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A see a lot of the refs who do MAC games a day or two later doing top Big Ten and other conference games, so I'm not going to complain much about officiating. It is what it is. Can it be better at times? Sure. As far as our free throw discrepancy, it seems pretty consistent over the year. As 1981 grad mentions, being 3rd in the nation in taking 3 pointers and 160th in percentage may have something to do with it.

Just noticed that. I wonder what the deal is there. I'm sure not going to pay for what will probably be at best a mediocre at best feed from Oxford. I think they'd get more takers for $3-5.

That is true, but "The two teams played for the MAC tournament championship every year from 2009 to 2013." is not. (Unless you consider every team technically "plays for the tournament championship.")

#1 (that's OU's remaining schedule) has been corrected on cleveland.com, but #2 is still wrong. Veteran writer (Warsinskey) for the PD should be better. Where, oh where have you gone, Willie Alvarez?

I just hope the Zips can contain Willie Alvarez tonight.

It may be better to start Deji and/or have him play more against Buffalo just because of our size differential with their guards. We were already small with Noah and Nyles starting. Antino and Nyles make us even smaller. I'm not sure I get the case for the "twin towers" combo. Kwan is big enough at 6' 9" to combine with Forsythe. I'd like to see Kwan be more aggressive inside and at mid-range anyway.

I was mistaken. Both games were awful. No team of the four shot 40% and the Zips teams combined for 43 turnovers. Ouch.

Both the men's and women's Akron and Can't games have been covered the last two weekends by ABJ "staff reports." And why did GT write a feature article on the Browns logo yesterday? Not sure what the deal is over there anymore. Do the beat reporters get weekends off?

Great ad in the ABJ today for the Toledo game. Does anybody over there read their own newspaper? After Willie Alvarez, last weekend's "Central Michigan" headline score and today maybe we should start an ABJ/media snafu thread? Or maybe it will be too full all the time.

Don't give Reghi too much credit. It took him a couple of games to get it right. During the Can't game he made a point of telling the audience that Jackson's name wasn't Antonio and proceeded to call him AnTEEno the rest of the game. Probably a common mistake, but still wrong. There's a pronunciation guide in every media game notes put out by the school. He probably got corrected after the Can't game.

My walk in from the Route 8 parking deck last night was brutal enough. I can see why some students might not want to walk across a frigid, windswept Jackson field from the dorms to go to a game after already being on campus earlier. I've wondered at times, especially in bad weather, if they run any Roo Express type buses from the Exchange Street dorms to the JAR for games. It sounds from your comment like they don't. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It could drop off students at the end of the old College Street near the softball field and not get caught up in the main game traffic.

I understand all the discussion about Antino's extended minutes last night (although he came out just a little over a minute after the media timeout), but you just can't have Walters (as well as he played) out there in a position to take a crucial shot in the last two minutes. Evans or Deji should have been in the game at that point in my humble opinion. Surely Nyles can play point guard for a possession or two. Oh well, Go Zips! Beat the Redhawks!

Thanks. It would be interesting to see the actual viewership numbers in terms of what they lose in the area from ESPN3 when blacked out versus what they gain on TWC. It's bad to lose any potential viewers. They probably get more money regardless.

I'll definitely be there. It should be the better game of the two.

I've always been at these "blacked out" games, so fortunately it hasn't been an issue for me. Who exactly is blacked out? Satellite subscribers and/or other non-TWC customers?

EA covered the Can't game at Toledo on Friday and the Zips game in Ypsilanti on Saturday. Makes sense.

They used the infamous staff reporter for the women's home game against Toledo, too. How many points did "Willie Alvarez" have for Central? I also see the staff reporter covered both the Can't games this past weekend, too.

I've noticed Kretzer wearing blue and gold shoes lately, but that's it.

Let's not go crazy there thinking the team might wear the actual school colors.

I believe you'll have to go to a higher authority than TW in terms of selling our soul to ESPN3. It's a MAC deal, isn't it? I'm glad to see some games airing on TWCSC. ESPN3 is great for the diehards, but I doubt it gets many viewers other than that. For what it's worth, Duke and North Carolina play next on Weds. Feb 18.

An over aggressive auto correct? They've been informed. We'll see if they correct it on-line.

Great "Staff Report" on the game today in the ABJ. Who the hell is Willie Alvarez? Good grief. http://ohio.com/sports/zips/men-s-basketball-ohio-83-akron-82-zips-blow-double-digit-lead-fall-to-bobcats-1.564437

I paid the $6.95 for BG feed too and complained to them about the quality from the beginning. They said it was a BG issue since the feed came from the school. I replied that was not a satisfactory answer since I was paying them, Sidearm Sports, not BG for the feed. I also pointed out I had found out I could have been watching the same feed for free on the MAC Digital network (which I did for a short time on my phone). Regardless, for $6.95 I should get a better feed. It was watchable, but thank goodness for the play by play. They eventually agreed to give me a refund. We'll see if that happens. The initial charge hasn't even come through yet. In regard missing the action because of replays, I think what we are watching on some of the feeds is the video playing on the video screens/scoreboard in the building. I seem to recall Buffalo doing the same thing. Most schools are still patchworking various feeds together instead of really coordinating them.

For $6.95 the feed should be better than it is. Looks more like the free feeds from the MAC.

Agreed. The uniforms were great and contributed to a fitting tribute to Coach Peters. I would be nice, though, if the Zips could find a way to have at least one uniform combination with blue and gold. The silver editions have run their course with me.