When watching the game Sunday night, you can get your Oscar fix by thinking of how the nominated best movies correlate with Ohio:

‘The Artist’ -- Coach Groce has painted a masterpiece of a season; Sunday's win "silences" Akron fans
‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ -- The true story of the OZone
‘The Help’ -- Kudos to the Ohio bench that has played a solid role in this team's success
‘Hugo’ -- For purposes of this post, let's rename this movie 'Ivo"
‘Midnight in Paris’ -- When it's midnight in Paris, Miami still sucks
‘Moneyball’ -- That's what we yell whenever Nick puts up a trey
‘War Horse’ -- Keely, Smith and Baltic's hard work inside the paint and on the glass
‘The Descendants’ -- We're glad Clark Kellogg's son chose Ohio
‘The Tree of Life’ -- I miss yelling "Tree!" whenever Tree Greenwood would get into a game

Hangover 2 - weekends in Athens

You'll get to yell "Tree" at Akron's #1 Demetrius Treadwell.

You could also call Akron's experience at the Convo tomorrow night "A Nightmare on 'Richland Ave.'"

"Hugo" is actually shorthand for what DJ is saying when he dishes a dime: "Here you go"

Best supporting role goes to the students tonight. More than 8,000 announced for a Sunday night. (Alan will be here in 32.5 seconds saying it wasn't more than 7,450). Great job by the crowd tonight.