Well, we're in the home stretch of the regular season. Only 7 to go, but 5 of those on the road. The game against Akron is going to be a tough one (thankfully we're done with the MAC East soon), but hopefully we'll eke out another win or two before the MAC tourney.

I personally feel the WMU, SIUE, EMU, CMU and Toledo games are ones we COULD win (not that we should or will)...but only the Toledo and WMU games are at home. So, yeah, hopefully we can get to 5 wins (I know, it's a low standard).

Akron might be the best team in the MAC. They score/shoot, rebound and pass well. They have 6 players that average 8 or more points a game. Very unselfish group. A lot of their scoring comes from the front court (Zeke Marshall is a 7 footer, Nikola Cvetinovic is a 6'8" forward that can score), so we're going to have to play crazy active D to deny interior feeds or the Grays will foul out in 10 minutes combined.

Hopefully Storm continues his good play and Nader finds his shooting touch again. Hopefully Bolin gets a double-double and Berg mans the point well again. The O is going to have to be fantastic for us to have a shot. Limit turnovers, find points somehow from somewhere. Take our time on offense, make the game as short as possible (do the basketball equivalent of running the ball).

My prediction for this game.....pain. If we can make this game close, like the Buffalo loss, that might be the best we can possibly do. But we're on the road and waaaaay overmatched in this one.

Akron: a lot (85), NIU: pain (55).