Let'sGoZips94

We made it, but as what has become the norm in the media, there is a negative bias spin put on that article when mentioning ZipsNation. Aside from the 1 or 2 people posting on here who do actually want KD fired, the rest of us are simply critiquing Dambrot's system. This is more of an evaluation of his tenure, where we have been, where we are, and the direction in which we want this program to head. I don't see a single thing wrong with that. Mid-Majors are the "Welcome Mats" for the P5 teams. I think I can speak for everyone when I say, our apologies for wanting to take the next step and not be a Welcome mat anymore. Maybe EA can use his Cleveland.com fame and write a more powerful article that rips big schools for not playing solid Mid-Majors. After all, that is what Dambrot says is the main reason for not playing some of these bigger schools, and if EA is defending Dambrot and criticizing his criticizers, he should be trying to affect change to help Dambrot. Not sure if any of you saw this or the result.

Monmouth is hosting as a 4 seed. Illinois State is a 1 seed. It's our resume/scheduling.

7 seed. Had one of the highest win totals in the NIT, and that gets us a 7 seed. There's your participation trophy for the weak, WEAK out-of-conference scheduling. Happy for our Houston/Texas Zips.

You still pulled Zeke way out to the perimeter, causing him to get out position and chase the ball handler, often picking up stupid fouls due to being out of position. I have NEVER understood why Dambrot refuses to play more of a zone. The #1 hole in our defense is dribble penetration because with man-to-man our guys get beat.

1. There were 2 offenses I saw this season. One involved going into to Big Dog with the end result being Big Dog taking it to the hole or a kick out for a 3. The other occurred when teams played more of a zone and Ivey or Poke were in, we'd dribble drive and when the defense collapsed, Ivey/Poke would back cut and we'd dish. The only problem is, regardless of which offensive strategy we wanted to execute, once shots started falling, we'd settle for 3s and the ball movement stopped. And that's on Dambrot. He is not good at drawing up plays to create ball movement, off the ball movement, and open shots. We do the same stupid inbounds play under our basket, or a failure of an inbounds play on the sideline. And on defense, from the beginning to the end of the season, our 300lbs center was caught guarding out near the perimeter. Dambrot & Co. have been so bad at adjustments, we've had our center caught out of position around the perimeter since Zeke. 2. That says something about our defense then.

1. These adjustments/changes/corrections are all things Dambrot & co. don't do well, if at all. We had the same exact offense at the beginning of the season as we did at the end. 2. Everyone did have us figured out. Hence the plenty of close games and lack of blow outs against a horrific MAC this year. We were simply more skilled than every team in the MAC, including Can't - they beat on us on pure heart/desire/effort. 3. I'd reach out to the NCAA on this one. Until they modify the automatic bids to include the regular season champion AND the tournament champion, every season will rest completely on the results of one game on a Saturday in early March.

Open a dictionary, and locate the word insanity. The example is see Dambrot. The same schedule. The same game plans. The same offense. The same player development, or lack thereof. The same big game losses. The same disappointment. I'm not saying we fire him now, but something needs to change. The schedule, the staff, something.

Seems to be a common theme throughout Dambrot's tenure. I wonder if his pregame speech involved reminding the team that they have an NIT ticket in their back pocket to fall back on. They played like it. Tonight really kicked a supportive fan base in the crotch. That was a HOME game at The Q. It's not too often we out man the Can't fan base, especially by that much. And the team did not show any semblance of caring. Pitiful.

Broken ankles, broken dreams. Josh has been an unsung hero so far with his effort on loose balls, rebounds, etc.

Can't State sucks.

Down by 3 after that garbage? Sadly, I'll take it. Hopefully this ends up like 2013.

Akron is playing Kent's game - we aren't very good at it.

15 minutes til lineups are announced, and there seems to be a much stronger Akron contingent. If this holds, we'll done, Zips Nation.

I'd like to see a traffic jam with that wagon train because they lose a Wagon Wheel. This game is going to come down to our guard play. I predict Hall will get his, but Big Dog outplaying Hall would be a nice bonus. Regardless, our guards are fresher and we are much deeper at guard as well. They need to create turnovers and hit their shots. Simple as that. We are the much better team. Prove it. The usual issue with us vs. Can't is they usually want it more.

Assuming this is the "fired coaches" thread as I did before when posting about Cooper... Illinois has fired John Groce after 5 seasons.

Vermont doesn't deserve anything more than a 15 seed after fouling a 3 pt. shooter with .5 seconds left while up by 4.

Line opens up with Akron -4.

Can't also played that OT game on Monday against CMU. Their 5 starters played more than 30 minutes, with their main 4 playing 40+.

Lots of "3s" when it comes to this game. Third time Akron/Can't have met for MAC Title Game. Third time for Akron/Can't this season. So I figured I'd do a 3-part continuous, connecting Haiku... Here we go again Akron and Can't meet again Dancing shoes await Kent's last dance - '08 10 points scored in the first half Wow does Can't State suck Fast-forward to now It is 11:03 And Can't State still sucks

The last time Can't was in the MAC Championship game.

For the OU/Can't game...

See you at The Q tomorrow night!

Finish them!

I'm an Akron fan, but I root for Louisville, Kentucky, and Indiana. I know that is something none of those fan bases can understand. Gotta extend this lead here. Antino's energy is HUGE right now.

Defense wins championships. Nice defensive effort here.