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Linhart through and including tonights win over Toledo (130 games):Points = 981Rebounds = 596Steals = 183Assists = 172Turnovers = 169Blocks = 52Floor Burns = 130+

Villanova was an 8 seed that year (which is indeed the lowest seed ever to win), but just a few seconds ago Cleveland St. upset Butler to win the Horizon League title. My point? They had a very difficult opening round game as well. It's still possible.

Someone needs to tell him that so he quits taking them.Glad nobody told him.

Hope to see you at the end of the week, troll!

No freaking way!!! Wow!

Are there going to be enough players left to finish the game? Sheeesh. Humpty picked a good time to break out of his three point slump.

Don't get too complacent, Zips. Depaul (0-18 Big East) knocks off Cincinnati in the first round of the Big East tournament.

Just another good argument for keeping the first round games on campus. Of course no matter what, it helps us so I'm fine with keeping it the way it is.

So greater "manhood" would have been shown by also getting one of the Zips ejected? It takes far greater strength and self-discpline to walk away and do the right thing for your team than retaliate and show you are no better. Even over on the Can't boards there are calls for addtional suspension time.I don't think one of the Akron players should have hit back but one of them should have step up to Mr. THug and told him that this crap isn't gonna fly. just get in his grill a little. not doing so shows that you have no respect for your team mates or backbone. but again it's something you have to go the right way about doing. I'm sure if I walked up and punched one of your family members like that you wouldn't just "walk away." atleast I hope you wouldn'tWhile there is a difference bewteen what happens in "real life" and what happens on an athletic field, defending yourself (or others who cannot defend themselves) is perfectly acceptable, but you still have to either think about the consequences or accept what they bring (the former is a little more rational), rather than just react. Letting the thug know that was an unnacceptable act by getting in his face would have seemed to be reasonable, but what else might have resulted from it? Of course this rhetorical argument would be a lot more compelling had the Zips won the game. Oh karma where are you? Maybe it's saving it for the MAC tournament.

So greater "manhood" would have been shown by also getting one of the Zips ejected? It takes far greater strength and self-discpline to walk away and do the right thing for your team than retaliate and show you are no better. Even over on the Can't boards there are calls for addtional suspension time.

With the exception of NIU the Zips beat every single team in the league this year, while it may hurt not getting the bye, this team ought to believe it can win it. The tournament is wide open this year.

Bowling Green is up on Ohio by 18 early. If that holds up we need Miami to win to get a bye. That would give us the four seed, but not sure if Can't or Buffalo would get the five. Miami would get the one by beating BGSU twice.

Of the four above choices only the Bubblers works. Heroes and warriors have too much of a positive connotation, while one-hitters is too positive in a baseball context. Now had the four choices been:Bong BubblersBrass HolesHemp HumpersWeed WhinersThen maybe we'd have a race.

So to make this more confusing Elton Alexander is claiming that the West (#2) seed comes into play. I don't see how you seed a tournament based on the seedings in that tournament but maybe he's right and that does throw some other scenarios into the mix. I would hope that the MAC web site posts all of the possibilities on their site before the weekend, but we usually don't get that kind of service.

According to ESPN, Can't beat Buffalo at Miami:OXFORD, Ohio -- Al Fisher scored 15 points, including six in a row in overtime, to lead Can't State to a 77-71 victory over Buffalo on Thursday night.No wonder we're so confused in this league.

Skip, I'll stand by my call - as a matter of fact I'll guarantee it. So either Miami or Buffalo will finish on top but not both since they play each other. Its just a question of whether the Zips or Falcons join them. We need to win, have Buffalo win and BUGS to lose (Go Bulls! Go Bongcats!) to give us the #1 seed. Any other combination and we get a lower seed. But if we win we can't get any lower than 4th and still get the first round bye so at least that is in our control.

And Can't beat Buffalo in OT. Four way tie at the top again.

We'll miss him a lot next year, thanks to him for four years of hard nosed play. Good luck to him in whatever he does after this and how about going out with a bang? - reach that 1,000 point plateau with a MAC Championship!

I don't think the tie-breaker is just Miami in that case. I think it's Miami and BG together since they have the same record, in which case it's another tie. How about this scenario, unlikely though it may be:Thursday:Can't beats BuffaloAkron beats OhioMiami beats BGSunday:Ohio beats BGAkron beats Can'tBuffalo beats MiamiFinal records:Akron 11-5Buffalo 11-5BGSU 10-6Miami 10-6Can't State 9-7Ohio 8-8Tiebreakers (Akron vs Buffalo):Head to head: Tie (1-1)Against BG/Miami combined: Tie (2-2)Against Can't State: Akron wins (2-0 vs 1-1) (Even if Ball State gets to 9-7, they beat Buffalo)Is this the last thread of hope we have to cling to? Can I have a ruling please?I think we have a shred of hope, that is the way the MAC tiebreakers work; any two teams tied in the rankings are considered as a group so I think your analysis is correct. It's a long shot but it's still a shot.

Wow, Joe Lunardi just released his latest bracketology with now Bowling Green representing the MAC. The new thing is that they are listed as a 16th seed. Man the MAC has fallen.

Looking at the bigger picture, it is disappointing that there is no chance to win the league regular season title, but this team has accomplished a great deal (and a great deal more than was expected) and still have just as good a chance of winning the tournament as anyone (as proof I offer that the Zips have beaten every team in the league save Ohio - which hopefully happens this week - and NIU at their place). The bad part is that they are not playing their best basketball right now, but we still could win the MAC tournament although I think it is essential we pick up one of the byes. Combine that with the article that was just posted about Zeke and the MAC better take their best shot at us this year.

His time with the Redskins was short.http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3946853

I see right through your clever plot, trying to instill overconfidence in the Flushes by ranking them first. I can see no other explanation. And by the way, David Kool was named third team academic All-American (the only MAC player to do so), so they got that going for them too.

Anyone heard the new Wendy's ad where she states that your fish (sandwich) needs a name "not like Zippy, but like a cod" or something along that line? My attorneys are already looking into it. This could be the windfall the university is looking for.

I really appreciate your "sad" use of time. Statisticians are my unsung heros. As an amateur statistician, I've wasted endless hours calculating "what if's." The older you get, the more you will appreciate that there are many sadder uses of time than crunching numbers. Yeah, but I'm 47.