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Final/OTVCU 77George Mason 82

Or maybe we should suspend the REFS and TEAM for a game...i'm at U of A right now to get my degree in Sport Studies to become a D1 college basketball coach...I feel like just going and give this team an old-fashioned Don Haskins practice...this is unacceptable to me...very sad...

Nik limping off court with trainer...not what i want to see happen at all...

is it exactly 2.25 GPA? don't answer that? that's the question i have...

injury timeout....guess who?humpty hitchens..looking at his left eye...

Brett McKnight suspended tonight...great...this is ridiculous...I wonder what stupid thing Brett did while he was in Mount Pleasant...because team's been in Mt. Pleasant since Saturday...

Here's how I think his GPA is...13 +.2+.2+.2+.2+2.3=3.23 which he didn't do by himself.... #2 for 4 years, his BAC, and the number 23 with a decimal in front of it...

RI's wife is a better recruit than RI according to RI? Wow!!!!!!!!! I hope Coach Kest reads the football posts on here...

Just stick to analyzing Norton's AD...lol...jk...I wouldn't put him on warm or hot seat, but he better know that "People are watching"...

"Of an Akron schedule that includes Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Indiana and Syracuse over the next few seasons,"greeaaaaatttttt....just what i want to hear(NOT!!!!!)....unless we get virginia tech to come here but i doubt it...

So complete standings look something like this(don't know how or what in chronological order does tiebreakers work) :Men's basketball1 Can't State2 Akron3 Miami(OH)4 Central Michigan5 Ball State6 Western Michigan7 Buffalo8 Bowling Green9 Northern Illinois10 Eastern Michigan11 Ohio12 ToledoWomen's Basketball1 Bowling Green2 Toledo 2 Akron4 Eastern Michigan5 Can't State6 Central Michigan7 Miami(OH)8 Ball State8 Buffalo10 Northern Illinois11 Western Michigan12 Ohio

Women's BasketballMAC EASTBowling Green 9-1 MAC/ 19-5 overall @Central Michigan on wednesdayAkron 8-2 MAC/ 14-9 overall @Toledo on wednesdayCan't State 7-3 MAC/ 14-8 overall @Western Michigan on wednesdayMiami(OH) 4-6 MAC/ 6-17 overall @Eastern Michigan on wednesday Buffalo 3-7 MAC/ 7-16 overall @Ball State on wednesday Ohio 2-8 MAC/ 6-17 overall @Northern Illinois on wednesdayMAC WESTToledo 8-2 MAC/ 18-5 overall v Akron on WednesdayE. Michigan 7-3 MAC/ 17-5 overall v Miami(OH) on WednesdayC. Michigan 5-5 MAC/ 8-14 overall v Bowling Green on WednesdayBall State 3-7 MAC/ 9-14 overall v Buffalo on WednesdayN. Illinois 2-8 MAC/ 8-13 overall v Ohio on WednesdayW. Michigan 2-8 MAC/ 7-16 overall v Can't State on Wednesday

Men's BasketballMAC EastCan't State 8-2 MAC, 17-7 overall 2/10 vs. Ball State Akron 7-3 MAC, 17-7 overall 2/09 @Central MichiganMiami(OH) 7-3 MAC, 10-13 overall 2/10 vs. Toledo Buffalo 5-5 MAC, 12-9 overall 2/10 vs. Eastern MichiganBowling Green 4-6 MAC, 11-11 overall 2/10 vs. Northern Illinois Ohio 3-6 MAC, 12-11 overall 2/09 vs. Western Michigan MAC WestCentral Michigan 6-3 MAC, 11-10 overall 2/09 vs. AkronBall State 6-4 MAC, 12-10 overall 2/10 @Can't StateWestern Michigan 5-5 MAC, 13-10 overall 2/09 @OhioEastern Michigan 4-6 MAC, 12-11 overall 2/10 @BuffaloNorthern Illinois 4-6 MAC, 8-14 overall 2/10 @Bowling GreenToledo 0-10 MAC, 3-21 overall 2/10 @Miami(OH)

Bowling Green at Ball State is on FSN Ohio right now...it's a dandy right now...

HalftimeBowling Green 30Ball State 35If Ball State and Akron holds on, Akron will be tied with Bowling Green for 1st place in MAC East. With the Bowling Green-Akron game on Saturday, Feburary 20th looking like it'll have big implications for MAC East and seeding in MAC tourney.Eastern Michigan beating Can't State right now too...Toledo whooping Ohio in Athens...that means that it will be Akron and Bowling Green racing for MAC East race if EMU,Akron, and Ball State holds on...but we still have three big games...2/10 @Toledo2/20 vs. Bowling Green2/24 vs. Can't State

HalftimeBowling Green 30Ball State 35If Ball State and Akron holds on, Akron will be tied with Bowling Green for 1st place in MAC East. With the Bowling Green-Akron game on Saturday, Feburary 20th looking like it'll have big implications for MAC East and seeding in MAC tourney.

According to Tim Carroll, they made it to Indiana at 6:30pm...

Since the weather has closed the Akron,Wayne,and Medina Campuses today....do they cancel the athletic event also? Just wondering...

If you consider about 8-10 rowdies and 1/4 of the lower reserved on each side a "Crowd", then no...it was pretty easy to put your foot up, except for a couple of us actually did that(actually it was laptop on seat) and broke a couple of our seats in the process...so that's 2 less seats for rowdies against Can't state... Uh oh...was the "seat guy" there to yell at you guys? (i'm sure you know who i'm talking about)i actually didn't see him there thursday...

