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What's worse, apparently they gave these out during an exhibition with 12 people in attendance.

Toledo Blade MAC Hoops Coaches Anonymous Most interesting excerpt for me... Thoughts on new MAC tournament format? ● “I’m for it. It rewards success in the regular season, and protects the top teams.” ● “I get the logic of trying to protect the higher seeds … but I’m still of the belief that every team should go to the conference tournament.” ● “Totally against it. All the basketball leagues around the country that do this are all gimmicky. Gimmicks don't work, man. The number one seed has to play in the quarterfinals. That's the way all the real basketball leagues do it. I voted against it, and I was very loud, but I'm just one vote. What we did to overreact because somebody’s upset the number one seed got upset in the quarterfinals, that's embarrassing.” ● “I’m against it. First of all, the first or second seed has won our conference tournament six of the last [eight] years. It feels like fixing something that's not broken. Two, I’d argue, most importantly, the essence of March Madness is UMass beating Miami in Cleveland. It’s [No. 8] Kent State beating Toledo. Why are we getting rid of March Madness and those moments?” ● “If you were to ask me what we should be thinking about as a league, it's … knowing that the expanded NCAA tournament could put the MAC more often than not in a play-in game, how do we not play the conference tournament final on the Saturday before Selection Sunday, and then have to turn around and play so quickly? If we want to invest in basketball — which we do — the team that’s going to celebrate and go to the NCAA tournament should reap the reward of having a week to galvanize their community and alums and fans. To win on a Saturday night and potentially play on a Tuesday is a really wasted opportunity.” I'm going to assume the bold answer is Steele. Pansy. I wish we had more coaches involved in this to get a better indication of the league wide thought process. This small sample size shows 1 for it, 3 against, and 1 non-answer.

In the postgame presser, Ford said Halligan would've been available last night if it wasn't an exhibition. Said he will be good to go for Louisiana.

Rumor has it they're putting Skaljac's jersey in the rafters to honor his Preseason 1st Team All MAC, too.

Avoiding GTown until potentially the finals would be ideal.

Love the offensive philosophy - doesn't really matter the shot selection as long as you're rebounding.

The Sun Belt does a pre season third team? Holy participation trophy, Batman. The Cajuns have some size, including our old friend Josiah Harris. Given Burton's 6 week or so absence, I doubt he's back for this one but it would be very nice to have him.

We shot 37.5% from 3P tonight. Last year's team finished the season at 37.9%.

Based on the ebbs & flows of the game, they feel like a Balls/Directional Michigan level opponent. Not an end of season threat but can be competitive.

85-69 with 4:09 to go. 51.7% FG% 39.1% 3P% 80% FT%

73-59 at the under 8 timeout.

43-32 Akron at the half. Putting up 43 pts while going 3-11 from 3P is impressive. 19-16 rebounds in favor of Akron, 7 of which are offensive.

https://gozips.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary;team=home For those wanting stats.

31 pts at the under 8?!

I've posted a lot - probably to the point of nausea for some of you haha - about the size increase with this roster, but what you pointed out is the exact reason I've emphasized it in so many posts. 6'5"+ guards/forwards getting a hand up on defense while rotating/closing out is automatically going to be more effective than 5'11"/sub 6'4" guards which is what we had most of the time last season. I don't know how much of a step back, if any, we'll take on offense. Barring any change in Oriol's eligibility, he and Staveskie combine for ~40ppg based on last year's stats. Hammer, Henderson, Pence, Head, and Mahaffey are all guys I could see averaging ~8-10+ ppg, and guys like MMK, White, Halligan, Burton, Barre, Wilson, and Perkins can throw in 6-8 ppg each on any given night (not mentioning the true freshman because I have zero idea what to expect from them). Even if Staveskie/Oriol take a slight step back to ~30ppg combined due to a change in playing time/system, there's 85-90+ ppg on this team, and probably in a more efficient manner than we've previously seen. Guys' legs should be fresher throughout the game, too, due to our depth. The biggest questions... 1) How fast can these guys gel? 2) Can we get consistent outside shooting from guys not named Oriol (40% 3P last year) and Staveskie (37.3% 3P last year)?

YSU is perfect. It's a notch above NIU (hahaha Toledo) and a step down from playing our rival (looking at you Auburn/Bama).

This team 5 Evans, including himself.

Is Burton healthy? He was in a boot at the golf outing a month ago. If he is, I would be willing to bet we see him stretch the floor a bit and take some 3's. He was a shooter in high school and WMU never really used him away from the post. Barre is very athletic; here's to hoping Ford being the big man developer and now HC gives him a few more opportunities to prove his worth, especially on offense. I think we're going to see a wide open system on offense with a lot of dribble drives, cutting, kick-outs, etc. There is so much athleticism and versatility on this team, the potential is sky high.

Really cool data here. I wonder what achieves the ceiling finish of 43rd NET.

The team posted practice videos. MMK's jump shot looks to be much improved.

Fair. New plan - Kreed, I'm going to need you to stream the game from your phone. Bring a tripod so your arms don't get too tired.

Pay a student $40 for the game to operate the camera, tell them to just follow the ball to each side of the court, give them free concessions at the half, and make it happen. I don't need a score bug for an exhibition.

Unless there's some competitive advantage with not having scrimmage tape out there, the University should stream it on YouTube.

Is JoeMo fired yet?