from 9 wins a year ago to a program record 27 wins and a ticket to the Big Dance, congrats to the Lady Bobcats, MAC regular season and tournament champs.

(03-14-2015 02:11 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  from 9 wins a year ago to a program record 27 wins and a ticket to the Big Dance, congrats to the Lady Bobcats, MAC regular season and tournament champs.

CMU is showing you don't necessarily need a big man to be successful in this conference.

Edit: Oops should have read the first post haha

(03-14-2015 12:51 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  

(03-14-2015 12:47 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  

(03-14-2015 11:57 AM)axeme Wrote:  It's best case scenario for the MAC seed this year. UB should get 13, CMU maybe a 13 or 14. Depending on what they do with the 12s--at-larges sent to Dayton--if they have a 12 for another team, UB would have a shot. The other teams who went to Cleveland would have gotten 14-15 seeds, maybe even 16 for the 100+ teams, and it would have been very ugly in the tourney.

no MAC team that made it to Cleveland this year would be a 15 or 16 seed.

Akron and EMU would have.

EMU is 21-13(8-10) with an RPI of 127
Akron is 21-14(9-9) with an RPI of 111
Ohio('10)- 21-14(7-9) with a RPI of 95 (after beating Gtown)

If either team would have won the MAC auto bid this year they would have 2-3 more wins and an even better RPI. By comparison, Ohio was a 14 seed in 2010 with similar numbers and the MAC was weaker at 16 in RPI. This year there are already 6 teams that have earned an auto-bid with worse RPIs and there will be several more to come. For example, earlier today #272 Hampton 16-17(8-8) won the MEAC, ranked #32 out of 32 conferences. Hampton will be a 16 seed. The conference champion of the #10 conference, even if it was Akron EMU, would not hold one of the lowest 8 spots.

Neither Akron nor EMU would have been a 16 seed in any event. Looking at the ESPN Bracketology and the Massey rankings of schools in the 15 line, EMU would be about in that range and Akron looks a bit above the top ... and with a run to win the tournament, either of their current rankings would be higher.

So its plausible that EMU might have been a 15, but equally plausible that they would be a 14, and I reckon if you add a run to the final and a win there, Akron would have been around a 14.

In any event, Bracketology reckons CMU a 13 seed, so bracketed against a 4 seed (eg, in the present ESPN guesstimate, Baylor, Northern Iowa, Louisville). With the loser likely to the NIT as a consolation prize, either on an auto-bid or an at-large.

Enjoy, Buffalo. You've certainly waited long enough.

Congrats to Buffalo, great game and a great win! Represent the MAC well and enjoy your first time in the Big Dance! Good luck to all the MAC teams that are playing in postseason tournaments!

Hope to see this Bulls team playing next weekend as well.

Most bracket predictions have the Bulls as a 12 seed.

(03-15-2015 01:31 PM)Rocket A Wrote:  Most bracket predictions have the Bulls as a 12 seed.

Wow! That'd actually be a step above of what we've gotten the past couple years.

But that may not factor in that they use the 12 seed for play-in at-large teams in Dayton on Tues-Wed. in what they call the first round. The 12 line may be where they belong, but they may get 13 or 11. There are only two 12's open to conf. champs.

Edit: I've just seen a couple of brackets that have 11's go to Dayton instead of 12. That would give UB a better chance at a 12. Big difference in 12 and 13.

The NCAA shuffles seeds around to get regional match-ups where possible.

Both Palm (CBS) and Lunardi (ESPN) have UB as 12. Palm has them vs Butler. Lunardi has Butler as a 7 and has UB vs Arkansas in Jacksonville.

(03-15-2015 03:23 PM)axeme Wrote:  But that may not factor in that they use the 12 seed for play-in at-large teams in Dayton on Tues-Wed. in what they call the first round. The 12 line may be where they belong, but they may get 13 or 11. There are only two 12's open to conf. champs.

Edit: I've just seen a couple of brackets that have 11's go to Dayton instead of 12. That would give UB a better chance at a 12. Big difference in 12 and 13.

The play in games (or the first round as the NCAA wants it called, what a joke) has the 4 lowest 16 seeds Conference Champs, as well as the 4 lowest seeded at large teams, they could be 4 11s, 4 12s, or 2 11s & 2 12s, just depends on how the seeding plays out and how conference champs are seeded as compared to at larges. There could definitely be some tweaking of the seeds.