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Week 16 games (Mar. 8–14)

Sched234 said:
Any predictions on CMU’s seed and whether BGSU will receive an at-large bid?
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No chance of an at-large bid for any of the MAC teams this year.

CMU likely a 12 or 13.
 
The MAC certainly hurt themselves this year by having an extremely competitive conference where the teams beat up on each other quite often. Personally, I'd rather see Bowling Green, Buffalo, or Ohio in the tournament than a team like Notre Dame or Mississippi State. The issue is that the numbers don't look to be in the favour of the MAC with a best NET ranking of 56 held by Bowling Green. So, the computers not helping their case with the lack of respect the MAC gets as a conference probably means that they're a one bid conference this year despite multiple recent deep runs in the tournament by CMU and Buffalo.
 
Lorcan said:
The MAC certainly hurt themselves this year by having an extremely competitive conference where the teams beat up on each other quite often. Personally, I'd rather see Bowling Green, Buffalo, or Ohio in the tournament than a team like Notre Dame or Mississippi State. The issue is that the numbers don't look to be in the favour of the MAC with a best NET ranking of 56 held by Bowling Green. So, the computers not helping their case with the lack of respect the MAC gets as a conference probably means that they're a one bid conference this year despite multiple recent deep runs in the tournament by CMU and Buffalo.
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It was more than an issue of the better teams in the MAC beating up on each other. They also lost too many games to the middle and bottom of the conference. Ohio is a good example, since in theory they entered conference play in the best position to build an at-large-worthy resume with the win over Notre Dame (with ND missing two key players, but still).

But Ohio's losses came not only to the top 3 other teams in the conference (Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Buffalo). They also lost to Eastern Michigan, Ball State, Kent State and Akron. Just not a good overall resume.

I don't like reading too much into one game, but I find eye-opening the fact that the team that won the regular season title by 1.5 games (Bowling Green) lost to a pretty lame Purdue team this year.
 
Missouri St had to forfeit game rather than play a team with Covid exposure

snatches a bid from a bubble team and hurts MoSt case for a 4 seed

dumpster fire
 
Vowelguy said:
Missouri St had to forfeit game rather than play a team with Covid exposure

snatches a bid from a bubble team and hurts MoSt case for a 4 seed

dumpster fire
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I haven't seen anything official on what's occurring here -- details still forthcoming per the official source. I'm holding judgement until I know more.
 
Lorcan said:
I haven't seen anything official on what's occurring here -- details still forthcoming per the official source. I'm holding judgement until I know more.
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Also withholding my judgment till I know more, but this string of tweets is certainly interesting:

 
Lorcan said:
I haven't seen anything official on what's occurring here -- details still forthcoming per the official source. I'm holding judgement until I know more.
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Being talked about on twitter , not that that is confirmation
 
Vowelguy said:
Being talked about on twitter , not that that is confirmation
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Yeah, I've seen the string of tweets, just waiting until official word. Regardless of the official word in the end, it's not a good look to consider making a team forfeit because they don't want to put themselves at risk for COVID. That being said, one would think all the teams agreed to a protocol before the tournament -- and if they're following that protocol, I'm not sure that there's an easy answer in this case.
 
VCU ends Dayton's hopes of making the tournament with a 56-50 clipping of the Flyers. They'll get to face UMass or St. Louis to see who goes a dancin'.
 
Lorcan said:
VCU ends Dayton's hopes of making the tournament with a 56-50 clipping of the Flyers. They'll get to face UMass or St. Louis to see who goes a dancin'.
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Another #1 bites the dust
 
Lorcan said:
Yeah, I've seen the string of tweets, just waiting until official word. Regardless of the official word in the end, it's not a good look to consider making a team forfeit because they don't want to put themselves at risk for COVID. That being said, one would think all the teams agreed to a protocol before the tournament -- and if they're following that protocol, I'm not sure that there's an easy answer in this case.
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Now ESPN app says Bradley will play Loyola tonight ?
 


Missouri State opts out, Bradley vs. Loyola in a reseeding of the remaining bracket and Drake plays the winner for a bid.
 
7th seeded UMass upset #2 SLU 90-81 to make it to the A10 final.
They play VCU tmow.

UMass & Boston U striving to join UConn as the New England entrants in the tourney.
 
Mid-major transfer championship now on CBSSN

Okla transfer Nancy Mulkey leads Rice vs Tenn transfer A Hayes of MTSU
 
Vowelguy said:
Mid-major transfer championship now on CBSSN

Okla transfer Nancy Mulkey leads Rice vs Tenn transfer A Hayes of MTSU
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MTSU also has transfers Rellah Boothe (TX & JUCO) and Deja Cage (DePaul & Ole Miss)
 
The Southland Championship tomorrow will pit regular-season champion Stephen F. Austin against Sam Houston State. Both teams were victorious in their respective semi-final matches today.
 
Mulkey is 6'9" ? My goodness...why isn't she touching the ball on every possession?
 
LETTERL said:
Mulkey is 6'9" ? My goodness...why isn't she touching the ball on every possession?
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Really poor coaching and execution. I don’t understand why Rice wasn’t lobbing the ball earlier in the game.
 
GoCardinal said:
Really poor coaching and execution. I don’t understand why Rice wasn’t lobbing the ball earlier in the game.
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When they went on that late comeback, 3 times down the floor, 3 easy baskets + a foul.
 
In their final season in their 50th season in the MEAC..... my #1 seeded Aggies of NC A&T were trying to go out of the league on top. Seemingly in control late in the 3rd quarter.. the Aggies let a 44-35 lead turn into a 50-46 deficit. Nip and tuck throughout the 4th quarter... Howard led 57-53 with a minute to go. Deja Winters hits a 3 to make it 57-56.... and the aggies force a turnover with 21 seconds to go. Then they go ahead and quickly turn the ball over back to the bison and are forced to foul with 11 seconds left. The Star of the game for the Bison.... Guard Iyanna Warren who had hit 9-11 from the line for the game... promptly misses both free throws..... the aggies push the ball upcourt and Winters hits the game winning 3 from the corner with three seconds to go to win their last MEAC title 59-57.


Gotta use this one :p
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