(02-22-2018 11:21 AM)mmucha1986 Wrote:  soooo..

looks like it will be us, eastern or western grabbing that 4th spot.

even if we finish 5th, not a bad thing.. why?

1.) winner of #5 seed plays #12 seed in the monday game. winner plays #4 seed (western or eastern) in quarterfinals in cleveland

2.) since we're still not gelling (as the ohio brodcaster was saying) monday gives us another game to get it together & build confidence.


let's say eastern goes 2-1 in final 3 games & we go 3-0.. eastern takes the #4 spot. we play monday & win (4-game winning streak) go into CLE on a roll - this is what i see happening

moving ahead to friday, we'd play a vulnerable buffalo team - avoiding the most dangerous team, ball state, till the championship game on sat.


my plans are coming together nicely
i flee & head to cleveland 13 days from today

(02-22-2018 10:28 PM)Muskrat Wrote:  The MAC is so weak that Kent State repeating is not that far-fetched. Unlikely, sure, but name a team in the weak MAC that Kent State can't beat. There is not a scary team in the entire conference, which seems to, as a whole, get weaker every year.

(02-23-2018 01:43 PM)burden Wrote:  

(02-22-2018 10:28 PM)Muskrat Wrote:  The MAC is so weak that Kent State repeating is not that far-fetched. Unlikely, sure, but name a team in the weak MAC that Kent State can't beat. There is not a scary team in the entire conference, which seems to, as a whole, get weaker every year.

There isn’t a team that they can’t beat in one game. Even at 50/50 four in a row is only a 6% chance. If we end up a 5-8 seed we will be less then 50/50 in at least 3 of the 4 games. I think that’s pretty close to far fetched. Remember last year we were playing much better than our record the last 6 games. So far not this year.

(02-24-2018 01:09 PM)AlphaFlash Wrote:  

(02-23-2018 01:43 PM)burden Wrote:  

(02-22-2018 10:28 PM)Muskrat Wrote:  The MAC is so weak that Kent State repeating is not that far-fetched. Unlikely, sure, but name a team in the weak MAC that Kent State can't beat. There is not a scary team in the entire conference, which seems to, as a whole, get weaker every year.

There isn’t a team that they can’t beat in one game. Even at 50/50 four in a row is only a 6% chance. If we end up a 5-8 seed we will be less then 50/50 in at least 3 of the 4 games. I think that’s pretty close to far fetched. Remember last year we were playing much better than our record the last 6 games. So far not this year.

This time last year I was expecting us to lose the play-in game. After we lost to Akron, I was sure of it.
This conference is so screwy. The top seeds don't win as often as they should.

(02-25-2018 10:58 AM)burden Wrote:  Why is everybody of the opinion the MAC is so different then before? I go back to the early 80’s and it seems the same to me. Somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth best conference. Always has two or three teams that appear to be better (and worse) then the rest of the league. One of these teams will usually win the tournament. I’ll agree they seem to have less star power (probably because our salary cap is too low, ha ha) then in the past but we have rarely had a dominate team in the league. Even our 2002 team had to struggle to beat BGSU. I know some of you go back before the mid 80s maybe that’s the difference.

(02-25-2018 05:23 PM)fallsdog Wrote:  I think it’s hard for some fans, myself included, to wrap our heads around the idea that some of the usual suspects are looking at first round campus site games. I’m talking, of course, about the Flashes, Ohio and Akron in particular. Ball State has little to no “cashew”. And the fact that our preferred team has been so up and down I think there is a belief that somehow Buffalo has peaked.