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congrats on your victory. i'll be pulling for you guys next weekend.

It's nice to have confirmation from a Horizon League fan that we are not just imagining what we see on a regular basis from MAC refs. Sorry you folks had to suffer through it on your home floor. But at least you got to leave the floor happy with a win. Valpo has a good young core of players to go with a strong recruiting class, while the Zips only get one new player next season. So the battle in Akron next year won't be any easier for the Zips. The best thing about next year's game may be the Horizon League refs!there was actually some debate on our board about the quality of the officiating. mostly because i expect a foul called when a guy gets pulled out of the air, and from my vantage point, it looked like that's what happened to little, causing him to leave for a bit. but hey, that's life sometimes. the zips played a very good press last night, which enabled them that big lead in the first half. the problem was that when we started to break it, there wasn't much of a switch to keep our guards off balance. depending on the date of the game in akron next year, i may drive out for it.

i see why you all hate those refs. that was a nightmare. thanks for a thrilling game, and hopefully those who were there enjoyed a (mostly) good atmosphere, minus the tech on homer and the foul immediately preceding it. hopefully the return game next year is just as good so you all can have some fun at your place. best of luck on the rest of your season.

i'd say talk to the athletic department and see if they can't do something to gauge interest conference wide. if it's a popular idea, then take it to the commissioner's office and see if they can't do something about it.

we actually had that very same problem last sunday ourselves. one ref in particular who was calling things from the other end of the baseline with 4 or 5 big bodies in the way between him and the action. hopefully he's not a double-dipping official. b/c i don't want to see him ever again.

www.horizonleaguenetwork.tv however, you do have to register, but it is free.

Those stats are a little misleading because Valpo has a much higher strength of schedule than the Zips. This is likely to be a close game unless one team catches fire or the refs really stink.Since the game is at Valpo, dont we get our MAC refs....... (I thought that's the way the Bracketbuster handled assigning referees for these games. It's supposed to be an equalizer to home court advantage!!! )More like the kiss of death. I've never seen another league officiated like the MAC. It's odd, because refs are regionalized. These same refs don't pull that crap when they're doing Horizon league games or the Big Ten games. It's a huge disadvantage, because we have to force our teams to play according to the style that the refs dictate, where when you breath on certain players (never the "star" players, either. It's always some guy who averages 4ppg) you will be called for an offensive foul while others can get punched below the belt and then get called for fouling the puncher.Then, when we go out and play a team who doesn't have to worry about that bullcrap, teams who simply play the games and the refs go along with the flow of the game instead of creating their own, it appears that the refs favor them because we're so used to wildly inconsistant no-calls and touch-fouls.every conference has some bad ones. we actually just had a crew last weekend that were pretty bad. as long as they're consistent, i won't complain too much.

the mac doesn't have any kind of equivalent to that, do they?No. Much to the dismay of many out-of-towners on this board, myself included. I keep dreaming we'll have something like that . . . someday . . . someday . . .i feel for you there. it's definitely something that i wish more conferences would have. it makes following teams so much easier for out-of-towners. i hope that more conferences, including the mac, can jump on the bandwagon.

the mac doesn't have any kind of equivalent to that, do they?

one of the keys to playing at the arc is the crowd, especially the students. if we get loud and obnoxious, it's basically like have 6 or 7 players on the court. we're trying to pack the place tonight, as this is homer drew's first home attempt at his 600th career win. so tune in for an entertaining game.

hopefully you're not considering the bracketbuster game among them, although i can't say i'd blame you if you are.

even so, that's still quite a career. i'm impressed just reading about him, and can't wait to see him here next weekend.

sounds like our big guys are going to have their hands full. should be quite the matchup down low.

that's really an impressive feat. it's hard enough to reach 1 or 2, but to reach all 4? wow! makes me look forward to seeing him play here in a couple weeks.

actually, brewskis is no longer open. we came back for fall classes and it had closed, supposedly for renovations. but it's still not open. other than that, you're right about the rest of them. the country inn and suites is the closest to campus. it'd be about a 25 minute walk depending on how the sidewalks are (currently under 2 feet of snow). but it definitely beats not having to deal with parking. parking at vu is less than stellar.