Game 2- Muskingum

[clarkwgriswold]

The mighty Muskies of Muskingum come into the JAR to face the Zips Monday in what their schedule lists as an exhibition.  The Muskies will have two games under their belts from the Mount Union Tournament by then.

 

The Muskies have an experienced upperclassmen driven team led by senior guard Owen Emig who eclipsed the 1000 career points mark last season.  They were 15-11 last season and lost to Heidelberg in the quarterfinals of the OAC tournament.

Edited November 3 by clarkwgriswold

[Zips1991]

1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said:

The mighty Muskies of Muskighum come into the JAR to face the Zips Monday in what their schedule lists as an exhibition.  The Muskies will have two games under their belts from the Mount Union Tournament by then.

 

The Muskies have an experienced upperclassmen driven team led by senior guard Owen Emig who eclipsed the 1000 career points mark last season.  They were 15-11 last season and lost to Heidelberg in the quarterfinals of the OAC tournament.

The Mount Union Tournament is where iron goes to sharpen iron.

[clarkwgriswold]

If anybody is up for some scouting, the Muskies play in Alliance today against Penn State- Brandywine at 5:00 and against Franklin & Marshall tomorrow at 3:00.

 

I had a buddy decades ago that went to Franklin & Marshall, home of the Diplomats.  One year, the basketball team was very excited about their new custom shoes coming from the manufacturer.  When they arrived, they had emblazoned above the heel in nice bold lettering the word "DIPS" (short for Diplomats).  LOL.  

[clarkwgriswold]

Muskingum won their opener 82-77 over PSU-Brandywine in OT.  Owen Emig led the Muskies with 22 points.

[clarkwgriswold]

The Muskies beat the Dips 62-55 today behind 15 points from 6'5" junior wing Terrell Darden.

[kreed5120]

A win would place Akron in a tie with Duke for the longest active home winning streak in the nation at 32 in a row.

[csims0917]

Miami OH is still tied with us as well right?

[kreed5120]

6 minutes ago, csims0917 said:

Miami OH is still tied with us as well right?

 

Yes, but they don't play their next home game until after us.

[Zips1991]

Muskingum doesn't list states on their roster, so should we assume they're all from Ohio? 

https://www.fightingmuskies.com/sports/mbkb/2026-27/roster

[exit322]

3 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

Muskingum doesn't list states on their roster, so should we assume they're all from Ohio? 

https://www.fightingmuskies.com/sports/mbkb/2026-27/roster

 

Those are all Ohio high schools, so I think that's a safe bet.

 

Edit:  Looked at Muskingum's football roster (bigger roster, better chance), and out-of-state kids had the state listed.  So I think we can confirm now.

Edited yesterday at 03:25 PM by exit322

[Zips1991]

36 minutes ago, exit322 said:

 

Those are all Ohio high schools, so I think that's a safe bet.

 

Edit:  Looked at Muskingum's football roster (bigger roster, better chance), and out-of-state kids had the state listed.  So I think we can confirm now.

Thanks, I recognized most of the high schools but not all.

[Let'sGoZips94]

Their tallest player is 6'6".

 

What in the world is the point of this game and why are we wasting the ring/banner celebration on it?

[Zips1991]

1 minute ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Their tallest player is 6'6".

 

What in the world is the point of this game and why are we wasting the ring/banner celebration on it?

At least there's no risk of losing on the night of the celebration. 🫠

Edited yesterday at 04:10 PM by Zips1991

[blueandgold]

3 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Their tallest player is 6'6".

 

What in the world is the point of this game and why are we wasting the ring/banner celebration on it?

I agree. The ring/banner celebration should be Saturday prior to the Tulane game.

[kreed5120]

Us not getting a buy game against a Purdue, Gonzaga, Louisville, etc. likely limited our ability to afford buy games against D1 competition. A program like Muskingum we have to pay ~$2,500 to come to the JAR, but a bottom feeder program like a Detroit Mercy, Coppin St, etc. costs $70K-$80K. That price difference is enough to pay for a quality MAC bench player and frankly there's not much difference in beating a team by 40 vs 25.

 

Would be nice to get more home and homes against programs like St. Bonaventure, Duquesne, Drake, or Illinois St. to help combat that, but those programs don't seem eager to want to come to the JAR as part of a home and home. Instead, we signed a home and home with bottom feeder Bucknell.

Edited yesterday at 04:38 PM by kreed5120

[zippy5]

It's a shame we can't get any programs in the tier you mentioned, you'd have to think they're in the same boat as us and finding it difficult to schedule any decent teams home & home

[exit322]

18 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

It's a shame we can't get any programs in the tier you mentioned, you'd have to think they're in the same boat as us and finding it difficult to schedule any decent teams home & home

 

Just as Akron likes to "big time" Youngstown State and Cleveland State by not playing a home-and-home, teams in much stronger leagues (even if still mid-major like the A10) like to do the same to Akron.

[kreed5120]

37 minutes ago, exit322 said:

 

Just as Akron likes to "big time" Youngstown State and Cleveland State by not playing a home-and-home, teams in much stronger leagues (even if still mid-major like the A10) like to do the same to Akron.

 

You say this as if we never scheduled those teams. We played YSU as recent as 2019 and CSU last in 2017. Nobody here is complaining about us scheduling Wright State who plays in those teams same conference and frankly is a much better program than both.

[exit322]

Just now, kreed5120 said:

 

You say this as if we never scheduled those teams. We played YSU as recent as 2019 and CSU last in 2017. Nobody here is complaining about us scheduling Wright State who plays in those teams same conference and frankly is a much better program than both.

 

We don't play them every year with the host alternating.  CSU, we did previously play home-and-home, I agree.  Either way, we can't complain about being "big timed" when we do it to other schools that are effectively also at our level.

[kreed5120]

2 minutes ago, exit322 said:

 

We don't play them every year with the host alternating.  CSU, we did previously play home-and-home, I agree.  Either way, we can't complain about being "big timed" when we do it to other schools that are effectively also at our level.

 

We played YSU home and away as well...

 

Why do we need to play both every year? Especially now since we have a limited number of OOC games with MAC going to 22 games. Playing Wright State is doing our fair part. They're an in state Horizon League school too.

Edited yesterday at 05:57 PM by kreed5120

[csims0917]

Kent does CSU every year and still has room for UNCW

[Zips1991]

My understanding is that we no longer play CSU or YSU because we don't want to play them on the road, as we feel it's beneath us, but CSU and YSU will only do it as part of a home and home.

Edited yesterday at 05:59 PM by Zips1991

[Zippy87]

Isn't the ring/banner ceremony always the first regular season home game? 

 

 

[kreed5120]

7 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

My understanding is that we no longer play CSU or YSU because we don't want to play them on the road, as we feel it's beneath us, but CSU and YSU will only do it as part of a home and home.

 

We play Wright State on the road and they play in the same conference. YSU and CSU historically are bottom feeders in the Horizon and that's the bigger problem. Also, if I recall correctly the attendance for those games were never good to begin with so it's not really a rivalry worth preserving just for the sake of preserving.

[kreed5120]

13 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

Isn't the ring/banner ceremony always the first regular season home game? 

 

 

 

Yes