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We keep redecorating ours with new championship banners.

Looks like Groce got an extension that hasn’t been made public. Love to see it.

I bet they bring back a former coach. My money is on Jim Christian.

Maybe a banner at the top of ZipsNation that leads to the collective's website would be helpful.

Within a week St. Francis went from playing in the play-in game to D3. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44402532/saint-francis-first-four-loss-moving-division-iii

Has he ever had an abundance of talented PGs that he needed to redshirt any?

With Akron winning back-to-back MAC championships and returning a strong foundation, maybe that will help us get in a decent early season tournament. Hopefully this is the year we up our scheduling. The schedule this past year was perfect for the team that was assembled, so I’m sure JG will put together another great schedule for next year’s team. I’d love to see some P5 teams, but if they won’t schedule us, take a look at the mid major top 25. Start at the top and work our way down the list, calling them all until we have a good schedule.

Let's check in on where our transfers came from and how their team did this season. Isiah Gray - Cornell lost in the Ivy Finals, season over. Seth Wilson & Josiah Harris - WVU got hosed by the selection committee Bowen Hardman - OSU missed the tourney, declined the NIT and headed to Vegas James Okonkwo - UNC should have missed the tourney, but luckily their AD was committee chair. Definitely looks like good recruiting ammo for Groce next season. "We have kids transfer from Ohio State because they actually want to play in March Madness."

I went to a game there around 2009 or 10 when Charlie Coles was still there. They had a big black curtain up hiding a whole side of the arena and there couldn't have been more than 200 people at the game. They didn't even really have people working and we just walked back towards the locker rooms after the game and got to see a fun interaction with Charlie telling KD the MAC was his now.

The math ain't mathing to get 30 wins going into the tournament...

There’s talk of the ACC and Big10 moving to a year-round schedule being backed by US Soccer. -initially inviting 32 teams (ACC, Big10, and West Virginia, Oregon State, San Diego State, South Carolina, Kentucky and UCF) -2 semester trial run “The goal is to alleviate “match compression” in the current, cramped 12-week fall NCAA season, thereby fostering improved player training and recovery while better aligning the collegiate calendar with professional leagues around the world.” This could be a big disadvantage in recruiting for teams not in this trial. https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/us-soccer-college-year-round-pilot-program-1234829400/

Those 2013 black jerseys with the twitter handle on the back sure caused a national stir. That season had the best marketing under Brad Swanson. The JAR was packed almost every MAC game.

Can Akron get custom home white pinstripe uniforms for the PCCC game? It would be the ultimate troll.

I did an alternate spread of Zips -11 pre game. Easy money. btw, the Zips largest margin of victory playing at PCCC is 66 (77-71). Highest margin of victory all time for the Zips in the rivalry game is 20 from 2022. Will we beat it?

The last time we didn’t have a single P5 on the schedule dates all the way back to last year.

Hasn't been announced yet, so it's not on that site.

It's a bummer we didn't get JMU or App, but it's a decent team. Maybe after all the transfers are through they will be better this year than the other two. So now we have: @Arkansas State Northern Kentucky UNLV Neutral game vs Yale Neutral game vs either UTEP or Jacksonville State

35 to the Spurs.

Yup, posted that one on Monday. Hopefully it's not a nail biter like last year and we take it to them.

Northern Kentucky comes to town 12/7

I'm moving from Wilmington, NC to Delaware next week. I think I'll actually be able to watch the Zips play at Georgetown! It's been a few years since I've gotten to watch them.

The D1 docket is live. It gets updated with schedule information for each team as it becomes available. So far, nothing for Akron listed. https://d1docket.blogspot.com/p/2024-25-dockets-group-of-five.html

Glad he didn't end up where his dad played.

Sounds like a great pick up! 11 of 25 from 3 is a small sample size, but I’ll gladly take a 44% three point shooter

I'm curious how much of our high school recruiting strategy is based on making contact with players who we know are not going to come to Akron out of high school, but will potentially be in the portal in a year or two and we want them to already be familiar with Akron.