Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA’s Alexis Cooks wins discus with school-record throw
- Seven KSU baseball players earn All-MAC honors
- Marla Ridenour: From walk-on to champion: UA’s Alex McCune finds his niche
- KSU’s Jennifer Ha struggles to 79 in first round of NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
- Zips notebook: Quincy Diggs back in school; football player arrested
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 1: Flashes top Zips, get help from Bowling Green to win MAC title, earn top seed in tournament
- On the Record — May 18
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
- Kent State-Akron in-game updates: Kent State wins 4-3
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Zips basketball: Three keys to beating Miami
Being slapped by reality is never a bad thing. That’s what happened to the Akron Zips last Saturday against the Buffalo Bulls. No one will ever admit it, but the fall-behind-flip-the-switch-to-win mentality that held the team in its sway was destined to bite them in the butt.
That it happened is no longer the story. How they respond tonight and against Kent State is. Coach Keith Dambrot is expected the team to turn things around.
“If we get in the tournament and we play our best basketball, we're good,” he said after Monday’s practice. “We haven't played our best basketball; that's the thing. We have some good games left in us.”
Now is the time that those games need to come out. Here are three things the Zips need to do to beat the Miami RedHawks tonight:
- Forget the past. Buffalo is done and over. Dambrot said the best is yet to come. Now is the time to prove it. The RedHawks arrive on a six-game losing streak
- Miami is one of those teams that slowed the game to a glacial pace against them during their meeting. They outshot the Zips (barely) and UA eked out a 54-50 win. This time the Zips have to dictate tempo and tone as they did against OU and tried to do against Buffalo. That makes point guard Alex Abreu, who had six assists but just five points, more important. He needs to score more.
- I don’t coach. I don’t pretend to know how to coach, but at this point of the season, I’m feeding center Zeke Marshall and forward Demetrius Treadwell It doesn’t have to be explained again, but they are the key to opening up the Zips offense on a consistent basis.
