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first two finals from round of 16 Virginia 3 Marquette 1 michigan state 1 Georgetown 0

they are playing at virginia this afternoon virginia player got a red card 57 seconds into the match

http://www.ohio.com/news/top-stories/forme...dreams-1.187703 this old article from the Beacon confirms that Brent is Louie's son

they were tremendous. Incredible dedication and support.

I might be behind the times.... I had not heard of these 2 commitments from a Nov. 25 article on topdrawer soccer.com http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer...itions_aid32110 Other commitments: Midfielder Jesse Garcia-Aguilar (Portland Timbers Academy) committed to Akron for the class of 2014. Midfielder Brent Nanchoff (Internationals SC) committed to Akron for the class of 2014. http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-player...choff/pid-71226 http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-player...ar/pid-10023977

I was at the game in my opinion, Adam Najem had the best game for the zips. He always seemed to be in the middle when the zips were attacking and he made some very good passes. In terms of coming back for next year, let's hope that Ismail Seremba can recover well from his injury. He has speed and he was willing to challenge people. I liked what I saw of that young man before his injury. Andrew Souders and Louis Cross will be solid in the back next year Marquette did a better job tonight keeping their offense in the middle of the field. Their goalie would pass it up to the 6'7 kid and that defender would kick a long way into the center of the field....that really helped their offense. Robbie's injury really hurt Akron's ability to attack on both sides. the article on zips.com....does not mention why Eric Stevenson was out of the lineup. Akron still plays an attractive style of soccer....so I am confident that Coach Embick will reload and the zips will do well next year

#8 Virginia 2 St. Johns 0 so the zips will go to UVA next week if they can get past the golden eagles #6 seed georgetown 3 Old Dominion 0 #11 Michigan State and Louisville are 0-0 ....8 minutes into first overtime

hope this writer is correct http://www.collegesoccernews.com/index.php...-on-by-ben-roth

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1 the final rpi numbers

game time temp is supposed to be 22 12 mph winds... making the temp feel like 10 degrees their stadium only seats 1,600 but their ticket office on Friday said there will be plenty of seats available at the ticket office on Sunday go, zips....would be fantastic for recruiting to beat both the big ten tourney champ, big ten regular season champ and the big east tourney champ Marquette lost 2-0 in regular season to Mich. State and 1-0 to wisconsin so they certainly can't say they are uncrowned big 10 champs

a win is a win..... Indiana was super aggressive... would love to have tommy thompson kid on the zips side bring on the golden eagles

Saad Abdul Salaam is sick with the flu and not in the starting lineup.... Hopefully, someone else can step up

prediction from J.R. Eskilson - top drawer soccer Akron (16-3-1) vs. Indiana (8-11-2), 7 p.m. How They Got Here: For Indiana, it was a miracle. The Hoosiers won the Big Ten Championship to earn the automatic qualifier to the tournament after what best could be described as a disappointing regular season. Akron continued to be the bully of the MAC and captured another conference crown. Form: Akron is undefeated in its last ten games and won its last six. Indiana is undefeated in its last four games. Players to know: Akron center back/all-everything Bryan Gallego said on Twitter this week that he would be back in the lineup for Thursday’s game after missing out on the MAC Championship due to injury. Freshman Tommy Thompson has been the best player this season for Indiana, and he has recently returned from injury as well. Thompson has five goals and two assists in 12 starts. Stat of the game: Akron head coach Jared Embick is undefeated as a head coach in NCAA Division I Tournament games.* *Important note: This is Embick’s first NCAA Division I Tournament game as a head coach. Prize: A trip to one of the best burger joints in the country in Sobelman’s Pub & Grill (plus a game against Marquette) in the next round.) Prediction: Akron 2-2 Indiana (Akron wins 5-4 in PKs)

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...ml#incart_river

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/in...ml#incart_river

coaches have New Mexico at #25.....seeding committee ranked them #7...New Mexico lost 3-0 in their conference tourney to Tulsa and Tulsa did not even make the NCAA tourney soccer coaches have Akron at #7....seeding committee put them at #24 soccer coaches have Maryland-Baltimore County(UMBC) at #5 and RPI last week had them at 6...seeding committed put them at 16 a big conference team...Connecticut is 10 with the coaches and 17 by the seeding committee Charlotte is 23 with the soccer coaches and was seeded #13 by seeding committee I think there are going to be a ton of tournament games decided by penalty kicks...look at all of the ties for Notre Dame, Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut

final regular season poll from the soccer coaches...obviously none of these coaches are on the selection committee http://www.nscaatv.com/rankings/2950/NCAAD...National/Poll12

and I agree completely with z.i.p's comments about UCLA being overated how can you be #1 overall seed when that team lost 3-0 to Cal Poly (not even in tourney) and have 2 draws with Oregon State (not even in the tourney) and Cal Irvine, the #12 seed beat UCLA 3-1 in September.... I watched UCLA play Indiana on the big ten network early in September....and the teams were dead even...UCLA won 1-0 in overtime...

Akron defeated IU in 2010 in the tournament at Akron I like that parallel..... beat IU in NCAA in 2010....win the whole tournament beat IU in NCAA in 2013....win the whole tournament..... sounds like a plan to me

I just realized that Furman did not get in take care of business, Zips and prove the selection committee wrong

maryland baltimore county was #6 last week in RPI and got #16 seed I would be curious how many on selection committee were from west coast... west coast....heavily represented in top 16...with 3 of top 4 seeds and irvine, northridge and santa barbara

wake forest as a #14 seed akron as a #24 seed...and having to host the IU hoosiers that is a joke.... zips need a huge crowd thursday night

the WMU goalie made the all tourney team despite giving up 4 goals today comments from the Western Michigan coach...show that Akron could have scored more than 4 goals today "Akron was the better team today, you just have to tip your hat to them, they were terrific in every phase of the game," said WMU head coach Chad Wiseman. "goalie Chase Rau was absolutely unbelievable throughout the match. Conceding four goals just doesn't do his performance justice. He had four or five saves no body I have seen this year could make. "I am so proud of this team, they have come so far in the four months together. I could not of asked anything more of them today or throughout the season. They gave us everything they had."

nice article by our friend Michael at the Akron Beaven Journal http://www.ohio.com/blogs/ua-zips/universi...nament-1.445563

Indiana with an 8-11-2 record ....will get to defend its ncaa title they defeated Michigan State 1-0 in big ten final with Penn State and Mich. State both losing this weekend to IU, the zips have to be seeded ahead of both teams in the NCAA draw