a conspiracy I tell you.

Zips got votes in the ESPN.com Power poll from Andy Katz, Seth Greenberg and Miles Simon.

This should make Gonzaga #1. Happy for them. It will be good to see a (very) strong mid-major up there and hopefully another one a bit lower down.

Nice to hear the streak belongs to Akron again at the end of the game but other than that it doesn't mean much. Minnesota upset Indiana and they are in contention for an at-large with the Zips. Well regardless, it's almost time to see if the Zips have earned their spot.

The announcers said the only other smiling coach in America (other than Memphis coach Josh Pastner) is Keith Dambrot.