Let'sGoZips94

Wow.

Speaking of coach's contracts, sounds like Nate Oats got a 5 year extension.

The real losers: the shooting contestants that will continue to go against President Wilson during the timeout promotion.

Yes, and this will be an interesting off-season.

He absolutely should hold the players accountable. He's trying to build a culture. But he ultimately accepted full responsibility.

Classy. Coach is literally admitting this one is on him and isn't accepting the blame for anyone else.

@dre22era Not Groce's best coached second half, but you have a 5th year grad senior turn the ball over how many times? Groce didn't do that. Very disappointing loss, but don't come in here when you hardly post, looking to start crap. I have no problem with critiquing coaches/players, but your statement was childish.

Shut up.

Finally start driving and we can't buy a foul. No I'm not blaming the refs, but this is ridiculous.

With our graduate senior playing like a freshman, too.

This is ridiculous.

The refs have lost control of this game due to their inconsistency.

THAT'S 4! HE'S DIRTY!

Count me in on disliking Ball State a lot, especially for letting Can't back into the semis. Now, who to root for tonight... The scary masked people or the sweaters...?

Here's to hoping PCCC goes home early today. I hope tempers flare and KSUcks gets a bit "testy" against Balls (see what I did there?).

I think this will massively backfire if their goal is more ad revenue. People are going to find out who is in, and find out the brackets when they print them off later in the evening.

Buffalo is somewhat letting CMU hang around, which is not what they want. Buffalo wants to win this game by 30 so they can rest their guys.

Buffalo is the first game, with Can't/Balls to follow. The top seed's side always goes first, with the opposite side in the evenings. Currently, Buffalo is up 37-24 with 4 minutes to go in the first half.

I agree with this, hence my comment about the MAC being a top 10-12 conference RPI/ratings wise. I strongly dislike the MAC, but they are most definitely superior - consistently - to about 15+ conferences. I also struggle to put much merit on what has become a money game for the NCAA by design. I never liked the play-in game when it was, what, 2 16-seed games? Now I really hate it with higher seeds in there. It's all about squeezing every last dollar out of these schools.

As much as a Participation Trophy. With that being said, if you told me we'd win a 1st round game in Dayton this year, I'd be incredibly happy, but that has to do more with how this season has gone/expectations.

It was a bit of a jab, but I was also being serious. Again, not to get way ahead of ourselves, but I do think if we were to win the MAC, we would be higher than a 16 seed. There are multiple factors considered beyond record. According to realtimerpi.com the MAC is the 10th ranked conference (even ahead of the A10). The variances in other conference ranking formulas/systems might drop us down a spot or two, who knows, but the fact is the MAC is in the top third of conferences in the country. That would carry quite a bit of weight, with the perceived "prestige" of Akron's recent success being a bonus. The only way Akron would end up in Dayton would be if the NCAA views it as an opportunity to make money with Akron being relatively close, but those Dayton games always show well attendance wise so I don't think that would be a reason to under-seed the 10th-ranked conference's champion.

Don't let it happen again (although before these past couple of seasons, we did traditionally struggle mightily against the zone).

Agreed. How can anyone say our program warrants a 16 seed when we've been on a list for the past decade with Duke, Kansas, and Ohio State? I thought we had some prestige with that type of company. In all seriousness, one game at a time, but I think anybody that faces us is going to be in one helluva dog fight. I have a feeling Groce is going to release the hounds like he did against WMU. Hard-nose defense, constant-motion offense, and an overall high-energy performance. I will be quite disappointed if we don't leave it all on the court.

Gameday. Beat Eastern Mitten University. (Not a typo)

These are attendance number predictions for the respective schools, not game lines.