Serves Santa Clara right for celebrating like they won the game with two seconds left.

I think serious consideration should be given to establishing a new word that would be used to describe when a team wins a conference championship and then proceeds to stink up the joint in their ncaa appearance:

‘kronin’

I kinda like it.

Unfortunately, Akron's loss did not surprise me. I think Miami will fare better today. Miami plays some of the best team ball that I've ever seen. I never believed this season those who said Akron was the leagues best team. Not sure why everyone discounted that fact that the only time the two teams met, Miami was the victor.

Sure Akron lost another NCAA tourney game. Akron has won 100 conference games the last seven seasons. Akron overall win totals the last seven years are 29, 28, 24, 22, 24, (15 during the Covid season), and 24. The Bobcats have that tourney win during the Covid season when UVA couldn’t participate in the ACC tourney and practice before the first round game because of Covid restrictions. Give the Bobcats credit for that win, but circumstances were different during that Covid season when all league teams didn’t play the same amount of conference games. Ohio has 73 wins in the conference the last seven seasons. They have two seasons with 20 or more wins. Akron has been way better than the Bobcats the last seven years. Some folks dismiss the regular season accomplishments that Akron has achieved. Not only has Akron been better than Ohio, so has Kent and Toledo the last seven years. Throw in the RedHawks the last two seasons and Ohio is on average about the fifth best in the league. That matches the many fifth seeds they have earned the last seven years. Fans should be happy that the Bobcats got the upset victory over UVA during the Covid tournament season. However, they should not ignore the yearly fifth seed performances every season and the fact that Akron is a much better program the last seven years.

Thanks for providing some backup details for my point. By the way, we’ve had four NCAA Tournament WINS since 2010.

But fiami held the 5th place SEC team to only 51 points in the first half.

Good thing they weren't playing Florida or Arkansas or one of those others. Florida would have 70 at the half.

Gillespie just stole the ball and hit another three. During halftime.

fiami "fans" getting grief on social media over that standing ovation after a 20 point loss. They should have played Florida and lost by 50 in that case.

This aged well.

My comment (“Kroned”) was simply based on Akron’s lack of success in the NCAA tournament after getting there. It wasn’t an attempt to compare the relative successes of Groce vs Boals or even to say one is better than the other. However, at what point does a school who always loses on the big stage, usually by a lot, become the butt end of jokes? Even if the argument can be made they aren’t there yet, they’re getting close.

Both Akron and Miami are an embarrassment to the MAC, both mailing it in and losing by twenty. They didn’t play hard and didn’t want it bad enough. Couldn’t wait to get to Spring break. Both coaches, athletic directors and presidents should be fired and all the players enter the portal for D2 and D3. I’ll be the laughingstock at the local bar wearing my gear.

Very true. Anyone who thinks they were the same types of performances are basing it off the score and probably didn't watch the games. The Miami game was basically over 14-15 minutes into the game. Akron was still within 2 possessions with Tech with around 8 minutes to go in the game. It was very much still in doubt. Tech pulled away late. Tennessee was able to coast for the last 25 minutes of the Miami game.

Actually, I think he was just acting like some of you after every loss. Saying players quit, didn’t care, fire the coach, embarrassed to be an alum.

And IMO he’s pretty spot on for a lot of you.