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I am enjoying the schadenfreude from reading the Kitties board. Does this make me a bad person?

Ali is unconscious. 🔥

Since he's not playing, maybe we'll just call him Trimbl to even it up.

I was just thinking we'll miss Jacki Windon even more after hearing Reghi make three mistakes in the first few minutes.

Akron bench is getting awfully short.

If someone had told you before the season started that either the men's or women's team would sweep the Flushes, who would you have bet on? Nice job ladies!

Let's lose to the worst team in the MAC.

Far too many of these 10 points in 10 minutes to open games.

Apparently the mayor has given up on upholding the morality of the citizens of Hudson. GP1 you can go without a license now. It's open season!! https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2022/02/14/hudson-ohio-mayor-craig-shubert-resigns-ice-fishing-prostitution-school-board/6783783001/

I actually grew up working in that park. People did ice fish back then. Never saw any evidence of anything untoward going on. 😂🤣

Really nice game from Tribble tonight. Hasn't missed a shot

Dawson sighting - such a smooth jumper from three.

Every league needs to have one school that believes it is academically superior to the rest of the league, even though athletically average or poor in most sports. The SEC has Vanderbilt, the Big Ten has Northwestern, the ACC has maybe Duke minus the basketball? 🤔 We have Miami. 😁

"I do not envy the headache you will have when you awaken my friend. Now go to sleep and dream of large women". 😁

And now mid-way through the third quarter, the two teams have combined for 28 turnovers. Almost unwatchable. 😔

Dawson was on pace for a 52 point night in the first quarter. 😊

That Toledo missed free throw with a 3 was a killer. Rollins is a terrific player. Now I know how other teams felt when LCJ had the ball in his hands.

False - it was a first half run. 🙃

Look at Aziz knocking down free throws. Even if he probably shouldn't have been shooting them.

Both have a penchant for occasionally annoying people on the board? 😉 😄😂

@kreed5120 good point on Miami. Had they been playing west teams twice a year back then I'm sure their record would have been much better. So just for fun I went back just for Akron and Buffalo another five years and it does tilt toward Akron but only if you go the full five. Another three gives Akron 2 tournament titles and the Bulls 1/2 of a regular season title but they are neck and neck in wins and losses. Adding the two more years at Akron 11-5 and 13-3 and Buffalo 3-13 and 4-12 does tilt the scale more heavily toward Akron. So lets go with Class of the <whatever> means you have to go back 15 years 😄

So last night on the CMU broadcast the announcers referred to the Zips as the "Class of the MAC". So I wondered how true that was so I went back and looked up the stats (I am retiring in two more days so I have the time at work 😂). So I did a spreadsheet over the last ten years not counting this year (I didn't want to cherry pick and make sure I included all of Akron's titles since 2009) and these are the results: Team Avg Wins Avg Losses Regular Season Titles Tournament Titles Winning Seasons Buffalo 11.9 5.6 2.33 4 9 Akron 11.5 6.1 4.5 1 (also first seed when the tournament was vacated) 7 Toledo 10.8 6.9 1.5 0 6 Kent 9.9 7.7 0.33 1 (bastards 😂) 7 Ohio 9.3 7.9 0.5 2 (double bastards 😄) 6 BGSU 8.6 9.0 0 0 (since 1968) 5 EMU 7.9 9.3 0 0 3 WMU 7.9 9.5 0.5 1 4 Ball St 7.4 10.1 0 0 4 CMU 6.7 10.7 0.33 0 3 NIU 6.5 10.7 0 0 1 Miami 6.3 11.2 0 0 1 Kind of shocking to me that Miami is worse than everyone in the west. Their sole winning season was last year at 9-8. A lot of the West teams winning season are like 10-8, 11-7 records. And without the NCCA success Ohio is sort of a middling MAC team (but sadly I do expect that is changing under Boals). But from all of this its clear to me that the class of the MAC over the past decade has been Buffalo. Their one losing season was 7-9 a decade ago. With that and their NCAA tournament success I think it's pretty clear they have been the #1 team. If we sneak it back three more years and grab two more of the Zips tournament titles then maybe we have an argument. :-)

It did feel like he had more than three blocks but I guess those are the official stats

Well there is possibly one of three. Is it feeling to anyone else like the early days of Caleb Porter when he was bringing in people you couldn't believe were really coming to Akron? And the more good players he brought in the more good players wanted to come? Of course the soccer team was in much better shape then. But this has the same feel to me.

The anti-directional invitational.