(05-12-2020 11:46 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 04:18 PM)cleveland Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 03:44 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  20 MAC games coming and divisions dropped.

Also 8 teams only in post season MAC tournament.

I agree with all this.

https://www.wtol.com/mobile/article/spor...a5a6d8fe3c

I agree w/none of it!

Playing 20 MAC games is suicide for a mid-major conference like the MAC. If this was the WCC, where three teams (Gonzaga, St. Mary's, BYU) dominate the league, that's one thing. But MAC history is loaded with MAC BB teams that rise up down the stretch then win the MAC Tournament, but overall sit in the back of the pack.

There is no dominant MAC BB program. Buffalo, Akron, Kent, Eastern Michigan, Miami, Ball State have all had strong runs. But nothing dominant. That's just not MAC basketball.

Buffalo was not dominant? They were 32-4 in 2018-19 and regularly in the Top 25 earning a 6th seed in the tournament.

It was no overachievement either. That team had AAC level basketball talent on it. Some of it of course was due to transfers but the sky is now possible for MAC basketball teams in a way it wasn't before since it doesn't require sitting out a year.

PERHAPS I SHOULD DEFINE DOMINANT - In my mind that's 8-10-plus years of winning the regular season and/or conference tournament and advancing to the NCAA TOURNAMENT on a consistent basis.

Gonzaga is dominant. VCU, Dayton, Wichita State (Mo-Valley edition) are in the conversation. Several MAC programs have put together very strong teams with 2-3-4-year runs, but no MAC program has had anything beyond that in the history of the league. The MAC's strength is its weakness, too balanced.