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Antonio Campbell getting injured certainly increased our odds of winning at home and on the road against Ohio, but at the same time it robbed us of a team that could have gone ~15-3 in MAC play to help justify the conference as being more than just a 1 team league. I don't think there is another team out there that can go 13-5 or better, especially when you consider everyone else already has 3 losses.

So I stumbled upon the below. I'll highlight the parts I found most relevant. Highest RPI ranking left out of the tournament: • 21 - Missouri State (2006) Most wins to get left out: • 27 - Drexel, Oral Roberts (2012) Fewest losses to get left out: • 4 - Stephen F. Austin (2013) Best winning percentage left out: • .852 (23-4) - Stephen F. Austin (2013) http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25505343/bracketolgy-ncaa-tournament-rpi-numbers-to-know-through-the-years Edit: Excluding the NIT, SFA actually finished the season with a 27-4 record. It appears the non-D1 games weren't counted to get to that 23-4 total. For that reason we should also subtract the Adrian to compare apples to apples.

ESPN website must have reflected it before it was made official. The game has been picked up by ESPNU and will air at 7PM on Friday February 10th. http://gozips.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20170126j436ew

I say it because I feel we have to pretty much be a no brain pick to get in. If we are on the bubble they will compare our best win (Georgia Southern) to a team like Marquette who beat Villanova and we won't get in. To reach that point I feel we need to run the table which leaves us no outs. The probability of going on a 23 game win streak in a conference like the MAC where there isn't easy wins is slim and that's an understatement. When's the last time a MAC team ran the regular season table without a loss?

With this being our first Saturday home game since Marshall on December 17th I feel we will draw a number of people that can't make it to the JAR on Tuesdays nor Fridays. I say we clear 4,000 but fall short of 4,500.

People like to make fun of soccer for plastering sponsorships everywhere, but I'd agree to replacing the Zips midfield logo with the Goodyear logo if it meant eliminating media timeouts. A 48 minute game shouldn't take 3 1/2 hours to watch.

Amen! The city's only obligation should be ensuring the proper infrastructure is in place to support the mass amount of traffic the venue will create. Pro teams operate in a subsidized format where they don't budget for new arenas as they expect the city to pick up a huge chunk, if not all, of the tab. $20 million, or however much, needs to be set aside each year and placed into a fund before the owner or players receive a dime. From there owners/players can split revenue 50/50, 60/40. or whatever they agree to. This money would be used for renovations or new arenas/stadiums/fields. If owners were the ones responsible for flipping the bill you certainly wouldn't be hearing them claim an arena only has a 20 year life before a new one is needed or a large scale remodel needs completed. It would be the complete opposite and we would be seeing more Fenways, Wrigley Fields, and Madison Square Gardens.

I feel Akron pulled the tough West teams, meanwhile, WMU pulled the weak East teams. From a betting perspective I feel better about this bet now than when I made it.

This makes too much sense. What happened to the incompetent University leaders that I once knew and hated? They must have left with Scarborough.

Advertising on jerseys honestly doesn't bother me. Now if they talk about doubling the length of TV timeouts, that is where I'd draw the line. @zippy5 you have fallen into the fallacy that since sports franchises value has always increased in the past it means they will always in the future. It was the same mistake people were making in the housing market until the housing bubble burst. The fact of the matter is TV revenue is the single largest source of revenue for pro sports leagues. Guess what people are cutting cable so ESPN, TNT, and other national and regional sports networks are losing subscribers so they have less money to hand out. Pro leagues need to find ways of creating additional revenue to offset this or else that might be the next bubble to burst.

We can't pick our match-up. If we could then I'd agree that would be the better option. Statistically speaking the better the seed we are, the greater chance we have of winning. There is no disputing that fact. Once again where did I say I was happy making the tournament 4 times in 3+ decades? I'm having a hard time finding it. What I said was winning the tournament is our only realistic path in this year. Beat some teams next year in OOC that are worth a damn and mow through conference play and we can start talking at-large next year.

