Zips sports news, features and notes
- On the record: Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame announces inductees, including ABJ’s Sheldon Ocker
- UA football: Zips lift quarterback prospect Chandler Kincade from Pitt’s backyard
- Mid-American Conference announces kickoff times for some UA and KSU football games
- George M. Thomas: Finals ratings go up with stakes
- George Thomas: Magic Johnson prescribe’s Heat’s cure
- UA notebook: Keith Dambrot has Zips working for future
- On the record — Three former KSU golfers in U.S. Open
- Zips teams showing academic progress
- Q&A with Quincy Diggs, who returns to Zips basketball after suspension
- Former Zips point guard Abreu pleads guilty in drug case
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Rams trample cold Zips
Men's basketball
With no Zips player reaching double figures and the team shooting just 35 percent, Akron was not going to beat any Division-I school, much less Rhode Island, which is one of the nation's best offensive forces.
Even worse, offense wasn't Akron's only problem. The Zips fell 79-50 after a poor effort on both ends of the floor.
The Rams shot 56 percent and buried Akron with 29 field goals off 24 assists. From the Zips standpoint, it was like watching a toddler trek his three-wheeler through quicksand. From the Rhode Island standpoint, it was a beauty that did not even require a huge effort from Jimmy Baron, who only scored 11.
Akron will have six days to think about its crime against basketball before the team travels to Oxford for the beginning of the MAC regular season against a favorite to win the conference.
