Dr Z Posted March 18, 2011 Report Posted March 18, 2011 The University of Akron basketball team is playing in the NCAA Tournament, not the World Series or NBA Finals. So the 15th-seeded Zips (23-12) need to prove themselves for 40 minutes, not for two weeks, in their Southwest Regional game this afternoon against second-seeded Notre Dame (26-6) at the United Center. ''Most likely, if we play Notre Dame seven times, they would probably win the series. But we only have to win one game,'' UA coach Keith Dambrot said Thursday during the Zips' pregame news conference in the Chicago Bulls' home arena. ''That's the beauty of sports. ''We have to play one good game, and they have to be average. Or we have to be good, and they have to be below average. We've been in enough games that, if we play well and they're average, we're going to win.'' The Zips, who will be making their third appearance in the NCAA Tournament since joining the Division I ranks in 1980, are 13-point underdogs to a Fighting Irish team that is ranked No. 5 in the Associated Press poll and finished second in the rugged Big East behind Pittsburgh. Dambrot knows that bracket players throughout the nation used pen to write down ''Notre Dame'' without a second thought. Click Here for the rest of the article Images of practice AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Quote
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