2010 MAC Men's Basketball Tournament - Congratulations to the Ohio Bobcats!

• Swamp Fox

  You boys who have questioned my sanity about the Falcon prospects down the road may well have some good points. I agree that there are some people who will be leaving this year that they will have to replace, but I think a culture of winning is strong in BG and the incoming additions will feel it and go with it.
  I guess I just like the approach that Coach Orr is using with his kids and it seems that by and large, the results thus far have been positive. I would agree that there may be "Miles to go before the Falcons sleep....." (with apologies and thanks to Robert Frost for his immortal poetic work), but that there is at least the suggestion of a pretty nice MAC future in the next several years.
• ts1227

  

  Toledo is on a completely different level.
  
  But OU and WSU both played poorly yesterday and it was a rough one to watch.
• FairwoodKing

  The MAC is down this year. The entire conference combined didn't have one major OOC victory. The closest we came was the loss Miami had against Kentucky.
  
  Unless someone comes along and upsets them, Kent will probably make the NCAA and Akron will be in the NIT. I imagine it will be one and done for both of them.
• ts1227

  

  FairwoodKing wrote: The MAC is down this year. The entire conference combined didn't have one major OOC victory. The closest we came was the loss Miami had against Kentucky.
  
  Unless someone comes along and upsets them, Kent will probably make the NCAA and Akron will be in the NIT. I imagine it will be one and done for both of them.

  Basketball Prospectus pretty much echoed this in their breakdown of this past weekend
  
  http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=937
• FairwoodKing

  Kent and Akron both won today. I don't think anything will be settled until they play each other next week. And then, of course, is the conference tournament.
• fiction

  

  Kent is getting relatively close to playing its way onto the bubble. If they were to win out, then lose in the tournament championship, they would be 25-9, 13-3 in conference. Their RPI is currently 49, SOS is 98. The back-to-back losses to Miami and BG in the middle of the season might do them in then, though.
• FairwoodKing

  Kent needs to win at Akron Friday night. If we do, and if we make a run in the tournament, there is an outside chance that we could get in if we don't win the tourney.
• ts1227

  

  Seeing as how Kent State is stomping the dog shit out of Akron, the bracket looks to be set!
  
  It's listed up top, with a poll for the tourney.
• dave

  pretty sure my rockets have been saving everything for a run through the mac tourney and deep into the ncaa tourney.
• FairwoodKing

  I was very pleased with my boys from Kent State tonight. We blew out a decent 22-8 team on their own court. If Kent plays like that in the tourney, we might do well.
• ts1227

  

  dave wrote: pretty sure my rockets have been saving everything for a run through the mac tourney and deep into the ncaa tourney.

  You better hope so!
  
  Based on their record, if they held back all regular season they should be a fucking juggernaut in the tourney hahaha
• FairwoodKing

  I know the final game in the tourney will be televised on ESPN, but will any of the lower games be shown on ESPN 360? I'd like to see them.
• ts1227

  

  FairwoodKing wrote: I know the final game in the tourney will be televised on ESPN, but will any of the lower games be shown on ESPN 360? I'd like to see them.

  Quarterfinals and Semifinals SHOULD be on FSOhio, as they have been in past years, but who knows...
  
  Ohio message board says ESPN360 should have them too.
• FairwoodKing

  This has been a strange year for MAC basketball. In every year that I can remember, the conference has had at least a few quality OOC wins. This year there was nothing. Kent and Akron are the only two teams with good records, but neither is a lock to win the conference tourney.
  
  I would be very happy if Kent swept the tourney and beat someone in the NCAA's, but I would also consider it a miracle.
• Heretic

  

  I'm !!CALLING IT!! right now: THE Ohio U. will beat Can't State on Friday. They lost both regular season games by a total of nine points. Third time will be the charm!
  
  VALHALLA AWAITS!!!!!!
• SQ_Crazies

  

  We eat Bobcats for breakfast.
• Heretic

  

  The game's at 7 p.m. and not being held at Denny's, so there's no 24-hour breakfast for the Golden Showers!
  
  OU 74, Can't State 69
  
  And yes...I will continue this sort of (admittedly weak) trash talking indefinitely. MAC basketball = SUPER-SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!
• SQ_Crazies

  

  If we've been to the Elite Eight and we're Can't State--what's that say about the rest of the MAC? lol
• Heretic

  

  hahaha
  
  Well, there's a reason we're a one-bid conference 9/10 years.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  I hope we make the NCAA tournament, because one thing Can't State CAN do is party--and last time we made the tournament, it was a hell of a party.
• Heretic

  

  I remember when a Gary Trent OU team made the NCAA tournament. It sucked because that coincided with spring break, so I wasn't in Athens for their 40 minutes of life in the Big Dance.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  SQ_Crazies wrote: If we've been to the Elite Eight and we're Can't State--what's that say about the rest of the MAC? lol

  You're confused.
  
  When I was in college it was...
  
  Kent read.
  
  Kent write.
  
  Kent State!
• ts1227

  

  TELEVISION ISSUES FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY GAMES
  
  THURSDAY
  Afternoon session of quarterfinal games (12:00 and 2:30 PM) will be on FSN Ohio
  
  Evening session of quarterfinals (7:00 and 9:30 PM) interferes with a Blue Jackets game.
  Blue Jackets will be on FSN Ohio. MAC Games will be on ALTERNATE FSN CHANNELS on most systems.
  
  
  
  FRIDAY
  This time it's the Cavaliers getting in the way.
  
  Cavs will be on FSN Ohio. MAC Semifinals (7:00 and 9:30 PM) will air on alternate channels.
  
  
  For more information/to determine where you can find the MAC games:
  http://foxsportsohio.com/pages/landing?Channel-Information-for-this-weeks-MAC-a=1&blockID=194137&feedID=4181
• FairwoodKing

  The MAC games on Thursday will be broadcast on ESPN 360. I can't wait to watch my boys the Flashes throttle OU!
• SQ_Crazies

  

  Writerbuckeye wrote:

  SQ_Crazies wrote: If we've been to the Elite Eight and we're Can't State--what's that say about the rest of the MAC? lol

  You're confused.
  
  When I was in college it was...
  
  Kent read.
  
  Kent write.
  
  Kent State!

  Congrats, you're the one billlionth person to say this!