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Yes, Ali leaving is just what D1 has turned into. Losing Dawson was a huge blow. I was expecting this year to be a break out year from him and his perimeter shooting would certainly help open up things for others.

Point I'm making is those open looks are there because those are the shots the defense is daring us to take. Tribble is a career 18% 3P% shooter. Any 3 ball he puts up is a low percentage shot, even if the nearest defender is 6-7 feet away.

I feel what you're missing is teams are trying to force the ball out of Freeman and X hands. Hunter and Tribble are being given those open looks because opposing defenses don't respect them as perimeter shooters and looking at the numbers it's hard to disagree with them. The offense looks abysmal and unless Hunter, Hankerson, Tavari, or someone else steps up we'll have to win games with rebounding and scrappy defense.

I would like to see us attack the basket these final 4 minutes. We're already in the penalty and in a game we're struggling to shoot maybe we will have better luck at the line.

We're going to have to respond with a run of our own otherwise this is going to turn into a repeat of MSU

The basketball team was hosting a game at the Carrier Dome.

Kenpom has preseason data baked into their formula to help compensate for the small sample sizes. It isn't until mid-January that kenpom ranking are fully reflective of the current season.

Yes, wait for when this person finds out we'll have to win 3 games in 3 days in Cleveland to make the tournament. MSU was just simply the better team. Jans runs a 10-man rotation, which allows him to keep his players fresh. That's the difference between having depth and not having it.

It looks like LSU will be coming in as 5 point favorites

The MAC certainly looks strong at the top with Toledo and PCCC. Being objective I'd slide Akron right behind them, but after that I don't see much to be excited about regarding the MAC. A few teams like EMU and Ohio have given some good teams a scare, but have also lost to some really bad teams as well.

There were so many complaints about Flo Sports last year that I'd just rather not financially support them. I'll instead just watch the US-Wales match.

Glad my 3 hour drive to Detroit isn't going to waste

How are they even going to make it to Detroit then if they haven't already left?

If Buffalo, BG, and OU all finish 6-2 then UB would win the division since they have the best division record of the 3 teams.

I feel the difference is the NFL can actually afford to eat the cost of hosting that game at a neutral site. The MAC can't afford to rent out Cleveland Browns Stadium or wherever for a meaningless regular season game.

It beats not playing the game for them. They need to win their last 2 games to have any chance of winning the MAC East and needs 1 more win to be bowl eligible. This game getting cancelled really wouldn't matter to Akron. Our season is already shot. Buffalo needs this game played otherwise there is a pretty decent chance they won't even make it to a bowl and no chance of representing the MAC East in Detroit.

Why don't they just move the game to Akron?

I believe that was the tournament where Akron split a chartered flight with St. Bonaventure.

College soccer doesn't generate TV dollars so I can't imagine we'd see anything financially from this. It might lead to more scheduling in Olympic sports since there will be more familiarity. Big East schools still won't come to the JAR for a basketball game though.

Rhode Island is down this year, but other than that this is a pretty stacked filled. If we continue to shoot the ball like we have the first three games, we will go 0-3 in this tournament. I wonder if we see more of Tavari or Lyles in this tournament given the 3 games in 3 days format.

If all 3 of those teams in the MAC East finish 6-2 in MAC play then Buffalo would win the East via having the best record in division games

SDSU knocked off the Bonnies tonight.

8/16 from the charity stripe...

Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but we got a 3 games in 3 days tournament coming up. I don't know how we can survive that with a 7-man rotation, especially when our M.O. is maximum effort for 40 minutes. I'd love to see us able to put this game away early that way we can get some other guys some much needed experience.