I couldn't agree more. Many a game have been lost by the Zips in the past few years due to KD not riding the momentum his players build. The way he runs things it's hard for shooters to get into any sort of rhythm.I agree also. He has a tendency to sub in 3-4 players at a time, which makes no sense. You have a good run going, momentum and chemistry working, if a guy is tired sub him out but not all of them. I feel like I'm watching hockey with all the line changes!If you can afford to, substitute liberally early in a game. Players are humans and not robots so they become tired.Getting a lead early in a game is critical in any sport. In basketball, it allows a coach to rest his players. If you have a 12 point lead and rest your starters, the other team has to leave their starters in to try to catch up. If they catch up to say four, then put the starters back in. The other team will be tired from trying to catch up and the starters can expand the lead again.Basketball is a game very much like hockey in there is constant motion. Rest is critical.kinda hard to be in constant motion when there's a media timeout every 2 minutes it seems...

If you consider about 8-10 rowdies and 1/4 of the lower reserved on each side a "Crowd", then no...it was pretty easy to put your foot up, except for a couple of us actually did that(actually it was laptop on seat) and broke a couple of our seats in the process...so that's 2 less seats for rowdies against Can't state...

Good news...it's official(according to Mike Rasor):9/4/10 vs. Syracuse9/11/10 vs. Gardner-Webb9/18/10 at Kentucky9/25/10 at Indianahttp://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/zips/2010/02/4833/

I drifted this quote from my post on offering my tickets to the NIU game.My right .... you bet. I have been a fan of Zips sports from before most of you were born. I have held multipleseason tickets for football and basketball for more years than I care to count.Ninty-nine percent of the time I am a huge supporter of coaches. Even the really bad ones. I love KD.But, he has lost control. He needs to right the ship. The Zips have stunk up four of the past five games.The team has no heart, no soul, no drive, no killer instinct. Where is the leadership? I will tell you where.He is sitting to damned much of the time. KD, love the kids. Stop putting them in season long dog houses.Tonight I saw Dan Hipsher not Keith Dambrot. Hipsher never trusted his kids. KD knows better.Let us start with basics. First, free throws. Which coach teaches free throws? It is not enough tomake the kids shoot free throws when they are winded. A coach needs to watchfully correct bad mechanics.It is not being done. Game after game the kids go to the line and never get off their heels. A free throwshot is a continuous motion that begins at the ball of the foot and ends with full extension of the shootingarm. Other than Darryl Roberts none of the kids have good mechanics. Not one.Second, we play great defense for thirty seconds, usually. Sure, there are occasional breakdowns, that hapens.The problem is the last five seconds. Teams have learned to pass and weave and patiently wait for theend of the shot clock then drive the basket. We stand there flat footed and they knock down lay up afterlay up .. unguarded. This happens repeatedly because no one is communicating. No one calls the switch. No one releases and doubles down. No one, and I mean, no one is talking on the floor. If they were, we would hear them.You know all those missed shovel passes that become turnovers? No communication and the receiving player gets the ball unexpectedly. He can not read the other guy's mind.Third, other than Nikola, who drives the lane to the basket? That's right. No one.Fourth, we need a point guard that sees the floor and distributes the ball. I love Steve McNees, at the twowhere he gets open and knocks down treys. It is a whole different ball game when he is chucking themup in desperation. KD is not developing a point guard because he is comfortable with Steve. I'm not.But, I'm just a stupid fan. I want Steve out at the two where he is most effective.Fifth, who is guarding who? We had Brett McKnight guarding the EMU shooter. Isn't that better handledby Jimmy Conyers? I thought that assignments were awful. EMU had so many great mismatches on us.Sixth, lethargy. You just got to love lethargy because we have so much of it. Passion? Hell, if the securityguards catch a fan with any sort of passion they hustle them right out of the gym. If KD sees a playerplaying with passion he sits him down. KD, you are ripping the hearts out of these kids. Its on you, pal.Seven, the good old AK-howdies. They are back. Thrity kids in each end zone. There were a thousandRowdies at the soccer games. They all die?My last gripe of the night is the backing off of the full court pressure right when EMU was coming unglued.The time out at 6:32 and the three bigs are sat down and in trots Zeke, McClanahan and I don't recall.At any rate, the full court pressure stopped and so did the run. That's coaching, ahem. I am pissed.+3couldn't say it better myself.i'm showing up every game, i can't help about how many of them come...getting tired of many rowdies only showing up to the "big" games...

this isn't the first game...Austin Peay, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Toledo,Can't State,and now Eastern Michigan...and there's probably a couple I left out...

Can explain to me why they do that so much on defense? I see it all the time with Zeke or Bardo. They play man and get their center brought out up top and beat to the basket 4-5 times a game!I really can't tell you. If we had Zeke down low we could gamble and send the 2-3 guy out and pressure knowing we had an answer in the paint. To do what he did on that play tonight was absurd. Medlock is a good, quick guard and the outcome of that play was very predictable because it left the lane vacant. Another time in the game Zeke made a pretty hook shot so what does Keith do?? That's right, sits him down with the next whistle and fatigue was not a factor. Lets not give the kid a chance to get on a roll and build his confidence.fatigue is definitely not an issue with a media timeout every 2 minutes it seems like...