RE: WBB at large bid
UB men lost to a slew of bubble teams, St Bonnie, Syracuse, Texas AM. They played most of them tough and had a close loss to a top 4 seed Cincy team and beat a few pretty good teams that won't make the tourney but they are a 12 seed at best. Toledo is probably a 13 seed same as Ball St. Any other MAC team is a 14/15.
As for the women, I'm hoping there will be fairness as I think we have 3 NCAA teams. The fact that we have middle of the pack MAC team with non conf wins over NCAA or bubble teams says a lot about the depth of the league. CMU might be unlucky for the at large discussion as they lost close games to several bubble teams non conf and might not get full credit for all their good MAC wins. Ball St and Buffalo certainly have non conf at large resumes. realtimerpi, which has been around for a long time has CMU and UB as 9 seeds and Ball St sneaking in as a 12. If you really want to track things these are teams beaten by MAC bubble teams that are on the bubble as an at large or top 2 in a 1 bid league. If most of them do well down the stretch it makes it harder to not give the MAC at large berth(s)
Nebraska (UB), Purdue (UB and Ohio), St Johns (UB), W Kentucky BSU), UNLV (UB), Missouri St (BSU),
And these P5 or strong mid major teams who lost to MAC contenders and likely won't make the tourney but become better wins if they close strong
Clemson (UB), Iowa St (CMU), Vandy (CMU and others) Butler (BSU) Cleveland St ( a few MAC losses)
There's also the following teams who lost to other weaker MAC schools but could still make the tourney as they are a contending team in a 1 bid league (along w Dayton who is a bubble team)
Cleveland St, Delaware, Robert Morris, Dayton, Maine, St Francis, E Tenn St, W Ill, SIU-Edwardsville, IUPUI, Jacksonville St.
The last couple MAC at large teams (men) had multiple non conf wins over P5 teams who made the field or were on the bubble. There have been a few MAC teams (men and women) who did not get in and had greast non conf wins but struggled a bit in the MAC or had great non conf records but didn't beat any at large type teams. Based on history Buffalo women could finish strong but then lose respectably in the MAC tourney and get an at large. CMU could do the same and likely get denied and BSU with a winning streak up the tourney final might get in but it would be a toss up
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