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Some historical perspective for the MAC tournament and the lower seeds: 2002: Akron is 11th seed and WMU is the 6th seed. Zips won that game and went to the quarterfinals. 2003: 11th seed Ohio makes it to the semis. 2004: Akron loses in first round as 11th seed. 2009: 5th seed Akron beats 12th seed Toledo by 1 point and goes on to win. 2010: Ohio won making it all the way through as the 9th seed playing first game at Ball State. 2016: BGSU as the 12th seed made it to the semis and lost to Akron after beating Kent and Central Michigan I noticed that when Marshall was in the MAC only the top 3 teams made it to Cleveland. Of course, I liked it better for those few years when all the teams got to go. We played our first round against Toledo at the Q in 2009. Wasn't that the last game of the night?

OT and looking ahead:. We would play Eastern (K-Lac v. Thompson!!) @ 9pm Thursday. Do any of you ever remember playing a 9pm game at the Q?

On Wiki the bracket says BG is at Central Michigan. Ugh. Not used to worrying about these first round games . ABJ had it wrong of course.

WMU deserves to lose to us after screwing over a lot of teams and sending the insufferable Cardinals straight to Cleveland. Now the Kittens head right back across the state to Oxford. BG also lost their home court advantage because of the CMU win. Either team we played...Miami or Western...we were going to be the team coming in with a win and some confidence. After this weekend's games anything can happen after you get below the top 3 seeds. Central Michigan’s victory over Western Michigan on Saturday left Kent State with the No. 5 seed and the University of Akron with the No. 11 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament, which opens Monday with games at campus sites. The Golden Flashes (15-16, 9-9 MAC) will host No. 12 Northern Illinois (13-18, 6-12) at 7 p.m. Monday and the winner will play No. 4 Ball State (19-12, 10-8) at approximately 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena. The Zips (13-17, 6-12) will play at Western Michigan (17-14, 9-9) at 7 p.m. Monday and the winner will play No. 3 Eastern Michigan (20-11, 11-7) at approximately 9 p.m. Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena. The other first-round games on Monday will be No. 10 Ohio (14-16, 7-11) at No. 7 Miami (15-16, 8-10) and No. 9 Central Michigan (17-13, 7-11) at No. 8 Bowling Green (16-15, 7-11). The Ohio-Miami winner will play No. 2 Toledo (21-10, 13-5) at 6:30 p.m. and the Bowling Green-Central Michigan winner will play No. 1 Buffalo (23-8, 15-3) at noon on Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena.

Millet Hall is a death trap for the Zips,but I still preferred Miami. At this point it's what team has the heart to do it. What a colossal fail by Western. Gives Ball State who just lost to NIU an undeserved bye. Sends NIU to Kent.

Load'em up.

Thanks. With our luck WMU will choke. Looks like a trip to the North country for Zips. Had we beaten Miami would have had a home game Monday.

So if all goes according to plan (and it will), we are set up for an epic quarterfinal battle between the two best bigs in the MAC: Mark Kostelac v James Thompson V !! Someone saw Clark already camped out at the Verizon store in Macedonia.

So some time around 1:00pm today someone will emerge from the arena with news as to who won.

Watched the replay. Apart from Jackie Windom being a national treasure, the jawing started with De la Rosa from the bench at Cotton before game was over. However, we don't know what precipitated that. Refs showed a lot of restraint in that regard. And no baskets last 4+ minutes. All free throws. Some were really clear. Others not so much. I like what Jackie said about our last time out. Basically, Zips worked too hard all game to have one of the Jalens just run it down the court for a quick two or three. Set the defense. It worked.

And that game has so many consequences. Just crazy.

I think we are ready to smack down Miami. Two new coaches but one much more experienced in MAC tourney play. Western is a lot bigger team.

I have us going to Miami or Western Michigan.

If CMU wins tomorrow, where do we go? If Western Wins we go to Western, right?

With 3.6 seconds left I looked at the lady to my right and then at the lady to my left. I said to both of them...I'm giving this to God. I've been through too many crazy, awful endings. I thought Utomi was going to get T'd up when he started clapping his hands right in the PCCC guy's face near the end. OMG...Cotton getting in De La Rosa's face...to paraphrase a line from Hoosiers, "that's the second kind of stupid."

Doesn't this seem like a lifetime ago!! What a long season this has been. At risk of sounding like a Kitten Attacker, because of all this crazy adversity I feel like I know or understand this team better than those years past. My biggest worry back then was avoiding getting torpedoed by the T-shirt cannon. Sunrise. Sunset.

One of best nights ever. Although, I swear if you watch that entire clip carefully it really looks like Quincy provoked the incident.

Is there a parade you haven't rained on?

Or when they show you who they are, believe them.

Excitement is building?

Ohhhh. Now I get it.

As opposed to coaches who put guys on the floor who will lose games.

Kostelac!

So what is the correct narrative?

How gracious of you to let decide for ourselves and then tell us we are incorrect