(03-09-2015 10:13 AM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  I don't believe any of the first round games are on ESPN3. We have to wait until Cleveland for ESPN coverage.

The Ball St vs Bowling Green game is listed on ESPN3. But that's the only one

The home game vs CMU last year was streamed on our site (and of course, on MACDN, which I miss dearly), so I'm guessing it'll be on Eagle All Access again this year.

I don't know if it's just my computer, but I have had a lot of issues with the stream this season. It's worked fine when I watch ESPN3 on there, but Eagle All Access freezes up quite a bit when I watch the games. I've had to resort to listening to WEMU for the last couple games. Hopefully we are one of the schools that goes to ESPN3 next season. This transition has sucked.

(03-09-2015 08:47 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 08:44 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  From the site i use we were ranked 179 this year they have us ranked 259 using the raw ranking system meaning all games played. And have the Mac conference ranked 13th.

Totally worthless. NO one believes those data.

We are a 125 - 140 type team.

Only because they don't fit into your beliefs, got it.

All-MAC awards just announced. http://www.mac-sports.com/news/2015/3/9/...52155.aspx

Raven Lee on 3rd-team. Karrington Ward receives honorable mention.

Am I the only one a little surprised that guys like Eric Washington and Devareaux Manley were placed on the second-team over Ray Lee? Come on...

(03-09-2015 02:16 PM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  All-MAC awards just announced. http://www.mac-sports.com/news/2015/3/9/...52155.aspx

Raven Lee on 3rd-team. Karrington Ward receives honorable mention.

Am I the only one a little surprised that guys like Eric Washington and Devareaux Manley were placed on the second-team over Ray Lee? Come on...

Washington had a very nice all-around season. Tough to argue that one TOO much. But Manley over Raven is an absolute joke.

Manley: 13.6 ppg (32 minutes) on 40% shooting, 2.9 rpg, 0.8 apg
Lee: 16.4 ppg (27 minutes) on 45% shooting, 1.9 rpg, 1.6 apg

What a sham. You can even argue that Lee should be ahead of David Brown, who wasn't as good this year as he was last year. I'm disappointed.

I also would've had Talley as an honorable mention over Ward.

(03-09-2015 02:16 PM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  All-MAC awards just announced. http://www.mac-sports.com/news/2015/3/9/...52155.aspx

Raven Lee on 3rd-team. Karrington Ward receives honorable mention.

Am I the only one a little surprised that guys like Eric Washington and Devareaux Manley were placed on the second-team over Ray Lee? Come on...

He got slighted, tied for 2nd leading scorer in the MAC come on.

(03-09-2015 03:09 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 02:16 PM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  All-MAC awards just announced. http://www.mac-sports.com/news/2015/3/9/...52155.aspx

Raven Lee on 3rd-team. Karrington Ward receives honorable mention.

Am I the only one a little surprised that guys like Eric Washington and Devareaux Manley were placed on the second-team over Ray Lee? Come on...

He got slighted, tied for 2nd leading scorer in the MAC come on.

Not to mention Manley is in there essentially as a scorer. Doesn't stand out in terms of ball distribution or rebounding. He's a shooter/scorer, and we have a better, more efficient one.

It's clearly record based. If Lee was on 12-6 Kent State, he would've been 2nd team.

Well, here's to Ray using the MAC tournament as a stage to show those who voted for these awards why they got it wrong.

(03-09-2015 10:28 AM)EagleSam Wrote:  The home game vs CMU last year was streamed on our site (and of course, on MACDN, which I miss dearly), so I'm guessing it'll be on Eagle All Access again this year.

I don't know if it's just my computer, but I have had a lot of issues with the stream this season. It's worked fine when I watch ESPN3 on there, but Eagle All Access freezes up quite a bit when I watch the games. I've had to resort to listening to WEMU for the last couple games. Hopefully we are one of the schools that goes to ESPN3 next season. This transition has sucked.

I think it is your computer. I have no problems with a PC.

