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To that I say, bombs away.

Awesome

Lunardi's bracketology from yesterday has us as a 12 seed in Denver against Iowa State. Which isn't really too remarkable, but they also have Iowa playing in Denver. We'd have a lot of Zip fans out there for a day

Akron vs BG!

BG might win this

Go BUGS

They bit on the pump fake every time.

Had em all the way

You guys are miserable

EMU getting to the offensive glass, we need to block out a little better. Still, down 1 and pretty cold from the floor so far. They have no answer for Big Dog

Let's go Zips!

Another factor is that Monmouth is done. For us to be in the at large discussion, that's most likely adding another 100+ loss and dropping us further into the 30s in the RPI. There's a reason there's no Akron at-large discussion outside of this board.

Awesome!

Malik passed Julius McCoy a couple weeks ago for the Farrell scoring record. Julius was an All American at Michigan State. I haven't heard much on his recruitment this year.

That's great. And personally, I think that we're a better team. But I don't get to decide.

Seriously? I've made it clear that the committee values their top 50 wins more. We barely have top 100 wins. Do I agree with it? Not sure, but it is what it is.

I've spelled it out. No one on the committee gives a flying **** that our RPI is higher because we beat up on MAC teams while they beat up on MAAC teams. Their conference schedule sucks, ours sucks too, just a little less. That doesn't mean our resume is better, just that we gamed the system a little better. It's why they don't really look at RPI anymore

Didn't realize the MVC tourney was in the early week. Lunardi has us as a 12, we're close. Let's win the MAC first!

Looks like we need Northern Iowa and Little Rock to drop one in their tourneys to move up to the 12 spot.

We will see in 5 days!

We beat a bunch of 150-200 RPI teams, they beat a bunch of 200+ RPI teams. Their RPI suffers comparatively for that, but they also had some nice wins that we are lacking. The committee probably sees through the RPI # and knows that if they had our conference schedule, their record would be very similar and their RPI would be higher than ours. You can't control your conference schedule, but you can go on the road and take on some tough teams before January. We feasted on cupcakes, they were beating ND, USC, UCLA and GTown, and they'll most likely get rewarded for it. And our resume? Look, I love the Zips, but what have we done compared to them? Beat OU, KSU, BSU compared to them beating Niagara, Quinnipiac and Siena? I mean, our competition was a slight step up, but you can't point to our conference record as something to beat your chest about. There's no comparison on OOC body of work.

2 top 50 wins. Committee has valued big wins more than they discount bad losses lately. Most of the writers I follow think they'll be in and I tend to agree. They've been rewarding the teams that go on the road OOC and come away with wins.

Nonsense? Heaven forbid some college kids have some fun sitting at the end of the bench. They should be banned from the tournament unless they politely golf-clap all of next season.

They beat UCLA, Notre Dame, USC, Georgetown.. They should be in.

Bombs away