(12-22-2016 01:21 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (12-22-2016 01:07 AM)Wadszip Wrote: (12-22-2016 12:54 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (12-22-2016 12:49 AM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: This Oregon State-Kent game was so incredibly fugly for 37 minutes until the Golden Flashes decided they could take fugliness to another level by making scoring optional. What was a 42-42 snoozefest has turned into a 60-42 facepalm with four minutes left in the game.
Yikes Kent looked good early in this game and this might be the worst 15 mins I've ever seen a Kent team put out
I completely disagree that Kent looked good early. The game was painful from the start. Two bad teams playing a bad basketball game. With losses this week to Wright State and Oregon State, Kent now has three losses to sub 200 KenPom teams ... tied with Bowling Green for the most in the league.
They forced 24 Beaver turnovers, that's hard to do
Zips have their own issues to sort out, an uncomfortably close game against an awful Anteater team
Not sure what Akron has to do with this? I was making a statement about Kent State. And I'm sure the regular Kent State posters won't disagree with my assessment on the Oregon State game, nor do I think they will disagree with me that this is a bad basketball team right now.
Maybe Kent will improve, but I don't see the talent for them to be more than a mid-tier team in the MAC. With that being said, it wouldn't shock me to see them beat Akron at home ... it's a rivalry game so all bets are off, and bad MAC teams do beat top MAC teams at home ... see Akron-Miami last year. Akron beat them by 40 at home and then went down to Oxford about a month later and lost.
See Akron, for years, when they went to DeKalb in the mid to late 2000s.
BTW, since you brought up UC-Irvine, I'd hardly call them an awful team. Average, yes. A lot of losses. Yes.
But look the schedule and it's easy to see why, as an average team, they are 5-9. Losses to:
16. St. Mary's
19. Arizona
50. California (OT)
73. Nevada (by 7 on the road)
82. East Tennessee State
87. Akron
112. New Mexico State (OT)
139. Utah State
273. Milwaukee
Compare that to Oregon State's losses:
73. Nevada (by 25 on the road)
121. Mississippi State
138. Tulsa
144. Fresno State
162. Portland
166. Long Beach State
201. Charlotte
300. Lamar
339. Savannah State
Anyway, if Irvine is an "awful" team, what does that make Oregon State? You know the team that just beat Kent by 19 points.