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Nice start for Zeke - knows how to finish around the basket, a nice rebound, an assist and possibly a block in his opening few minutes. Good for him.

I used to think these numbers were a travesty - like Indiana getting a #6 RPI while losing 8 games but they really do have a brutal schedule. Their average oppoent RPI is 37.6. I think they still may have been a little overly rewarded with a hard schedule and losing almost half of them, but by comparison I also did Louisville and Akron. Lousiville, a good team but with a few losses has an average opponent RPI of 84 and are rated low. Akron is 73.4 so as tough a schedule as we think we played, Indiana really did have a hard one, so it's good we won them all. It appears that scheduling really is the biggest component (more important than wins apparently). I even did our out of conference RPI and its a very respectable 47.5 but its still lower than Indiana's overall. Indiana St. John's (21) Bloomington, Ind. T, 0-0 (2OT) Wake Forest (2) Bloomington, Ind. L, 2-1 New Mexico (28) South Bend, Ind. W, 3-2 Seattle University (140) South Bend, Ind. W, 2-0 Akron (1) Akron, Ohio L, 1-0 Florida International (127) Akron, Ohio W, 2-1 (2 OT) Wisconsin (38) Madison, Wis. W, 1-0 Kentucky (52) Bloomington, Ind. W, 3-0 UC Santa Barbara (32) Santa Barbara, Calif. L, 3-0 Butler (19) Bloomington, Ind. L, 2-1 (2OT) Michigan (33) Ann Arbor, Mich. W, 1-0 Notre Dame (30) South Bend, Ind. W, 3-0 Michigan State (17) Bloomington, Ind. L, 1-0 (2OT) Louisville (34) Louisville, Ky. L, 4-0 Northwestern (3) Evanston, Ill. L, 2-0 Evansville (77) Bloomington, Ind. W, 2-0 Ohio State (11) Bloomington, Ind. L, 1-0 (OT) Penn State (13) Bloomington, Ind. LW 2-1Opponents average RPI: 37.6LouisvilleBowling Green (178) Lexington, Ky. W, 3-0 IUPUI (161) Lexington, Ky. W, 2-0 SIU (128) Edwardsville Louisville, Ky. W, 2-0 UIC (76) Louisville, Ky. T, 1-1 (2ot) West Virginia (50) Louisville, Ky. W, 2-0 Pittsburgh (159) Louisville, Ky W, 5-0 Notre Dame (30) South Bend, Ind. L, 4-0 Marquette (117) Milwaukee, Wis. T, 2-2 DePaul (40) Chicago, Ill. W, 6-0 USF (48) Louisville, Ky. W, 1-0 Syracuse (129) Louisville, Ky. W, 4-0 Kentucky (52) Louisville, Ky. W, 1-0 St. John's (21) Jamaica, N.Y. L, 3-2 (OT) Indiana (6) Louisville, Ky. W, 4-0 Rutgers (83) Louisville, Ky. W, 2-0 Cincinnati (85) Louisville, Ky. W, 3-1 Villanova (69) Villanova, Pa. W, 5-0 Opponents average RPI: 84AkronSMU (79) at Tulsa, Okla. 6 p.m. 1 - 0 (W) Tulsa (10) at Tulsa, Okla. 8:30 p.m. 1 - 0 (W) High Point (80) at Cincinnati, Ohio 5 p.m. 4 - 1 (W) Cincinnati (85) at Cincinnati, Ohio 3:30 p.m. 3 - 0 (W) Indiana (6) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 1 - 0 (W) St. Louis (58) Akron, Ohio 2:30 p.m. 4 - 0 (W) Bowling Green (178) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 6 - 0 (W) Ohio State (11) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 3 - 0 (W) Florida Atlantic (180) at Boca Raton, Fla. 7 p.m. 3 - 0 (W) Illinois-Chicago (76) at Chicago, Ill. 8 p.m. 3 - 1 (W) Western Michigan (122) at Kalamazoo, Mich. 2 p.m. 4 - 0 (W) Virginia Tech (102) at Blacksburg, Va. 7 p.m. 2 - 0 (W) Northern Illinois (54) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 1 - 0 (W) Michigan (33) at Ann Arbor, Mich. 4 p.m. 5 - 1 (W) Buffalo (158) at Buffalo, N.Y. 7:30 p.m. 1 - 0 (W) Penn State (13) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 3 - 0 (W) Michigan State (17) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 2 - 1 (W) Hartwick (60) Akron, Ohio 7:30 p.m. 3 - 2 (W) Opponents average RPI: 73.4 Out of Conference RPI: 47.5And while I was checking out the Louisville site for their schedule, I saw this. Does the title on the side look a little odd to anyone else? Maybe we should save it in case we run into them in the tournament.

