12 Teams/12 Days: Akron Zips
Akron Zips
Head Coach: Keith Dambrot
2015-16 Overall Record: 26-9
2015-16 MAC Record: 13-5 (MAC Regular Season Champs/1st MAC East)
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 9/3
Starters Returning/Lost: 3/2
Newcomers: 3
2016-17 MAC Preseason Prediction: 1st MAC East
2016-17 Schedule
Under 13th-year head coach Keith Dambrot, the Zips return three starters and nine letterwinners from last season's Mid-American Conference Regular-Season Championship squad, including five of the top eight scorers from last season.
The Zips finished the 2015-16 campaign with a 26-9 overall record, including a 13-5 league mark and an undefeated 15-0 showing at James A. Rhodes Arena. Dambrot led Akron to its eighth MAC Tournament title game appearance in the last ten seasons and an unprecedented 11th-straight semifinal. The Zips' runs of consecutive title game and semifinal appearances are the longest streaks in MAC history.
Akron earned the No. 6 seed in the 2016 National Invitation Tournament. It was Akron's sixth appearance in the NIT and fourth under Dambrot (1987, 1989, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2016).
Akron tied the school record for wins in a season (26) and set program records in 3-point FG made (409) and attempted (1,069) in a season, as well as, made (20) and attempted (43) in a game.
