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Post by 00hmh on Mar 5, 2016 13:49:53 GMT -6
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Post by rgmillikan on Mar 5, 2016 14:58:55 GMT -6
The MAC used to award a regular season and tournament championship. They stopped doing that when they went to divisions. We've had at least one, maybe more #1 seeds since the move to divisions that are not recognized as MAC regular season champion with a banner. Or maybe not... my memory is failing. Thinking about it, you are right. We had the 1 seed in the 1998 conference tourny but the regular season banner at Worthen I believe last lists 1993.
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Post by ctshowtyme on Mar 5, 2016 15:26:35 GMT -6
Agree with some of the others that our draw is favorable, or as good as it will get. If we reach the QF, perhaps Buffalo's youth and playing away from home will help us I still like Ball St's chances against Miami; we should still have too much for them. But the turn around by Miami is pretty stunning. I thought they gave up a little bit against us a few weeks ago, and was the weakest team in the conference. How they then beat good teams and lost to Ohio by only 2 last night, I'm not sure. But gotta give them credit, and McKnight and Washington always scare me.
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Post by cfbsufan on Mar 5, 2016 20:11:07 GMT -6
In the Ohio Valley tourney they had Belmont with a 42.5% chance of winning it, Austin Peay with a 0.78% chance and Austin Peay just knocked them off the other night... Let's hope some similar things happen in our tourney...
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Post by universityjim on Mar 5, 2016 20:53:54 GMT -6
The MAC used to award a regular season and tournament championship. They stopped doing that when they went to divisions. We've had at least one, maybe more #1 seeds since the move to divisions that are not recognized as MAC regular season champion with a banner. Or maybe not... my memory is failing. Thinking about it, you are right. We had the 1 seed in the 1998 conference tourny but the regular season banner at Worthen I believe last lists 1993. Ah yes, 1998. The year we got beat by EMU after leading by 6 in overtime in the semi-finals of the MAC Tournament. Then Western Michigan, who got beat in the quarterfinals of the tournament and who we swept during the regular season scored an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and we got snubbed. That is also the year Charlie Coles had a heart attack during the game in Kalamazoo where Miami beat Western Michigan in the quarterfinals of the tournament. He had to be resuscitated on the floor. He told some of us a pretty good story about that year's later. He said when he came to the first thing he saw was Western Michigan coach Bob Donewald. He said that when he saw Donewald he was sure he had died and "gone to the other place." BTW, Western does have a regular season MAC Champion banner for 1998 hanging in University Arena even though very clearly they were not.
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