kreed5120

They do it this way because the 4-5 game winner has to play the 1 seed in the 2nd round. If you gave the 4-5 seed the late game then asked them to play the first game the next day, that would mean they're playing the 1 seed on ~19 hours of rest, meanwhile, the 1 seed would be on ~28 hours. That's too big of an advantage.

In this case the reason we have 5 home games is because we did a 2 for 1 with Kentucky. This deal was always going to make it so one year we'd have 1 home OOC game to 3 road games. The only way we could have fixed it would be to buy 2 FCS, which would be pointless since only 1 of those would count towards bowl eligibility. In the grand scheme I can live with this Larry Williams as I'm looking forward to Kentucky coming to Infocision in 2024. There are plenty of other things we can burn him at the stake for...

To the ones complaining about our weight room not being adequate, I'd love to hear what free weights, machines, equipment we're missing that our peers have. What makes a Toledo or Western Michigan weight room better than ours?

I see that now. I should have looked at a calendar before commenting

Probably about as favorable of a schedule that we could hope for. We don't have to play Toledo, no midweek home games, and we get a home game against a rebuilding Kent. I still think making it to 6 wins will be challenging, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

I'm not sure if it's a matter of effort or teams have learned how to attack the Zips defense, but we've regressed considerably on that end of the floor. We're giving away too many open looks. Edit: We use to have an identity of being a tough, gritty defense. Now we don't have much of an identity.

Personally, I'd rather Toledo just stay the one seed as I'd like to avoid having to face Toledo as long as possible. Perhaps hope someone like Ball State upsets them in the semis

I was more defending your point. It should either go to coach K (assuming Toledo wins the regular season MAC title) or Michael Lewis. There shouldn't really be any other competition.

The bottom half of the MAC is a dumpster fire. Some team in that group has to be the best of the rest.

I also just don't think we could put a lineup that matches up well with them. Toledo actually has two competent offensive bigs so asking one of our 6'2 guards to guard one of them is asking a lot. They also got 3 point range, which forces Freeman away from the basket. Frankly, I want Toledo on the other side of the bracket. I like our chances against Kent or Ball State. We just don't match up against Toledo well. Hopefully someone can upset them so we can avoid them.

Was that our first made 3?

Those are from their women's team. Their women have made the tournament 8x since the last time the men's team qualified...

One year I remember we got our teeth kicked in during a tournament game against Buffalo. It was either year 1 or 2 of Groce.

Toledo both games have made both X and Freeman work for their points. They're daring anyone else to beat them.

Too athletic for Sammy, too much size for our 4 guard lineup. They just seem like a bad matchup for us. This is really a game that could use a Dawson or Ali for.

IMO the key to this game is about Akron setting the tone and dictating pace. For the first 10-15 minutes of the last game against Toledo it looked like it was going to be a ~65-60 game, which is the style of game Akron needs to beat Toledo. If it turns into another up and down court style of play where the first to 80 wins, that plays into Toledo's favor.

I have no idea what tiny colony is. This was just the only gif I found while using the search function built into this website

Well lucky for us then that we still control our own destiny.

Not to mention it led to Wilson fouling out last time.

Toledo, Kent, and Akron are all 1-1 against one another so the tie-breaker is that Kent has a better record against the current #4 seed than Toledo and Akron do. Once Kent wins that tie-breaker, Toledo is naturally seeded a head of us due to the head-to-head win.

Yes, I thought they did a really great job of sending help defense the moment Freeman dribbled then recovering fast enough defensively to prevent too many open looks. I've s*** on Toledo's defense as bad as anyone on this board all season, but they showed up with effort. They did a fantastic job of contesting Castaneda on 3's and forcing the ball out of Freeman's hands. They came in with a good game plan and more importantly executed it.

I really thought the game was lost when Freeman was out of the game due to foul trouble. When he picked up his 2nd foul in the 1st half, I believe the Zips were down 2. Toledo managed to extend that lead to as much as 11, and finished the half up 9. Akron rallied back in the 2nd half and were down 3 when Freeman picked up his fourth. I still don't understand that double foul. Toledo was able to them get the lead back to double figures with Freeman on the bench. I'm not saying this to make any excuses for the loss. Toledo was the better team last night. I felt defensively we had too many breakdowns for a team that prides itself on defense. They were particularly bad defensively when Freeman wasn't on the court. Groce will need to review the game and make adjustments before we play Toledo, which I'm sure he will. If we're to beat Toledo, we have to beat them with our style of play.

Too many breakdowns defensively. I've given Toledo a lot of crap all year for not playing defense, but they have certainly done a much better job tonight of contesting shots than Kent did Friday.

Touché