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53-48 Zips with 7:57 to go.

Not a good day for Cheese to say the least. Banks is carrying this team this afternoon.

45-39 Akron, 12:32 mark.

31-27 at the half, Akron's lead.

22-12 Akron. Just under 9 minutes to play in the first half.

10-9 Akron at the 14:21 mark. Sloppy on both sides for the most part.

"Damnit FLO, you tricked me. But I'm going to get my $150 worth. Lady Zips on at 11, DIII Men's Volleyball at 1. That should carry me to the Zips/Tulane game at 2:30 unless GoZips.com screwed up and it's actually a 3:30 tip. Hmmmm... Ah! NAIA Grass Growing & Paint Drying simultaneously at 2:15 just in case. Perfect." - @Blue & Gold (probably)

That's the answer I was looking for. Thank you. Looks like it's Frenchy for me. I would contact FLO and let them know your error, see if there's anything they can do. This is why we can't have nice things.

Did you mean to do the monthly? So the yearly locks you in for the full $150?

Pardon the potential KSUcks-level question here, but has anyone looked into the FloHoops subscription for these 2 games? If I do the "Yearly" plan, is it a monthly payment of $12.50 until I cancel? Or am I locked into paying the full $150 no matter when I cancel? From the website... "4. Payment By providing a credit card or other “Payment Method” accepted by FloSports for your subscription, you are expressly agreeing that we are authorized to charge you a monthly or yearly subscription fee, any other fees for additional services you may purchase, and any applicable taxes in connection with your use of your subscription to the Payment Method. If you want to use a different Payment Method than the one you signed up to use during registration, or if there is a change in your credit card validity or expiration date, you may edit your Payment Method information by logging in on the FloSports Site and clicking on your profile > Account > Subscriptions > Manage. When you provide a Payment Method to access a subscription, including in connection with a free trial offer, our system will attempt to verify the information you entered. We do this by processing an authorization hold, which is a standard practice. We do not charge you in connection with this authorization hold. If your Payment Method expires and you do not edit your Payment Method information or cancel your account, you authorize us to continue billing, and you will remain responsible for any uncollected amounts. As used in these Terms, “billing” shall indicate either a charge or debit, as applicable, against your Payment Method. The subscription fee will be billed at the beginning of your subscription or expiration of your free trial period, if any, whichever is earlier, and on each monthly or yearly renewal date thereafter unless and until you cancel your subscription or the account or service is otherwise suspended or discontinued pursuant to these Terms. To see the commencement date for your next renewal period, log in on the FloSports Site and click on your profile > Account > Subscriptions > Manage. We automatically bill your Payment Method each month or year on the calendar day corresponding to the commencement of your subscription (each such month, a “Monthly Period”, or year, a “Yearly Period”). In the event your subscription began on a day not contained in a given month, we bill your Payment Method on the last day of such month. For example, if you became a paying subscriber on January 31, your Payment Method would next be billed on February 28. If you change your Payment Method, this could result in changing the calendar day upon which you are billed. You acknowledge that the amount billed each Monthly Period or Yearly Period may vary due to promotional offers, changes in your subscription, and changes in applicable taxes, and you authorize us to charge your Payment Method for the corresponding amounts. If FloSports changes the subscription fee or other charges for your subscription, we will give you advance notice of these changes by email. However, we will not be able to notify you of changes in any applicable taxes. Very rarely, if there are special circumstances where FloSports determines it is appropriate (e.g., your subscription Service is unavailable for days due to technical difficulties), we may provide credits to affected subscribers. The amount and form of such credits, and the decision to provide them, are at FloSports sole and absolute discretion, and the provision of credits in one instance does not entitle anyone to credits in the future under similar or different circumstances. Ongoing Subscription and Cancellation. Your subscription will continue in effect on a month-to-month or year-to-year basis unless and until you cancel your subscription or the account or service is otherwise suspended or discontinued pursuant to these Terms. You must cancel your subscription before your monthly or yearly renewal date in order to avoid the next billing (each Monthly Period or Yearly Period). We will bill the monthly or yearly subscription fee plus any applicable taxes to the Payment Method you provide to us during registration (or to a different Payment Method if you change your account information). If you cancel your subscription, cancellation will be effective at the end of the current Monthly Period or Yearly Period. This means that you will have continued access to your subscription for the remainder of that period, but you will not receive a refund. You can cancel your account at any time through your account settings. These account settings can be accessed by scrolling over your profile at the top right of the home page. On that drop down menu, you will see “Account”. You will be able to access the “Subscription” tab and from there you will have the ability to cancel or modify your subscription by clicking “Manage”."

Damn good work, detective. I guess this is the kind of agreement you can make when you don't have a 30,000-seat mound of debt to pay off.

Not to mention their first 3 games were against non-DI opponents. Murphy decided to schedule tough this year, I see.

