kreed5120

We should actually be cheering for CMU to win out. After the head-to-head tie-breaker, the next tie-breaker is record vs ranked MAC team. Meaning for example Buffalo finishes #3 and both BG & Akron went 1-1 they would move to the 4th team. If that 4th team is CMU, which we beat and BG lost to, we'd win head-to-head tie-breaker.

Easily the worst we've played start to finish all season. We peaked in early January. We have only a couple weeks to rediscover ourselves.

We're playing great defense this 2nd half. We need to start hitting shots.

Xeyrius now double clutching on 3 point attempts. Burn this game tape.

The poor shooting is obviously impacting our guys mentally and effort on the defensive end. I actually thought we played good defensively the first 15 minutes. Those last 5 minutes were brutal.

This camera crew sucks as bad as the Zips have been shooting.

We're not getting anything out of our starters besides LCJ.

We really lost our composure these last 5 minutes.

Last time these teams faced off Akron had a pretty terrible offensive first half. Groce told the Zips at halftime to attack the hoop as BG was conceding the driving lanes in order to run the Zips off the 3-point line/ball pressure LCJ. It will be interesting to see if Huger takes that same approach this game since the Zips kind of figured it out last game. I'm going to guess he'll come out with a different plan.

I don't think his Duquesne team is as good as Akron this year, but I'd say it's better than BG or Buffalo. What we're seeing here is a #2-#3 team in the MAC translates to being the #5 or #6 team in the A10. He isn't going to win the A10 with MAC level talent nor is he going to build a resume to get an at-large with it. He certainly needed the TDM, Hughes, and Weathers type players to get Duquesne back to respectability that way he'd have a chance of landing some better players. It's still to be seen whether or not he ends up getting them.

Frankly I'm just not going to watch youtube videos of some random high school kid who might not even attend Akron. Based off the qualifications that you listed and his 1/2 dozen D1 offers, he seems like he would be a solid get and I can see why Groce offered him. If he commits I'll actually take a look and offer an opinion on the impact I feel he can make. In the meantime I still appreciate hearing updates in case he does commit.

I'm probably more confident in this game than I should be. I just don't think BG is as good as their record indicates. As I mentioned earlier, they are 7-0 in MAC games decided by 3 points or less. I'm going to go Akron by 5.

Kind of surprised to hear the line shifted 2.5 points in such a short amount of time

First Team LCJ Turner German Teague Jayvon Graves Second Team Cheese M. Jackson Preston Flowers McKay/Pippen/Willie Jackson

It just becomes really tough to beat the Boeheim zone when you can't knock down your open 3s. In years past we have had some decent quality bigs, like Big Dog, that we could post up at the top of the key and have him pick the defense apart. We just really don't have that player this year.

It's not like we shot the ball all that particularly well when we beat them by 15 at the JAR. The key is to pressure the ball handler and force someone other than Turner to beat us. Frankly, I don't believe this BGSU team is all the great. They just seem to find themselves on the winning side of a lot of close ball games. In 1 possession games during MAC play their record is 7-0. For comparison we're 2-2. I don't want to say we can't lose as anyone can beat anyone on any given night in the MAC. I do think in order for BG to beat us we'd need to have a poor shooting night combined with 1 or more of their role players going off. I can't see Groce letting Turner beat us.

Earlier in the season he appeared in the conference only stats, but it didn't include one of his games. It's like instead of just adding the missing game, they decided to remove him entirely.

Akron is 37-25 all-time against Bowling Green. We've won 29 out of the last 32 match-ups. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/play-index/matchup_finder.cgi?request=1&year_min=1950&year_max=2020&comp_school=le&rank_school=ANY&comp_opp=le&rank_opp=ANY&school_id=akron&opp_id=bowling-green-state&game_type=A&order_by=date_game

Yeah, I was listening to 1350 on my commute into work earlier in the week and they had the CSU coach on. He seemed like a very likeable guy.

Meanwhile, in Cleveland they're writing articles about how great 10-19 CSU is playing and how attendance at games is "booming" (averaging 1,449/game)... https://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/2020/02/from-disaster-to-progress-cleveland-state-basketball-showing-life-and-attracting-some-fans.html

We still currently are #1. We'll set ourselves up great with a win Tuesday as we'll be a game up plus own the head-to-head so more like 1.5 games up.

BG opened 2nd half on 11-0 run. It's now 39-35.

Bowling Green trailing Ohio 39-24 at the half.

Just got to go 1-0 tomorrow.

Kent has lost 4 out of their last 5. If the season ended today they'd be a 6th seed. If they keep it up they may find themselves playing a 1st round road game.