The Magic Number is 2 - or less

[akronzips71]

I am not good at Common Core, but there are 5 games remaining.

If we win two, we can only have 4 losses. That locks up the NIT, #1 seed, and MAC season championship.

 

BUT, we play Buffalo. If we beat them, they have at least 6 losses and we could only have 5, so that eliminates them. And if OU loses one game in that scenario, they are eliminated. In any case, Buffalo and OU still play each other, meaning one of them MUST have 6 losses. That means that ONE win gets us to at least a tie breaker for #1. With our only loss being to OU, that makes it interesting.

 

But any combination of one win over Buffalo and BU over OU locks it up, or we can do it on Tuesday with two wins.

[NWAkron]

Or if we win our two home games and one of our remaining away games we will have sole possession of first place?

 

(Ugh.  My math skills are bad, too.). 

Edited February 15, 2017 by NWAkron

[skip-zip]

Up 4 with 5 games to play. 

Buffalo and OU (both 4 games back) are the only teams that can mathematically catch us.  Everyone else is 6 games back, or more.  

 

One more Akron win guarantees a tie.

Two more Akron wins guarantees outright Regular Season Title.  

 

I don't think we need to look at any other scenarios.  I think we have near insurmountable odds of winning at least 2 of our last 5 games.  

[NWAkron]

36 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

Or if we win our two home games and one of our remaining away games we will have sole possession of first place?

Ugh.  five minutes after typing this I thought to myself...hmm...that wasn't right.  Win out at home and we win the MAC.  Nice place to be.

[Blue & Gold]

@ Buffalo & @ K.ent are going to be tough places to get a W.  But we'd have to hit thermonuclear meltdown mode to not win the regular season title.

 

Btw, regular season title? 

[kreed5120]

Ticket has been punched to Cleveland. More work left to do.

 

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