(03-09-2015 11:33 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 08:47 AM)emu steve Wrote:  [quote='emussuperfan' pid='11853844' dateline='1425908641']
From the site i use we were ranked 179 this year they have us ranked 259 using the raw ranking system meaning all games played. And have the Mac conference ranked 13th.

Totally worthless. NO one believes those data.

We are a 125 - 140 type team.

Only because they don't fit into your beliefs, got it.


I had a friend check on MAC Sagrin ratings last week while discussing MSU and he noted I believe that EMU was 179. By the way I believe Toledo was ranked in the top 100.

Speaking of Raven, he really took some giant steps this year as a player, hopefully he maintains his focus and keeps growing.

(03-09-2015 06:05 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 11:33 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 08:47 AM)emu steve Wrote:  [quote='emussuperfan' pid='11853844' dateline='1425908641']
From the site i use we were ranked 179 this year they have us ranked 259 using the raw ranking system meaning all games played. And have the Mac conference ranked 13th.

Totally worthless. NO one believes those data.

We are a 125 - 140 type team.

Only because they don't fit into your beliefs, got it.


I had a friend check on MAC Sagrin ratings last week while discussing MSU and he noted I believe that EMU was 179. By the way I believe Toledo was ranked in the top 100.

No!

EMU is #126 (see below). Strength of Schedule is ranked #145.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/sag...onference/

12 MID-AMERICAN(west) = 74.60 74.22 ( 12) TEAMS= 6 74.34 ( 12)
College Basketball 2014-2015 Div I games only through games of 2015 March 8 Sunday
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 25 | VS top 50 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.35] [ 3.23] [ 3.33] [ 3.48]
80 Central Michigan = 78.72 19 7 71.31( 182) 0 0 | 0 0 | 79.05 72 | 78.48 81 | 78.38 85
90 Toledo = 77.76 19 12 73.36( 129) 0 1 | 0 3 | 77.94 93 | 77.77 89 | 77.24 99
126 Eastern Michigan = 75.23 15 12 72.75( 145) 0 1 | 0 1 | 75.42 123 | 75.35 126 | 74.54 137
132 Western Michigan = 74.93 17 12 73.86( 121) 0 0 | 0 0 | 74.28 139 | 74.45 135 | 75.83 119
174 Northern Illinois = 71.81 13 15 73.32( 130) 0 2 | 0 2 | 70.96 185 | 71.99 163 | 72.05 175
256 Ball State = 66.87 6 22 74.11( 112) 0 1 | 0 2 | 66.73 257 | 68.38 233 | 64.43 297
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(03-09-2015 06:05 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 11:33 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 08:47 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 08:44 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  From the site i use we were ranked 179 this year they have us ranked 259 using the raw ranking system meaning all games played. And have the Mac conference ranked 13th.

Totally worthless. NO one believes those data.

We are a 125 - 140 type team.

Only because they don't fit into your beliefs, got it.


I had a friend check on MAC Sagrin ratings last week while discussing MSU and he noted I believe that EMU was 179. By the way I believe Toledo was ranked in the top 100.

(03-09-2015 06:16 PM)emu steve Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 06:05 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 11:33 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  [quote='emu steve' pid='11853853' dateline='1425908876']
[quote='emussuperfan' pid='11853844' dateline='1425908641']
From the site i use we were ranked 179 this year they have us ranked 259 using the raw ranking system meaning all games played. And have the Mac conference ranked 13th.

Totally worthless. NO one believes those data.

We are a 125 - 140 type team.

Only because they don't fit into your beliefs, got it.


I had a friend check on MAC Sagrin ratings last week while discussing MSU and he noted I believe that EMU was 179. By the way I believe Toledo was ranked in the top 100.

No!

