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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?

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Yet another graphic showcasing what Akron's gameplan has to be.

I wonder if Michaels would be a target for us with Okonkwo presumably returning, should we have a scholarship or two open up. UK connection and could learn under Harris (again, assuming he returns). Why? Screw em. Toledo is a trash program and Simmons is Kent-esque with his antics. I haven't hated a non-Kent/Ohio player so much since Doug Penno. Him stepping on Lyles's ankle in one of the recent games was the icing on the cake. They'll be fine. There are tons of overseas leagues paying livable wages for basketball talent. Kowalchoke needs to look in the mirror and ask why all his top talent wants to leave so quickly. Good.

Hell. No. Go Bonnies.

Arizona does not shoot the 3-ball very well. Their top 3 scorers (the only 3 that average double digits PPG) are all guards that shoot under 30% from 3. In fact, you have to go all the way down to their two lowest scorers to find quality 3P shooting. This is such a fascinating matchup because their weaknesses play right into our strengths, and our weaknesses play into their strengths. (The highlighted percentages in this first graphic are their bigs who have only taken a few 3P shots all season.)

@Captain Kangaroo has never seen a more perfect bracket, with 2 Akron A's in the middle.

So Enrique gets chosen for the free throws, makes em both, and Akron gets a timely shout-out on the broadcast to boot. Unbelievable. 😂

According to someone who covered his press conference Friday night, Pinky said he won't be watching the championship game because he's "miserable." He has looked miserable at Kent ever since his player fouled Tribble while up 1 with a few seconds to go in the MAC Championship. His press conference about Akron being the Yankees/Dodgers was odd and whiny, but also quite telling as to the state of Kent basketball/athletics. Miami OH has NIL for basketball and UMass coming in is about to be a rude awakening for most of the MAC. Albany being his alma mater was also something I found earlier when reading about the potential move, and I already thought it would be a legitimate possibility since he's from NY. As long as Kent doesn't luck into the Sean Lewis of CBB, TOS to PCCC would be hilarious. Quite frankly, I don't think they'd be a very attractive destination for any quality candidates as one of the main questions people will be asking is why the winningest coach in program history decided to leave on his own terms. The difference between that question being asked for Akron & Kent: Bud Wentz isn't answering for Kent.

Tim O'Shea. He was Ohio's coach in the early to mid 00s and left for Bryant. BobcatAttack started the trend of "TOS to _____" for coach openings.

Bowen Hardman's family member posted a nice message in the Zips Fan Facebook group, thanking ZipsNation.