AKRON, Ohio -- Kwan Cheatham Jr. and Noah Robotham each scored 16 points and Akron used a 44-30 rebounding advantage and a late run to beat American University 72-62 in their home opener on Thursday night.Trailing 33-25 at halftime, American rallied to within 40-37 on James Washingtons layup and 3-pointer. Jimond Ivey dunked on Akrons next possession, sparking a 13-5 run and the Zips pulled ahead 53-43 with 5:38 left and the Eagles (0-3) got no closer than 8 the rest of the way.Cheatham grabbed 12 rebounds, Isaiah Johnson scored 14 points and had 10 boards and Ivey added 12 points and 11 rebounds. The Zips (1-1) were held to 36 percent shooting from the floor (20 of 55) but made 27 of 34 free throws (79 percent).Zips players were presented their 2015-16 Mid-American Conference Regular-Season Championship rings before the game. Akron finished 26-9 overall and 13-5 in league play last season.Washington and Delante Jones led American with 18 points each. Boomer Esiason Youth Jersey . 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The opponent, Croatia and all its football might and will. As opposites do attract we are set for a corker of an opener. Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw was hired to the same position at Liberty on Monday.None of the senior athletic department officials were aware that McCaw had been hired until he walked through the door of his introductory news conference, a source told ESPNs Brett McMurphy.My vision for Liberty is to position it as a pre-eminent Christian athletic program in America and garner the same type of appeal among the Christian community as Notre Dame achieves among the Catholic community and BYU garners from the Mormons, McCaw said in a statement.McCaw resigned at Baylor on May 30, four days after the university sanctioned him and placed him on probation. Baylor officials also suspended and then fired football coach Art Briles and demoted president Kenneth Starr, who later resigned as Baylors chancellor and retired as a law school professor. McCaws resignation at Baylor was in response to scathing findings by the law firm Pepper Hamilton, which had been hired to investigate the schools handling of allegations of sexual assaults by students, including many football players.The Liberty news release announcing McCaws hiring touted the five national championships and 58 Big 12 titles Baylor won in his tenure. Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr. said McCaws experience made him the right candidate for the job.Ians success really speaks for itself, Falwell said in a statement. You look at what Baylor was able to do during his tenure. It fits perfectly with where we see our sports programs going. This is an exciting time for us.McCaw replaces Jeff Barber, who resigned abruptly on Nov. 18.McCaw, who had served as Baylors athletics director since 2003, is at the center of an onngoing dispute between Briles assistant coaches and the universitys Board of Regents.ddddddddddddIn a news release earlier this month, Baylors regents revealed that a female athlete told a former volleyball coach that she had been sexually assaulted by five football players approximately one year earlier. The regents said the woman provided the football players names to her coach.According to the release, the volleyball coach immediately reported the assault to McCaw, Briles and a former assistant athletics director. According to the regents, none of them reported the alleged incident to Baylors judicial affairs office or anyone outside of athletics.Baylors assistant football coaches, including Briles son, Kendal, and son-in-law, Jeff Lebby, disputed the allegations in a statement released on Twitter. According to the assistant football coaches statement, McCaw instructed the head coach to report the incident to Baylors office of judicial affairs, which the coach did. The assistant coaches claimed Briles wasnt made aware of the incident until nine months after it allegedly occurred.According to the assistant coaches statement, the volleyball coach informed Briles that he reported the incident to McCaw and judicial affairs. The statement said, Briles told [the victims coach] to report it to the police and prosecute the players if there was any wrongdoing.McCaw hasnt responded to multiple telephone calls and texts from ESPN.Libertys 2017 football season will open at Baylor.ESPNs Mark Schlabach and The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '