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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Win Sunday could get Zips at-large bid
Men's basketball
With quality road wins being the RPI-boosting elixir, a win at Kent State Sunday could bring Akron into at-large consideration, the PD's Elton Alexander writes.
I have to add stipulations to that:
- Akron makes it to the MAC Championship game.
- Akron loses the MAC Championship game by one point in triple-overtime. Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce don't play in the game because of a 24-hour flu virus.
- Every single mid-major favorite wins its conference tournament.
- No underdog team from high-major conferences makes a run in its respective tournament to curry late-season favor with the selection committee.
- LeBron James pulls out his checkbook.
My point is, the Zips have received no respect from any committee since I've been here. Men's soccer, football, basketball. It doesn't matter. And it won't matter on Selection Sunday unless absolutely everything falls into place.
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