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The receivers on this team are good for some big plays here and there but are any of them truly dependable? That has to be addressed before next season. The only ones I trust at all are the tight ends. Tonight was not poor coaching, was not poor defense, just poor offensive execution.

Sorry. Not sure how that entered twice

I would like to see the Zips extend an offer to Aubin Gateretse, 6’11” athletic center from Belgium that is transferring out of Stetson after helping them get to the NCAA tourney this year.

I would like to see the Zips extend an offer to Aubin Gateretse, 6’11” athletic center from Belgium that is transferring out of Stetson after helping them get to the NCAA tourney this year.

North Texas(NIT over UAB in the final) and Charlotte (CBI) I believe. I remember FAU in the NCAA Final Four as well. All four of those teams were mid-majors from CUSA. There was no CIT last year.

I still feel like a key difference in recent years was the transferring out of Aziz. We had our athletic 7 footer to play with these guys. That would have made such a big difference today and would have had us dominating the MAC if everyone else was still there.

There are 7 conferences they really pay attention to. I hope the Sycamores make a deep NIT run.

I honestly think this is where the CiT could come in. Bowling Green is hosting a CiT game. The CiT is run by collegeinsider.com which is the same site that has the mid-major Top 25 rankings that seem to be widely accepted and used in the media. Combine the CBI and CiT ( we don’t really need both) and find a way to not make the new tourney pay to play, more like the NIT format.... would also love a best of three final that the CBI had once upon a time.

Yes, I have been putting this travesty out there all season since the announcement. It Does look like BG has accepted a CiT bid and is also hosting. Must mean Schools like Toledo and Ohio declined. Sad state of affairs. Especially now with the NIT effectively shutting the MAC out we need a viable tournament for our top teams that just didn’t have it go their way in Cleveland. Make the regular season matter with a postseason berth somewhere.

Any chance any MAC team plays in the CBI or CiT? CIT is back this year with 16 teams, campus sites...4 pods of 4 teams each to keep costs down. CBI, a little less exciting to me, but 16 teams all one site single elimination over four days

I think Shammah and Tavari are key tonight. Scott seems to have found his three point stroke while Dawson is really cold and Sammy hasn’t been all that hot of late either but could play a key role if he finds his stroke or can be more of a force on the boards. Tavari has been a spark late in the season even as the team has come back to earth. Game 2 of back to backs are always hard to know what to expect. Does one team run out of gas? How much does depth make a difference? Does fatigue show up more in three point shooting or in being a step slow and fouling on defense? No matter what happens this has had to be an interesting tournament for Coach Groce, first sending his brother home (and completing the set to say Akron defeated every MAC team this season) then a semifinal date with his previous employer where he still made his deepest postseason run to this point.

Miami is the only team in the MAC that Akron did not defeat this season.

Would Rhode Island be interested in moving up from FCS? Natural rival to UMass and a usually solid basketball program.

I get what you are saying but it was the landing spot for teams that earned championships throughout the entire season. You say 69th but quite often a team got hot for three or four games in their conference tournament but was not better than the team that proved itself tops in their league in the months of work prior. For this reason the NIT probably meant more to schools in leagues like the MAC than it would to schools in the ACC or Big East... but now they are coddling to them even more.

If Tavari and Prather stick around they would immediately be key contributors in 2024-25. I hope they both stay. I would love to see Lyles develop here as well but he seems to be a foul magnet, so I am not sold on him.