Jason Arkley tweeted early during the game tonight that Zeke's lack of contributions offensively to that point could sway some MAC Player of the Year voters, so from that, I'd gather that voting hasn't been completed yet.

As I said before, Akron might appear down but you can't count them out 'til they're beaten. They were down 15 at the half, but pulled within 3 toward the end and could have won tonight without their #1 or #2 PG! Thankfully, the Flashes finally woke up and secured the W. The MACC is still very much up for grabs. If OUr Bobcats should end up in the final against Akron, they will have to play a full, hard 40 minutes and perhaps even OT to put them away. A 20 point lead at some point in the 1st half, or even early in the 2nd half, just means nothing. Go OHIO! 

To be fair, the only one posting anything about us outside of the MAC Tournament is this guy, who has that overdone "guy peeing on (insert here)" graphic as a signature.

l really don't see how Betancourt is going to handle playing 2 nights in a row in the tourney when he couldn't make it thru one game last night.

That said, Akron is still dangerous team. And Kent is even more dangerous. OUr team needs to take care of business.

I stand corrected then. That's some pretty solid evidence I'm wrong.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH 

sorry abut that


still a douchey post from the Alron poster but apologies to BP. Read it like he had flipped to the dark side and was pulling double duty like a couple of our other posters.

'kron's habit of falling way behind before a comeback--can't see that working in tough, tense tournament game given the losses of Abreu, Kretzer.

Akron's offense looked really bad last night. They were only able to get close because of rebounding and some generous calls. A week isn't nearly long enough to get ready.

and short of IV fluids is not enough time to get a frosh PG to respond to 2 nights in a row carrying the load. . Coop had some similar problems early on with cramps.

DO I think Kron can figure out a different scheme the Butler has had to do with the loss of Chrishawn Hopkins....yeah I do ....I think they have enough coaching smarts and player talent to turn that offense inside out and have different guys handling the ball successfully. McAdams and Kruetzer hitting shots really gives them complimentary weapons to Zeke, Hrney and Treadwell that takes a lot of pressure off the primary PG if they move the ball and use passes and run the ofense in the absence of a true ball handler.

Kent really tweaked their ofense inthe first half to keep zeke high on D (no pun intended) and clear out the entire key and baseline free of his presence. Why they went away from that in the second half and reverted to undisciplined forays into traffic is beyond me.....Sendy looked like he was Coach of the year in te first half and then reverted to himelf pissing down his leg like someone else I know in the 2nd.

GOod question and I am sure one of our esteeemed physiologists can come up withthe right answer. COmbinations of fast twitch fibers, glycogen stores, mitochondrial efficiencies and personal eating and hydration habits all at play here.

Sounds like a good doctoral thesis.

The game is wholly different than endurance event and truly conditionis different from coach to coach. YOu and I competing in Cross Country, Triathlons and endurance events understand what we were doing every workout and all about building base milage and anaerobic fitness. These kids do whatever they can to get out of running and the personal invesment in getting in shape is not as big. WHen groce came the kids were put through an off season conditioning program they had never seen before. I remember Tommy saying "why is that every coach I play for seems to thnk we are a track team?" . His only year that he did not have a coach like that was under TOS. Mike was agreat strength a nd conditioning coach and continues to be at Uof I. They had the room stocked with Muscle Milk, Fruit and lots and lots of fluids.

I can not speak for Akron and how they condition athletes but hoopers have a whole different idea of how they whould be getting inshape as opposed to those of us who grew up in endurance events or played for a coach who thought Cross Country and track were they ideal way to get and keep players in shape. I suspect as we keep the game moving toward more strength training it wil be at the expense of aerobic conditioning.