Zipmeister Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 $20 for Lowers, $15 for Uppers, $10 for Adult and $5 for a Child. I would guess 400 fans as the over/under. I think $10 a ticket with buy one get one, would give our seniors a chance to go out with a respectable crowd. Does the CBI have a hand in setting the prices? Go Zips! Any team that buys into the CBI is signaling the rest of of the world "Hey look at us; we are desperate for attention." If that were the case, it would mean that people pay attention to the CBI. I don't think that's the case. I like the CBI. More competitive basketball at the JAR is always good. My over/under is 2,900. Quick, tell me three teams that played in the CBI the last two years? Who won it all each year to take home the title of "we're #98 or whatever"? No peaking now. Tulsa and Oregon State I have no idea whether you answered the second question correctly or not, but if you did you either peaked or you have no life whatsoever. I dont know if you are implying that my knowledge "peaked" at this moment or that i "peeked" but i actually had heard of this tournament before and even watched a title game in it last year. Just pay attention to college basketball a little bit and you'll pick up things like that. They teach you the difference between peeked and peaked at college basketball games now!! In the good old days we learned that stuff in grade school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 $20 for Lowers, $15 for Uppers, $10 for Adult and $5 for a Child. I would guess 400 fans as the over/under. I think $10 a ticket with buy one get one, would give our seniors a chance to go out with a respectable crowd. Does the CBI have a hand in setting the prices? Go Zips! Any team that buys into the CBI is signaling the rest of of the world "Hey look at us; we are desperate for attention." If that were the case, it would mean that people pay attention to the CBI. I don't think that's the case. I like the CBI. More competitive basketball at the JAR is always good. My over/under is 2,900. Quick, tell me three teams that played in the CBI the last two years? Who won it all each year to take home the title of "we're #98 or whatever"? No peaking now. Tulsa and Oregon State I have no idea whether you answered the second question correctly or not, but if you did you either peaked or you have no life whatsoever. I dont know if you are implying that my knowledge "peaked" at this moment or that i "peeked" but i actually had heard of this tournament before and even watched a title game in it last year. Just pay attention to college basketball a little bit and you'll pick up things like that. They teach you the difference between peeked and peaked at college basketball games now!! In the good old days we learned that stuff in grade school. But enough about grammar. Here's an update on the Zips opponent: I’m thinking you will find their style extremely deliberate. I am reminded of the time the snail was run over by the turtle. The snail was rushed to the hospital and a doctor asked him, “What happened?” “I don’t know,” the snail replied, “it happened so fast.” After he recovered the snail attended a UWGB basketball game and spent most of the game yelling at the players to pick up the pace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Any game against a good mid-major team (or any good team) is OK by me. It's another game that Marshall, Cvetinovic, McClanahan, Steward, McKnight and others can gain game experience. I don't think any fans here are salivating at the chances of a CBI Title. I think most are just happy to get another game experience for our team, and another game to watch their favorite team. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 "Extremely deliberate" is a kind way to put it. The not-so-fast-there Zips are 195th in the country in possessions per game, averaging 67.5 per 40 minutes. UWGB is 291st (out of 347 D1 teams) at a glacial 64.9 possessions per 40 minutes. By comparison, hyper VMI is #1 with 85.7 possessions per 40 minutes. EDIT: I should have mentioned that UWGB is not quite as deliberate as the MAC's very own Miami, which ranks 338th out of 347 teams with 61.7 possessions per game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipboy Posted March 16, 2010 Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 We get another night of Zips basketball against a quality opponent. I am glad the unversity ponied up for the game. 2300 vocal fans at the JAR. It will be fun. Per KD on Zips Live - Humpty is doubtful. He hurt his foot on Friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 16, 2010 Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 What part of his body did Humpty not hurt on Friday? He was thrown to the floor more times than I could count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akron1 Posted March 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 I heard ticket sales are "very disappointing." Let's spread the word to get as many fans there as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted March 16, 2010 Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 I heard ticket sales are "very disappointing." Let's spread the word to get as many fans there as possible. This whole season's ticket sales have been very disappointing. Casual Akron fans are down about not winning on Saturday. To them, the season ended already. We know the benefits that the CBI gives the program. We want to see the seniors play one last time. Casual fans don't care enough about that stuff to buy a ticket. Student attendance will be way way down thanks to Spring Break. The only way attendance is decent is if we get to the best-of-three championship series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Facebook event. RSVP if you're going, and invite all your friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootforRoo44 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Facebook event. RSVP if you're going, and invite all your friends. bump...the best thing you can do is RSVP to this and click the share button on the page. The morepeople that know about these things the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 FYI - There has been no mention of the Zips playing in the CBI by the PD this week. Zero. They did have a nice Q & A feature with Chris McKnight over the weekend. Of course they mistakenly used Brett McKnight's photo instead of Chris'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Not much coverage, but it did appear in the PD online: Cleveland.com Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Its 65 and sunny. Its St Pattys day. Too many other options for Joe Fan. 2250 Att. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 [quote name='Hilltopper' date='Mar 17 2010 Its 65 and sunny. Its St Pattys day. Too many other options for Joe Fan. 2250 Att. 2250 if we're lucky. I'm here early & they've got the north GA section closed. Wise move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zip81 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Other CBI attendance: VCU at George Washington 793 Indiana St at St. Louis 3,542 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Josh Egner's here tonight. I just passed him by the concessions stand. He's a legit 6'6". And rockin' the mohawk! I'm probably gonna come back tomorrow night & watch him play. Jackson v Akron East. P.s. I wonder if he'd also agree that our concessions offerings suck? Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 [quote name='zip81' date='Mar 17 2010 Other CBI attendance: VCU at George Washington 793 Indiana St at St. Louis 3,542 St. Louis just opened a gorgeous new 10,000 seat arena. Hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zip81 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 [quote name='zip81' date='Mar 17 2010 Other CBI attendance: VCU at George Washington 793 Indiana St at St. Louis 3,542 St. Louis just opened a gorgeous new 10,000 seat arena. Hmm... The arena looked really nice on the highlights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BostonZip Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 877 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zip81 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 877 Wow. At least we had more than VCU/GW Other CBI attendance Wed. Duq at Princton - 665 Charl at EKY - 1,750 Col. St. at Morehead St - 2,202 eww we poo eee at Hofstra - 952 BU at Oregon St - 2,913 and in the NIT Tulsa at Can't - 1,175 (not much better) Perhaps it's a good thing that these tournaments will be a thing of the past if/when NCAA goes to 96 teams. (are they doing this for sure?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootforRoo44 Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 877 Wow. At least we had more than VCU/GW Other CBI attendance Wed. Duq at Princton - 665 Charl at EKY - 1,750 Col. St. at Morehead St - 2,202 eww we poo eee at Hofstra - 952 BU at Oregon St - 2,913 and in the NIT Tulsa at Can't - 1,175 (not much better) Perhaps it's a good thing that these tournaments will be a thing of the past if/when NCAA goes to 96 teams. (are they doing this for sure?) I hope so. I dont get how any zips fan can be against expanding a tournament that we have trouble getting into. 32 more teams = a better chance...period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdZip Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 My prediction is the next expansion is to either 68 or 72 teams. Instead of one "play-in" game there will be 4 or 8 of those games to see who has the right to lose to the 1 and 2 seeds. In the 72 team scenario, that automatically eliminates 8 of the smaller conference teams before the real tournament even starts and opens up 8 more spots for the majors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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