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Hard for me to complain about the gym when the team playing there has 31 home win streak.

I told an NIU fan a day or two ago that if NIU never planned to fund basketball they should have just kept Montgomery. They would certainly be in a better position today if they had. He at least kept them in the middle of the pack in the MAC. Not really sure NIU can expect more out of a coach unless they start taking basketball seriously.

It's also worth noting NIL dollars in basketball go much further because there are fewer players to pay and more schools are actively trying to compete in FBS compared to basketball.

I feel like we need multiple contributors via the portal if we're gonna be close to the same level next year. We're losing so much and have so little experience coming back.

I think the contrast between how much NIL hurts our football but helps our MBB is amazing.

Hope Mark Montgomery and Detroit win the tournament.

Good point. This year I'm glad we'll get our "Cleveland legs" under us vs. Buffalo as opposed to jumping right into the semi-finals vs. either Kent or Ohio.

Being 6'8", hopefully with a good off season of work Oggie can play a stretch-4 type role next year. That'd give us PG: Sharron(6'0") / Perkins(6'0") G: Head(6'3") / Henderson(6'5") (Henderson may start & be MAC Freshman of the Year next year - the dude is crazy good) G: Eric(6'6") / Halligan(6'5") P: Oggie(6'8") / MMK(6'6") C ??? / Barre(6'10") We need a starting ~25 mpg big for next year.

The other thing I'd really like to find out is how many of the other conference tourneys that have the aim of protecting their high seeds actually do the opposite. It just seems like a lot of teams that don't play the first round seem to lose in the next round. At least in the MAC tournament you kind of get a "breather" game before advancing to the next round. Unless of course you happen to be Toledo.

The MAC is really lucky their top teams are consistently within a few hours of Cleveland and typically have a decent alumni presence in the NEO area. The geographic footprint of other conferences is a disadvantage when it comes to conference tourneys.

Oh thank you. Did not realize tonight isn't their final.

I've watched parts of a few of the Sun Belt games over the past several days. Game attendance has varied between ~600-2,500 thus far. We give the MAC a lot of crap, but let's take a moment to at least acknowledge the one thing they have done right is the MAC tournament. They put on quite the show. We're easily hitting above our weight class when you see the attendance figures we put up compared to other relative conferences and even some, like the AAC, that you would expect much more out of.

We need a big man. Easier said than done, they are expensive portal pieces. Sure we rebound well in the MAC, but if we want to make some real noise, we struggle with P5 and similar big men - see Purdue and Arizona and St Mary's last year

Yes, I can see now that's where it got sent.

My confirmation email went to my Spam folder in Gmail, so maybe check there.

Got an email from the Booster Club saying that the Spring game is Saturday, April 25, not the 24th. Can anyone confirm?

Men's soccer has had similar in conference success and national level success in out of conference games and the NCAAT. Has the swim team consistently been placing in the Top 25 nationally? The Top 10 at all? That's a legit question. I don't know. If not, I still favor the soccer team, but what a great problem to have...too much winning. :D

I wouldn't get caught up in trying to keep up with the Jones's. Infocision has financially hamstrung the football department. If you add in what we're spending on the stadium to what we're spending on everything else football related (coach, staff, recruiting, etc) we're near the top of the MAC. The problem is we can't both make debt service payments on the stadium while still having an upper tier G5 budget. That's why we just lost an assistant to Marshall. IMO NIL is a great equalizer for a program like Akron. Facility upgrades are immensely costly and don't correlate directly to success. Two of our G5 peers in the Sun Belt built new arenas in the last 5 years. This season they went a combined 15-21 in conference play. What matters for success and notoriety is players. We already have the training facility and fantastic locker rooms that are in the upper echelon of the MAC. IMO every dollar you spend in NIL equates to $10, $20, maybe more in facilities. You get a greater ROI in NIL.

With WMU & Miami both building new arenas, CMU, Kent, and Akron will be the only schools left in the MAC using glorified high school gyms as arenas.

I think Groce will survive financially without it.

robert morris and detroit remain in horizon league tournament

I just read Groce's contract and if he makes that shot, Groce gets a $37,000 bonus for being champions of the MAC.

102-107

They were ~.500 when the tourney began. They have over 20 wins now lol.