Z.I.P.

Ummmm...it could have something to do with his name, and that he lives with the CMU Head Coach...

I'm just the official RPI copier and paster. Your point is well taken about the change in formula affecting the year-to-year RPI comparisons between the majors and mid-majors. But I'm mainly thinking in terms of comparing the MAC to similar mid-major conferences, not the top tier. So the MAC should be relatively as affected as the other mid-major conferences competing to be the "best of the rest." The 10th overall best conference may or may not be what it used to be. But it's still a worthy and reasonable goal for the MAC to aspire to. The WAC went from: #20 in 2007-2008 to #11 in 2008-2009 to #10 in 1009-2010.. If the WAC can turn around that quickly, so can the MAC. Somehow those numbers don't pass the Great Zip in Paradise's smell-O-meter, but that may be because I've been watching the particularly smelly results of the Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors all those years. I think the change in the WAC is the result of the OTHER one-time smelly clubs, like New Mexico State, Idaho State and San Jose State pouring just a modicum of cologne over their rotting corpses. Kudos to the Aggies for securing what was it -- a 12 seed?

Who the heck has Vermont playing at Boston College in the CBI?? I could swear I saw the Catamounts beat Boston U. yesterday to secure a first round 16 vs 1 battle with a Syracuse club that probably can't remember the last time the two met. http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball...0318_VERMON@SYR How can you not love Tom Brennan? Go Cats!

Boy, talk about presumptious!

I've heard pig poop smells worse than horse poop. Okay, I give up. What the heck is the CIT? Isn't there a bank...oh, never mind. No, wait there's that computer company...nah, I'm sorry I asked!

Did I see Don Cockroft in the stands?

They waited till the end? Wow!

Exactly. I have to change my Depends. To repeat: Thanks for stopping by the Q Mr Kool. Now you can go away!

WELL...AKRON WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for stopping by Mr Kool.

I agree. Props to xu9697 & mes102. I watched two Ken+ games this year and couldn't see how they weren't going to be the finals. That Ken+ team I watched last night was not the same team as the team I watched before. They were flat.I think they got mixed up about the game last friday. They thought that game was the one that mattered. Well, obviously Akron didn't.

... lowered the shoulder AND quite often pushed off with the off arm. I really like the guy but I can't stand it when the refs don't call something so blatant.Akron 72WMU 65Miami 43OU 42Chance for revenge Saturday night.We'll know how the game will go in warm ups. If the PR system blares, "Celebration" before the game, the Zips are in for a hard time. If the refs are whistling it, just keep walking.Seriously though, I saw this team play thrice early in the season -- Kool only got to double figures once as I recall, but they were a jumper away from beating USC and winning the event. WMU plays much better as a team when they PLAY as a team. It's important to stop the other guards from going off on you from '3'. Wolfe, Brown and McLemore can hurt you if they get hot. Gotta play 'em tight on the perimeter.

So he's now in charge of pretty much everything people complain about when it comes to being a Zips fan.Ladies and gentlemen, meet the next University of Akron AD. No we don't promote from within, just ask Hunter. I see that trend being reversed. Starting with women's bb. There's such a thing as hiring your successor. You just don't have the opportunity to make the final decision.

The highlighted line is my main concern. I think we need the Big 'Z' to put in a strong 25 minutes tonight, and hopefully manana para la noche. Que vamos Zipperos.

With yesterday's upsets, looks like Rhode Island and San Diego State moved from Bubble to Dance. Kudos to them.

Reghi has always pronounced it that way. He gets corrected every game, but I think he just like to have fun with it at this point. Reghi! Irie mon!

So he's now in charge of pretty much everything people complain about when it comes to being a Zips fan.Ladies and gentlemen, meet the next University of Akron AD.

They/you are right, individual sports are 1% as important as team sports in the big picture. The Wall Street Journal is a great publication and to even have the conference mentioned in it is good as many people will see that article. You crack me up!He should've put a disclaimer in there.... The WSJ is a great publication if you aren't a left coast liberal whack job. There ya go, better now? Think ya left out the phrase "soccer lovin'" in that description. But thanks for clarifying for the overseas post-liberal intelligentsia.

81-64 final! God bless the Ohio Bobcats. Goodness gracious... Now, I would rather play Buffalo than Miami frankly. Buffalo may be slightly better overall, but I think Miami presents more problems -- and memories! -- Oh yeah. Let's beat Western first! --

Yeah. But Medlock gacked!

ESPN Gamecast:http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/gamecast?gameId=300702309

Excellent! "Fan section report - Akron fans behind the AK bench have huge cutouts of player/coaches heads (imagine the roleplay segment on PTI, only jumbo-sized). Very sharp."Attendance report - Let’s just say it’s looking like the decision to go back to playing 1st round games at home sites was probably a good one.Kool keys WMU comeback with 24 in second half.http://hosted2.ap.org/OHLOR/a83f53f64d8747...d38a5bf4d27b4f3Rowdies. What's the scene down there, over. vmd, Headrowdyaviator... Where ya at?

40-32 Akron leads at half. Conyers scores his first five of the game in final thirty seconds to enlarge Akron's lead. Zips just 5-10 at FT line in half.

3 by McClanahan and Zeke's big dunk puts Akron up 14-10.

Chris McKnight picks up two quick fouls. EMU leads 10-9 with just over 15:00 to play.

I'm partial to Superfund Cleanup Site High. Environmental engineering perspective.