So when we win the MAC, there should be no excuse for not getting the overall number 1 seed in the tournament. I'd really like to avoid UCLA, Wake and UNC until the final four, but getting any of the top four seeds would be good so at least we'd get all home games (we think).

Lots of great goals from the Zips season (I think it showed every goal this season including the two exhibition matches). Let's get through the MAC tourney unscathed and see what happens. Conference tourneys are tough, opponents just know you too well. Even though the conference wasn't great, we had some very tough matches against conference opponents.

Final! Zips 2-1 Whew!

Thank god for Gavin and penalty kicks - Zips 2-1! 15 minutes left.

First first-half goal they have given up in quite a while.

Goal!!!! - Bunbury - three minutes in!

To average three goals per game, we need nine over the next two games. 5-0 tonight starts it off.

I went with Pretty strong (I think it only gets to intense when there is something on the line like it has been in basketball the last few years). I think a lot of it has to do with proximity too, there are a ton of local grads in the area who at least care a little and a lot of families (including mine) that have graduates from both schools. Just because we don't speak to my sister ...

Now THAT'S a rivalry.

That's what I thought after Northwestern got beat. While I think that should be enough too, I just wouldn't bet the house on it.

On the surface, the Miami/NIU outcome would appear to provide some hope. But there are two important facts from that game that affected the outcome. First, NIU's starting QB Chandler Harnish was out for it (last time I heard, he may or may not play against the Zips). Second, it was Zac Dysert's first start at QB for Miami and he's looked very impressive so far.So if Harnish can't go against the Zips, we might have a chance at a big upset. If I were Fleming and company I'd do everything I could to make the QB (whoever it is) beat me. NIU's rushing attack is very strong. We'll need some turnovers to keep it within reach. In the end, I see a better than expected Zip performance, but still a loss nonetheless.Huskies 27Zips 21According to Rivals.com Harnish is still out this weekNorthern Illinois backup QB DeMarcus Grady will start again this week, against Akron, in place of the injured Chandler Harnish (knee).Also somewhat interesting from the same article: Ball State's MiQuale Lewis ran for 301 yards and teammate Cory Sykes for 203 yards against Eastern Michigan last week. It marked the first time in FBS history that a team had a 300-yard rusher and a 200-yard rusher in the same game. We'd better be able to run on EMU!

Jus can't see anything being salvaged of this season and NIU is reasonably good this year. I wil give the Zips one thing and that is that I do not believe they have given in, I still see a fight in them. NIU 20, Zips 13 (missed XP not two field goals).

Well as best I can tell one of their most important cities still stands, unlike any of that modern Aztec construction.Wow, never, ever imagined I might see Mayan vs. Aztec (well maybe if it was San Diego St) smack talk on this board. Never know what you're going to see in ZNO.

Really impressive that Humpty was named to the first team. Also, I didn't see Singletary's nickname used in the article, that must been in an earlier version.

Since you are a (secondary) ND fan, I'd assume you'd want to include Paul Hornung in that group of "Golden Boys"?

And Michigan St is at #23. Those two games should help in the RPI column (plus even Hartwick is at 61) so if we take care of business we'll be fine. Buffalo is at 175, that's likely what kept us out of the top two spots since UCLA and Wake played some difficult in conference rivals and were ranked below us last week. Go Zips!

Of course not...as expected.EDIT: And, BTW...the e-mail I sent was pleasant, just asking if it was true that the MAC had no automatic berth this year and why.Received a response from the MAC today. No explanation of the loss of Automatic Qualiification in 2009, just that the MAC would regain AQ in 2010.Wow, so it is true then, the MAC does not get an automatic bid this year. What is with this conference? I'm betting some other conferences would be interested in us for soccer only. Could we auction ourselves off and raise some money for the program at the same time?

haha hes already made his run through the mac though, at BGI know - that's why he's perfect, he knows the conference already.

http://www.collegesoccernews.com/index_files/Page10090.htm And TopDrawer Soccer's team of the week for good measuer:http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soc...2728/Big-MoversBy the way, we are the last undefeated team in the country. Monmouth lost over the weekend.And as one final side note, if you haven't seen this it is worth watching:SMU 95 Yard Goal

Urban Meyer is an Ohio guy. I say we make him an offer.

We're at 7-7. Zips capitalized on a fumble, Syracuse had a long drive. By the way if anyone is watching Can't State is up on Ohio.

So now we're freezing out our own kicker - sheesh. Nice, right after he apparently hit a 51 yarder and then misses the real one.