Game 16 - Bowling Green

[Zips1991]

The Zips head to Bowling Green on Friday (8pm) for another shot at that elusive Q2 win. BG is currently 103 in the NET but with it being a true road game, it falls in the Q2 category. Akron is currently 56 in the NET after dropping 6 spots with the win over CMU.

[Blue & Gold]

Gonna be a tough one.

[clarkwgriswold]

40 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

The Zips head to Bowling Green on Friday (8pm) for another shot at that elusive Q2 win. BG is currently 103 in the NET but with it being a true road game, it falls in the Q2 category. Akron is currently 56 in the NET after dropping 6 spots with the win over CMU.

Thanks for getting this thread up.  It has been a crazy morning.

[Zips1991]

44 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

Gonna be a tough one.

Agreed. Being 2-2 would feel so strange after going 17-1 last year but the conference is much improved this year and we'd have two of the most difficult games behind us.

[kreed5120]

3 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

Agreed. Being 2-2 would feel so strange after going 17-1 last year but the conference is much improved this year and we'd have two of the most difficult games behind us.

 

I feel we should have challenged ourselves more in OOC play. We only played 2 true road games if I'm counting correctly. One of those was against Purdue, which we weren't going to be competitive with. The other was against a below average Tulane, which is okay.

 

It would have been nice to play more in the line or 3-4 to better prepare ourselves for hostile environments. Playing quality competition on the road is much different than at our or even at a neutral site.

[clarkwgriswold]

BG right now has the best defense in the MAC per Groce.  If their defense results in a low Zips 3 point percentage, the Zips continue to turn the ball over and the perimeter defense drops off again, it could be a long night in Stroh Center.

[RoyalBlu]

Frankly, I don't believe ANY team in the MAC is playing the type of quality defense that consistetly holds teams below their scoring averages or shooting percentages. More and more it's the NBA style of getting up as many shots as possible as quick as possible. I haven't looked, but I would suspect there have been 3 or 4 Akron games already this season where BOTH teams have shot 48-percent or better FG in a game and many game where both have shot 38-percent or better on 3-pointers.

 

Lockdown Defense is just not the priority it was for success like in the recent past. You're lucky if teams can man-up the last four minutes to get a victory.

Edited Wednesday at 05:55 PM by RoyalBlu

[ewbrooman1]

Just wondering who the bright person was who scheduled this game on Friday night at the same time as the CFP semifinal game. 🙄

[Zips1991]

19 minutes ago, ewbrooman1 said:

Just wondering who the bright person was who scheduled this game on Friday night at the same time as the CFP semifinal game. 🙄

I would imagine they figured neither BG or Akron football would be playing in the Semifinal, and it would appear they were correct. 😉

[kreed5120]

18 minutes ago, ewbrooman1 said:

Just wondering who the bright person was who scheduled this game on Friday night at the same time as the CFP semifinal game. 🙄

 

CBSSN needs filler content for their station regardless. Besides, there will be fewer people watching the CFB playoffs Friday than there will be people watching the NFL playoffs on Saturday.

[Zippy87]

23 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

 

I feel we should have challenged ourselves more in OOC play. We only played 2 true road games if I'm counting correctly. One of those was against Purdue, which we weren't going to be competitive with. The other was against a below average Tulane, which is okay.

 

It would have been nice to play more in the line or 3-4 to better prepare ourselves for hostile environments. Playing quality competition on the road is much different than at our or even at a neutral site.

 

I think they challenged themselves - Purdue, Yale, and Murray State are all projected to make the NCAA Tournament in the most recent bracketology on ESPN. Our problem dating back to the KD years has always been actually winning these games. I don't believe we have ever defeated a program in the Top 25. Our best non-conference wins were probably our NIT wins - Houston, Florida State, Temple. 

[Reslife4Life]

Anyone going to the game?

[NWAkron]

Huge game.  Will set the tone for the remainder of the season.

[ewbrooman1]

4 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

 

CBSSN needs filler content for their station regardless. Besides, there will be fewer people watching the CFB playoffs Friday than there will be people watching the NFL playoffs on Saturday.

There are only two NFL games on Saturday at 4:30 and 8. 2:00 Saturday would have been a swell time for our game. Oh well, I'm sure the Friday night MAC slate will still bring in mega ratings.

[kreed5120]

46 minutes ago, ewbrooman1 said:

There are only two NFL games on Saturday at 4:30 and 8. 2:00 Saturday would have been a swell time for our game. Oh well, I'm sure the Friday night MAC slate will still bring in mega ratings.

 

CBSSN already has other things for those time slots. They aren't going to run infomercials all weekend during football games. They have to air something.

 

Like I said before the MAC games are just filler content. They aren't ratings drivers. Never have been.

Edited 21 hours ago by kreed5120

[Zips1991]

Akron opens as -3.5 point favorites with an O/U of 165.5

[LZIp]

5 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

 

CBSSN already has other things for those time slots. They aren't going to run infomercials all weekend during football games. They have to air something.

 

Like I said before the MAC games are just filler content. They aren't ratings drivers. Never have been.

I wonder who the rating drivers are for CBSSN. The only time I watch is when the MAC is on lol.

[kreed5120]

10 hours ago, LZIp said:

I wonder who the rating drivers are for CBSSN. The only time I watch is when the MAC is on lol.

It's all mostly just filler content lol. I'm more pointing out that they aren't going to plan their schedule around what would give MAC basketball the best ratings. They have a lot of other programing that is as equal or marginally better. The game would only attract 10s of thousands of fans (mostly degen gamblers) regardless when it's played. 

 

I understand not wanting to play during the semifinals that way you can watch both, but frankly someone has to.

Edited 5 hours ago by kreed5120

[clarkwgriswold]

11 hours ago, LZIp said:

I wonder who the rating drivers are for CBSSN. The only time I watch is when the MAC is on lol.

Professional cornhole and hobby horse competitions.

[NWAkron]

Who is going to be the Gladden, Harney, or Gray tonight?

[Reslife4Life]

18 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

Who is going to be the Gladden, Harney, or Gray tonight?

I got my money on Shammah

[NWAkron]

And if things go horribly wrong, who will be Tyler Cheese?

[ZippyRulz]

17 hours ago, Zips1991 said:

Akron opens as -3.5 point favorites with an O/U of 165.5

 

Now -4.5. I would agree someone is going to have to step up bigly tonight. It's never too early to start preparing for 3DaysInMarch. You could even say the outcome of this game is less important than the development process for 3DIM.

 

Miami is favored by 1.5 at Toledo.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by ZippyRulz

[Zips1991]

Just now, ZippyRulz said:

 

Now -4.5

 

Miami is favored by 1.5 at Toledo.

 

Yeah, I saw that Miami line and almost decided to re-download the DraftKings app 😆 I think Miami wins that game fairly easily. But I also said UMass would beat EMU easily a while back, so I clearly don't know anything.

[Zips1991]

Looking at BG's roster, they have two guys (Ruffin and Thomas) who played meaningful minutes including many starts at P5 schools (Colorado and Florida State) last year. Adding them to complement Campbell seems to have been crucial for BG so far, but I'm left wondering how did they get them? BG has had no success as of late and I haven't heard about them committing many NIL resources to basketball.