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Don't even get me started on inbounding the ball in the half-court. Looked a lot easier with Zeke, but now without him. Wow, is it scary bad

Next up: AT #14(AP Poll)/#16(Coaches' Poll) Dayton, Friday night at 7:00pm.

Tennessee Tech was picked to win the Ohio Valley Conference, and the final score of 118-71 was not even an indication of how embarrassing this game was for the Golden Eagles. If our starters played the whole game, the Lady Zips could of put 130 up EASILY...150 might of been doable...

On my way to go get some breakfast. I'm going to go watch some up-tempo, entertaining basketball at 10:30am. Tired of this grinding, pounding, half-court basketball. We have the athletes to play more up-tempo, but we don't play up-tempo. Don't tell me we tried, with the pressure full-court. There's other ways to help the tempo of the game. Just watch the women's team play, and you'll see what I mean. The men's team weaknesses right now is the women's team strengths. Free throws aren't that hard. Even at 4am in the morning.

Oswho is in a whole rebuilding phase down in Cowlumbus. Someone told me their current coach would of recruited Plybon really hard, but he wasn't there during her recruiting, and Foster wouldn't even consider DIII or DIV players in Ohio. They're trying to broaden their recruiting in Ohio, but the MAC schools are stepping up. There's another recruit that Akron is going after that may be as good of a recruit as Plybon was for Akron.

https://twitter.com/ZipsMBB/status/399372191172526081

I'm so glad I chose to have a night class on tuesdays and thursdays instead of mondays and wednesdays. Getting my work done, sleeping early, and getting up to watch Akron at 3am. Then, going to Denny's(or IHOP) for breakfast, and off to Lady Zips game at 10:30am. Great change from the norm for this college student !!!!! I'd like to see how our point guard play and center play is for the game. Ironically, those positions used to be the cornerstone of any basketball program/franchise. Hopefully Evans/Betancourt can play solid and Harney/Q play to their capabilities. No long lapses, or this game will be over.

I'm so glad I chose to have a night class on tuesdays and thursdays instead of mondays and wednesdays. Getting my work done, sleeping early, and getting up to watch Akron at 3am. Then, going to Denny's for breakfast, and off to Lady Zips game at 10:30am. Great morning!!!!!

Lady Zips play a really good Tennessee Tech team on Tuesday at a weird tip-off time. Overall, just a weird tip-off time for both Akron basketball teams that morning(MBB: 3am ET, WBB: 10:30am ET). Need a solid outing and win on Tuesday to get the momentum when playing #14 Dayton that Friday.

GoZips was mentioning something Z.I.P. said in his post. Z.I.P. has edited his post and is no longer in his post. That's why it looks like GoZips was stating something about nothing.

Lady Zips defeat Lake Erie College 97-43. Player-Total Points- Best other stat Luburgh- 22 points in 24 minutes- 6 rebounds(4 assists) Tecca- 20 points in 23 minutes- 8 rebounds(5 assists) Plybon- 14 points in 25 minutes- (6-10 FG) Brown- 9 points in 16 minutes- 3 rebounds(2 assists) Ricketts- 8 points in 16 minutes- 5 rebounds Young- 7 points in 17 minutes- 4 rebounds Nunan- 6 points in 14 minutes- 3 rebounds(2 assists) Gibson- 5 points in 21 minutes- 7 rebounds(3 assists) Cassell- 2 points in 18 minutes- 4 assists Barilla- 2 points in 10 minutes- 1 assist Scipio- 1 point in 11 minutes- 2 rebounds(1 assist) Simone- 1 point in 6 minutes- 1 steal

You can still get an idea on what the rotation could be for the regular season in these exhibition games. Also gives you a chance to see the true freshmen play that most likely will get red-shirt to give you what the future holds for the program as well.