EMU is #126 (see below). Strength of Schedule is ranked #145.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/sag...onference/

12 MID-AMERICAN(west) = 74.60 74.22 ( 12) TEAMS= 6 74.34 ( 12)
College Basketball 2014-2015 Div I games only through games of 2015 March 8 Sunday
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 25 | VS top 50 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 3.35] [ 3.23] [ 3.33] [ 3.48]
80 Central Michigan = 78.72 19 7 71.31( 182) 0 0 | 0 0 | 79.05 72 | 78.48 81 | 78.38 85
90 Toledo = 77.76 19 12 73.36( 129) 0 1 | 0 3 | 77.94 93 | 77.77 89 | 77.24 99
126 Eastern Michigan = 75.23 15 12 72.75( 145) 0 1 | 0 1 | 75.42 123 | 75.35 126 | 74.54 137
132 Western Michigan = 74.93 17 12 73.86( 121) 0 0 | 0 0 | 74.28 139 | 74.45 135 | 75.83 119
174 Northern Illinois = 71.81 13 15 73.32( 130) 0 2 | 0 2 | 70.96 185 | 71.99 163 | 72.05 175
256 Ball State = 66.87 6 22 74.11( 112) 0 1 | 0 2 | 66.73 257 | 68.38 233 | 64.43 297
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Nope he used the same site use, teamranking.com which i feel is a much better sight.

Obviously I am hoping for us to win it all this year, but do you guys think we can get a postseason tournament bid like last year? How many MAC tourney wins would we need. I think if we make it to the semis we can get back to the CIT or maybe sneak an NIT bid.

FREE STREAM !!!!

http://ifirstrowpt.eu/watch/328516/1/wat...higan.html

The pop ups are a little excessive but once you get through them it works great !!

(03-09-2015 06:25 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  Obviously I am hoping for us to win it all this year, but do you guys think we can get a postseason tournament bid like last year? How many MAC tourney wins would we need. I think if we make it to the semis we can get back to the CIT or maybe sneak an NIT bid.

I was wondering the same thing.

NIT is out. The mid majors that go are automatic qualifiers- those regular season conference champions that did not otherwise make the NCAA. The rest seem to be major conferences teams and just a few really good mid majors.

But the CIT again is what I was wondering about. Does EMUs losing record disqualify them? If not, I bet they have to go to the semis again to be considered. Otherwise the 7 MAC schools with better records probably get preferential treatment. Don't think MAC has ever gone 8 deep with tourney bids- or even 7 for that matter.

(03-09-2015 06:06 PM)emu79 Wrote:  Speaking of Raven, he really took some giant steps this year as a player, hopefully he maintains his focus and keeps growing.

Indeed. He has gone from potential to have a big game to dependable for a big game. And quite feisty on defense too.

We should be dominating this team inside.. it doesn't help when our bigs miss little bunnies.

Dear Friends,
Personally I could care less about the CIT, CBI, NBC, or CBS. Since you have to pay to play, forget it.

(03-09-2015 06:45 PM)rayEMU Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 06:25 PM)EAGLE KING Wrote:  Obviously I am hoping for us to win it all this year, but do you guys think we can get a postseason tournament bid like last year? How many MAC tourney wins would we need. I think if we make it to the semis we can get back to the CIT or maybe sneak an NIT bid.

I was wondering the same thing.

NIT is out. The mid majors that go are automatic qualifiers- those regular season conference champions that did not otherwise make the NCAA. The rest seem to be major conferences teams and just a few really good mid majors.

But the CIT again is what I was wondering about. Does EMUs losing record disqualify them? If not, I bet they have to go to the semis again to be considered. Otherwise the 7 MAC schools with better records probably get preferential treatment. Don't think MAC has ever gone 8 deep with tourney bids- or even 7 for that matter.

I think we probably have to win 2 games in the MAC tourney to get a look in the CIT. Our computer numbers were a lot better last year, with a top 100 RPI. But then again, our first round opponent (Norfolk State) didn't exactly have that good of a resume, so who knows.

I think the only disqualifier is an under .500 record. Even when you take out our non-D1 games, we are still 15-12. We shall see.