MileHighBronco
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Broncos are regular season champs!
Toledo can join us and be co-champs if they win tomorrow.
Congrats to coach Hawkins and the team. It's been 10 years.
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bobcat_backer
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Congrats, Broncos!!! Well deserved and earned!!
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H2Oville Rocket
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Refs couldn't steal this one, eh? Congrats, WMU. Way to rep the West!
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MileHighBronco
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Kind of funny, H20. That was the least physical game I've ever seen in the MAC but I chalk it up to the style that CMU plays. Refs just swallowed their whistles and let them play all night.
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
I've always liked Coach Hawkins. I'd really like to see him get an at-large NCAA bid... or better yet win the NIT.
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MileHighBronco
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Broncos shot 17 of 21 in the second half for 81%.
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Rocket A
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Congrats, WMU!!! Hoping Toledo joins you later this afternoon!!!
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TARDledo
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-07-2014 09:07 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: Toledo can join us and be co-champs if they win tomorrow.
Congrats to coach Hawkins and the team. It's been 10 years.
Huh?
C'mon, it's Toledo. Win OR lose, they're "co-champs."
The banner's already been ordered.
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H2Oville Rocket
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 09:09 AM)TARDledo Wrote: (03-07-2014 09:07 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: Toledo can join us and be co-champs if they win tomorrow.
Congrats to coach Hawkins and the team. It's been 10 years.
Huh?
C'mon, it's Toledo. Win OR lose, they're "co-champs."
The banner's already been ordered.
You seem a little confused. To be co-champs you have to have tied another team for best league record. If Toledo loses they'll have one more loss than WMU. Moreover, they don't order banners until they end the season tied for best record. You might want tto check your sources.
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 09:17 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote: (03-08-2014 09:09 AM)TARDledo Wrote: (03-07-2014 09:07 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: Toledo can join us and be co-champs if they win tomorrow.
Congrats to coach Hawkins and the team. It's been 10 years.
Huh?
C'mon, it's Toledo. Win OR lose, they're "co-champs."
The banner's already been ordered.
You seem a little confused. To be co-champs you have to have tied another team for best league record. If Toledo loses they'll have one more loss than WMU. Moreover, they don't order banners until they end the season tied for best record. You might want tto check your sources.
I think TARD may be confusing championships with seedings. UT is the # 2 MAC Tourney seed regardless of whether they win or lose today, but for the Co-Championship they must win------or maybe he is just counting his chickens prematurely, so to speak which is a no,no.
(This post was last modified: 03-08-2014 10:36 AM by T-Town.)
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
All of this has me wondering what happened to the MAC East which used to dominate this sport...
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bobcat95
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Congrats to Western!
After much of the early season talk over Toledo and Eastern in the West, WMUs late season play was a pleasant surprise to me. I have to admit that this team was off of my radar. They deserve to raise that banner. I like their team, and I expect them to be in the MAC finals.
Congrats to Akron as well for a well earned 4 seed after some mid season suspensions and injuries. A possible Western/Akron semifinal would be fun.
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03-08-2014 11:07 AM |
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bobcat95
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 11:03 AM)emu steve Wrote: All of this has me wondering what happened to the MAC East which used to dominate this sport...
I still believe that the east is stronger than the west this year, but the West has definitely closed the gap. Playing BSU and CMU twice was an advantage for Toledo and WMU. Akron and Ohio's injuries at the critical stretch run hurt as well.
The team that is intriguing to me in the west is NIU. Where would they be in the standings if Highsmith hadn't been injured?
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 11:19 AM)bobcat95 Wrote: (03-08-2014 11:03 AM)emu steve Wrote: All of this has me wondering what happened to the MAC East which used to dominate this sport...
I still believe that the east is stronger than the west this year, but the West has definitely closed the gap. Playing BSU and CMU twice was an advantage for Toledo and WMU. Akron and Ohio's injuries at the critical stretch run hurt as well.
The team that is intriguing to me in the west is NIU. Where would they be in the standings if Highsmith hadn't been injured?
Or if the refs hand'nt hand-delivered the WMU to the Broncos
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 11:19 AM)bobcat95 Wrote: (03-08-2014 11:03 AM)emu steve Wrote: All of this has me wondering what happened to the MAC East which used to dominate this sport...
I still believe that the east is stronger than the west this year, but the West has definitely closed the gap. Playing BSU and CMU twice was an advantage for Toledo and WMU. Akron and Ohio's injuries at the critical stretch run hurt as well.
The team that is intriguing to me in the west is NIU. Where would they be in the standings if Highsmith hadn't been injured?
The MAC East, top to bottom, is stronger than the MAC West (top to bottom) but as the bottom usually is gone the first night of the tourney, the bottom teams really don't mean much.
I don't believe a #5 or 6 seed team, which is worthy, can win the highly balanced MAC this year because of the tourney format.
It will be interesting BUT since the #1 and #2 seeds will be from the MAC West, very good chance the MAC champ will be from the MAC West.
Heaven forbid (?) but WMU and UT could play in the finals. Each only needs to win their semi-finals to get there.
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 11:19 AM)bobcat95 Wrote: (03-08-2014 11:03 AM)emu steve Wrote: All of this has me wondering what happened to the MAC East which used to dominate this sport...
I still believe that the east is stronger than the west this year, but the West has definitely closed the gap. Playing BSU and CMU twice was an advantage for Toledo and WMU. Akron and Ohio's injuries at the critical stretch run hurt as well.
The team that is intriguing to me in the west is NIU. Where would they be in the standings if Highsmith hadn't been injured?
Playing Ohio twice was a big advantage too!
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 09:17 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote: (03-08-2014 09:09 AM)TARDledo Wrote: C'mon, it's Toledo. Win OR lose, they're "co-champs."
The banner's already been ordered.
You seem a little confused.
You might not be grasping an ironical reference to some incident of an "optimistic" claim of an honor in Toledo's history.
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
Quarterfinal Thursday was awesome. I miss it.
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bobcat_backer
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RE: Broncos are regular season champs!
(03-08-2014 12:46 PM)Hiller4Hyz09 Wrote: (03-08-2014 11:19 AM)bobcat95 Wrote: (03-08-2014 11:03 AM)emu steve Wrote: All of this has me wondering what happened to the MAC East which used to dominate this sport...
I still believe that the east is stronger than the west this year, but the West has definitely closed the gap. Playing BSU and CMU twice was an advantage for Toledo and WMU. Akron and Ohio's injuries at the critical stretch run hurt as well.
The team that is intriguing to me in the west is NIU. Where would they be in the standings if Highsmith hadn't been injured?
Playing Ohio twice was a big advantage too!
hey now! LOL
anyway, I think Miami would disagree with your statement! LOL!!!!!!!!!
(This post was last modified: 03-08-2014 03:15 PM by bobcat_backer.)
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