I'm always leery of ranking systems created by committees in charge of essentially delivering cash flow for the NCAA. Then again, any system that has Can't falling 32 spots... I might reconsider. ?

I don't care what time of year it is. I wish we could get a P5 school to come play us at the JAR. I'd even fill the student sections with cardboard cutouts; make it look like Madden fans. Rudolph the Red Nose Clown Show - AKA PCCC's coach - eeking one out against North Carolina Alphabet Soup is sad, but a beautiful thing at the same time. BAD loss by Toledo to UMKC. CMU lost to a 4-8 Robert Morris team.

Anybody know what happened to BGSU's Turner? Canada is looking relatively pedestrian with 4 losses already to Dartmouth, UConn, Vandy, and Army. O-Who vs. Purdue tonight on ESPN2, 9PM. Boals has the team playing some tough competition OOC - already games against Nova, Baylor, and Utah. Toledo only beat Marshall by 10 the second time around.

This is the perfect pre-MAC tournament for the Zips. I think the bracket was initially poo-pooed by some just due to the lack of name recognition, but these are some competitive mid-majors that will give us a great gauge as @clarkwgriswold mentioned heading into MAC play. I didn't realize Tulane hired Ron Hunter AND nabbed KJ Lawson. Hunter has won just about everywhere he's been. He knows how to get his guys to play. Very intrigued by this match-up. Interesting Ron Hunter story from his Wikipedia... On January 24, 2008, Hunter coached a game against Oakland University while barefoot. He did this to benefit Samaritan's Feet, a foundation that works to provide hope and love to impoverished children around the world by washing their feet and giving them a new pair of shoes. His goal was to collect 40,000 shoes, however, before tip-off, over 110,000 pairs of shoes had been donated. Very cool story. Wishing him and Tulane success (outside of their game against Akron of course ?).

Agreed. Many teams will eek a win out after facing adversity/struggles all day. The Zips won by 15. I think that says a little bit about where this team is at talent wise, focus wise, and potential wise.

Excellent, common sense news. Thanks for sharing!

Probably has more to do with the embarrassment that is the operation of the thing in general. Can never get it right.

CMU played a team with Trolls as their mascot (Trinity). They are automatically barred from any "top of the MAC" discussions until further notice. ? BG's win over Cincy is impressive. Buffalo is up there but thankfully they're not the same Buffalo from year's past. Toledo is gonna be a PITA this year; thankfully we only play them once and it's at the JAR. KSUcks is KSUcks. These MAC schedules are overall pathetic minus a few (Akron's is by far the best thus far).

Excellent, EXCELLENT road win, which isn't something that has been said during Groce's tenure thus far. Definitely a down Marshall squad this year (I, like others, certainly hope this series is renewed moving forward), but we did exactly what I expected us to do - control the game from start to finish and win comfortably. Looking at the box score... - LCJ & X. WOW. - Did Ali really start? That's surprising. Seemed to have a quiet game, too. - Definitely not the greatest games by Cheese & Banks. Cheese with zero FT attempts shows he wasn't himself based on a lack of aggressiveness, and Banks missing 4 FTs is uncharacteristic of him. - Riak seemed to have a decent game, no? - What's up with Reece only getting 14 minutes? Did it have to do with his 6 TOs? - 50% from beyond the arc and 46% from the field as a team. Please tell me we stole the hoops from Marshall and brought them back with us. Definitely some questions (mostly thanks to a LACK OF UPDATES from The Board ?) but overall very impressed from what I'm hearing and seeing regarding the summary of the game. Interesting that Marshall plays Toledo again. No letdowns against Southern, Finals Week, then let's get geared up for this DC tournament that includes a solid Tulane game (Tulane is 7-1 with a win against the PAC 12's Utah). To quote the great @NWAkron, but this time without the sometimes-painful sarcasm, "Excitement is building."

Second-to-last class before my final tonight. Gonna need some top-notch updates from The Board. Please & thank you. Go Zips!

Still makes me sick that we shot something like 60% from the charity stripe that game (correct me if I'm wrong). Should have been a W. Fazekas was on that squad, as it was the return game from the Bracket Buster the year prior.

I applaud Utomi for adapting unselfishly as he did with Groce's system, especially in year 2 of Groce. He was on the low block quite a bit, when he was originally brought in to be a cold-blooded shooter. Unfortunately he was never able to fully adapt to the speed of the uptempo system, and his lack of body control (countless number of offensive fouls/charges) was the #1 indicator. He was also a very streaky shooter, so hopefully he can get on a hot streak for USC's sake.

This is the biggest OOC game (aside from WVU/Louisville) for a number of reasons. - We have a guy on our staff with a STRONG Huntington, WV, connection for recruiting. - A down Marshall squad is who we should be beating in year 3 of Groce. - Road wins have been tough in recent years (as @NWAkron mentioned). - Prove we deserve to be talked about with some of the expected top teams in the MAC (Toledo, Buffalo, etc.).