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Would you trade those three wins per season for three NCAA tournament wins over ten years? I think I would.

Yeah usual stuff from message boards (always a few on both sides - I find the ones that feel like OU is equivalent of an Ivy league education a little pompous - and I even have a building with my last name on it at OU - named after a great uncle who was president of OU in the 40's - but I digress). Someone on their board showed some stats and said they bet we'd trade out last ten years results for theirs. You know what I'm kind of thinking I would. Here is what they presented over the last 10 years - same number of tourney titles but a lot more NCAA success. Would love just once to experience that same thing. MAC TOURNEY TITLES Akron - 3 Ohio - 3 Kent State - 2 Buffalo, Miami WMU - 1 MAC REGULAR SEASON EAST DIVISION TITLES Kent - 4 (2 outright, 2 co-champs) Akron - 4 (1 outright, 3 co-champs) Buffalo - 3 (3 co-champs) Miami - 1 (1 outright) Ohio - 1 (1 co-champs) BGSU - 1 (1 co-champs) NCAA Tourney record Ohio 3-2 (+1.0 avg pt diff) Akron 0-3 (-24.0 pts) Kent St 0-2 (-14.0) Miami 0-1 (-2.0) Buffalo 0-1 (-6.0) WMU 0-1 (-24.0)

Indiana was a 1-1, and they actually played at Akron first, the year Infocision opened (2009). We played at Indiana the following year. That's pretty unusual because in most P5/G5 deals the G5 school gets the last of the years (we played at Syracuse in 2008 and 2009, they came to our place in 2010), so the G5 school can opt out by paying some cash in case they get a better offer. The Iowa State series is also a 1-1.

That's almost exactly what Toledo did a few years ago.

Actually Syracuse was a 2-1 deal. I wouldn't count Marshall in the same category with the other two, but we were fortunate to get 1-1's with Indiana and Pitt (and we have one upcoming with Iowa State). When we can work a 1-1 with a P5 of any sort we should do it, but I'll take the cash on a one-time payday if not.

If the Bobcats end up with #1 seed I think its Phillips as well, otherwise probably Whitford.

Wouldn't it make sense that Championship games would be generally good, close games that could go down to the last shot?

We're not exactly playing our best ball at this point in the season. A little worrisome.

I agree - if I had a vote that is where it would be going, but its also pretty good that Big Dog held his own against a good player like Campbell, he's certainly worth an all-MAC first team vote as well.

No but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

The conspiracy theorist in me says he didn't jump, he was pushed.

You knew one night the threes were going to run dry. Guess this is it. :-(

Nice broadcast and reasonably good game so far. Kudos to ESPN for at least a little bit of research. Liked the segment they did with Reggie.

Stomach punch returned With Golden Showers of threes Flash back to good days

And give them credit when it's due. Beating KSU is always a good thing.

Who absolutely should have been the MVP of that game but his second pick six came after the voting was done - idiotic that they used to pick an MVP before the game was done.

Yep it must have stayed up a whole three minutes and even that part wasn't good.

Stream is back

I believe the sidearm they use shoots straight down, like into your foot. Although the way the game is going maybe it's better not to see it.

She was apparently out with an injury. And the men's game did NOT make me feel better. :-)

NIU - our personal house of horrors. Worst loss of the year

Very real chance of losing this one if the Zips don't get their act together quickly.

Ugly loss for the women today. Up by 13 to start the 4th quarter and get outscored 27-10. Ughh. Hope the men's game is a pick me up.

What are you talking about? Both CMU and Toledo both have a win over a top 50 team. ;-)

Toledo was down by eight with not much time left and went on a 12-2 run to beat the Bulls at Buffalo tonight. Zips up by two games on everybody in the MAC.