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George Mason has cancelled all games on Saturday, March 11, at its Cherry Blossom Softball Tournament. View the full article here

The Akron basketball team will play its 12th-straight MAC Tournament semifinals game against the fourth-seeded Ball State Cardinals on Friday, March 10, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. CBS Sports Network will televise the game, which is scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. View the full article here

Senior Paige Kelkenberg (Lockport, N.Y.) became the second diver in program history to qualify for the NCAA Championships with her eighth-place finish in the one-meter event on day two of the NCAA Zone “C” Diving Championships at Indiana’s Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center on Friday. View the full article here

University of Akron men's basketball junior Antino Jackson (Houston, Texas) accounted for 11 of his game-high 19 points in the second half, including seven consecutive points in a key stretch late in the contest to propel the Zips (26-7) to a wire-to-wire 74-70 triumph over Ball State (21-12) in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Friday, March 10, at Quicken Loans Arena. View the full article here

Making his NCAA Indoor Championship debut, University of Akron sophomore Matt Ludwig (Chardon, Ohio) directed the efforts of the Zips' Track and Field program at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday, March 10, earning a third-place performance in the men's pole vault eclipsing 18-0.50 (5.50m). View the full article here

The University of Akron track and field team will send five athletes to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships this Friday and Saturday, March 10-11 as freshman Lucy Bryan (Bristol, England), sophomore Matt Ludwig (Chardon, Ohio), senior Nikki Manson (Glasgow, Scotland) and juniors Terrell McClain (Youngstown, Ohio) and Jackie Siefring (Covington, Ohio) will travel to College Station, Texas, to vie for national titles. View the full article here

A 14-2 second half run over a span of 2:15 ignited the University of Akron men's basketball team to a 79-62 victory past eighth-seeded Eastern Michigan in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Thursday, March 9, at Quicken Loans Arena. View the full article here

Three members of the Akron women’s swimming and diving team competed in the three-meter event on day one of the NCAA Zone “C” Diving Championships on Thursday, March 9 at Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center on the campus of Indiana University. View the full article here

Freshman Rita Pedroso (Porto, Portugal) was named the Zips’ Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by the University of Akron, on March 6. View the full article here

For the second time in program history, an Akron Zips player earned the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year award as senior center Isaiah Johnson (Cincinnati, Ohio) claimed the league’s top honor for 2017, the league office announced on Wednesday. View the full article here

The 2016-17 Akron Zips men’s basketball program swept the Mid-American Conference’s top honors, as Zips’ 13th year head coach Keith Dambrot was named the 2017 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year award. View the full article here

Three members of the Akron women’s swimming and diving team will compete in the NCAA Zone “C” Diving Meet that will be held at Indiana University’s Counsilman-Billingsley Aqautic Center, Thursday, March 9-Saturday, March 11 in Bloomington, Ind. View the full article here

The Akron basketball team enters the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No. 1 seed. Akron will collide with No. 8 seeded Eastern Michigan for the quarterfinal matchup and third meeting of the season on Thursday, March 9 at Quicken Loans Arena. View the full article here

The Akron men’s golf team fired a second round 283 (+3) to climb four spots on the leaderboard to No. 12 overall with a 585 (+25) at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate hosted by South Carolina Aiken on Monday. View the full article here

University of Akron women's basketball senior Hannah Plybon (Orrville, Ohio) garnered honorable mention All-Mid-American Conference accolades when the league announced its 2016-17 women's basketball award winners on Tuesday, March 7. View the full article here

Pritt Entertainment Group (PEG) won a Gold ADDY at the 2017 Akron-Canton ADDY Awards for video editing of the 2016 Akron Zips’ football intro video. View the full article here

The Akron men's golf team posted a final round 293 (+13) en route to a 12th place finish with an 878 (+38) 54-hole total at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate hosted by South Carolina Aiken on Tuesday. View the full article here

Scott Nixon talks to men's basketball coach Keith Dambrot as the team prepares for the MAC tournament. Then he recaps all of the Zips' action. View the full article here

On Tuesday, March 7 at 11 a.m. immediately following practice, the Akron Zips men’s basketball team is scheduled to celebrate its 2016-17 Mid-American Conference regular-season championship by cutting down the nets before departing James A. Rhodes Arena for the MAC Tournament. View the full article here

Three Zips earned All-MAC selections, including senior center Isaiah Johnson (Cincinnati, Ohio), Senior forward Kwan Cheatham, Jr. (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Junior guard Antino Jackson (Houston, Texas). View the full article here

A nearly eight-minute second-quarter scoring drought proved too much for the University of Akron women's basketball team to overcome as the Zips (9-21) dropped a 65-37 decision at Toledo (22-8) in the opening round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Monday, March 6, at Savage Arena. View the full article here

The University of Akron men's golf team will return to action on Monday and Tuesday, March 6-7, for the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate hosted by South Carolina Aiken in Aiken, S.C. View the full article here

The Akron softball team split a pair of games on the final day of the Bobbie Bailey Memorial Tournament on Sunday. View the full article here

In the final show of the season, University of Akron head men’s basketball coach Keith Dambrot and head women’s swimming coach Brian Peresie will be the guests on Monday’s Zips LIVE, presented by Lee Hyder and Associates, from 7-8 p.m. ET live from the Spaghetti Warehouse (510 South Main Street). View the full article here

The second season begins anew for Akron as the Zips travel to Toledo, Ohio, to open Mid-American Conference Tournament play with an opening-round match-up against the Rockets on Monday, March 6. Game time at Savage Arena is set for 5:30 p.m. View the full article here