Gonna be a tall order to get there, but man, what I wouldn't give to see Jaaron get a chance to play in the big dance. I could absolutely see him giving a high major nightmares in the first couple rounds.

38 points on 16 shots is amazingly efficient, and 10 rebounds on top of that.

Bobcats played well. They team rebounded especially Simmons. We cut down the second chance shots and took better care of the ball and made free throws in the second half. Simmons with a sensational game. Attacked the rim and knocked down the deep ball. Big Carter and Taylor did a nice job on the big man. They got him into foul trouble and Bobcats attack the rim getting into the double bonus. Solid win. This team has shown the ability to bounce back after tough losses. We played good defense. Defense keeps this team in games.

Defense was good all first half. Then went to sleep first six minutes or so of the second half as Akron was getting--and making--the shots they wanted.

The whirlpool should be reserved for Carter. He banged and banged and banged with I. Johnson as long as he was in the game. He'll be black and blue tomorrow. Johnson is difficult to figure out. He has as much talent as any big man in the MAC since Trent, but after 4 years he has still refused to get in shape. If he had worked as hard as Tony to improve physically, there is little doubt in my mind he could play in the NBA. I guess he can have a comfortable career overseas, but what might have been...

Taylor played tough too, coming up with a couple big rebounds and making his free throws. I still think Doug is a work in progress, and was hurt developmentally by his H.S. injury, which forced him to miss his senior year.

Finally, I was at the game and, particularly in the first half, I thought something was wrong with Dartis. He just didn't look himself, wasn't active. I was wondering if he'd been sick. Played better in second half.

So happy for this team, didn't quit, kept fighting and took advantage of Akron mistakes. Made all but one of their free throws in second half!

It looked well under 10K from the shots they showed going into/out of commercials

Thank you Bobcats for that win. Thank you that I did not need the 6.5 points offered. Thank you for fronting the post. Thank you for playing hard and smart for 40 minutes. Thank you coach for calling the time out when kron's mini run put them up two possessions. Thank you for waking up the crowd a little bit.

And Jaaron, just thank you for everything.

I see that we closed the game on a 27-7 run. Very, very sweet.

Couldn't catch game -- what happened? Sounds typically Akron.

I laughed at that too. Today was a clinic on how NOT to show sportsmanship or class.

Re attendance, it wasn't a good crowd to begin with, but the place gradually got more full. I looked around toward the end of the game and was pleasantly surprised at how full it had become. I'm guessing at around 8000 actual, with no shows accounting for the balance of the official attendance.

 

As the Zips left the court into the tunnel under section 116, at least three of them yelled "f**k you" to the people in the first two rows, literally a Medicare-generation group of long time fans. You want to talk class---they have plenty of it but most of it is third class. One even jumped up toward the seats as if to intimidate the 65 year old woman standing there.
And, no, not anecdotal; it happened.