Games 11 and 12- DC Holiday Hoops Fest Tournament

[Let'sGoZips94]

31-27 at the half, Akron's lead. 

[MDZip]

Zips up by four at the half 

[MDZip]

Sloooow start to the second half Zips up 36-33 with 16:41 remaining

[Let'sGoZips94]

45-39 Akron, 12:32 mark. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

Not a good day for Cheese to say the least. Banks is carrying this team this afternoon. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

53-48 Zips with 7:57 to go. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

French just announced Mikal Dawson is officially on the Akron roster. Not sure if he's going to play due to needing to learn so much of the system (not sure if he's referring to today or this season). 

[Let'sGoZips94]

53-52 Akron with 4:30 to go. Akron has been in a pretty deep scoring drought. 

[MDZip]

58-58 2:20 to go

[Captain Kangaroo]

It would help to start hitting our free throws.

[Let'sGoZips94]

1 minute ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

It would help to start hitting our free throws.

 

Scoring droughts... Missed free throws... You would think that... Nevermind. I won't go there. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

X! HUGE 3! 1 PT LEAD WITH 18 seconds to go! 62-61 Zips!

Edited December 20, 2019 by Let'sGoZips94

[Let'sGoZips94]

AKRON WINS! AKRON WINS! RIAK WITH THE BLOCK AT THE END!

[Illini Zip]

Go  Zips!!!!

 

[MDZip]

Whew - on the web those last four seconds took forever. Cool I'll head down to the championship game tomorrow. This would have been a fun game to be at thanks for making it at 2:30 on a Friday schedule makers.

 

[clarkwgriswold]

Nice win.  That's the type of high pressure character win a team like the Zips need to build some confidence.

[MDZip]

I know the transitive property doesn't work but Tulane was no slouch. They beat Utah who just knocked off Kentucky. Tomorrows game should be interesting. Liberty is currently in the Others Receiving Votes category. If the Zips can get past them (assuming they beat Towson) could the Zips get a few top 25 ORV votes as well with their only losses being to the AP #3 and #25 teams? 

Edited December 20, 2019 by MDZip

[VAZip]

53 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Not a good day for Cheese to say the least. Banks is carrying this team this afternoon. 

At the game...looks like Banks is fighting some painful back issues.  

[NWAkron]

 Felt like a MAC tourney game.   They held tough.  Didn't panic unlike myself 

Edited December 21, 2019 by NWAkron

[zippy5]

That was a nice win. Hoping for Liberty next

[Z.I.P.]

1 hour ago, MDZip said:

I know the transitive property doesn't work but Tulane was no slouch. They beat Utah who just knocked off Kentucky. Tomorrows game should be interesting. Liberty is currently in the Others Receiving Votes category. If the Zips can get past them (assuming they beat Towson) could the Zips get a few top 25 ORV votes as well with their only losses being to the AP #3 and #25 teams? 

Transitive property?  Damn, does someone here have a Johns Hopkins education or something?  ?

[Z.I.P.]

THANKS, SANTA!!!  ?☺️

[zipsrule]

Nice win today.  I was a little worried when we were down by 2 with a minute to go, but they made plays in crunch time.

[zipsrule]

Liberty up 61-51 with 1:06 left.

[Blue & Gold]

2 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

French just announced Mikal Dawson is officially on the Akron roster. Not sure if he's going to play due to needing to learn so much of the system (not sure if he's referring to today or this season). 

Good call.  He's now included in the GoZips dot com roster.