kreed5120

I'm not denying the fact that the MAC doesn't give basketball the same attention that it gives football, but at the same time I don't see an easy way of fixing the TV situation. The MAC has a niche in football with the midweek games because for the most part the B1G, SEC, PAC-12, and all other conferences play the bulk of their games on Saturday and the NFL plays their games on Sunday with only 1 Monday and 1 Thursday game. People watch because they have an itch for football and its' the only thing on. You would be hard pressed to find a night of the week that didn't feature at least 30 basketball games between college basketball and the NBA. I'm not absolving them of blame as there are things that need improving. They need to start by getting their showcase tournament to air on an actual cable station for all games Thursday-Saturday. TWCSN is not acceptable as it eliminates any fan that has dish or another cable provider from watching. ESPN would be a stretch for anything besides the Final and perhaps semis, but there are a host of other options FSN, FS1, FS2, CBSSN, NBCSN just to name a few. I should be able to walk into a sports bar and ask them to turn the game on and not have them tell me sorry we don't carry that station.

I'd agree Akron likely is the MACs lone option to make the NIT. The NIT field is quickly shrinking. Right now we have 11 teams that won their regular season, but lost the tournament. Of those I feel Saint Mary's and Wichita State are the lone teams that will get an at-large. That leaves 23 at-large selections remaining and with several 1 bid conferences yet to play their final, that number will likely continue to shrink. The MAC strength this year was in its depth. It wasn't top heavy with a few dominant teams at the top. I do believe Akron did enough to warrant a NIT bid regardless of their conference regular season title making them automatically in the field, and I think that will be reflected in their seeding if I they fail to make it to the big dance.

I don't feel Akron is an at-large team. I'm not I don't feel Akron is an at-large team. I also don't feel Monmouth is one neither. The MAC will be given an at-large team when it has a team deserving of one. The issue is in the rare instance over the 15 years a team was perhaps in position to be at-large caliber team they went on to win the MAC tournament making the discussion mute. Had Akron had 2 fewer losses, they would IMO almost certainly be an at-large team if they lost in the finals. On another note that Gonzaga win adds another bid to the WCC total hindering Monmouth odds further.

I don't see the need to criticize. The man is just trying to get his sons name out to different colleges. He doesn't know if anyone that visits this forum has any pull with the football staff to get them to watch tape of a player. Perhaps the kid pans out, perhaps he doesn't. We don't know this guys story or what kind of father he is. We shouldn't judge.

I feel Akron's issue is they haven't had that win that captured everyone's attention. If they go onto win the MAC, I feel you will see a lot of pundits come out of the woodwork between Sunday and Wednesday making them a trendy 12 over 5 or, if lucky, 11 over 6 pick. Personally I'm ok if teams and the media sleep on Akron as we might be able to catch some team off guard, but I want the selection committee to not dick us over on seeding.

We have just as many top 100 wins as they do with the possibility of adding 3 more if we meet up with Buffalo in the finals. If we meet up with OU, our 2 top 80 wins turn into 3 top 60-70 wins.

It should be noted that USC plays UCLA round 1 of PAC-10 tourney. This means Monmouth will be losing one of their top 50 wins or 1 of their top 100 wins.

FTFY You are trying to compare the #20 rated conference to the #10 rated conference and say it's just a little better. Miami has the worst RPI in the entire MAC and that would be 5th best in MAAC. People give Akron crap for scheduling a handful or so of cupcakes OOC even though they played teams like Villanova (potential #1 seed), Green Bay (who is in the Horizon final), Iona (who won the MAAC), Marshall (who is a #3 seed in CUSA), and UCSB (who enters Big West as #4 seed), and Arkansas. Monmouth played over half their season against nothing but cupcakes.

I have a PS4 and a Ipad that has apps. I know how watchespn works as I used it in the past to watch Zips games. The issue is if you go to try to log into watchespn, they ask for your cable provider login info. Since I no longer have cable, my timewarner credentials will no longer allow for me to utilize watchespn.