I don't see it as a positive. I see it as our lone path in unless we are able to pick up top 25 wins in OOC play. Saint Mary's has been able prop up their resume in the past by getting to play Gonzaga 2x per year and Illinois State propped up their resume beating Wichita State with still 1 more game to play. The MAC doesn't have those programs so we need to get them in OOC.

Not meaning to double post, but I forgot to address a point. 2 vs 15 the 2 seed wins 94% of the time 3 vs 14 the 3 seed wins 84% of the time 4 vs 13 the 4 seed wins 80% of the time 5 vs 12 the 5 seed wins 64% of the time 6 vs 11 the 6 seed wins 64% of the time 7 vs 10 the 7 seed wins 61% of the time 8 vs 9 the 8 seed wins 51% of the time An 8 vs. 9 is pretty much a pickem. A 6 vs 11 is the only outlier as every other match-up your odds improve the better the seed you have. https://www.printyourbrackets.com/ncaa-tournament-records-by-seed.html Edit: Noticed my original source was from 2006 so went to get more up to date numbers. Had a minor impact on results.

Each of those 4 times we did get in it required us winning our conference and the MAC hasn't had an at-large since 1999. Had we beaten Gonzaga OOC and were able to put "BEAT GONZAGA" in 72 font, bold print at the top of our resume, I'd be right there talking with you. We didn't beat them and as it stands our best win looks like Georgia Southern. I'm in agreement a 30-4 Akron team gets in, but that would require a 23 game win streak only for us to go on and lose in the final. 29-5 record is a maybe IMO. Given our lack of quality wins I can't see us getting in with 28 or fewer wins.

Looking over this schedule I feel we need the Marshall/App State Woodson for us to get to 6 wins. This schedule is by no means easy. Outside of Pine-Bluff there really aren't games (at-least not many) that we can pencil in as wins. I'd say Bowling Green and Buffalo, but we lost to them last year. Miami looks far improved from when we played them.Kent shouldn't be anything to write home about and would be a team we'd need to beat. As for our crossover games, I feel Toledo will win the MAC this year and WMU should still have a lot of carryover talent from the Fleck years. Ball State is definitely winnable, but far from give me. Going to OOC Penn State (L). Troy looked pretty good last year and if I'm not mistaken return nearly their whole team. Iowa State is who they are. They are an opponent that we could beat, but they are far from give me (at-least for us, not the Big 12).

Not to get too off topic, but I see end zone seating becoming more popular as well. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18551902/ucf-knights-plan-install-cabanas-end-zone-watch-game

Amen! Let's make the discussion what seed are we going to end up with instead of are we in or are we out

Yeah, I actually thought a lot of the 3s Kwan took last year were open looks. At times it seemed Kwan man was cheating to help out on defense elsewhere and teams were almost daring Kwan to shoot. This year teams are doing their best to stay on him and he is still burying 3s with a hand in his face.

Can confirm she is who you picked out. Source: I actually know the girl that's standing next to her in the 1st row.

I remember watching the selection show and saw that list and fringe teams that had teams like Hofstra and Akron was nowhere to be found. Our loss to Buffalo in MACC was our only neutral court loss. We went 15-0 at home and lost all the other games on the road.

The Zips have 11 conference games left plus up to 3 tournament games. I hate to be the Debbie Downer, but it would be pretty miraculous for us to go 13-1 or better during that stretch. If we are still undefeated after our trip to Ypsi on Feb 11, we would be 12-0 at said point, I'll begin to entertain the idea of finishing the season with 1 or fewer MAC losses.

This doesn't even make sense??? I agree we need to get more production out of our bench. If I'm reading this right they are saying we have 3 bench players averaging 23+ points per game. This clearly isn't right. I don't know what fact the writer was trying to state, but they did a poor job of wording it.

Yeah, I think Keene is the only real threat to Big Dog at the moment. Keene would need CMU to have a strong MAC finish and would probably need Kwan to steal some of Big Dog's votes to steal it IMO.

Akron wasn't even on the bubble radar last year and rightfully so. No MAC team will ever get an at-large when it loses to 6 MAC opponents, especially to 2 bottom feeders.

Huggins era was what I heard from the Zips PA announcer at the end of the EMU game when I was leaving the JAR.