Quickzips Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Lindys and Athlon released their 2010-11 preseason publications and projections. Lindys has the Zips finishing 4th in the East behind Ohio, Miami and Can't. Athlon has Akron 2nd in the East behind Ohio and claiming an NIT bid. No big surprise that the rags would be picking Ohio as the pre-season favorite coming off the way they ended the season, but the bobcats do have some significant question marks headed into the season (particularly at SG and C). What surprises me more is Lindys choosing Akron 4th in the East. I have a hard time seeing that. The Zips have seen a considerable turnover from last year, but we still bring back a number of key contributors (Brett McKnight, McNees, Zeke, Cvetinovic, Roberts) while only losing a few guys who were even in the rotation last year (Conyers, Chris McKnight, Humpty). Can't has had at least as much, if not more turnover than us (losing Singletary, Simpson, Henry-Ala, Evans, Parks) and is still picked ahead of us. Miami wasn't very good last year and doesn't appear to have added a lot this year. In the end these preseason projections don't matter to much, but they are interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Lindys and Athlon released their 2010-11 preseason publications and projections. Lindys has the Zips finishing 4th in the East behind Ohio, Miami and Can't. Athlon has Akron 2nd in the East behind Ohio and claiming an NIT bid. No big surprise that the rags would be picking Ohio as the pre-season favorite coming off the way they ended the season, but the bobcats do have some significant question marks headed into the season (particularly at SG and C). What surprises me more is Lindys choosing Akron 4th in the East. I have a hard time seeing that. The Zips have seen a considerable turnover from last year, but we still bring back a number of key contributors (Brett McKnight, McNees, Zeke, Cvetinovic, Roberts) while only losing a few guys who were even in the rotation last year (Conyers, Chris McKnight, Humpty). Can't has had at least as much, if not more turnover than us (losing Singletary, Simpson, Henry-Ala, Evans, Parks) and is still picked ahead of us. Miami wasn't very good last year and doesn't appear to have added a lot this year. In the end these preseason projections don't matter to much, but they are interesting. Pretty good analysis here. I definitely think Ken+ suffered more losses that us with personnel. The only thing that I think could persuade someone to pick us 4th is if they really felt that Conyers and McKnight were significant losses. And I hope that's not going to be the case. And I think we should get major points for having a returning All-Senior backcourt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZip0510 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Lindys and Athlon released their 2010-11 preseason publications and projections. Lindys has the Zips finishing 4th in the East behind Ohio, Miami and Can't. Athlon has Akron 2nd in the East behind Ohio and claiming an NIT bid. No big surprise that the rags would be picking Ohio as the pre-season favorite coming off the way they ended the season, but the bobcats do have some significant question marks headed into the season (particularly at SG and C). What surprises me more is Lindys choosing Akron 4th in the East. I have a hard time seeing that. The Zips have seen a considerable turnover from last year, but we still bring back a number of key contributors (Brett McKnight, McNees, Zeke, Cvetinovic, Roberts) while only losing a few guys who were even in the rotation last year (Conyers, Chris McKnight, Humpty). Can't has had at least as much, if not more turnover than us (losing Singletary, Simpson, Henry-Ala, Evans, Parks) and is still picked ahead of us. Miami wasn't very good last year and doesn't appear to have added a lot this year. In the end these preseason projections don't matter to much, but they are interesting. Pretty good analysis here. I definitely think Ken+ suffered more losses that us with personnel. The only thing that I think could persuade someone to pick us 4th is if they really felt that Conyers and McKnight were significant losses. And I hope that's not going to be the case. And I think we should get major points for having a returning All-Senior backcourt. Absolutely no chance of Akron finishing 4th in the East Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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