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By the way did anyone know LCJ surpassed 1,000 points in the loss to Blowing Green. He has done it in under two years with an average a little over 16 ppg. I knew he was approaching it but hadn't heard a thing about it. 46th player in Akron history. Congrats LCJ!

With both the men and Women indoor track teams finishing higher than Kent, the Zips have retaken the lead in the Wagon Wheel Challenge, however with two sports that are new (or new again) this year in sports that Kent tends to be very good at in women's lacrosse and baseball, we should demand Kent add men's soccer and women's swimming and diving to even the odds again. ? It's currently 4.5 - 4 with the following sports to go: March 6 Men's Basketball March 25 Women’s Lacrosse March 28 Softball April 1 Baseball April 24-26 Women's Golf MAC Championship April 28 Baseball May 1-3 Men's Golf MAC Championship May 14-16 Men's Outdoor Track and Field MAC Championship May 14-16 Women's Outdoor Track and Field MAC Championship With Kent likely taking golf, baseball and women's lacrosse, and the Zips taking T&F, Zips need to win the next basketball game, and softball just for a tie. If its a tie it stays with the current school which is Akron.

MAC website finally appears as though they have all of LCJ's stats for all games included in the overall statistics, and have added him back into the conference only statistics but still only have him playing 12 games in conference. If you only include 75% of LCJ's games then the race for player of the year is a lot tighter. ?

That's a tough audience if you're going to give up on a team after its first losing season since 1992, in a year when they still won the MAC, and have been to the College Cup three times in five years. I don't think I'd give up on them quite yet ?

Walter Sylvester Gamertsfelder, for whom Gamertsfelder Hall was obviously named. I'm pleased they decided to locate it by Washington and Jefferson Halls. ?

We also want to steal Ohio's land. If you've never seen it there's a Reddit topic where they assign every county in the country to a college basketball team after you win and claim all the land that the team you beat currently has. It all starts with the counties that are closest to you at the beginning of the season. For some reason Ohio has a bunch of them right now including in southern California, Texas, New Jersey and Buffalo, NY. Take their land!

Things I like about Ohio U. Jeff Boals (wish he would have stayed at Stony Brook so I could continue rooting for him wholeheartedly) Beautiful campus including a building that was named after my great uncle who was president there in the 40s. Fantastic rivarly we have developed with them over the years. Passionate fan base which helps the MAC and our rivalry I respect they feel the O-H-I-O was stolen from them by Ohio State and the Bobcat "voiced" the disrespect by tackling Brutus during a football game Things I don't like about Ohio U. They are still Ohio U ?

Or 7?

I saw a crazy stat on the BG board that despite being 12 and 4 they have been outscored by two points in conference this year.

I can't find a single scenario so far that would give the Zips the number one seed if they finish tied with Blowing Green. So for the number one seed the zips must finish with a better record. The good news is the Zips last two games are at home and BUGS (who just got thrashed by last place Miami today) must go to Kent and play Buffalo.

Looks an awful lot like what we're likely to see a lot of on Saturday.

So if you add up all of the numbers he is 32 for 100 on threes so just a little under his career rate so he has reverted to the mean (and I suspect if you go back to the beginning of the year when he was also shooting well I'll bet his average would go up a little probably putting him right around his career rate). I guess we shouldn't be that surprised. But now that he's there I hope he continues to shoot at least his average rate.

Been playing with the simulator and cannot find any scenario where the Zips finish lower than the four seed at long as they win at least one of their remaining games (and several where they could lose two of three and still end up as the second seed). But if we finish tied with Blowing Green there are very few scenarios that give us the top seed now.

Completely agree. If Akron is your best win you are not getting an at-large.

From an ESPN article about bubble teams and Liberty's chances. The Flames haven't lost in nearly a month, keeping a spirited at-large candidacy alive and running their record out to 26-3. In NET terms, the best win on this profile is a neutral-floor victory over Akron. If that doesn't sound sufficiently impressive, keep in mind the Zips really might be the second-best opponent this team has faced. (The best was LSU, and Liberty lost in Baton Rouge 74-57.)

Going to be a tough one, I don't love the Zips chances with this being in Buffalo and the Bulls being an excellent rebounding team, but I am amazed that the ESPN matchup predictor still favors the Zips.

Sky isn't falling, if we can win just one of the final three (and two of the three are at home) we are almost certainly the two or three seed and it probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference which one it is. To make the one seed it's looking like we have to beat Buffalo and I'm not confident about that. 2 or 3 is fine, and I like our chances in Cleveland if that happens (and would be nice if the Bulls keep the 4 or 5 seed).

At least there's no quit. But this is just Bowling Green's night Zips having their worst offensive performance and it doesn't have that much to do with the Bowling Green defense

BUGS isn't just stepping on our throat they're stomping on it. LCJ and X a combined 0-14 on threes.

Good God this game is going to be over by halftime if they don't start picking it up. I've never seen the Zips play worse this year

Awful start but they're still right in this one But making no threes and missing layups isn't going to help. And any team that has a player with a man bun doesn't deserve to win a game. ?

How about we try some of those shots closer to the basket instead of just chucking up threes? Seems to be working pretty well for Blowing Green. Sort of like that nice job Channel

He's been missing from those for a while, that was my complaint to start this thread.

Correct, other than the two you just mentioned, the last time BUGS beat Akron was in the 08-09 season (which was also the last time they beat us in Akron. We got a little revenge by knocking them out of the tournament that year when they were the one seed). Since 05-06 we are 25-3! against them and at one point had a 15 game winning streak against them. They went 19-6 against us from when we joined the MAC until the 04-05 season when this current run of dominance started. Let us hope that dominance continues on Tuesday.

The BUGS game is pretty much for the number one seed. If the Zips win this game BUGS would have to win all of their remaining games and the Zips could still go 1-2 and get the #1 seed. Buffalo could still get the one seed in that case too but they would have to win all of their games. And still fun to see things like this. I'd love to draw Auburn.