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You'd think after the first 5 passes are easily stolen in about 10 minutes, the Zips would start paying attention, but I guess not.

Looks like he might have taken Tavari's so far.

Miami down 4 at the half against UMASS

This game is going to fall squarely on Lyle's shoulders. He is going to have to have a monster of a game on the defensive end. I think Marvin and Evan are going to struggle guarding Gillespie/Whaley, they just don't have the size to keep up, and I am assuming that even if Chabi plays, it will be very limited minutes after so much time off. It is totally possible that we struggle to rebound and give up tons of easy points, but I also think it is going to be hard for Kent to stop our offense as well.

Zips starting to flow on offense. Time to really step it up for a few minutes and get a real lead.

I still haven't seen a full game from him, but from the bits and pieces I have seen, Blydon for Toledo is one of the best true freshmen that I have seen in the MAC for quite a while. He is definitely showing up so far tonight too.

I don't disagree with anything that you said. I fully believe Akron is the better team. There are teams with terrible schedules every single season. It is rare for those teams to have a 30 win season. Bad opponents or not, it is impressive to be able to go out every night and take care of business. Even the best Akron teams have one or two headscratchers every season. Once again, I still do not believe that Miami will win 30 games, but if they do I think they can pull an at large bid.

If Miami wins 30 games and loses in the conference championship, I think they get an at large. It's really hard to justify not letting a 30 win team in and Miami has been able to get enough media attention to drive a push to a bid. I still dont think they will win 30 games, but they are getting closer every day so who knows.

Other than being unconscious from 3 early, the Zips have not looked great on offense tonight. I feel like there has been a lot of miscommunication and weird turnovers that you usually don't see.

This team loses all ability to play about midway through the second half. So annoying

Well that sure hasn't happened. Scott misses an open shot and Lyles turns it over.

Lyles is getting fouled just about every time they go up for a rebound, but the refs have proven at this point that they aren't calling it. He needs to get mad and fight back more.

2 straight second chance 3s for Miami. That's the stuff that will make the Zips lose the game.

Steele is for sure John's brother. I've seen that exact technical with the same mannerism so many times from Groce.

Eh, 5-7 and 4-4 in conference is decent. It has been damn near a decade since Akron football has been decent. I'm certainly not in love with how this season went, but I'm not ready to run the coaching staff out of town.