kreed5120

You can tell how little YSU cares about basketball based upon how long Slocum remained their coach.

I seriously question his knowledge on MAC basketball if he doesn't even know there is a break between the 1st round and quarterfinals.

More awards have been announced. Defensive Player of the Year - Dontay Caruthers, Buffalo Sixth Man of the Year - Nick Perkins, Buffalo Freshman of the Year - Michael Weathers, Miami

That's a pretty low bar to beat, but on a serious note that was a great piece. You could tell he put a great deal of effort into his decision and took it seriously.

We also beat them in Ypsi 87-76.

It 100% depends on how your resume stacks up against the other automatic qualifiers. Some years those teams are better than others depending on how many regular season champs get upset by a Cinderella in their conference tournament. I don't feel Akron would get the number of upsets needed for a 12 seed, especially after UNC-Wilm clinched, but that still doesn't change the fact that's the group of teams they will be measured against, not the bubble teams as you are right they are quite a distance away from the bubble.

I was cheering for OT and almost had it.

I've already said us getting a 12 is highly unlikely twice now and I'll repeat it a 3rd time. I just don't understand how you don't get Akron's or any other MAC teams seed will be highly dependent on which teams win or don't win their conference tourneys. You don't have to be a top 50 team to get a 12 seed. You just have to be better than 18 teams that won their conference tourney. To be a 13 seed you have to be better than 14 other teams that won their conference tourney and so on.

I thought Antino might have had a chance at 3rd team, but not shocked it he didn't get it.

And a school like South Dakota State got that seed because schools like Valpo and Monmouth bombed out of their conference tournament and therefore were replaced by a weaker team sliding them up a few slots. I'm pretty sure even Akron was slotted higher than South Dakota State before they lost to Buffalo.That's the point I'm trying to get a crossed.

I don't feel a 12 seed is achievable at this point as we'd obviously need to win the MACT, which is far from a guarantee, and we need pretty much everyone ahead of us to get upset in their tournament to a lesser team. I'm just trying to explain how the process works and how it's impossible to predict where any of the MAC teams would end up until we know who the other AQ are.

Because the committee can only seed teams based off of which 68 teams made the pool of 68 teams (32 of which the committee didn't pick). If a bunch of 5 or 6 seeds teams from the 1 bid conferences won their conference tournaments instead of the 1 seeds those 12-16 seed teams would be weaker than if all the 1 seeds won their tournaments. Just because you are a 12 seed doesn't mean you are one of the perceived 50 best teams in the country. It just means you are perceived to be one of the 50 best teams that made the tournament.

A 12 seed was more or less an exaggeration as a lot would have to break our way. Being a 12 seed doesn't mean you are close to being an at-large. It just means you are better than 18 of the other teams that won their conference tournament. Monmouth is a team that would have easily been seeded ahead of us had they won their conference. They lost and now either Sienna or Iona will make it. Neither of those teams would be seeded ahead of us. If you start going down the list of having a Middle Tenn getting upset and a C-USA slot behind or Princeton losing to Penn, we continue to better our seed.

What matters is how many AQ are deemed to be better than the MAC winner. If we continue to see the number of upsets in these conference tournaments that we have seen so far, Akron could end up as high as a potential 12. As the week progresses and these tournaments progress, we will get a better idea of where certain MAC teams will finish.

Yeah, I was specifically talking about how their 1st 10 points came pretty much from their big beating Big Dog down the court. Think he finished the 1st half with like 16 and was non-existent in the 2nd half. The Zips made adjustments and NIU would need to find a new way to beat us. For a team that can't shoot well, that would be challenging.

The Zips adjusted and eventually Kwan covered him in transition. I'd expect a similar mindset heading into a rematch and us not spotting them 10 or so points off of it.

Personally, I would prefer to play NIU, but I'm not losing sleep over either.

The teams that score more than their opponents will win.

The bracket. https://mobile.twitter.com/MACSports/status/837877578639761408/photo/1

Kwan needs to play smart in 2nd half. Kent is getting offensive rebounds at will with him on the bench.

That's how I read the situation.

On the positive side things are looking on the up since @clarkwgriswold didn't create this thread.

I wouldn't categorize the entire University off of 1 person who runs a twitter handle.

I think we are referring to the same guy.