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I am NOT buying into that one at all. There were plenty of black players at major universities in those days. And Phil Jackson was not black, even then.

OH, did I mention that THREE of them are in the Hall of Fame? Someone do some research to see if there is another All America Team, even Div I, that has THREE members in the Hall of Fame.

Is that you never know how a high school kid will turn out: All-Americs - Division II (1960's) 1966-67 ALL-AMERICAN TEAM FIRST TEAM Walt Frazier, Southern Illinois Sam Smith, Kentucky Wesleyan Earl Monroe, Winstom-Salem State Bill Turner, Akron Phil Jackson, North Dakota You think Clyde or The Pearl might have been recruited by a "big" if they had a crystal ball.... And the guy Phil didn't turn out too bad either. Oh yeah, Sam Smith was no slacker either: Sam Smith (born January 27, 1944 in Hazard, Kentucky) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'7" forward, Smith played at Kentucky Wesleyan College, with whom he won the NCAA Division II championship in 1966. In the final 15 seconds of that game, Smith made a layup, breaking a 51-51 tie and giving Kentucky Wesleyan the victory over Southern Illinois University Carbondale.[1] From 1967 to 1971, Smith played in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Minnesota Muskies, Kentucky Colonels, and Utah Stars. He averaged 8.2 points and 7.0 rebounds per game in his ABA career,[2] and won a league championship with the Stars.[3] In fact, those five could have probably beat any Div I team in the country.. And no, I didn't forget Turner. Just saying, you never know how a HS recruit is going to turn out. We could get REALLY lucky next year. Who knows.

He even looks like Nik

They are playing amazing. More importantly, it shows just how good Zeke is. K ent is scoring inside at will Zeke kept them out of the paint.

I have only seen Euton play a few minutes. My impression is that he probably can shoot BUT he does not seem athletic, just big. When I first saw Q play a few minutes I said WOW, and I said it here. Egner still seems to be an unknown to me. But maybe, just maybe, KD decided that Euton just does not fit into the athletic team he is building, and let him know that?

Something is wrong when you work so hard to recruit someone AND make it to the dance and the guy transfers. Obviously, it is not because he wants to play for a winning program - we certainly have that. And just as obviously it is not because some major major is wooing him - he has barely seen the court, no one at an "at large" school is going to offer him a scholarship on the basis of NOTHING. Sadly, it might be the Akron rep for academics, although I don't see anything wrong with it. Still, it is not Harvard or Princeton or Cornell, so maybe he is going Ivy league as a student?

And that is 20 points - 16 if you take off the blocked shots. What a shame, we could have been in it.

They played GREAT against the #5 team in the country. They won the game in every way except points scored. (Yes, I know), My point is, they REALLY outplayed them on defense. They got PLENTY of good looks. They made very few mistakes. Nik gets the bunny, Zeke gets three or four of those misses, just about all of which COULD have gone in, there was a 3 in the second half that went in and came out again, we could easily have had them on the ropes if the shots had dropped. Other than shooting, we really did beat them down. Stopped them inside, messed up lots of outside shots, got some steals. And like the man said, they had no answer for Zeke. He could shoot at will. But our shots just would not drop. It happens.

Me too

Same thing when you are talking Akron vs the #5 ranked team in the country.

Oh man. There must be a cover on the basket. We are getting the looks and playing the D the shots just won't drop

How can we be this cold? NOTHING will drop. This is unreal. Make some shots we could win this game.

"Anyone get the number of that truck that just ran us over"? This game is NOT what ND expected

We are playing great defense, They just about everything outside, Zeke and the rest are doing a great job in the paint and on the boards. And so many of our shots did not drop Stand by...

WE actually out played them a good part of the half. If just two of those Zeke shots had dropped, we would be tied And most of them should have dropped. And Zeke was awesome at the end - TWO SWATS This one is totally up for grabs. If we can get some shots to drop.....

OK, so I don't like the next few minutes so much, But those bunnies have to start to drop.

If the game ended at 17:06 we won. Seriously, we are playing GREAT. I LOVE the new ZEKE OFFENSE Those things are going to start to drop. I am smelling something..... Could it be an upset????

It is the NCAAs You play your ass off and do whatever you can to win. If that means Zeke and Bardo both play 40 minutes, so be it.There is no tomorrow. From here on, it is one and done.

The Big East get 11 bids. The MAC got one. MAC teams have a hard time scheduling Top 25 teams. the ONLY way to improve is to beat top teams in the tournaments. When you can do that with some consistency, people will notice.

Great game. The commentators could not believe it. MAC teams have an advantage in close endings like that. So many MAC games end like that, they have experience! Anyway, so much for EA Every MAC team has won in the post season so far. This might help the entire MAC RPI next year.

I hope they win. MAC needs to beat some good programs

There is a video on Youtube of Zeke in HS running down court to try to stop a dunk. He does not get there but he can REALLY move for a big guy. He kept up with a guard. We don't see that speed in the defense we play, but he is really fast as well as big.

vs FSU would be some game. They would be out for revenge, and we KNOW we can beat them. Are there any players remaining from either roster? Wasn't that 4 years ago or more? I don't think the psychology of that game would be as you describe it at all. If beating ND in the first round, that would provide all the confidence we might need to beat FSU...why is my alarm clock going off again? I am pretty sure that D ROb, Brett and Bardo were on the roster then. Nick Dials hit those big threes and mcnees. I would love to see that. That was a game we were NOT supposed to win. I have it on video. Still watch it once in a while. The OT part, it was amazing.

Glover is a Pastor? Who would have thought? Always a good guy. never arrogant about being a basketball player.