Captain Kangaroo

Ali, X and Freeman. And two schleps.

Before I respond, is the MAC office monitoring this thread?

Who is Dambrot rooting for tonight? His old Duquesne star, or his alma mater?

If anyone is in the Phoenix area and wants to join a Zips Watch Party, pm me. First of the Zips 10 finals appearances I’ll miss. Hoping for a west coast round 1 NCAA tournament game. 😄

Bad news for the MAC - No seniors on this Zips team.

The guy knows how to get his players peaking when it counts. Great game by the Zips. Offensively and defensively. Total team effort. Amazing poise in both tournament games. Kent is a different animal. I see them rolling OU. We’ll have our hands full tomorrow. But in JohnGro I trust! 😄

The cbssn site worked fine. Just like the tv channel.

With a name like that, he had to be recruited by a guy from Pittsburgh!💪

Scholarship players is one thing, starters is another. Amazing how Dawson and Tribble have stepped up as duty called. They went from doing the things that don’t show up in the score book, to doing the things that do show up in the score book. If we can pull this off I think they are the difference between a lost season, and a championship season.

Penny for Trimble and Walton’s thoughts today.

Kent shooting 27% from behind the arc. Why can’t they do that against us!

If so, it should remind you of being a fan during the Coleman Crawford years. Miami has no chance.

If you wanted a rout, you got one. Miami ain’t no Buffalo.

Dru Joyce lll sighting in the lobby. Good to see him supporting the Zips!

Wish we could play through contact better.

Buffalo moving the ball and getting open looks. Akron isn’t, and aren’t.

Does Ali know he’s allowed to pass?

Ice cold Bell’s Two Hearted as I wait for the Zips tip-off. Kalamazoo’s worst (WMU bb team) might not have made it to Cleveland, but it’s best export did!

Need Freeman to stay out of foul trouble. He's been getting jobbed by the refs in the late-season. DPOY should get him a little more respect...

One Ohio team made it to the round of 32. One made it to the sweet 16. We'll never know what the Chesse/Banks/LCJ/Williams team would have done, but it was the best team I've seen in the JAR wearing a Zips uniform. No one can deny it is a viable argument that he is an equivalent or better coach.

Huggins took over an Akron program that was on probation (previous coach's doings) to the NCAA Tournament in his second year. Although Wikipedia doesn't show it, he also had 2 Akron teams with NIT bids. There's a reason Cincinnati wanted him, and he delivered a Final Four soon after he arrived. Damn good coach wherever he's been. His final two seasons @ UA were as an Independent, with no conference tournament/automatic bid possibility like Dambrot had. But I think a lot of people think in binary terms...either he sucked or he was the Messiah. I like Dambrot. I spent 13 seasons supporting him. But I know Huggins is a better basketball coach. And I'm pretty sure Groce is too. No disrespect to KD. Dambrot was usually the second best coach in the MAC. That's pretty good. But 0 NCAA tourney wins, and 3-9 in MAC Championship finals doesn't get you an A+ grade. More like a solid "B."

Bob Huggins Resume: One of only six coaches ever with 900 or more career victories, Huggins has been to 24 total NCAA tournaments, including 23 in the last 26 seasons. He has led his teams to nine Sweet Sixteen appearances, four Elite Eight appearances, and two Final Four appearances (1992 with Cincinnati; 2010 with West Virginia).

He also recruited Eric McLaughlin, whose jersey hangs in the JAR rafters. And Anthony Buford, who left the Zips after seeing what the future held in Coleman Crawford, and joined Huggins at UC as his starting 2-guard in the Final Four. He also went toe-to-toe with a star-studded Michigan team in the '86 NCAA tourney, with a 6' 3" football player center, and two other role-playing rentals from the football team. 903 career wins. Definitely the best basketball HC in Zips history.

So we get rid of the "Z." If Putin starts placing script Akron on his tanks, howitzers and goon squad T shirts, then what do we do?

Pam Arnold. And it’s the worst player photo ever. It’s like they scanned a 1985 pic from the Beacon and blew it up. Check it out the next time you’re in the JAR.