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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
(03-08-2017 09:32 AM)kreed5120 Wrote:  
(03-08-2017 09:15 AM)OUVan Wrote:  There are plenty of other consistently good mids that will do home-and-homes though. The MAC's biggest problem with scheduling IMO is not the lack of P5s on the schedule. It's too many 200+ RPI/KenPom/Sagarin teams on the schedule. Here is a breakdown of each team's 200+ schedule with the non-D1 games in parentheses.

Akron - 6 (1)
Ohio - 7 (1)
Buffalo - 4 (2)
Kent St - 6 (1)
BGSU - 6 (1)
Miami - 5 (1)
Ball St - 9 (1)
WMU - 5 (1)
Toledo - 3 (1)
NIU - 8 (3)
EMU - 2 (4)
CMU - 6 (2)

Every team except Toledo had 6 crap games on their schedules and the conference lost 15 of those games. I love Toledo's schedule although I would like to see one or two neutral court (tournament) games against P5 teams. They don't necessarily help you in the mathematics but they do add eye candy for the talking heads.

I definitely agree this is probably the most obtainable way for MAC teams to improve their schedule without putting themselves at a huge disadvantage. I'd be all for the MAC improving the quality of its buy games (buy more Horizon and OVC teams and fewer SWAC/MEAC teams) and agree to more home and homes with quality mid-majors. In fact, since they took bracketbusters away from us it would be great if every year in mid-February some sort of scheduling alignment was agreed to between the MAC and CAA where our #1 team would play their #1 team and so on.

Can't agree with this more. As noted above, BSU's non-con schedule has been largely crap through the Whitford era (and really during the Taylor era before it). Quantity of wins over quality in full effect, IMHO. Unfortunately, were bought out of a Utah home game in '15-16, and got St. Louis and Alabama on down years this year, but even still, there's way too much IU-Kokomo and the like.
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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
(03-07-2017 07:54 PM)axeme Wrote:  BTW, for those who were hemming and hawing about Akron's at-large chances far into the season, please note that almost no one has Illinois St. with any at large hopes at all. RPI--30. RPI just doesn't matter. Quality wins.

Does anyone in 2017 even acknowledge RPI? Illinois State is 60th in BPI. There is no benchmark for wins or losses. Are you a good team or not? Obviously in the MAC you need to havr a very good record.
03-08-2017 01:33 PM
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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
Buffalo's No-D-I is a little different because they played at the Great Alaska Shootout and most teams will play a true road game there against D-II Alaska-Anchorage.
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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
I guess my rankings tomorrow's quarterfinal matchup between Akron and EMU is my pseudo championship game :) #1 vs #2!
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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
(03-08-2017 08:15 AM)UAZippers Wrote:  
(03-07-2017 10:12 PM)axeme Wrote:  (The MAC and the MVC are hardly equivalents.)


To me, Dambrot's biggest failing is his unwillingness to schedule tougher, especially when he has a good team. He seems to prefer quantity of wins over quality which is a losing strategy with the selection committee. It appears he won't ever learn that lesson.

I agree that scheduling is what has annoyed me as an Akron fan, but recently Dambrot has tried to give his reasons for why it hasn't been better. As far as I can tell, it is mostly a pride thing. Dambrot claims that good team won't pay as much for a "buy" game vs Akron, because they have been consistently good and could potentially pull the upset. He says that he sees it as unfair for him to go on the road for less money than the other MAC teams just because he has done a good job. (I am not sure how much I believe in this personally, but he has said it in multiple interviews now.)

The other reason is that because the JAR is trash, quality mid-majors won't schedule a home-home with Akron. If i remember right, Dambrot specifically called out Dayton and Cincinnati as two teams that straight up will not come to the JAR.

The JAR isn't keeping good teams from coming to Akron.
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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
Quarterfinals are starting in only a few hours. In honor of it I felt I'd share the greatest quarterfinals moment between Akron-EMU

https://youtu.be/ScURf5nI4fI
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RE: MAC Tournament Predictions 2017
(03-09-2017 08:15 AM)kreed5120 Wrote:  Quarterfinals are starting in only a few hours. In honor of it I felt I'd share the greatest quarterfinals moment between Akron-EMU

https://youtu.be/ScURf5nI4fI

That game was insane. I remember listening to it on the radio at work and yelling when Higgins hit his three, only to slump in my chair 6 seconds later. Carlos Medlock went for, like, 40 points or something, but it wasn't enough.
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