Let'sGoZips94

What. A. Dumbass.

Does this affect the Tourney?

Goal WMU. 2-0.

What a SAVE by Butler. WOW.

1-0 at the half. Akron picked up the intensity and controlled most of the second part of the first half. WMU is packing the box. Akron had a rip from the top of the box at the buzzer but missed wide right - not by a whole much.

Goal WMU at the 3 minute mark.

They should scratch his name from the stats book so we don't know who the stats belong to. Too soon?

Do you think they market this to their fans as "Men's Basketball program beat PENN STATE Greater Allegheny 130-49" ?

Is it even that many?

I came back to the thread to post just this. By the way, with the Akron Soccer news, did anyone notice the court we were playing on? It rhymes with Fig Beast. 😉

To answer your question - off night. Playing in empty cavernous arenas is Akron's kryptonite.

Miss St isn't missing. Tough. X isn't seeing the basket very well.

Lots of game left. Nice run by Miss St. Get stops and make baskets. Play smarter on offense and we can get back into this.

1 PT LEAD!

1 pt game let's go!

Bad bad bad first half offensively. Only way we can go is up, and we're only down 8. I will take it. Congrats to Portnoy and Big Cat on hitting their bets for the first half over. Now they're both solely Akron fans.

If we start making shots, we'll blow these guys out. They suck.

Jans is an angry elf.

Miss St is bigger than I thought. Love our effort though.

Here we go! Let's Go Zips!

Which is genius.

Those pre-game hype videos for each team are SWEET. Can't wait to see the one for Akron.

I don't know if you saw my post in the soccer thread where the Big East was mentioned. The Big East media deal with Fox Sports is a 12 year, $500M deal - ~$40M per year. They don't have football. Compare this with the MAC's 13 year, $100M (~$8M per year) deal with football. Although the Big East deal is set to expire in a couple of years, their ratings beat most other sports on FS1, so this will most likely be renewed and maybe for even more. The $32M annual increase would more than justify moving every sport possible out of the MAC and into the Big East, while going Independent in football until a conference is found.