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3 straight awesome dunks followed by a 3. Wow.

T on Evansville coach.

This comment is bright to by Bacardi - the official liquor of the Virgin Islands.

Eric has really high basketball IQ.

They are very well coached.

44-36 at the half. Not bad. I would like to apologize to Evansville for hating on them during the Oregon State game. They play hard. They'll beat a decent number of teams this year.

Half this board needs to apologize to Evan for doubting his offensive abilities.

He's a walk on getting early game minutes. The fact that you haven't seen a weakness is what's impressive. Side note: should've been an offensive foul on that 3. How you allow a 6'10" man to jump 4 feet forward on a 3P attempt is beyond me.

Holy ball movement. Eric moves into the high post to attack the defense, kicks it out to Hardman or dribble drives before a bounce pass over to Lyles who backs down his man before kicking it cross court to Shammah for the 3. Hang it in the Louvre.

Friday, for whatever reason, had the station switch back to 1350 for just one game.

Good call. Shooters came in right away.

Zone is no Bueno.

Don't type one handed while holding a baby, apparently. Lol.

Someone at the NCAA forgot that Ohio State/Michigan is on Saturday. Glad someone caught that and corrected it.

Had the game on at the card shop today. Had the owner and all the customers rooting for Akron. Spreading the Zips awareness! Can't wait for Sunday. Go Zips!

However much one may hate the NCAA, it's not enough.

Iona was substantially more athletic than Oregon State albeit less skilled. Which says a lot about Akron.

The next TV deal will tell us the answer.

Iona just hit a 3 with 1.5 seconds left in regulation to tie it at 70.

Gotlieb's presence alone accomplishes that.

You are entirely missing my point. Power conference teams shutting you out? Fine. Go play top 100 road games at schools like Akron. LSU is 89 NET, Florida State is 90 NET, Akron is 91 NET, Oklahoma State is 95 and Minnesota is 96. A win at Akron will probably end up in the same quadrant as a win vs any of those other power conference programs. At the end of the year, if there's an at large debate and someone gets snubbed because Akron isn't named LSU/FSU/MIN/OSU, then you can complain about the corrupt system. To intentionally avoid those solid G5s, especially on the road, is malpractice and hypocritical because that's exactly what power conference schools do.

That's fine, props to St. Bonnie. I still maintain the GW coach doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. A10 is looking pretty solid to start the year. We will see how they end up. If they continue to be a legitimate 1 bid league (not a snubbed one), it's even more pathetic that they won't play more game at schools like the MAC teams.

Last year was GW's first winning season since 2016-17. They've been middle of the road at best, and largely a bottom feeder in those 8 or 9 seasons. If GW had been a powerhouse with the status of Dayton or VCU, are they playing at American (still hard to give them credit for this considering it's essentially a home game in DC) or ODU? Who knows, but history would tell us no. Go look at VCU's & Dayton's schedules this year for reference; zero lower end road games, and Dayton actually has FSU coming to Dayton for a game. My issue is with the hypocrisy of the GW coach complaining about MTEs creating exclusive power conference fields, while his own conference has been practicing the same shift in scheduling over the past decade or so. If he had his perfect schedule, he'd also lean towards power conference bias. Heck, Georgetown played at GW to start the season. They're playing Florida in some Orange Bowl Classic in December. They were invited to the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip Off and played against USF. They are choosing to participate in the Cayman Islands Classic this weekend - McNeese St., Middle Tennessee, and Murray St. All of this before they get the privilege of playing a loaded A10 conference schedule. Spare me the crocodile tears, GW coach. (This is a much better discussion for the World of College Basketball thread)

I think that injury to Eric last year was a blessing. I don't know if he and Evan are here this year if Eric plays last season, and Eric's talent would've been wasted on last year's team. He's a much better fit this year without Nate Johnson on the roster and has room to really showcase his athleticism and abilities.

The American game was also in DC, so hardly a road game. ODU is more respectable. My point is these coaches act like they're being blindsided by this segregation in college athletics. It has been happening for nearly 4 decades, ever since tv media deals became a thing. It has been accelerated with conference realignment and COVID, but nobody should be shocked. Consolidation of power & money is a tale as old as time in society and sports are not immune without legitimate guardrails (NFL is the best example). Yes, big schools quit going to mid-majors to play regular season games years ago; however, it's not like the A10 is lining up to play at Akron, Miami OH, Ohio, Kent, etc., despite being geographically appropriate. There are 0 A10 @ MAC games this season, and very very few in the last 5 years despite nearly half the A10 having MAC schools right in their backyard. Is that not similar to the trend we've seen with the power conferences? Treat others the way you want to be treated; it's the golden rule and is the only bulletproof method to avoid hypocrisy. In 5-10 years, whose to say the A10 won't be only participating in MTEs with schools from the AAC, Big East, and PAC12? I get the GW coach's point, but it's hard for me to take him seriously when, if he could have it his way, he'd only play power conference schools anyways. Revenue sports in college athletics need OOC scheduling rules to fix this, but the powers that be aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.