1981 grad

Great post and it reminds me of when Groce was asked what he wanted his players to do during the tournament his response was enjoy the moment. In 20 years the $38,000 will be long gone but the Akron players who stuck with Groce, Tevari, Lyles and Nate will have a memory of winning back to back MAC titles and going to the NCAA tourney two years in a row. As they get older, their hard work and teamism will be serve them well in whatever profession they choose and their championships will stay with them forever.

I just checked the box score and when you look at the individual stats, no player got credit for those 2 points and the game ended in a tie.

What a dumb rule.

Although I think it should have been Miami, I think any MAC win in the NIT reflects well on the conference so I hope that Kent pulls the upset and wins tonight.

I love it!!! Freeman has not been playing with the Pacers and probably just got called up. Amazing how he was able to come off the bench and sink both free throws. So in the box score Freeman will probably have 0 minutes and 2 points. Do not see that very often.

Do you think there might be other problems in the State that need attention other than their basketball team not making the tourney?

I just listened to the interview and it was a great. Interesting to hear that Groce's plan was to call a timeout but when he saw the runout he looked at the clock and saw Nate had time to score and kept the timeout in his pocket. The 3 guys that he has since frosh, Nate, Lyles, and TJ all made great plays to win that game.

Why do I think the F bomb will be used on the Miami Board after finding out that Kent made the NIT after Miami beat them in the tourney and during the season and they almost beat us in the finals. That sucks for them.

I also noticed that the Zips played 4 teams out of conference that made the tournament including Yale, St. Mary, Omaha, Alabama State.

It is Arizona!!!! Love the match up. Go Zips.

Great picture of the Zips on the CBS bracketology page article regarding teams in the tourney. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/

I read the comments on the Miami Board and was surprised about 2 things. How they complained about the refs and how many F bombs were on that board. It just showed me how our administrators do a great job in keeping this board civil.

USA today had us as a 14 heading to Providence.

I hate seeing these probability charts on this board every since somebody quoted them with 4 minutes left in the UCLA game that we had a 95% probability of winning our first tournament game. And how did that turn out.

Wow, did not realize it was that bad. Were we that good on defense, or did Miami run out of gas, or did they choke. It does not make a difference. We made some clutch plays and deserved the win.

Ironic, how many times last year did Groce pull Tevari for bad defense. In the last possession Tevari played his best defense of the game. A quick outlet and Nate was off to the races. That is 2 games in a row that we won the championship in the last seconds of the game. Was anybody else having nightmares when the Miami player hoisted a prayer from beyond half court? Now lets win our first NCAA game.

I wish they would have taken a shot quicker in the shot clock. If they make it we only have 5 seconds left.

Those last 2 possessions sucked. We came all the way back. Move the ball!!!

That is a flagrant!!! He just pushed him to the floor. That is not a basketball play. We should get 2 shots.

I just wish he would move the ball around and not shoot the three off the curl when he is still moving. Of course if it goes it is a great shot. Seth has been a non factor in this game.

The refs have been giving Nate that call in the paint.

I wish Nate would have been patient and not take that outside three. Those are the shots that have not been falling. They go on the other end and score a three at the buzzed. We need another run.

I think we are something like 2 for 10 on three pointers and a lot of the threes were forced and not clean looks. Need to be patient and shoot the threes off a pass and not force it. This team going 9 deep was built to take over the 2nd half. Go Zips!!!!

We narrowed the lead to 12 and we had a couple of bad calls by the refs on 2 offensive fouls that were pure flops by Miami. Even the announcers indicated they were flops and no calls.

We just need to get around 10 by the half and play better in the 2nd half. This team can get back into the game very easily. We started slow and they started hot. Just need to turn it around.