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To stir up some conversation, as the 2023-24 regular season winds down, who are the members of your 23-24 All-MAC Team?  Give us your first team, POY and COY.

 

As a reminder the preseason team was:

First Team
Ali Ali, Guard, Akron, Sr.
Enrique Freeman, Forward, Akron, Sr.
Chris Payton, Forward, Kent State, Grad.
Jaylin Hunter, Guard, Ohio, Sr.
Dante Maddox Jr., Guard, Toledo, Jr.
 
Second Team
Tyson Acuff, Guard, Eastern Michigan, Jr.
Jalen Sullinger, Guard, Kent State, Jr.
Anderson Mirambeaux, Center, Miami, Sr.
David Coit, Guard, Northern Illinois, Jr.
AJ Brown, Guard, Ohio, So.

 

From what I have seen so far, my All-MAC team would be:

Enrique Freeman- Akron

Basheer Jihad- Ball State

Tyson Acuff- Eastern Michigan

Marcus Hill- Bowling Green

Jaylin Hunter- OU

 

POY- Freeman

COY- Groce

 

 

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30 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

To stir up some conversation, as the 2023-24 regular season winds down, who are the members of your 23-24 All-MAC Team?  Give us your first team, POY and COY.

 

As a reminder the preseason team was:

First Team
Ali Ali, Guard, Akron, Sr.
Enrique Freeman, Forward, Akron, Sr.
Chris Payton, Forward, Kent State, Grad.
Jaylin Hunter, Guard, Ohio, Sr.
Dante Maddox Jr., Guard, Toledo, Jr.
 
Second Team
Tyson Acuff, Guard, Eastern Michigan, Jr.
Jalen Sullinger, Guard, Kent State, Jr.
Anderson Mirambeaux, Center, Miami, Sr.
David Coit, Guard, Northern Illinois, Jr.
AJ Brown, Guard, Ohio, So.

 

From what I have seen so far, my All-MAC team would be:

Enrique Freeman- Akron

Basheer Jihad- Ball State

Tyson Acuff- Eastern Michigan

Marcus Hill- Bowling Green

Jaylin Hunter- OU

 

POY- Freeman

COY- Groce

 

 

I would have to take some time to view the rest of the MAC in order to make predictions. I will say Freeman should be a runaway favorite for MAC POY.

 

Groce should won COY, but I could see Barbee winning it instead. CMU was projected to finish dead last in the MAC, but are currently in 3rd. Even though teams 3-12 all suck I can still see voters giving it to Barbee for "overachieving". Not that I would agree with it.

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Freeman as POY and Barbee as COY are both locks. First team, Freeman and Hill are locks. Someone from Toledo will make it, likely Moss. Ali has a decent chance too. I’d also take Jihad on first team. Considering how the league has played, it’s far from a slam dunk like it typically is to come up with these teams. 

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4 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said:

To stir up some conversation, as the 2023-24 regular season winds down, who are the members of your 23-24 All-MAC Team?  Give us your first team, POY and COY.

 

As a reminder the preseason team was:

First Team
Ali Ali, Guard, Akron, Sr.
Enrique Freeman, Forward, Akron, Sr.
Chris Payton, Forward, Kent State, Grad.
Jaylin Hunter, Guard, Ohio, Sr.
Dante Maddox Jr., Guard, Toledo, Jr.
 
Second Team
Tyson Acuff, Guard, Eastern Michigan, Jr.
Jalen Sullinger, Guard, Kent State, Jr.
Anderson Mirambeaux, Center, Miami, Sr.
David Coit, Guard, Northern Illinois, Jr.
AJ Brown, Guard, Ohio, So.

 

From what I have seen so far, my All-MAC team would be:

Enrique Freeman- Akron

Basheer Jihad- Ball State

Tyson Acuff- Eastern Michigan

Marcus Hill- Bowling Green

Jaylin Hunter- OU

 

POY- Freeman

COY- Groce

 

 

Are u kidding, Payton not even starting and is a non-factor. Raheem Moss is Toledo's best sll-around player, should be 1st team all star.

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4 minutes ago, zipnetter1951 said:

Are u kidding, Payton not even starting and is a non-factor. Raheem Moss is Toledo's best sll-around player, should be 1st team all star.

 

Payton was on the PRE-season team selected by the coaches.   He's obviously played himself out of it.

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Any more thoughts on this now that we've seen everyone?

 

From what I saw, Jihad from Ball State was the second best player in the league.  I'd also move Coit into first team consideration.  The late season Zips meltdown takes Grice out of the COY discussion.

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Freeman, Moss, Hunter, Hill, PG at CMU

 

COY-- CMU

 

What a sad state across the board ... (Note, EMU played its best BB w/o the MAC's leading scorer ... Kent is a loser for first time in over 20 years ... injuries impacted a lot of teams this season ... but still)

 

Roster development left a lot to be desired at a lot of places, including Akron ... although THE PORTAL had a lot to do with much of it.

 

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2 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

COY I might actually give to coach K since he won the MAC in what was a rebuilding year. Overall though nobody is all that deserving.

Stan Heath gets my vote.  He led a team he didn't recruit to the Elite 8 two decades ago.

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6 minutes ago, Illini Zip said:

He needs to consider transferring to Akron next year so he could be first team. 
 

 

 

20 PPG, 88% FT shooter.

 

Did Miami, NIU, and Akron okay arrow roulette for Hunter, Coit, and Thornton? The coach to stay the longest got Coit, then Hunter, then Thornton? 

 

Groce is a big time family man, so that would make sense that he dipped out early and we got Thornton. Steele probably said, "We aren't close to winning the MAC but Hunter will help prevent me from getting fired." NIU's coach said, "F it. I'm already coaching basketball in DeKalb. An arrow through my foot won't make life any worse."

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