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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 5, 2018 7:42:42 GMT -6
Kent are 6.5 point favorites. Game is tonight on ESPN3 at 7. Let's hope for quintuple overtime.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 5, 2018 8:00:04 GMT -6
Who do we want? Does it matter? Who do we match up better with? I think I'd kinda like to get NIU again and make up for the last game. But, German......
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 5, 2018 8:10:40 GMT -6
I think I want NIU. Kent that close to Cleveland is basically a home game for them. And Kent won it all last year from the 6-seed. NIU knocked off some tops teams, but always at home. I'd like to make them travel.
I think we match up decently against both of them.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 5, 2018 8:20:47 GMT -6
I think it was the floor in NIU’s arena that beat teams rather than the NIU team. You go in there and get confused.
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Post by redbirdman on Mar 5, 2018 8:46:43 GMT -6
NIU is a very poor team & away from home only chance they have @ Kent is German scoring 40. I see no way they win.I would much rather play NIU than Kent in Cleveland.
Also comment on WMU they are down 2 bodies Johnson has been hurt since game before they played in Muncie & I don't think he got on floor against CMU. Also big Nigerian F from Madison, Ind Ikongshul had head injury & surgery I wonder if he plays next yr? I think odds of Akron winning @ WMU are lower than NIU's chance @ Kent.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 9:19:42 GMT -6
I think it was the floor in NIU’s arena that beat teams rather than the NIU team. You go in there and get confused. ....like going to Boise to play football.
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Post by Bearkitten on Mar 5, 2018 10:14:17 GMT -6
Playing the tournament every year in Cleveland gives Kent State, Akron, Toledo and Bowling Green an advantage. BSU chances would be much better playing in Indy, Fort Wayne or Dayton. Would love to see BSU meet NIU in quarterfinal in Cleveland.
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Post by realitycheck on Mar 5, 2018 11:22:37 GMT -6
Who we play or where we play is totally irrelevant, IMO. It's HOW we play that matters. If it's the team that won 9 or 6 in a row earlier this year, then I like our chances. If it's the milk toast squad that shat down our leg the past three games then we likely limp into another off season of "what if" and "next year" excuses.
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Post by bsu0 on Mar 5, 2018 11:52:57 GMT -6
If they played in Indy you could blow up the arena and not hurt ten people
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 5, 2018 12:18:08 GMT -6
If it's the milk toast squad that shat down our leg the past three games then we likely limp into another off season of "what if" and "next year" excuses. Maybe they're lactose intolerant.
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Post by Hoopsmith on Mar 5, 2018 13:07:36 GMT -6
Playing the tournament every year in Cleveland gives Kent State, Akron, Toledo and Bowling Green an advantage. BSU chances would be much better playing in Indy, Fort Wayne or Dayton. Would love to see BSU meet NIU in quarterfinal in Cleveland. The MAC Tournament has never done well outside of NW Ohio or Michigan. BG doesn't travel well and has seldom been relevant. Hell, it was played for a number of years on Toledo's home floor and it never helped them.
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Post by journalismjoe76 on Mar 5, 2018 13:20:10 GMT -6
Playing the tournament every year in Cleveland gives Kent State, Akron, Toledo and Bowling Green an advantage. BSU chances would be much better playing in Indy, Fort Wayne or Dayton. Would love to see BSU meet NIU in quarterfinal in Cleveland. The MAC Tournament has never done well outside of NW Ohio or Michigan. BG doesn't travel well and has seldom been relevant. Hell, it was played for a number of years on Toledo's home floor and it never helped them. They are never going to move the tourney from Cleveland, since that's where the conference is headquartered, but I think a compelling argument could be made to host it in Fort Wayne - as that would be an easy drive for most schools - except Buffalo.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 5, 2018 14:02:34 GMT -6
The MAC Tournament has never done well outside of NW Ohio or Michigan. BG doesn't travel well and has seldom been relevant. Hell, it was played for a number of years on Toledo's home floor and it never helped them. They are never going to move the tourney from Cleveland, since that's where the conference is headquartered, but I think a compelling argument could be made to host it in Fort Wayne - as that would be an easy drive for most schools - except Buffalo. I've made the Fort Wayne argument before. It's 1h30m for us and BGSU; 1h45m for Toledo; 2h for WMU; 2h15 for EMU; 2h30m for Miami; 3h for CMU; 3h30m for Akron and Kent; 4hr for Ohio and NIU. NIU has 6 hours to Cleveland and Buffalo has 6 hours to Fort Wayne. The average drive time per school is only 8 minutes less to Fort Wayne than Cleveland. But the drives are much more evenly distributed. In Fort Wayne nobody would get the Kent/Akron advantage, and while there'd still be a 6 hour traveller the others would be closer. But it'll never happen.
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Post by redbirdman on Mar 5, 2018 14:46:39 GMT -6
The rest of the league would only see Indiana it has no chance. The only other possibilities being approved are close to Detroit, Toledo & Columbus which to me are all better than Cleveland. Probably never get Toledo approved to many people feel it would be an advantage to UT & BG. If we could ever get everybody in west to push we might get a change to Detroit area every 2 yrs & every other yr Columbus or Cleveland. That is probably best we could get & requires all West & BG to push it.
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Post by calpoly on Mar 5, 2018 15:01:29 GMT -6
I've been to the MAC tournament in Toledo, Columbus, Detroit, and Cleveland. Cleveland is by far the best place to have it. Sure, I'd love to see it in Ft Wayne, but then the cry would be that BSU would have the "home court crowd". Detroit was ok, but it could've been on the north pole and I would've traveled to see the Majerus/Hunsaker teams!
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