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Then you might like this even better, Zips are all the way up to #42 in the NET rankings which is one of the tools the NCAA selection committee uses. If they can beat a good Ball State team tonight they should inch into the thirties. For comparison purposes BSU is the third ranked MAC team at 119. This is the first year I can remember in a long time where the Zips haven't had a least one disappointing loss to a low level team. Their losses are to teams ranked 11th, 17th and 27th. One of the reasons they are still up pretty high. Go Zips!

Completely meaningless of course but the Zips are currently listed as a 12 seed in Bracketology.

And Spin, please, I'm begging you, change your avatar. ?

Lets keep the hype train going, ? up to #49 in the NET rankings. And what the heck lets throw in RealTimeRPI where the Zips are #50. And the next five after the Zips are Georgia, Arizona St., Washington, Memphis and Penn St. There's some respect there.

Ball State beat Buffalo by 20. Friday night should be a good game.

And there comes Flowers

And Mikal Dawson with an impressive drive to the basket. And Western always seems to come up with one guy that is really good but they never seem to have the really strong supporting cast.

And as well as the Akron offense is playing it's their defense that's really sticking out to me

I've been to that stadium - appropriate place to try to stage a game like this. It might be the worst stadium in the FBS and I've been to all but about a dozen.

And congrats to LCJ for being named the MAC East Player of the Week. ?

Wow, EPSN's BPI calculator gives Western only a 6.3% chance to win this game.

Zips could not have played much better in that half. But what's wrong with Banks. He's the only zip who's attempted a three who's shooting under 60%. ?? Holy crap.

Man you've got to love LCJ. What heart

I think betting the under here would have been the smart move

NCAA Net rankings are out. Overall leader - San Diego St. Akron is the MAC leader at #70. Kent 82 Ball St 127 Ohio 140 Toledo 150 Buffalo 161 BGSU 172 EMU 181 Miami 198 NIU 215 CMU 217 and WMU 251

And QB Mike Glass III of Eastern Michigan does the MAC proud by getting ejected with a few seconds left in their bowl loss to Pitt by accidentally punching a ref in the face (who was trying to keep him from punch another player after he had already punched one).

I know the transitive property doesn't work but Tulane was no slouch. They beat Utah who just knocked off Kentucky. Tomorrows game should be interesting. Liberty is currently in the Others Receiving Votes category. If the Zips can get past them (assuming they beat Towson) could the Zips get a few top 25 ORV votes as well with their only losses being to the AP #3 and #25 teams?

Whew - on the web those last four seconds took forever. Cool I'll head down to the championship game tomorrow. This would have been a fun game to be at thanks for making it at 2:30 on a Friday schedule makers.

58-58 2:20 to go

Sloooow start to the second half Zips up 36-33 with 16:41 remaining

Zips up by four at the half

Tulane climbing back in, 28-23 with two minutes left. Everyone who as played for the Zips has scored. Riak, Tribble and Ali on the board.

26-19 Zips 4:33 left

Zips on a bit of a run 22-12 with 9:04 left in the half. Jackson the leading scorer with 9, followed by Banks with 4.

Google Update has a little more info than the ESPN Gamecast. Zips up 13-10, 11:31 remaining. Banks Reece Jackson Williams and Cheese appear to be the starting five.