Blue & Gold

I'm afraid I'm busy this Sunday night from 5-9 p.m. So, in case we do happen to pull the upset this Friday vs the Fighting Irish, has Sunday's 3rd Round Akron/ND winner -vs- Texas A&M/FSU winner gametime been announced or posted anywhere?

Yes! I think that everyone on the Earth now knows that Akron and Can't are exactly fourteen miles apart. I thought the team that did last weekend's ESPN game were much better. Kara Lawson really did her homework. Would like to hear her do more games. Geno Auriemma teaches 'em right. But, hey at least it wasn't Chones and Reghi, JC don'know what town he's even in man. I didn't! I actually heard it was 7. What is that fourteen? A round trip. LOL, no one stays in Can't. If you drive the schools are about 13ish-14ish miles apart (per mapquest). However, "as a crow flies," so-to-speak, it's only about half that.

Of course I hope you are right, but I also saw that commercial and I think it said UConn. Figures. UConn, yeah, there's a stretch, eh?

Only if they win. which Buffalo did. Buffalo's tough. MAC Freshman of the Year & absolute beast Javon McCrea, though only having one foul, still only played 20 minutes & only scored 6 points. Hmm.

I have absolutely no idea what this means.

GoZips.com MAC Championship video. Very well done! Will definitely get you fired up!

I'm probably showing my age, but I think we'd all agree that twitter is kind of weird. But, it can also be interesting. Here are tweets from Dru Joyce, Romeo Travis, LeBron James & (mostly) from our very own Graduate Assistant Willie McGee before, during and after the Akron game. (i'm going to edit a few of these -only slightly- for grammar and content.) Willie: "Woke up feelin like its a great day to win a championship!!" Willie: "Woke up to greatness" Dru: "The Zips 5 MAC Conference championship games in a row... I got dance fever over here so I know we going to win tonight..." Willie: "You buy a ohio lottery ticket u get in the Akron vs Can't st. game free 6pm" Romeo: "Knock a b*tch out pick a b*tch up. Knock the b*tch out again y'all" Dru: "congrats on MAC POY but that's where it stops.. Tonight the Zips tryin on they dancing shoes" Romeo: "Akron win RT. Can't vs. Akron tonightttttt!!!! [near the start of the game] Willie: "I would ran thru they line... but I'm @$$hole like tht when come to competition... Willie: "LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!" Willie: "They winnin the battle of the 50/50 balls.. and we've missed a lot opportunities.. we should be up 10!!!! Hmmmm" Willie: "Serb.. why u always helpin people up!!! :/" Willie: "6... it should be 12!! Take what I can get!! Let's get stops!! Willie: "Maaan this our game to win if we want it!!! They tryin give to use!!" [i think he meant "They're trying to give the game to us?"] Willie: "On the ball screen... get them moving!! Go Bret side!! Get the footer in space!! Willie: "Yessir D-Rob Willie: "Let's go Brett!!!" Willie: "Let's go dancing!!!!!!!!!" Dru: "Yesssssier.... Breakout the dancing shoes Akron Zips tourney bound.. LeBron: "Wanna say congratulations to Coach D and Akron U for winning the MAC championship and punching their clocks to the big dance!! LeBron: "Coach D gets the best out of his players every year!! great coach" Dru: "Wanna say congratulations to Coach D and Akron U for winning the MAC..." Willie: "This is why we do what we do" [posts pictures]: Willie's picture #1 Willie's picture #2 Willie: "Yesssssir!!!" [posts another pic]: Willie's picture #3 LeBron: "He the only GA I know that can tweet during the game lol (Haaaaaaa!!!! He's amazing for that)" LeBron: "Yesssssir!!! (we see u homie!! Yes sir)" [LeBron re-posts Willie's picture#3]: LeBron's tweet picture Willie: "Thanks Fam!!" Willie: "Yessir Akron zips baby!!!!!!!!!!" Willie: "On some OG sh!t... i'd like to Thank the players that paved the way for this tradition to get started at UA... Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce They have their hands all over this trophy!!!!" Willie: "No disrespect to Matt Futch, his finger prints are all over this trophy as well. I know he will do great next year. My bad fam" Willie: "Thanks fam!! congrats! 330 all day! Y'all put on for the city tonight!!!" Romeo: "MAC champs. Go Zips!!!!!!"

The Canton Repository has 12 nice pictures from Saturday's game. Canton Rep

How much taller will he be? Do you have any projections for height and weight gains between his high school senior year and college freshman year yet? Most high school boys do. Especially if they spend time in the weight room.

+1

http://www.ncaa.com/video/basketball-men/2...outhwest-region Awesome! Thank you!

Ouch. In the Big East tourney quarterfinals, ND blew out Cincy by... let me pull out my calculator... 38 points! 89-51.

This should be the link to the fourth picture the Beacon posted of the Barley House watch party. It is of (redshirt?) wing Chauncey Gilliam. He's so nervous before the match-up announcement he can barely look at the tv! No reason for posting this other than the simple fact that I thought it was rather cool that a player who had to sit out on the bench for a year and who knows he has no chance of actually playing in this game, yet feels so much a part of this team that he can hardly bare to look at the tv. This team really seems to love each other. Win or lose, that's extremely cool stuff. Edit: the link doesn't work. It just takes you to the first picture. Chauncey's picture is #4.

ABJ has some pictures posted. Looks like it would have been a blast! I also wish I could have seen the live look-in on CBS.

And, fortunately, as we all know, it all comes down to the tourney in Cleveland. We'll have an entire regular season next year to jell - just like we had this year. Having Abreu at the point, Diggs on a wing & the GameChanger down low is a great starting point!

Sweet. BH had better not screw this up for us.

Why is Nik not coming back? He's already decided to go back to Serbia and play professionally. He's got a girlfriend back home & is ready to move on, get married & start a family. (I believe he's finishing up his degree this spring, so he'll leave UA w/ a diploma, even though he has one year of athletic eligibility left.)

That's right! Zeke Marshall, Mid-American Conference Tournament MVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEKE championship game stat line: 9 points, 13 rebounds & 9 blocks!!! What's he called? Oh, yeah... GAMECHANGER!!!

Rasor has reported that, "Marshall was named MVP." This can't be for the entire MAC Tourney, can it? Though if it's not Marshall, I don't know who it would be, since it really was such a team effort and different players stepped up each and every game.

I hope someone got a good picture of that and will post here. It clearly was unintentional, but even so, after the fact this will be an excellent picture worth a thousand words!

MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!

+1. This was 100% absolutely the difference in the game tonight. Zeke Marshall. Without him staying out of foul trouble and altering so many shots in the paint and, yes, even blocking a few, Can't State is going dancing. THANK YOU ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Not to take any credit away from the rest of the team or the coaching staff. This was an extremely well played all around team effort. But Zeke almost absolutely shutting down Justin Greene was the difference.)

Uh, oh. Portage County residents have their pockets lined with those things!

Amen, brother. As a side note, did anyone see the Can't fans last night? Every time STO gave a shot of them, it was a bunch of old goofballs, many of whom were sitting on their arse. I wouldn't be surprised if Akron brings many more students to the game tonight. Win or lose, let's show up these quasi-"I brought my OSU shirt with me in case we lose"-Can't State fans. Actually, I also noticed that last night. The average Can't State fan is old. And most of them are fat. Literally. No insult meant here; simply an honest observation. Weird. Probably a Portage County thing?