2026 Big Dance Round 1 - Texas Tech

[kreed5120]

Going to need a few stops defensively.

[exit322]

2 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:

The officials have been absolutely terrible.

 

The officiating has been fine.  Shooting two halves like it's the first half in Cleveland is what's killing Akron.

[MDZip]

Man Tavari picked a bad time to have a bad game. 🥺 4 point on 2-10 shooting and 4 turnovers. 

[Westie]

Hate to see Tavari go out like this. He is so passive. 

[zippy5]

Damn. Maybe next year.

[UAZipster0305]

We are forcing the ball into Lyles because we have little to no other offensive productivity.

[LZIp]

Tavari played like crap. I also don’t think Groce did enough to get somebody as dangerous as Hardman involved. 
 

Lyles and Scott great. Both Mahaffeys and Sharron ok. Need more to pull off an upset though 

[kreed5120]

Going to take late game heroics at this point.

[Let'sGoZips94]

Game plan was too conservative. Needed to get the 3 ball going early. 

[LZIp]

1 minute ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Game plan was too conservative. Needed to get the 3 ball going early. 

See: Miami

[blueandgold]

Just too many dumb passes down the stretch. 

[UAZipster0305]

With a good performance this game was so winnable too.

 

AND TT shooting 10/18 from three. Even with suboptimal defense, that's still hot.

 

Just not our day in the NCAAT....AGAIN.

[exit322]

Glad they quit like Moorhead's coaching them today.  That was fun to watch.

[tomzip]

This is as good as it gets for us, easiest opponent we've ever faced and still can't hang.

Akron doesn't ever have the horses to compete at this level. Shown with our out of conference record and NCAA drought. 

Good exposure but you won't ever win one unless we get a play in game but the MAC having two was an anomaly. 

 

On to Infocision 😆 

[ewbrooman1]

1 minute ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Game plan was too conservative. Needed to get the 3 ball going early. 

Might have worked if they could make close shots. 

[Reslife4Life]

Shooting 65% from the field is how bigger seeds win, if the favorite is doing that no shot

[Let'sGoZips94]

Just now, LZIp said:

See: Miami

 

Eh, to an extent. Miami OH's game plan was stupid. It worked, but it was stupid. Somewhere in between would've worked for me.

[Captain Kangaroo]

19 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:

Watts is gone!!! Wow!!!!!

Zips could have done a better job of taking advantage of it.

 

Would have been nice to have the scoring and length of Nate Johnson in this one.

[UAZipster0305]

1 minute ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

Eh, to an extent. Miami OH's game plan was stupid. It worked, but it was stupid. Somewhere in between would've worked for me.

Agreed. It only worked because SMU was unprepared and didn't want to be there.

[Zippy87]

3 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Game plan was too conservative. Needed to get the 3 ball going early. 

 

The offensive gameplan was fine. This was a 4 point game with 8 minutes left. Our offensive players just aren't good enough. 

[1981 grad]

Our three point shooting killed us in the second half.  We missed wide open threes and cannot do that against a good team.  Also, Tevari having the worst game of the season.

[Let'sGoZips94]

1 minute ago, Zippy87 said:

 

The offensive gameplan was fine. This was a 4 point game with 8 minutes left. Our offensive players just aren't good enough. 

 

Not saying it wasn't fine, but fine isn't "good." Need to be good to beat teams like this.

[Captain Kangaroo]

Can we get it within single digits so the score doesn't look so bad as it scrolls across the ticker for the rest of the day?

 

Probably not...

[kreed5120]

Didn't do a good enough job of defending the 3 against an elite shooting team. Perimeter defense has plagued us all year when playing elite shooting teams. Could have maybe won a 90-88 game if Tavari had it going offensively. 

[Zippy87]

This was a good but not great team all year. We struggled to put away Buffalo, we struggled to put away Kent, we beat Toledo by 3. Unfortunately, we get probably our best draw of any of the three years with probably our worst team.