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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.

You know what though, it is possible he was expressing the same frustration many of us felt since Ohio beating Belmont would have helped the Zips at-large case. One thing I did learn from the Twitter "feud" was that Reggie Keeley holds the JAR rebound record of 20. My bold prediction - Tree erases that record before his career is over. One reason I don't like Twitter - I went to see what Brian's actual tweet was and saw him say to Pat Forsythe "when you gonna be back?". Thought that meant Pat was injured, turns out he was only referring to being in a night class. No more Twitter for me.

This was posted on Hustlebelt.com Symbolically, I'm hoping it's also what the Zips do to the Bobcats.

Any word on Walsh's availability for Wednesday? I'd hate to see Reggie Keeley disappointed.

The list is down to five now with Miami (FL) losing. If the Zips can get past Ohio and not suffer the letdown game at Buffalo, I like their chances a lot with only two remaining homes games vs. Miami and Can't.

If the Zips win at OU, I think this is very possible. That means they fear no one and will have beaten a quality opponent at their house and excorcised a nasty demon. I am already excited about the possibility. Zips just got bumped up a seed line to a #12 in Lunardi's latest projection and for those who don't think they could meet OSU, they are currently projected as a #5 seed. I'm rooting for an 11/6 matchup with OSU in Philadelphia. Too much? Also find it funny that we think the Zps are getting tons of publicity and Andy Katz thinks they are getting none. From our perspective it's a tidal wave of ink.

For all the of the enjoyment I've gotten from watching Zeke play over the last four years, this is a pretty small thing to do. Done.

Of course this all makes perfect sense - after all, the guys name is tread well.

Sad part for me is there are only two games remaining at the JAR for the rest of his Zips career.

While that is all true, its ignoring the strategic impact of free throws. Late in games when teams are down, they intentionally foul hoping to get a 1 (or 0) point scoring attempt before getting the ball back. Its there that could exist the Zips Achilles heel.The rest of the game free throw percentage doesn't mean as much, because there are plenty of other ways to make up for it, but at the end of the game when you are being fouled, its of critical importance. Much as you want Tree out on the floor at the end of a close game, there might come a time when he needs to be removed just because of that.

Nice headline on the Zips win on the ESPN Main basketball page.

Still think I'd prefer my stadium be named after a telemarketing company rather than a prison group. Kudos, FAU AD.

Can't wait for next Wednesday, has to be the biggest game in the MAC regular season, ever? Can't have ever been a 12-0 team vs 11-1, can there? The MAC season was over at 12 games not that many years ago. So (combined with the Buffalo game, which makes me nervous), a game for effectively the regular season championship and NIT, a possible national ranking and a possibility of finally making noise as a true at large team. Go Zips! Beat the Kittens! And oh, out of necessity, Go Bobcats - beat Belmont!

While I don't have any hope for the AP rankings, in the coaches poll, the Zips sit at #28, and numbers 21, (CSU), 22 (Pitt), 23 (Oregon), 24 (VCU) and 27 (St. Marys) all lost since the last poll. A lot of them lost to good teams (Pitt lost twice to ranked teams), so if the Zips can get past NDSU tonight, do they have a chance to crack the top 25? If we win, I'm betting we end up at #26, so tantalizingly close.

Geez, now we we're just ahead of high school stadiums again? Texas High School opens $60M stadium. Plus I really wanted to resurrect the longest thread and second most "feel good" (I would submit behind the soccer National Championship) thread in ZN.O history.