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Still 0-0 into the second half. Only three shots? Man, what's going on?

This is post 777 for me, which should be lucky so I don't wish to waste it. All I want is an NCCA tournament championship for men's soccer, another MAC title and NCAA tournament win for men's basketball, continued improvement for the ladies in both sports and a football team next year that wins and generates enough interest to fill Infocision. That's all.

I'm envious, wish I could be there for both of them!

I want it to be quick (but not painless - for them). The MAC tournament is not going to be easy but I have confidence our guys will survive it. Tough game tonight to start, I'll call it as 2-0 Zips (Bunbury, Zemanski) with 18 fouls for NIU.

With a prediction like that, you are most certainly a boob. A pretty big boob, in fact. Maybe even as big a boob as those pictured with the sunglasses.And I thought I was being subtle I thought your comment was clever and understated and could have stood on its own merit. ;)If Temple wins tonight they are pretty well assured of winning a MAC division title. If they do, that will mean every team in the East will have played in the MACC in from 2003 except, that's right, Can't State (we can at least enjoy the fact we've extended their championship-less game appearance once again). Miami has appeared twice and its a little trickier for BGSU since they were in it in 2003 but were a west division member then (let's send them back).

Beacon posted an article on the impact of UA sports in general and Infocision in particular on downtown (and area) businesses. Still shows UA to be a positive force in the local economy.

There was another name in that list that should be familiar to Zips fans as well, although in a much more neagtive way.Reno Bighorns - Haminn Quaintance (Traded To Rio Grande Valley)For anyone that may not recognize the name, he was a Zips nemesis at Can't State for a number of years. If this league equates Can't State starters with UA walk-ons. I'm OK with that.

Yep Lunardi dropped us down a seed even before the season started. What did we do to deserve that? Oh, maybe he heard about the mysterious Cleveland St. scrimmage.

I gave her credit for a nice article all of the way up until this line:The 64 NCAA tournament teams will be announced on Monday (5:30 p.m. ET, ESPNEWS).The men's side has only 48 teams (the women's tournament has 64 teams - that disparity has always seemed odd to me).

I wish ill will towards the NW soccer team for about the next five years anyway.

I prefer these kind of sunglasses. The future's so bright I gotta wear shades kind. Oops, I forgot we were talking about the football team. Temple by 10.

For a few seconds I thought you were talking about EA Sports, man they must really know some inside information about him that we don't.

Nice job on the videos, my favorite was the Zeke block. He looked like he was about 12 feet of the ground.

Thanks man, those were good. First look at Zeke in the Zips uniform, he looks great (and he has put on some muscle). Does Tim Carroll remind anyone else of Tim Meadows? Glad to see he got some playing time in tonight too. Can't wait for the first look at the Zips in person (against UAPB).

Couple of interesting things from KD after the game - 1) I guess he's pretty high on Zeke too since he said if he puts on 20 pounds of muscle, we'll be seeing a first rounder and 2) he spent a lot of the interview pumping up the soccer team, saying he wants 4000 people out at the soccer games. Pretty cool.

Man, five blocks for Zeke so far!

Six different Zips have hit three pointers in the first half. If that is an indicator of the season, if we can hit from the outside and have Zeke in the middle - wow!

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!