Let'sGoZips94

Getting blown out by a Kentucky team that struggled with Davidson didn't help the perception either. We'll see where Kentucky's season ends, but that put out the fire surrounding Buffalo a bit. Any rumors of Nate Oats getting pulled away from Buffalo yet?

Huge showing by the MAC women. The cherry on top is knocking off the 3-seed Suckeyes when the Final Four is in Columbus.

Penny Hardaway has been hired as the new coach of Memphis. I think we have one or two recruits we are fighting for with them, right?

That's a weird corporate list. Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland State, Ohio State, Can't State, etc., yet a company like Leaf Filter isn't on there.

Shocker. The crazy fact is this can NEVER be topped in the tournament, because it is the lowest ranked beating the highest ranked. Incredible.

A trio of Zips greats would be a fantastic bobbleheads set.

My issue with the gimme game is that we, as a financially challenged school, are paying a school to play us.

Does Ken Babby have any involvement with the U?

They probably do, too.

Wow. That makes BG's exodus look minuscule.

Arizona and Kentucky on a "who'd you beat" resume is impressive. After all, aren't these schools offering players that kind of money already? Oats has another factor in his favor: Bobby Hurley is having some success at ASU.

So with his new annual salary in the $550-600k range, a school that wants Oats would have to pony up $1.5M for the buyout?

What is his buyout like?

They beat Georgetown two years prior, as I mentioned. That's 2 seasons. Can't went to the Elite Eight earlier in the decade. Akron had made the tourney 3 times in 5 years, and possessed the nation's longest winning streak. What more do you want from the MAC?

This.

What?

The big 3 of Buffalo's guards accounted for 75% of their scoring. Go look at who Groce has offered. There's a reason he's targeting a bunch of guards. It gives me confidence he knows what he's doing.

During the peak of Akron's dominance, OU beat Georgetown and then made a Sweet Sixteen run two years later. The year after the Sweet Sixteen run, it took the nation's longest winning streak and a creative marketing ploy (the hashtag) for voters to put us in one of the polls. We need nobody but ourselves.

For bracket purposes, Zona losing here would help me out. This does nothing for Akron, and I'm not rooting for Buffalo to win.

It was mutual. They "gave up" on each other, which I think is a bad way of putting it.

Bittersweet. I think his potential, talent wise, was quite high. But ultimately he wasn't the best fit for this team and the culture Groce is trying to build. Having two scholarships open is huge in my opinion.

Is this our version of BobcatAttack's TOS thread?

We would have at least reached the MAC tourney semi finals. All bets would have been off from there.

Until Dambrot retires, I don't think the comparisons will ever be put to rest. Dambrot made it well known his frustrations with Akron and the MAC. Duquense and the A10 is pretty much exactly what he was looking for. Nobody cares about Duquense; we care about Dambrot at Duquesne. Let's see if it was Akron/the MAC holding him back, or if his ceiling is lower than he thinks and has been reached.

Dilly Dilly