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After being down 18 early, 1-seed Akron fights back and wins. Second-best NET in the MAC is Kent State at 128. No way that's a multi-bid league, but also not a surprise.

How awkward is this? Miami coach Travis Steele and Akron coach John Groce are half-brothers. Same mother, 10 years apart.

Edit: ESPN has certainly milked this storyline for all it's worth. They've mentioned it at least four times.

More chalk
1 VCU 62 - 4 Lo-Chi 55
2 Mason 74 - 6 SJU 64

Final tomorrow at 1 on CBS
1 VCU - 2 Mason
Playing in DC should make for some really good attendance. League loves it.
VCU early 8.5 point favorites.
VCU won their only regular season meeting, 70-54 at home.

Good challenge by the UMass staff. A possible 3-1 deficit goes back to 2-1, due to offsides that wasn't initially called.

I heard Cole Eiserman's name called, didn't know the spelling, and checked to see if it was Steve Yzerman's kid. (No, of course.)

Same here. I'm chatting with ESPN+ support now. Typical experience to start. Live agent asking me the same questions I told to the bot. EDIT UPDATE: Working now. And of course I got the "How was your experience?" survey afterwards. Stats: https://goterriers.com/sidearmstats/mhockey/summary

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Big Ten who? I don't know.
https://x.com/UMassMBB/status/1460432385296650241

69MG wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:42 pm The count is now 141, but nothing listed from UMass.

Where are you looking for that?

Chalk continued in the semis
1 Akron 100 - 4 Toledo 90
2 Miami 72 - 3 KSU 64

Akron/Miami at 7:30 PM on ESPN2.

In their one head-to-head, Akron won at home over Miami, 102-75.

Quarters went chalk until Saint Joe upset Dayton after OT. Billy Lange lives another day and Dayton goes another year without a tourney title. 1 VCU 76 - 8 Bona 59 4 Lo-Chi 72 - 5 SLU 64 2 Mason 80 - 7 GW 65 6 SJU 73 - 3 Dayton 68 Tomorrow's Semis 1 VCU - 4 Lo-Chi, 1 PM 2 Mason - 6 SJU, 3:30 both on...

ESPN is reporting that Fran's time at Iowa might be at an end https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44251986/sources-iowa-set-dismiss-head-coach-fran-mccaffery Fran was one of the finalists for us in 2001 when the job ultimately went to Steve Lappas. https://umasshoops.com/news/200...

Puck vs BU tomorrow at 4:30
ESPN+ or NESN+
https://umassathletics.com/news/2025/3/ ... -td-garden

Agganis tickets https://www.ticketmaster.com/boston-uni ... 52BA905D01

Umass should hire a General Manager for both football and basketball in 2025-2026 who is solely responsible for acquiring talent and coordinating the financials arrangements for the players. Watching the Celtics doc on Max/HBO, you realize that pro basketball evolved when the combined coach//gm rol...

doubledribble wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:49 am Maybe we can trade Archie for Frank

I know you're kidding, but no thanks regardless. I hate Archie's attitude.

His 3pt % is almost identical to Curry and well above Diggins. If yiu aren’t interested in him are you interested in keeping Curry/Diggins? I'd like to keep Curry. Has Diggins indicated he wants to try for a 5th year anywhere? If so, yes, I'd like to keep him as well. But assuming Duggan is either ...