Hello There, Guest! (LoginRegister)

Post Reply 
Eight MAC teams to the post-season?
Author Message
Bookmark and Share
Okie Chippewa Offline
All American
*

Posts: 4,958
Joined: Aug 2002
Reputation: 46
I Root For: The MAC
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Post: #1
Eight MAC teams to the post-season?
Certainly looks quite possible at this juncture.

Central Michigan 22-7
Buffalo 21-9
Kent State 21-10
Bowling Green 19-10
Toledo 19-12
Western Michigan 19-12
Eastern Michigan 19-12
Akron 18-13
03-06-2015 09:56 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Advertisement


BruceMcF Offline
Hall of Famer
*

Posts: 13,109
Joined: Jan 2013
Reputation: 763
I Root For: Reds/Buckeyes/.
Location:
Post: #2
RE: Eight MAC teams to the post-season?
The linchpin of that is two NIT bids. There's only an NIT auto-bid if the regular season champion does not win the tournament, but with 32 in the NIT after the 68 to the NCAA, having multiple schools considered among the top-100 helps the prospects of taking two NIT bids. And so with five schools with in the 100 or better RPI range (31 Buffalo, 75 CMU, 77 Toledo, 86 Kent State, 96 Bowling Green), and four in the 50-100 range in the ESPN BPI ranking (62 Buffalo, 73 Toledo, 81 CMU, 94 Bowling Green), the odds of two NIT bid, with or without an autobid, are higher.

As always, the more regular season champions win their tournaments among the ranks of the one-NCAA bid conferences, the more at-large opportunities there will be in the NIT.

If three schools go to the two NCAA owned tournaments, then with 48 places to fill in the pay to play tournaments, many P5 schools uninterested in playing in the CBI, and the CIT not open to the P5 schools, (unless I have that reversed), how many MAC schools play in the post-season may depend on how many MAC schools are willing to pay the "ticket guarantees" as host schools in the two pay to play tournaments. If three of the MAC schools are willing to spend the money to host in the first round of either the CBI or CIT, then two more being able to play as traveling schools does not seem unlikely, but there is a question of how interested they would be in playing that role, with the lower financial commitment of traveling schools also bringing with it lower odds of advancing in the tournament.

Eight could well be as much a matter of five MAC schools that are interested in playing in the pay to play tournaments as five MAC schools not going to March Madness or the NIT that attract the interest of the pay to play tournaments.
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2015 01:32 AM by BruceMcF.)
03-07-2015 01:31 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 




User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)


Copyright © 2002-2024 Collegiate Sports Nation Bulletin Board System (CSNbbs), All Rights Reserved.
CSNbbs is an independent fan site and is in no way affiliated to the NCAA or any of the schools and conferences it represents.
This site monetizes links. FTC Disclosure.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2024 MyBB Group.