ZachTheZip Posted May 18, 2013 Report Share Posted May 18, 2013 http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology Even though we're a 14 seed here, I'm OK with that, given the location and opponent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted May 18, 2013 Report Share Posted May 18, 2013 Pretty standard every year for the previous MAC champion to be automatically entered as a placeholder in early bracketology for the next season. The #14 seed is also pretty automatic unless the MAC team has made an NCAA tournament run as OU did. In other words, they spend zero time actually analyzing the relative strength of next season's MAC teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted May 18, 2013 Report Share Posted May 18, 2013 http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology Even though we're a 14 seed here, I'm OK with that, given the location and opponent. Against OSWho in Buffalo? We can only dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbalsinger Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I've been wanting an OSU Akron basketball game for a long time. There was most definately a point in the season last year had the Zips and Suckeyes played, I am confident the Zips would have come out on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I've been wanting an OSU Akron basketball game for a long time. There was most definately a point in the season last year had the Zips and Suckeyes played, I am confident the Zips would have come out on top. Absolutely. There's a reason why they have refused to play us for decades. And the last time they played us in the 80s, they were forced to play us because it was an NIT game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legendofzippy Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Look, I love the Zips, but beating OSU last year? Um, take VCU's guards, make them more athletic and aggressive on defense, and you have Aaron Craft and Shannon Scott. Alex would have struggled, and everyone else would have been decimated. Again, I love the Zips, but we had a pretty good team the year before, and lost to Northwestern. Still a lot of growing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 You guys are forgetting that OSU won the toughest conference in the nation, and made the elite 8. Before Abreu being suspended, it would have been an interesting match up, but still would have been a long shot to win. With no Abreu, we probably get beat by 20 to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipgrad01 Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Look, I love the Zips, but beating OSU last year? Um, take VCU's guards, make them more athletic and aggressive on defense, and you have Aaron Craft and Shannon Scott. Alex would have struggled, and everyone else would have been decimated. Again, I love the Zips, but we had a pretty good team the year before, and lost to Northwestern. Still a lot of growing to do. OSU beat that same Northwestern team by only 1 or 2. Big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 At fuill strength, the Zips would have had a fair shot at beating tOSU this season. As I posted a couple of months ago, even tOSU supporters were paranoid about drawing the Zips in the NCAA tournament, with one going so far as to say he was "terrified of Akron" and "pray we avoid Akron." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legendofzippy Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 At fuill strength, the Zips would have had a fair shot at beating tOSU this season. As I posted a couple of months ago, even tOSU supporters were paranoid about drawing the Zips in the NCAA tournament, with one going so far as to say he was "terrified of Akron" and "pray we avoid Akron." Well, I'm not sure about that argument. A random fan being "terrified" is meaningless. Look, we can talk about it all we want, but OSU is trying to crack "blue blood" territory, and we're trying to win our first tournament game. It's a pointless comparison. It's like saying we're better than Kentucky since they didn't make the tournament last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Well, I'm not sure about that argument. A random fan being "terrified" is meaningless. Look, we can talk about it all we want, but OSU is trying to crack "blue blood" territory, and we're trying to win our first tournament game. It's a pointless comparison. It's like saying we're better than Kentucky since they didn't make the tournament last year. I dont know if we were better than Kentucky, but I know Robert Morris is . Nobody is saying we are a better program than them, just that they think we could have competed last season., which I disagree with, but I'm not going to take comments out of context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Well, I'm not sure about that argument. A random fan being "terrified" is meaningless. ..... Too funny! You are also a random fan, so your opinion is meaningless. I'm a random fan, so my opinion is meaningless. Everyone posting on forums like this is a random fan, so it's all meaningless. Why are we even wasting our time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronzips71 Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I'm going to take a slightly different tack. At full strength, no one arrested or sick with food poisoning, if we had a good night, and they had a very bad night, we would have had a shot. During the season, very goods teams occasionally lost to very bad teams. Trying to say we WOULD have beat them is nonsense. We COULD have beat them at full strength on a good night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZIPCODE Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Too funny! You are also a random fan, so your opinion is meaningless. I'm a random fan, so my opinion is meaningless. Everyone posting on forums like this is a random fan, so it's all meaningless. Why are we even wasting our time? Yes Dave, you are a random fan. and yes Dave your opinion is meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Yes Dave, you are a random fan. and yes Dave your opinion is meaningless. Yes, and since you are also a random fan, your opinion is also meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Yes Dave, you are a random fan. and yes Dave your opinion is meaningless. A bold and reckless charge from a newbie putz. DIG has consistently been an excellent and knowledgeable resource for Zips fans for several years. You have much to learn, grasshopper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legendofzippy Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Too funny! You are also a random fan, so your opinion is meaningless. I'm a random fan, so my opinion is meaningless. Everyone posting on forums like this is a random fan, so it's all meaningless. Why are we even wasting our time? You were trying to support the argument of who would win by the comment of one random fan. That's absurd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Arguments are best supported by lots of data. It can take a lot of time and research to produce a lot of supporting data. If we properly researched every debate point on every internet forum to support our arguments, we wouldn't have time to do anything else. So we typically just throw out our opinions with little or no research. I personally like to research some things, but not everything. This one requires no research beyond what we all already know. Reality is that tOSU was ranked higher than the Zips by almost every measure last season. But the Zips were rated high enough that there was a reasonable chance of an upset. The only point open to reasonable debate is what the odds of an upset would have been, and that's mostly speculation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasalos Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Yes, it's early, but it's never too early to talk bracketology. Akron is going to win the MAC. Question is how high is their RPI going to be which will dictate the seed. I think Akron will have an easy time in their conference. Seeing out of conference schedules is going to help guide my seeding: www.explorertownbracketologist.com Thanks for looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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