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Massive crowd with a buzz too. People actually want to be here.

Last year's senior night was against NIU, and this year's Freeman night is against NIU. That's 2 of the last 4 Zips games I've attended being against the Huskies. They cannot go to the Horizon Summit Valley Conference League soon enough.

While we'll be celebrating Freeman tonight (and hopefully extending the nation's longest winning streak), there are some interesting matchups in the MAC. Kent at BUGS - BG has the weapons to knock off Kent, they just need to stop sucking. Miami at EMU - Does Miami take out all their anger from the WMU loss on Stan Heath's crew, or does Heath's squad hold serve at home in front of a raucous crowd of 10 people? CMU at Ohio - Has anybody found AJ Clayton or will CMU turn the dial up even more on Boals' already scalding hot seat? Balls at Toledo - Go Balls. WMU at Canada - Literally nobody cares. NWAkron cares.

Happy GOAT Day!

Based on an article that was shared with me, it looks like PSU switched his position to WR after an injury. Hopefully his switch back to Safety for us will yield success.

Freeman's attendance is worth at least 10 more points. Here's to hoping Akron honors him properly and wins by 25.

This was a survival of the fittest race and I was shocked to see Ty Dillon snag a top 15 finish. He and Almendinger had great starting positions, but weren't as fortunate to avoid disaster during the race (Almendinger more so than Dillon). Pretty cool that Ty signed with Kaulig Racing. His grandpa is Richard Childress.

I believe it was Seth Wilson not far from him that looked down at the ball in confusion like, "Oh, you're not going to dive for the ball you lost? I have to go for it?" Throughout his career, Nate has had these poor habits of sleepwalking through games. He's almost too good for his own good at times because the game becomes too easy and he falls into the trap of taking plays off as a result. Again, so many coachable moments for Groce to review with the team; I suspect this will be towards the top for JG.

Take the win, come home, and get right by whooping Husky ass on Freeman night. Lots of coachable moments in this game, and we all know Groce will be sure to capitalize. Love that we're not losing while still working through those struggles. 13 in a row. Keep it rolling!

He has to be the favorite. Best player on by far the best team.

That pass on the backdoor cut by Gray, while being in the same side of the court as Young (the cutter), was elite. One of the prettiest passes on a backdoor cut I've seen in some time.

I'm not saying it would. I posted what I think would be ok stipulations that both allowed for expansion and maintained the integrity of college basketball. I'm well aware their goal is to get the C & D tier Power Conference teams into the tourney.

Nobody wants this, as you can tell by the crowd's reaction. However, I would be ok with the expansion if the following became true... - Conference play is year round - not just January through March - for all conferences - Power Conference teams must play X amount of true road games at mid majors - Auto bid for all regular season conference champs with a NET ranking in the top XX

Kent doesn't win games - other teams lose them. Both teams suck. Ohio is challenged athletically and in basketball IQ. Kent is offensively challenged (and IQ challenged but that's redundant since I already said "Kent"). If the MAC Championship game is anybody but Akron & Miami, I will be shocked. Side note: just went to Bobcat Attack and saw the headline that their win at BUGS on Tuesday was their first win in BG in 8 years. Holy...

They're going to need those suitcases for the MW travel.

Kent up 4 at the half on Ohio 44-40 after both teams were hot from the field. Ohio started off 10/11 but cooled off a bit. Ohio let Kent keep up with a bunch of awful awful turnovers.

Your first paragraph is correct, although it's missing the detail of Abreu's arrest during the last week or so of the season. They regrouped after Kent, beat Jim Christian's Bobcats with Groce's roster by 19 in the title game, then got embarrassed in Auburn Hills with over half the team out due to the flu. Buffalo lost at NIU during the 2018-19 season. I don't remember the court storming, and can only picture all 5 fans in attendance overpowering the security guards to get onto the floor. It wasn't a long winning streak (6 games), but Buffalo was ranked 14th at the time.

We absolutely would with this type of supporting cast. As Captain said, we had virtually no consistent shooters last year; Freeman was our only consistent scoring option. Could you imagine being able to go inside-out, with Freeman's passing vision, with these shooters this year? Opponents would be forfeiting halfway through games because their players would get motion sickness from having to keep their heads on a swivel so much. 63% from the field is closer to our season average than the 44% from 3 that WMU shot (before the final few chuck and pray possessions) was to their season average. I like our chances to replicate our offensive superiority in Cleveland more than any other team.

Which is why I think Bud Wentz is shelling out so much $$$ for basketball. The numbers consistently show an uptick in enrollment/support for schools following a March Madness run. I have some other ideas in the interim, but that's the end-all-be-all solution.

Ohio State has a large under grad population, and the majority are there because Ohio State is cool and attending games is a social status boost. Akron has a dwindling under grad population, the majority are there to focus on their sport or education, Akron isn't cool, and attending games doesn't boost their social status. Until someone figures out how to make Akron cool, these kids are going to struggle to find the motivation to support athletics.

WMU is shooting 44% from 3, Akron is shooting 52%. This is ridiculous.

With all due respect, you suck. 😂