Z.I.P.

For the first time in my recollection ESPN has added a scoreboard for all the NCAA Tournament games. Hurray. https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard/_/league/usa.ncaa.m.1

Who remembers NCAA first round game about 1982, Akron vs UW-Green Bay at Lee Jackson? It was 33-35° all day with off-and-on sleet! The field was going to freeze and coach Dowdy hired a helicopter service to fly over the field at about 30-50 ft elevation to warm the playing surface to prevent it from freezing! We went on to defeat the Phoenix decisively.

Another anomaly I see is West Virginia winning SBC tournament, but having to do on road vs Virginia in second round. How are the Mountaineers not among the top sixteen teams??

1-0 Buckeyes is the final. Question: Is our OT "loss" to Georgetown considered as a loss or draw for records? I thought all OT games were draws, but GoZips.com shows a loss.

OSU 1 Mich 0. 86 mins. 👍

Okay. What time is the Selection Show? Anyone have a link? 🙏

So you're saying I should root for a Suckeyes WIN?? 🤯😵😂

I'm presuming/hoping that Akron DOES get in as a "Last Four In", so how does the bracket fall? That is, since the Top-16 get first-round byes, we would be playing on the road versus a opponent outside the 16, but not far outside, correct?

Thanks. My mistake. Turned it on with <20' to play, missed goal. Seemed like GU was the better team late.

Watching Big East title game on Fox Sports 2. Georgetown leads 1-0 nearing halftime. Announcers talking a lot about the Zips, including that they subbed very little in first half vs Hoyas and tired late in that game. GU keeper Manske made a great stop to preserve their lead vs PU.

Transfer or Freshman??

Closing it out with free throws. 84-74 27 seconds to go.

Kam'ten Rhodes and Alexis Mobley with a pair of crucial 3-pointers give Akron the lead 79-74 with 1:15 remaining. Upset Alert!!

62-61 Vikings after 3 quarters. This type of performance should be the confidence builder the team needs. Akron scores first to take the lead in the final period.

Taniesha Clarke leading Akron with 20 points midway through 3rd quarter. Tied 55 all.

Zips tied up at 43 apiece with a very good Cleveland State team at the JAR at the half. Both teams are shooting lights-out. 58% CSU to 53% Akron. Vikings made 7 of 12 three-pointers to 4 of 9 for the Zips first half and surely can't keep that up the whole game! I believe Akron led 30-22 before CSU went on about a 17-8 run, but the home team responded to draw even after 2 quarters.

MDZip, is the lighting that bad at this facility, or is it Flosports/BigEast communications?

Gensler's 2025 recruiting class includes Kailee Bransford, whose sister KK was two-time Ohio Miss Basketball at Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame and plays for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend. Interesting!

I never met Gerry in person. Only attended one of his games, when Terry Forbes' McKinley team whooped Moeller in the snow at the Rubber Bowl for the OHSAA title. However I know what a truly fine man he was. I attended the Notre Dame game versus Hawai'i at Aloha Stadium in the early '90s. Several Notre Dame fans saw my AKRON ZIPS cap and came up to tell me we were fortunate to have a great guy and leader of men as our football coach! But an even more personal story occurred around that same time just around 1990 or '91. I used to call a service that you would call on your land-line phone and listen to college basketball and football games -- it was HQ'ed in Akron. Well after a while I got the idea it would be cheaper to call Akron's radio station myself (WHLO then) and listen to the games. I called and they would put me on hold so I could hear the broadcast. About the third time I called the receptionist asked for my phone number. I thought she meant in case I was cut off she could call back. But about a week later I got a call about 5:00 Hawai'i time (10 or 11 in the evening in Ohio. After answering, the voice on the other end said "Hello, this is coach Gerry Faust. I hear you've been calling the station to hear our games! I just wanted to thank you for being such a great fan". I almost peed my pants! Again, late at night a college football coach makes a cold call to a stranger to just say thanks. That's the kind of guy Gerry Faust was!

In a galaxy far, far away shall live a Jedi master. A future ancestor of Wan Kuzri Wan Kamal, named Obi Wan Kenobi. It shall be stated that Obi Wan's light saber skills are a throwback to the left-footed power of his grand ancestral footballer relative in the Mid-Rim territories, including the pitch at First Energy Stadium, Jääskeläinen Field as the facility should be known in galactic football havens such as Tatooine and Coruscant.

Emil is now unanimous Big East Offensive Player of the Year for 2024. In his Hermann Trophy campaign I propose we call him Emil Jääskeläinen, The Finnisher!

The total is now eleven games unbeaten. The last loss was on Sep. 14 to Temple. 🏆 anyone?

If you can do his for basketball you could make a living at it! lol. Mahalo nui loa!

10-3-4 and close to the top of power ratings nationally in the football we care about in this forum. Charles is not what anyone would call a Great Communicator. He never ingratiated himself to the core Zips fans or alumni, but these are tough times both financially and politically at the university and he got caught up in more than he probably bargained for. I wish Charles all the best in his and his family's future.

Regarding players with accumulated yellow cards (4?). Is Mitch Budler one of those players? I've seen a reference on social media that Brett Kaminski will play. Not sure of accuracy