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Wish I could have been there. The Q must have been electric with this exciting of a finish.

Classic case of live by the 3, die by the 3.

I work near the Akron-Canton airport. I went to a sports bar to watch the 1st half. When I got there they had pretty much every game on besides Akron. I asked them to put channel 788 on and the bartender asked if this game was live. By the time I left, the Akron game was on half the TVs including both big projector screens and all I asked for was just 1 of the smaller TVs at the bar. Hopefully Akron picks up a few fans.

I feel people have their own preconceived conclusions about which teams they like and they use whatever metric that they can find to support their claim. There certainly is no shortage of them out there.

You are right that they would be much lower as they are 69th. That still puts them well ahead of Monmouth who is 86th.

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Neither deserve an at-large and neither will get 1. We can agree on that. I got my SOS from ESPN. I'm not sure how our data sets are off. Figured it would be easy to calculate. Strange. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi/_/page/4/sort/sos

All losses are bad in the committees eyes. Some are just worse than others. A sub 200 is worse than a top 125 loss just like a loss to the 50th ranked team is worse than a loss to the #1 team. Good luck trying to find a committee member that says otherwise. SOS was also brought up. Monmouth's SOS is 203. Akron's is 129. Overall Akron played a much tougher schedule and came away with just as many losses.

A team with a 150 RPI is still in the top 43% of college basketball. Akron has 2 bad losses at the very most and those were to teams that are hovering around the 50% percentile of college basketball. Monmouth didn't have bad losses, they had disastrous losses. Losing to Green Bay who beat Valpo and is making the tourney isn't the same as losing to Manhattan, Army, or Cansius. GB as is NIU and KSU RPI are ~100 spots better than all 3 of those teams. CMU about 80 spots.

Toledo went on a 8-0 run to start the 4th to take a 52-50 lead.

The below is a composite ranking from 86 bracktologists. It lists Akron as the #2 12th seed. We aren't that far behind Ark-LR for the #1 12th seed, but we are trailing SDSU by a decent amount to climb into an 11th seed position. We almost certainly need 1 big upset in either the American, Mountain West, or some crappy team coming out of nowhere to win one of the multi bid conferences. An Ark-LR loss would help, but we will still be looking like a #12 seed unless we get other help as well. http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

BC football team also went winless against the ACC. How bad do you have to be to get booted from a conference?

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/