clarkwgriswold Posted September 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2023 On 9/13/2023 at 2:28 PM, ZZZips said: Schedule is pretty much finalized but not announced yet. The problem with the UNLV date is the closeness to the holiday and the return trip from Grand Cayman. It's travel time issue not a player fatigue issue. The third game in the Cayman tourney is Tuesday 11/21. The UNLV game is a week later. Thanksgiving weekend in the middle. I hope Noah Robotham can attend that game at the Thomas & Mack center. Any of you Zips fans booking your tickets to Vegas. I booked mine yesterday. I thought you were paying for a charter for all of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZZZips Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 On 9/17/2023 at 10:58 AM, clarkwgriswold said: I thought you were paying for a charter for all of us. Try the Akron Greyhound station on South Broadway. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 Don't love the Heidelberg/Brick U Hamilton combo. Otherwise, solid schedule. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reslife4Life Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 Can someone clarify the MAC-Sunbelt game? I thought the Southern Miss game was the Mac-sunbelt challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoyalZIP Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 7 hours ago, Reslife4Life said: Can someone clarify the MAC-Sunbelt game? I thought the Southern Miss game was the Mac-sunbelt challenge IIRC, the game in February will be scheduled against a SB opponent of similar rank. Almost like the old Bracket Buster games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 34 minutes ago, LoyalZIP said: IIRC, the game in February will be scheduled against a SB opponent of similar rank. Almost like the old Bracket Buster games. This is correct. It's a home-and-home with the first game being pre-set (Southern Miss) and the second game being rank based (not sure if it's standings based or RPI - or whatever the new ranking system is called). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 Solid schedule, maybe the best I can recall, though I always prefer to play a P5 team. Some good mid-major tests on here. No potential wins to make noise nationally IMO, but the team will be challenged and we'll be able to learn a lot about them in terms of expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoyalZIP Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 The Zips were going to get a shot at Vanderbilt in the Cancun event until some funky things started washing up on the Cancun beaches, causing the event to be canceled. They were able to get a waiver to go back to the Caymans for a pretty good mid-major field. Not a bad schedule at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWAkron Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 Could someone copy and paste the schedule from Twitter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akron1 Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 Saturday, December 30 - Tripleheader Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse - Cleveland Davidson vs. Ohio St. Bonaventure vs. Akron West Virginia vs. Ohio State Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrelegazna Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 4 hours ago, NWAkron said: Could someone copy and paste the schedule from Twitter? 11/6 @ South Dakota State 11/11 SOUTHERN MISS 11/14 HEIDELBERG 11/19 FIU, Cayman Islands Classic 11/20, Marshall or Utah State, Cayman Islands Classic 11/21, Oakland, Drake, Loyola Marymount, or Stephen F. Austin, Cayman Islands Classic 11/28 @ UNLV 12/5, BRADLEY 12/9, @ Northern Kentucky 12/17, MIAMI-HAMILTON 12/21, GARDNER-WEBB 12/30, St. Bonaventure, in Cleveland While I too would've liked them to have swapped one of the non-D1s for a P5, this schedule is damn solid. I know some of this (like the returns of home-and-homes) shakes out to luck, the only D1 team out of the barttorvik.com top 200 on this schedule is FIU at 205...and we didn't schedule them, we were assigned them in the Cayman Island Classic. Besides that, everyone else (unless we play Oakland on the last day of Cayman) is ranked #176 or higher. In other words, ALL of them are ranked in the top half of the D1 ranks (362 teams). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWAkron Posted September 21, 2023 Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 November 14th circled on my calendar! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted September 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2023 1 hour ago, NWAkron said: November 14th circled on my calendar! I have to think that it's a home and home contract. How else would the Zips have a chance of getting them here? 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle66 Posted September 28, 2023 Report Share Posted September 28, 2023 On 9/21/2023 at 12:32 PM, Akron1 said: Saturday, December 30 - Tripleheader Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse - Cleveland Davidson vs. Ohio St. Bonaventure vs. Akron West Virginia vs. Ohio State looks like tickets go on sale 10-12. There’s a presale sign up for one day early access. https://www.rocketmortgagefieldhouse.com/events/detail/legendsofbball20231230 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted November 11, 2023 Report Share Posted November 11, 2023 Congrats to coach Groce on his 300th win. Admittedly up until this point, I've also more so associated his identity with Ohio (much like most would with KD and Akron), but the reality is he spent 4 years at OU, 5 years at Illinois, and is now in his 7th(!) year at Akron. Time sure does fly. We are lucky to have his coach and staff. Great representatives of the University whose teams conduct themselves the right way (and have been really fun to watch). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted November 11, 2023 Report Share Posted November 11, 2023 Marketing and social media has done a nice job with the team this year I think. We bash them a lot, so credit where it's due. No clips that look like they're screen grabbed from a RAZR last night 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoyalZIP Posted November 11, 2023 Report Share Posted November 11, 2023 43 minutes ago, zippy5 said: Marketing and social media has done a nice job with the team this year I think. We bash them a lot, so credit where it's due. No clips that look like they're screen grabbed from a RAZR last night Speaking of, it seems as though an outside group has been hired to shoot some video of the team this year, both on and off the floor. I recall seeing a high quality video of a snippet of his post game speech against SDSU. Pure speculation, but maybe we have a potential movie in the making. Hopefully the Zips give them a reason to make one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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