Now we just need Dambrot to get COY.

UNI already clinched the MVC. Akron still has the opportunity to leap them, especially if they meet OU in the finals as what is currently 2 top 80 wins right now could perhaps turn into 3 top 60 wins. They probably need Ark-LR to lose, but they might be able to leap them as well, however, I feel that is less likely.

The #1 most accurate bracketologist over the last 4 years currently has Akron as a #13 seed and facing Texas A&M. The good news is many of the teams seeded near them like Yale, Iona, Northern Iowa, and UNC Wilmington can no longer build on their resume and teams like Chattanooga, Ark-Little Rock Akron should be able to gain on and perhaps pass. http://assemblycall.com/bracketology/

Thanks! I'll give it a look.

I became a cord cutter last month as I got tired of my bill constantly rising despite not getting any new content. I guess I won't be watching Thursday or Friday.

Fair enough. It still doesn't change my opinion. A 7 loss team from the 20th ranked conference that barely has a top 200 SOS should not make the tournament unless they receive their conferences auto-bid. You might say it isn't fair to penalize them for what conference they play in, but by letting them in over other mid majors that have similar records, but got stuck playing a vastly more grueling conference schedule (and schedule overall) would be equally, if not more, unfair. Why should Akron have to play the same difficulty OOC schedule then get stuck playing a vastly more difficult conference schedule?

Anyone know what TV station the game will be on? I'll be stuck at work unfortunately, but plan to head to a local sports bar during lunch assuming that the game is on a tv channel that is common for bars to carry.

Let's not forget that we beat the same team by 14 on a neutral court that they loss to twice, once at home and once on a neutral court.

Differences of opinion, but I don't feel Miami looks like a typical 11 seed team. They got off to a horrendous start, but finished strong. In the last 2 weeks alone they had wins over the #1, #3, #5, and #6 seeded MAC teams. Lone loss was by 1 possession to #2 team.

I'd rather play EMU over Miami TBH. Miami is playing really good basketball right now winners of 4 out of their last 5. Only loss was by 1 possession to #2 seed OU.

They are probably in...for now, but there are plenty of bubble teams that have opportunities to make statements in the coming days. 1 of those 2 RPI top 50 wins is against USC who has lost 6 out of last 8 and has an RPI of 43. They will easily fall out of top 50 with another loss. They need to cheer for Notre Dame and USC to do well and for chalk in the remaining games. You have to expect some team(s) that are borderline bubble will put together a decent run and steal a spot. Edit: 16 of their wins came against teams with RPIs 200 or greater. Their conference schedule killed them.

They are a 7 loss team with a 199th ranked SOS. If Akron isn't a at-large contender, which they aren't, with 7 losses and a 129 SOS then Monmouth certainly isn't. There are plenty of other at-large teams that have more than 4 RPI top 100 wins. Edit: 3 of their losses were to teams that had RPIs in the 200s

Miami doesn't look like your typical 11th seed. You can tell they have improved greatly since the beginning of the season. They finished the regular season by winning 3 of their last 4 games. The teams they beat were Akron, Buffalo, and Kent who were all top 5 seeds. Their lone loss was to #2 seed OU.

Got lost in the excitement lol. If SDSU and Ark-Little Rock both lose, I feel we have a chance of sneaking into an 11th. Like you said we need to take care of our business. It's just nice to see so many games break our way.

Valpo and Monmouth losing are both good things for Akron. Valpo IMO is NIT bound. Monmouth might squeeze in as a 12 seed at-large. It will be close. Even if they do make the tournament it will hurt teams like OSU who are fighting for at-large bids, not us. Green Bay is now added to the tournament, which despite beating us earlier this season, I don't see them getting seeded above us. I mentioned earlier that for Akron to get a 12 seed they need to higher ranked than 18 auto bid teams. 2 new teams in Green Bay and Iona just got added to the field that will be seeded behind Akron.