MDZip

Yep sadly that site (http://playoffsimulator.com/ncaambb/mac) is not working anymore, but I did find a new one that seems to work. And this site just gives odds but is pretty bullish on the Zips chances right now. If all of the favored teams win out from here on out the bracket would look like this. Not too bad for the Zips.

And the Flushes are going down to Eastern Michigan. Shame that EMU has that beautiful arena and it's almost empty

Tied for first! But still a tough schedule to go

Tribble and LCJ at the same time? Interesting

Michael Flowers trying to play hero ball

But on the upside a little time for Sayles and he gets involved quickly.

Quite the barn burner 4 minutes in ?

Joe played in the JAR as well, fun to watch with that unorthodox style but man he had so many different ways to score. Too bad Huggins wasn't hired a couple years earlier. Joe is still far and away the leading scorer in Zips history and it's not close. The gap between him and number two is as big as the gap between #2 and #8. Of course number 2 is Len Paul and had be been eligible to play his freshman year its possible he could have the all-time scoring title.

EMU making their typical late season push to save Rob Murphy's job. After starting off 0 and 7 they have climbed out of the basement in the MAC West And if the zips hadn't pulled off that sort of miracle win against them they would have won five straight. Kind of glad we're done with them for the regular season don't actually want to see them in the tournament.

And tomorrow let the Chipps fall where they may. ?

Cool that we are included but gotta get there first. Tomorrow is going to be tough, CMU is way better at home than they are on the road.

Glad to see he's still playing and doing well. Seems to have bulked up a bit too. Will probably always be my favorite Zip. Such a great guy.

For all you Riak haters he sure has been playing some good defense. And too bad the Zips didn't stretch the lead to even larger while they were preventing BUGS from scoring.

Tribble has been playing some good minutes tonight

I hadn't noticed this but golf already does it.

It is kind of ridiculous. In their sports menu they have a section for Ohio State and then another section for College Sports where Akron used to end up and there used to be a reasonable number of stories about Akron and the MAC. Today in the college section there are 39 stories. 35 are related to Ohio State, the other four are a basketball story each about Case Western, John Carroll, the Akron Kent game on January 31st and a Michigan college football coach who was fired after saying he would have dinner with Hitler. Quite the local Northeast Ohio college sports coverage there.

At least in Akron. The Bowling Green board has exactly three comments on the game right now. Is it because they have been beaten down for so long they dare not to hope when a big game is coming up? 52 years is a long time to wait which is why I was rooting for them last year.

Zips and BUGS had quite similar endings in their Saturday games. After the Zips dispatched EMU on a last second shot, BUGS won on two free throws with one second remaining. This is a pretty big game for the Zips. While they have owned BUGS over the last 20 years, they have really improved and certainly are heading for a top four seed. I was even rooting for them against Buffalo last year but obviously won't be if they face the Zips. With all the senior talent on the Zips this needs to be the year. So this is a pretty big game, win and the Zips and BUGS are tied in the loss column and the Zips remain very much alive for the top seed. A loss at home for a two game deficit with only seven games after that would be tough to make it. This needs to be a statement game and turn around the recent spate of poorer play.

Even made it on the front page on CNN/Bleacher Report.

Captain is true to his word on this. The first time I ever saw him (had not met him yet) was at the game at UConn in 2007 where he was wearing a Matt Cherry jersey.

So much better ?

Unbelievable Zips did not deserve to win that game at all but I'm still going to take it. Hey Merry Christmas NWAkron. ?

if you open your first Christmas present and didn't get what you wanted do you quit opening them? ?

If you are hoping for hopeful signs for this year ESPN shows the teams returning the most production. You can read the article to see what that means but they have the Zips as 14th in the country for returning production and first in the MAC. Of course it all depends on what your returning quality is of course.