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Miami in the bonus for the rest of the half.

I came on here to post "nobody say $#!% about the success beyond the arc thus far." Too late. Hope you didn't jinx us.

Good article. Camryn Justice is an Akron grad I believe and has been getting some big run as a Cleveland sports journalist recently. The more eyes on Freeman and the Akron program, the better. Getting to be a bit embarrassing though the lack of self marketing by the University itself.

154 or something like that. 2 A10 games got postponed or something, so it really thinned the lineup. College basketball rocks.

This really is a strong selling point.

PCCC goes down at home to Ohio. Beautiful.

I had to double take. I thought this was a GP1 post. There are only 18 profitable programs in the entire country. The entire system is broken and the G5s are taking the worst of it.

When's the last time we had 2 regular season games on ESPN2?

Best in the MAC Chris Payton put up a staggering 10 pts and 2 rebounds in this one. Demolishing the stat sheet.

ESPN has the JMU game listed as TBD for time on Saturday, Feb 10th. With that being MAC/Sun Belt weekend, Friday night MACtion on ESPN/CBSSports is open, no? Any chance this gets flexed?

The scoreboard is the biggest eyesore and detractor from the Info. Replacing that will go a long way with GameDay experience for the 10 people that show up.

Akron remained stagnant in NET at 85. OU moved up 2 spots to 192 despite the loss. Toledo is up to 134 and PCCC is up to 170. BUGS dropped to 198, and those are the only 5 teams in the top 200 for the MAC. Miami is the next highest MAC team at 246. Buffalo is creeping closer to the true bottom, ranking 346 out of 362 teams.

Miami is 246 in NET, dropping from 227 after their loss to CMU. One game at a time, just take care of business boys.

The inverse of this is James Madison. Their applications and/or enrollment are up ~78% or something like that in the last few years (read this on their board). Their meteoric rise in athletics is driving the overall school enrollment. Their football team has won, and now their basketball team is having success. They've made the full move to DI, but built their brand at the FCS level (Game day went there when they were a FCS squad). I don't know how they were successful in breaking out of the shadows of Virginia, Virginia Tech, etc. - but they were. They are a case study that Akron needs to examine closely.

Meant to post this after Reghi said it at the end of the game: OU never led.

Kent just went to the line twice in 5 seconds with 30 seconds left in the game after a pee poor call on a clean block (tied the game with a free throw) and a phantom foul on a loose ball of the 2nd missed free throw. Payton had his first two free throw attempts (he was the one fouled on the loose ball) with 30 seconds to go in the game and proceeded to miss both. Tied at 74 all heading to OT.

Freeman got back into the Double Double column. 19 & 14. Duplicate that performance and it's MAC POTW #8. And tonight was an off night as far as I'm concerned. He should've had... 26? 28?

9 pt win. Ugliest win of the year? Maybe. But a win is a win.

The guards are growing on me. Tribble/Scott/Thornton - we're seeing where each fits in, and they're beginning to make a positive difference.

Great stop after the quickest jump ball whistle I've ever seen.

Ali Ali gets throat chopped on a dribble drive. Blocking foul, naturally. I mean what the hell are we doing, zebras?

Absolutely. Great gameplan and execution by them all night.

THORNTON! 10 point game!

They've been doing it all night. Their game plan - much like Kent's 2nd half gameplan - is to bully Akron and out physical them.

Thank God Dawson answered that 3 after the gift by the refs with a no call on a tackle. SCOTT!