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That's awesome for him. Here is a link to the selections.

I think everyone is overlooking the obvious. BC is a Christian school. That's the reason he got the job.

Would love to see Boals get a job like this but would hate to play against him. Really liked the guy.

Yedlin's performance grades out as a 6 according to ESPN. I think that's fair, he played the last 23 minutes and had some good plays and a few small mistakes. He was not on the field for any of the Mexican goals. Bright future for this young man. D DeAndre Yedlin, 6 – Had some blazing runs forward and looked a bit more composed than he did on his debut back in January.

Hey leave me out of this. Besides I'm not interested. And if Tressel would ever become President and needs a PhD, I know where he can get one. Maybe he would have the power to award himself and honorary one.

And to take it one step further was part of the team that won back the Wagon Wheel the season before transferring. Starting to feel good about this.

Great shot of her. Got to be the most publicly underappreciated member of the team. I wish I would have kept it but I read an article the other day that mentioned Luburgh and Tecca making the all tournament team but never mentioned Cassell making it (nor her 18 points against CMU in the semifinal). I think the most telling thing about Cassell was this quote in the story "Cassell's assist numbers (677) for her career helped four Akron seniors post 1,000 points in their careers. But Cassell's been there before, as a 1,000-point scorer in high school." Adjusted her own game for the good of the team and helped Tecca, Luburgh, King and Young all reach 1,000 points. Wow.

Rick Pitino unhappy because he has to coach against a former assistant in the first round. Great idea Rick, they should have made that a rule last year, I'm sure that should be the first thing on a committee's mind - he said maybe they were a bunch of soccer AD's. God, that guy whines.

Just for the ones they have listed at the bottom of the page - Monmouth and College of Charleston got 3.5 stars, Akron and Notre Dame got 4 and Georgetown, UCLA and Stanford all got 5. I don't put a lot of stock into those.

Time set up a method by which you can compare schools based on perceived influence of graduates (based solely on Wikipedia information). Obviously it doesn't really mean much of anything but it was fun to play with. I checked and every MAC school came out ahead of UA (Can't kicked our ass, Toledo was closest to us). At least we beat Youngstown. http://time.com/27821/us-college-rankings/

Hate that the women have to take on Purdue on their floor but they certainly have a shot. Go Zips!

Christi Smith Jenna Compton Stevie Large Men's Soccer welcome Shawn Barber Awesome

After watching them last year I really thought they'd have a shot this year but when Sina King went down and CMU and BGSU played so well thought they had a much longer shot at it but things really fell their way in this tournament and are really taking advantage. Wouldn't it be ironic if the first NCAA tournament win came from the ladies?

What a terrific team, heart, brains and guts.

Western Michigan's schedule was arguably more difficult than the Zips. Their two crossover games were Miami and Ohio. and they played Toledo twice. They and the Zips both had EMU twice and NIU was probably as good as half the East. WMU is legit but the Zips have an excellent shot.

But six in eight days might - go EMU

Now the Zips are the last team left in the East as the Bulls just got upset by EMU. I'm disappointed I wanted to see a Buffalo-Toledo semifinal.

Saw a post on the Bobcats board where someone was looking ahead to next season and thought their freshman center would be helped by the departures of McCrea, Whittington and Tree. Didn't have the heart to tell him. Don't think the Zips fear WMU at all. Tomorrow should be another good one.

Q at the Q right on cue. Great game from him tonight, but offensively no one played too badly. Zips ended over 60% on field goals and almost that good on 3 pointers. Their FT percentage (58.8) was barely better than their 3 pt percentage (58.3). Maybe they need to shoot their free throws from further back. But the Zips missed more than the Bobcats even attempted (14 misses to 11 attempts). Wow.

Where did this Campbell kid come from? He and Big Dog could have a few battles over the next three years. And what's our free throw percentage like 35%?

That's because Gonzaga's sports teams are the Bulldogs not the Zags. I think the Zips do have the only Z in college sports (there are no Zebras). I like the Z.

The MAC payer of the year, Crystal Bradford will miss the MAC tournament. http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2014/03/mac_player_of_the_year_cmus_cr.html If the Zips win their game tomorrow night they will a face a Bradford-less CMU team. That's a huge swing. Speaking of that, anyone heard anything on Rachel Tecca?

The MAC released the POY and COY. No real surprise that McCrea won it, my big surprise is that four MAC players got votes and Tree was not one of them (hope thats a bit of motivation for next year). All four of the other first teamers got at least one vote. Steve Hawkins of WMU got the other vote. Can't argue too much with that. Montgomery (NIU) Kowalczyk (Toledo) and Hurley (Buffalo) also got votes. Glad Hurley didn't win it. http://www.mac-sports.com/tabid/969/Article/327373/Buffalo-s-McCrea-Western-Michigan-s-Hawkins-Receive-Top-MAC-Honors.aspx. Something seems a little funny though. The article mentions a 25 member voting panel and there are 25 votes for COY but there are 26 for POY.

Every team in the MAC has been to the NCAA tournament in the 2000's except EMU (last appearance 1998), NIU (1996), Toledo (1980), BGSU (1968) and Buffalo (never). While I expect the Zips have an excellent chance of advancing to the Championship game again this year, I believe that the winner of Toledo/Buffalo will end their own drought. My guess for the rest of the tournament: Miami over OU NIU over EMU Akron over Miami Buffalo over NIU Akron over WMU Toledo over Buffalo Toledo over Akron

Terrific linebacker for the Zips in the 70's http://www.hustlebelt.com/mac-football/2014/3/11/5491712/2014-college-football-hall-of-fame-mac-candidates