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Toledo played well the last 2-3 weeks of the regular season as well. I actually predicted they would knock off Miami and make the final. Obviously UMass beat them to the punch. Their NET is in the 130s because they frankly weren't very good November thru early February. Predictive metrics don't account for that.

Any video out there of Groce's press conference? Haven't really seen any yet

I know what was predicted, but Toledo played way above their NET 130 ranking if you ask me. Especially in the first half.

Thank you. I wanted to post this 👇

Not sure if it has already been mentioned, but Akron's 7 MAC Championships now tie them with Ohio, Kent State, and Ball State for the most all-time among MAC schools.

Can someone repost the tweet where Tod calls Shammah's shot "lucky" I can't find it.

2 teams in the finals in the same day to boot. For what is considered to be the class of the MAC athletically, really poor showing from the Rocket faithful. Probably says more about their confidence in Kowalchoke than anything.

Definitely felt like an 80/20 fan split. Honestly surprised Toledo didn’t have more fans there.

Travis Steele can’t go to Cincinnati, he’s too busy drawing up plans for a new arena.

11,072 announced attendance. One of the largest crowds I can recall for a MAC Tourney Final, and ~9000 of those had to be Zips fans.

Utah Valley paid $1 million to compete in the conference tournament as well. They were originally not going to be able to participate as they never paid their exit fee for leaving the Big West.

It's because according to NET we should have won by something similar to what the game spread was. Winning by 3 in metrics eyes was us underachieving. If we won by 10+ we would have improved. Margin of victory is heavily weighted in these predictive metrics.

The play in games are typically 11 seeds, but they can and have been 12 seed games before. What impacts that is the number of AQs the committee feels is above vs below the bubble line.

Imagine missing the tourney this way. It's almost as bad as intentionally fouling up 1 with a few seconds left.

Wow.

I love how we win not only another game, but a conference championship no less and we lose one spot in the NET.

The only reason Miami OH is anything higher than a 12 is because Dayton's play-in games are only 11 seeds. Would be wild, though, if the MAC not only gets 2 bids but also 2 11 seeds.

Cincinnati is in a tough spot if these are their choices. Calhoun makes sense, but is Cincinnati that much better of an opportunity than his current job and could be do better. At 44, he needs to do better quickly before he turns 50. Groce is 54. If I was an AD at a school like Cincy, I don't think I'd be looking for someone in his mid 50s. The older you get, the faster you get old. The guy from Miami makes the most sense. Young guy. Good energy. Undefeated regular season. Plays an exciting style for the fans to get behind.

5. And his team is burdened by a head coach that gets caught watching the game instead of coaching it when the pressure is on.

The irony after calling his team last year "unlikeable."