Akron Zips men's basketball coach John Groce guided his team to the program's seventh NCAA Tournament berth in history in 2025 with a second consecutive Mid-American Conference Tournament championship ...

Ryan Pedon has spent the bulk of his coaching career in the state of Ohio. First as a graduate assistant at Miami (Ohio). Then came a stint as director of basketball operations at Kent State before he ...

The MAC tournament title game was a sibling showdown. Akron coach John Groce and Miami Ohio’s Travis Steele faced off Saturday in Cleveland with an NCAA tournament bid at stake. Groce's squad rallied ...

The Akron Zips did not play a difficult schedule this season. That's not up for debate. Akron's schedule ranked No. 250 in the country out of 364 Division I teams, according to KenPom. The Zips played ...

CLEVELAND — University of Akron men's basketball coach John Groce tried to ignore the family dynamic as much as possible as he entered Saturday night's Mid-American Conference Tournament championship ...

Akron head coach John Groce took the podium on Thursday and pointed to two characteristics that stood out about the Zips. "One is just the fact that they have been resilient," Groce said. "Obviously ...

In the months after he led Akron into the 2022 NCAA Tournament while running the nation’s seventh-slowest adjusted tempo, then letting a near first-round upset of UCLA slip away, Zips coach John Groce ...

CHAMPAIGN — If the result matches the hope that bubbles from coach John Groce’s voice, there should be a lot of very happy University of Illinois basketball fans come March. That’s the message ...

SEATTLE — Akron coach John Groce didn’t even wait for last season to end before he started talking about changing his team's approach on offense. He knew the Zips were about to lose three of the four ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CHAMPAIGN, ILL. • Coach John Groce dangled some teases Tuesday but he guarded the specifics of the “changes” he’ll weave into the ...

Larry Williams, a starter for the Browns in the late 1980s who later became athletic director at the University of Akron, has ...