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I hear something... That may be the sound of a deflating basketball ...

I hope you took the under. 6-5 halfway through the first half. Wow!

There saying that this is a great hire over their, but they're needs to be some immediate results.

I'm afraid to imagine what HIS hands look like. :blink:I would have defintely gone with the more obvious one like this which I think might be more representative of how he plays. Tonganator Smash! And if the Mysterious X was Racer (rather than mister) Ithinkthepostmighthavelookedmorelikethis.dontyouthink?

Guess yesterday was the West's revenge, they won all three games on the final day of crossover play. Zips were also lucky to draw the three best teams in the West at home, so in honor of the six West teams, I declare this "Princess Cupcake Day!".

Did someone say Bain?

Down to a 6 point deficit with 14 minutes left. Game is still well within reach. Keep fouling them.

I'm thinkin' sleepwalking won't be a problem.Anyone just catch the channelsurfing.net announcers comment that the Zips are "sleepwalking" through this one? Not ready to give up on them yet. There is still a second half to be played.

especially when the rankings improve over 100 places in one year.

Linhart through and including the Ball State Game (122 games):Points = 891Rebounds = 552Steals = 165Assists = 161Blocks = 46There are 8 guaranteed games left so even if the Zips end up with 10+ games, he won't make 200 steals or assists (he'd have to average about 4 per game) and only has an outside shot at 1000 points, but as has been said, you don't appreciate him for just numbers. I'd like to see how many defensive stops he put on or how many times his man was held below his scoring average because a lot of times over the years Nate drew their best offensive player. We will miss him more than can be shown on a stat sheet but how can you not be excited for the end of this year (plus it looks like bring back a pretty good team for next year). Look at the losses this year, the only "bad" loss is EKU, and this team definitely has a very good shot at 20 wins as well as as good of a chance as anyone to win the MAC tournament. No way do you fear meeting Buffalo in the tournament like in other years where there was always a team you really didn't want to face.

20 wins and any post-season action would be a very successful season. If the Zips can achieve that, Dambrot gets even more credit for being able to draw the talent out of this group that had not played a lot together. MAC co-coach of the year if so (assuming the 'Spoon continues to get it done at Buffalo).

With the way the West is looking, no team is likely to have more than 5 wins when we go back to each of our division's play, even with a 4-1 run that wouldn't give any of them more than nine wins. Since most East teams wil have 5 or 6 wins against the west it is even probable that 5 East teams could have ten wins. That means that the East could possibly have seeds 1,3,4,5 and 6 (and maybe even 7). This would look a lot a few years ago when the Zips got the three seed and the rest of the East was all on other side of the bracket. So in a year like this, if you are an East team, would you rather get a three seed than a 1 seed and let the rest of your division beat up on each other while you get mostly the "cupcakes"? Not that I think the Zips need fear anyone but it'd be nicer to get a little "apparently" easy path to the final - hey we're owed one.

With the play of McClanahan, Humpty and Cvetinovic today, Keith is looking pretty prophetic. I'm still excited about the remainder of this year (and getting to play the east one more time) and now looking even more forward to a loaded team next year. With 8 regular season games left, 20 wins again is a real possibility. Never would have thought that was possible at the beginning of the year.

Lost in all of this is the fact that Coach Kest dismissed her (and other good players) from the team and has Akron off to their best season in many years (not good yet but certainly improving) without them. Just maybe she's knows what she's doing.

When you're struggling on offense and you think you have a bona fide offensive weapon sitting on your bench, what would you do? I'm ready to give KD plenty of leeway based on his track record and what he's done for this program. If he thinks it's the right thing to do, I'm all for it, the results are looking fairly promising. After all, his job depends on it, mine doesn't.

I really don't think it all amounts to a hill of beams.

The tournament is sponsored by CollegeInsider.com who puts out the MidMajority site that Kyle Whelliston does. It appears that this is a way to let overlooked mid-major programs have something to reward a good regular season. Whether it is worth it financially is another matter.

This is a very good feed. Nice of the Horizon league to provide it. Seems like a fairly small crowd for $1 per ticket night.

I used to hang there in the 80's, it was new then (and one friend of mine - while drinking heavily there - filled out her taxes in crayon, wrote IRS - Somwhere in Cincinnati, 44--- and mailed it - ah the memories ) so it's hard to view the demolition of anything as too "beautiful" but this is a great shot, especially with the stadium looming in the background as though it stomped it into rubble. This is visual poetry.

One can only hope he's as top flight as this guy. ;)Thanks for the updates!Go Zips!The other interesting thing was that nowhere in any of those articles was Pitt mentioned as a possbile destinationfor him - wonder how he ended up there? And now he's declared early for the NFL draft. Now I'm really mad we didn't get him.

Is there a timetable set for Ronnie Stewards return? If so, how will he be worked back into the lineup?

But in the end - another disappointing loss. (sigh)

The team looked terrible for the whole game and are back within 2 with 1:44 left. At least there is no quit in them. There is still a chance.

Speaking of a convoy, I just happened to pull up the webcam right now and 8 vehicles (including 4 big white vans) just drove into the stadium, a whole bunch of people got out and started looking around. Is this possibly the Nicely visit or maybe him and/or a few other potential recruits?

Steve is predicted to be the first pick in the draft:http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story...mp;&cc=5901