Let'sGoZips94

No because the real money is in the advertising/media deals and they can pitch a consolidated group of select, "proven" brands. Corporations and media networks don't want unknowns.

Austin Parks from Ohio State is my guess.

No doubt, just wanted to point out that we played them much tighter than this despite our lack of shot making ability last year.

We were actually leading vs Creighton at this point in the game last year. Kalkbrenner adding the dribble drive to his repertoire is incredible.

Amen. NET is corrupt.

Damn.

Kent played Auburn, Bama, and UC Irvine. That's the difference in the metrics. So they lose Friday night and immediately hop on a plane to party destinations when there was still the NIT/CBI they could play in? Glad they have their priorities in order.

Few coaches have ever done so little with so much like Kowalchoke has.

What a program Sendy runs.

KenPom ranks Akron’s roster as the 4th-smallest in the country, with most of the contributors no taller than 6-foot-3. How will it be able to match up with Arizona’s rotation where everyone is at least 6-3? “Not good. Akron has been a program that has struggled with size the last couple of seasons. It caused fits for them last season in a first-round game against a tall Creighton team, losing by 17.” I think this is a bad take. We struggled against Creighton because they had shooters and we didn't. We had actually had the lead late in the first half before we went cold and they started not missing. Freeman had 20+ vs. Kalkbrenner. The only team we've truly struggled against with size was Saint Mary's, and they're an anomaly with 3 guys at least 7 feet tall. Yale had size but that wasn't the reason for the blowout; not making our shots was the cause. If size was everything, Purdue would've won 4 straight national titles with Edey. March is dominated by guards, specifically with shot-making ability. Nick Lorensen, the guy who answered these questions, isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box when it comes to CBB. It took him a very long time to include Akron in his Mid Major Top 25, and his Top 25s are suspect at best. He has several answers in the article posted above that are very shallow and lack any sort of true understanding of Groce/Akron.

McNeese coach Will Wade agrees to become the next HC of NC State. I never want to hear a single person ever complain about the players getting paid or transferring when coaches like this can crap all over the place and let someone else clean it up.

This, the Masters theme, Top Gun theme, and the Akron Blue & Gold are all I need in life musically.

RPI Rankings Pretty fascinating to revisit the RPI this year. While I fully believe there were crooked dealings getting UNC in, and in no way shape or form should UNC's AD or any current AD/commissioner/coach/etc. be on the committee, UNC probably did have a stronger argument than others to be included in the tourney field.

I'm not saying they did, and the truth is probably somewhere around there that neither team really deserved it. However, the NIT has reduced itself to a garbage postseason tournament, and in doing so was forced to deviate from their original "standards". Once they did that, Miami OH had an argument. For as simplistic as RPI was (I encourage all who haven't yet to go look at the realtimeRPI rankings and see how much more fun the NCAA tournament field would've been based on those), NET is overly complicated and arguably crooked. Anyways, go Stanford. I hope the poverty community college in Portage County is enjoying shelling out all these travel expenses for meaningless postseason basketball.

How is Miami OH being petty fighting getting absolutely screwed? What did Kent do this season to earn a NIT bid - lose to Auburn, Alabama, and UC Irvine? Beat Heidelberg by 4? Go damn near .500 in the MAC? Sendy has never taken any accountability for his highly mediocre tenure as Kent's coach that includes multiple character issues on top of consistently losing to Akron. He needed to have some humility, accept the NIT bid quietly, win quietly, and move on. Instead, the clown honked his nose when he needed to put his clown shoe in his mouth. Quite frankly, it also points to how flawed NET is, and I'm all for tearing down that BS rating system.

It was the Miami OH AD and football coach - not their basketball coaches - that raised hell. Miami OH beat Kent 3x and finished second in the conference both for the regular season & tourney. Targeting Kent was their strongest argument as the only team lower than them in NET that got into the NIT was San Jose State. I have zero issue with them targeting Kent who has zero business even sniffing the NIT, at least ahead of Miami and probably other schools. For the Miami argument to live rent free in Sendy's head is not a good sign for the Akron Yankees' AAA team in Portage County being in a healthy spot.

Kent vs Heidelberg was a closer game than the Miami OH/Kent battles this year. I can't wait to see if Pinky flexes their double digit victory vs Small School National Champion Miami Hamilton.

Oh my goodness. What a mental midget.

What a mental midget Sendy is. Pathetic stuff.

National Corrupt Athletic Association

Alabama State is going to win their play in game in insane fashion.

All jokes aside, does Indiana wait for DeVries if WVU is in the tourney?