Lady Zips up 41-19 at the half over DII Lake Erie College. Coach Kest not happy with the defensive effort according to the radio call. - Hannah Plybon got the start. I knew she was going to be good enough to start as a true freshman, but thought this early in her career that Coach Kest might of went with a sophomore to start. Only exhibition, so possibly just starting her today to see what she could contribute. Minutes/Points/Rebounds/Assists in first half: Luburgh -16/16/1/2 Tecca- 15/14/4/2 Cassell- 15/0/0/3 Plybon- 14/4/1/1 Young- 10/1/4/1 Gibson- 10/0/2/2 Brown- 7/2/2/2 Nunan- 5/2/0/0 Barilla- 4/2/0/0 Ricketts- 4/0/0/0 Guyton- 0/-/-/- Simone- 0/-/-/- Scipio- 0/-/-/-

I don't know which nickname I rather have...The RubberDucks or the Pelicans?

Exactly, and with the new rules and the 10 second backcourt violation finally in effect for women's hoops, that will help this team score MORE points. They're a very good FT shooting team, and also can pressure at times. With Tecca as healthy as she's ever been, this team can be so scary(if everyone else stays healthy), you may see them scoring 80, 90, and even 100 points on a regular basis this season. Cassell had complete command of that offense last season, and with one last full offseason for her senior season, I expect her to average close to 10 assists per game, if not more.

Lady Zips marketing theme for 2013-2014 Here's their media day press conference: One big note is Sina King is out for the season with an injury. It will be hard to replace her consistent double-double numbers this season, but there's some younger players that can hopefully combine to give the numbers King was projected to get this season. Expect Anita Brown to start in the Taylor Ruper starting spot in the rotation. I expect Plybon to be contending for quality minutes mid-MAC season. Kest seems to like Scipio, but with Cassell and Barilla at that position, she probably won't see much time this season on the floor.

I probably shouldn't of mentioned it, but from people that know former assistant coaches and players that they still are in contact with, Porter was upset with him. He wouldn't give Porter the time of day. He would always send one of his assistants to meet with CP on what CP wanted to talk about. I probably went too far with that, just didn't see it that way when I posted it. Just looked at it as a fact, and not a cheap shot. Portland was in theory, the worse job for CP's schemes, philosophy, etc.

1) Porter/Huggins comparison is a TERRIBLE one. Huggins went to another college program. Porter went to the professional ranks. Porter would still be here if it wasn't for two initals: TW 2) Everyone keeps talking about how they wish Akron gets mentioned more here or there. Personally, you may not like soccer, but practically in every MLS game broadcast, Akron is mentioned at least once on air. 3) The reason why people still follow and support Porter, is that he still supports and follows Akron. He didn't go to a bigger college program, even though he easily could of left the day after the Virginia loss. 4) My comparison of Caleb Porter is Brad Stevens. But Porter is a better coach/manager in his sport. I'm proud he was a Zip coach, and will follow him since he went to the next step, and didn't go to a different college program. Coaches have every right to take the opportunity to get their chance at the professional level as much as the players.

Growing up, I was a Seattle Seahawks fan. I still am, but if I go to a Cleveland Browns game and it isn't against Seattle, then I'm not going to wear my SEA gear. It's that simple. It just looks stupid. Akron is DI, not DII or DIII. If you want to be an Ohio State fan AND an Akron fan, just don't show the OSU crap at Akron games that don't involve Ohio State. It's like being a fan of both the Browns and Bengals because they're in the state of Ohio. It's like being a fan of St. Ignatius and St. Edward (or Massillon and McKinley), because they're in the same county. Just doesn't make much sense to me. Or for the soccer example, it's like being a fan of both the Sounders and the Timbers. Just can't really happen. Yeah, for us Akron fans it might be easier since there's former Zips on each side of that rivalry, but if you're an average fan for either side, you absolutely HATE the other one. Just getting tired of the way other students make me feel I'm at a community college instead of a DI school.

Lee Corso picked UCF to beat Penn State last week in his Upset Alert. Do you know who he picked this week? AKRON over Louisiana-Lafayette

13 minutes in, ESPN Seattle 710 AM's Brock Huard mentioned Akron(for a couple seconds)

I see us winning both of those games potentially...4-0 going into MAC play next year?

Some AK-Rowdies are going to be there at 8 tonight to greet the team back on a great game today. Just thought to let everyone on here know if they want to join!

Everyone needs to check Twitter out...some great stuff out there!!!!! Faux John Madden

technically AJ Milwee is the OC, and I thought that was a first down to be honest. And if it wasn't, why didn't they add more time on?