MDZip

#38!

It looks like German and the Role Players. No one else really stands out. If the Zips could weather Flowers and Teague I think they bust the NIU curse. Zips 67-63.

And the last two MAC undefeateds - Pinky (Kent) and the Brain (Zips). CMU closed it to a point late against the fightin' Pinky's but couldn't quite pull it out.

You might have been just a tad early with that one ?

Kind of fun to watch it on CBS sports and hear that NCAA tournament music

Ridiculous T on Reece

Ball State has seven points halfway through the second half

Defense travels even if you're at home. ?

Time for some updates? I think AZ71 got several things right and few wrong but for the beginning of the season, not bad. 1. Athletic team - no doubt 2. Reece - nice player, might have been a tad early to declare beast mode. ? 3. Williams has been very consistent and a critical part of the team. Does everything pretty well. 4. Tribble has been good but a think it'll take a few more years to declare him Akron's best point guard ever. ? 5. Cheese (and Channel Banks) have both been critical players. 6. Riak not most improved (going to give that to LCJ) but has played his role well. 7. LCJ has been the best surprise. Playing under control, leading the team good shot selection. Never would have guessed he would lead the team in scoring. 8. Been an excellent year so far.

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).