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If you felt you were a basketball power and were currently ranked #19 out of 32 conferences you might not want to be a part of it either.

Mostly the same thing but never got officially ranked in the AP poll Feb 4th 4 points (same week as getting the first votes in the coaches poll) Feb 11th 12 points Feb 18th 16 points Feb 25th 43 points (highest we got, ranked 28th) Mar 4th back down to 4 And gone :-)

I looked it up - eerily similar year in some ways. Started off with an awful loss to Coastal Carolina, then a couple "good losses" - one to Oklahoma State (I remember this one painfully I was in attendance in Puerto Rico, where Tree and Harney did not play over a paperwork issue and Chauncey, oh Chauncey why did you have to foul late on a missed three point shot? But I digress :). Anyway also lost at Creighton (and a loss to Detroit Mercy). So the Zips were 17-4 and the streak was at 13 when they got any votes in the Coaches Poll Date Votes Rank Record Streak 2/4/13 2 42 17-4 13 2/11/13 9 37 19-4 15 2/18/13 19 27 21-4 17 2/25/13 53 24 23-4 19 Ranked in top 25 3/5/13 6 36 24-5 lost to Buffalo 3/12/13 0 0 24-6 lost to Kent

MAC currently rated 12th out of the 32 conferences. Not fantastic but not terrible either. But you know what is terrible? Look at who's at #19. Wow

The ESPN3 broadcasts have been top notch. No complaints.

Akron at WMU, Kalamazoo MI. 7:00 1/24/2017 The Broncos are only 2-4 in the MAC but all four losses have been away and they have beaten KSU and Toledo at home. They are 6-1 overall at home so this may not be an easy game. Go ahead and enter your guesses.

Holy cow Marcus Keene went for 50 against Miami tonight.

Plus it would put everyone two games back six games into the season.

It was on right before the Top Ten plays toward the end of the show.

I thought it was just going to be an SC top ten on Jimond's dunk. It was a whole segment during Kevin Connors Star of the Night. Excellent!

Sadly no winners tonight (other than the Zips!). Maybe I overcorrected and made it too hard. The only two people to guess Big Dog as the Zips high scorer did not think there would be no double double. Big Dog and Baylee Steele from EMU came closest with double digit points and 8 rebounds. Even though it wasn't a great game by the Zips good win over a decent team.

Actually I find it harder with just yes and no questions. I just take the category that has the fewest number of winners and then see if they are also in the other two category winning slots. Not that bad.

EMU has just the kind of offense and defense I think will give the Zips matchup problems. They have size inside to counter Big Dog and Kwan and have quick guards to counter the Zips three point shooters. Plus Raven Lee returns tonight and he and Thompson are tough offensive players. Don't see the Zips going undefeated so I think they drop this one. However I am never so happy as to be wrong with a Zips win.

Sorry for being a little slow but here is tonight's Zips Quiz for the EMU game.

Here's the stuff you hope to avoid during a good year. Maurice Watson out of the rest of the year with an ACL tear. I was so impressed with him when the Zips played Creighton.

Would love to see Kwan get to 1000 points. He is 223 points away so with the minimum number of games remaining of 14 he'd have to average just under 16 points per game. Seems a stretch but if the Zips can go to 17 games he'd only need about 13. I do hope he makes it.

Lots of winners - need to make to questions harder :-). Congrats to NWAkron, UAZippers, zippyfan34, LZip, ziptrumpet87 (assuming he did it before the end of the game :-}), ogzips, DrZ and UAZips. Zips win Ivey with 15 151 final total for the over

Anyone notice that the field is flipped in this tweet? One for the conspiratists.

It came from Elton Alexander. Thanks Elton.

A lot of MACtion in that game. March, Roethlisberger, Brown, Harrison, Nix, Fisher, Mitchell.

Ohio at Akron Tuesday January 17th, 7:00 EST. ESPN3.

Out of 31 entries only two people got all three right - congrats to zippy5 and ziptrumpet87. I think most of us assumed if we were under in one category we'd be over in the other. zippy5 and ziptrumpet87 were the only ones to guess Big Dog's points would be under (8), as would the 3 pointers (10) and we'd still win.

Well if one team had to come in with a loss into Tuesday's game glad it was the Bobcats. :-) No last-second miracle this time.

EMI up by 1 with 1:20 to go

I was looking forward to paying a visit to App St as part of the home and home in 2018. When the hell did it get moved to 2022?