ESPN didn't show coach Bowden at all, but they did show daddy Kellogg in the second half. Apparently, however the announcers either didn't recognize him, or preferred not to advertise the competition as they never mentioned him by name.
Now on to what was the most obvious thing about this game, namely THE REFS! Those guys were an embarassment to the MAC and to college basketball. I don't often comment on referreeing, as I have several friends who do that job, and I know it is difficult to put yourself in the spectators' bullseye. But, folks in this case, these three took any fun out of what was a great basketball game played by two very good teams. Rarely, if ever have I seen so many touch fouls called -- OK, most of the bad calls were whistled on the Bobcats, so some would say, "keep your mouth shut", but for Pete's sake, if these are the type of officials the MAC sends to such a big game, what do Toledo and Northern Illinois get? Remember the intentional foul call late in the game? HOW, HOW was that justified? And frankly, I didn't think the two-to-zero technical ratio on the little tete-a-tete between Zeke and Cooper was fair -- either Cooper or that knumbskull on the OU bench deserved one too.
Key stat: Defensive rebounding by Akron -- for the first half and early second, Ohio got almost no offensive boards. That made a difference.