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The only thing I could think is a lack of rebounding with Tree not in there. Someday I think Tree is going to pop a ball when he comes down with a rebound. Even better was Abreu recovering it, falling out of bounds and flipping it backwards over the CMU players head to Kretzer to complete the steal/save. Excellent awareness. While Tree had another good game despite the foul trouble, it was again Alex who ignited the comeback. It really does seem that the team goes how he goes. Not a great showing but a win is a win. Go Zips!

I know its a bit of sacrilege to look too far ahead but I'm quite hopeful for this team. Realistically, if the Zips make the tourney, they will be likely be no better than an 11 seed and certainly no worse than a 14. So since seeds 11 and 14 & 12 and 13 play in the same cities there are only 8 possible places the Zips could play. Four great places Philadelphia Dayton Detroit Lexington Ok, but would prefer closer Austin Kansas City A little less desirable San Jose Salt Lake Would be nice to be in a place with as many Zips fans as possible.

Technically you're only a lurker (as am I and a number of other ZN.O members), you'd only be a troll if you started posting inflammatory comments.

And they listed the MAC as a High Major instead of a mid-Major. Nice.

I'm sure we both feel the same way as wanting the other to do well until we meet up. They have one pretty tough matchup before us but the other three are manageable.

We should be rooting for exactly the opposite.

Don't think the second half is more difficult, unless you are referring to the fact that we play at Buffalo and OU, but the combined record of every team except OU is 20-35 in the MAC. If we can't run the table on all of these games except possibly OU, we don't deserve those ranking points. The MAC is bad this year, the Zips cannot afford a slip up against anyone if there is still any prayer of an at large. We'll see a little bit of this teams mindset against an overmatched opponent at home. The Zips should demolish CMU. Should be lots of playing time for Jonas, Luke and co.

Easy there .. he gave the Zips a top 25 vote.

Creighton is listed as #3 in that list with Akron being one of their notable wins.

This one is funny. With all the emphasis on Social Media one Bobcats poster now refers to Akron as Hashtag Academy. Of course that's all because of their long and storied "tradition" that they would never consider such a thing. Glad we're ahead of the curve on this one.

If I was Larry Shyatt (Wyoming's coach) I wouldn't be to pleased to see something like that on Twitter. Kid should keep a lower profile.

Gotta throw Reggie McAdams in that group as well. He may have the highest 3 pt. percentage on the team right now. Great game by him last night. Love to see the hot hand, whoever it is, get more minutes. And it almost seemed like Zeke decided he needed rebounds and not blocks last night like he decided since he had the all-time MAC blocked shots record that he was looking for a new challenge.

Keeley went 3-7 and fouled out so Zeke has now dominated ther other three "best in the MAC".

DJ Who-per? 3-11, 14 pts, 6 assists, 2 rebounds. Alex Abreu 7-10, 21 pts, 9 assists, 4 rebounds. I would say Alex thoroughly outplayed him. And Zeke? 8-8, 17 points and 12 rebounds. I think the player of the year discussion is getting pretty close to over. There was another discussion about whether Zeke shows up in big games. Think its about time to put that one to bed too.

Please let Tree be OK and get back in the game. Gotta hand it to Dambrot though having the guts to put Pat and Zeke in at the same time.

31-13 run from the 10 minute mark on. Abreu playing like "DJ who?". Hope it continues. OU has every bit the capability to come back.

You think OU vs. Akron is the game of the year despite the fact #1 Michigan is playing #3 Indiaina TODAY.

And then you knew thses kinds of stories were going to start coming out. Tennessee athletic department $200M in debt. The main point is all they have to do is get football back on track and they'll be fine. Wow. Don't they have a business school that can explain to them this is a losing proposition?

ESPN's Myron Medcalf previews the matchup. It's about 4:40 into the video clip. No surprise either, it was just announced that the game is sold out.

#MAACtion. I still hold out faint hope that the Zips could stil be considered for an at-large with the MTSU win and a good one here but I don't think Iona would do it. He metions they are both sub-100 RPI, yeah, but the Zips are at 68 and the Gaels are 99. Either Dakota, both of whom are right with us in RPI. Makes it fair for both.

Interesting, there are three other MAC players listed there that play at a high level as efficiency as well. Javon McCrea is only two spots behind Zeke and Chris Evans is #91. The other player is from Ohio, but not named Cooper (he probably just isn't getting enough minutes to qualify, I'm sure ). It's Reggie Keely, I have some respect for his game (he is shooting it almost as well as Zeke), but as a point of interest all of them are frontcourt players and Zeke has already played against the other two and pretty well shut them down. I expect he could have the same effect on Keeley. Also find it funny that they say he passed on Major D-1 offers to stay home.

That's a huge win for them, they still control their own destiny easily with 5 games left against the three other East division leaders. They still have a legit shot, past two of the toughest teams in the league (Toldeo and CMU). CMU is 7-0 but only 13-7 overall which means they had a losing record in non-conference play, so I wanted to see if the MAC was really weak. Here are some of the teams they scheduled. Northwestern #5 Notre Dame #14 Purdue Florida #20 Texas (which they won) Marquette There is a team that challenges themselves OOC. I expect CMU to win the whole thing now, but the Zips could still win the East. Great quote from Jodi Kest "We wanted to make sure to draw plays to get Hanna Luburgh involved. She had the hot hand so you have give it to her sometimes." Should give the ladies some more confidence going forward. First good MAC team they've beaten.

All right, I think we gave it enough time to enjoy the BGSU win. On to the big game. Zips 68 Bobkitties 64.

Only difference between tonight and the Buffalo game is the Falcons aren't shooting 90%. Otherwise a remarkably similar game.

I think the last game ESPN broadcast from the Rubber Bowl was against Marshall. When Announcer one mentioned that the University had purchased the Rubber Bowl for $1 from the city, Announcer two stated "The University got taken".