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Akron snubbed by the NIT.

Toledo a #7 seed (#8 is the lowest) and gets to play at Florida State.

Memo to Rick Chryst...

NICE WORK. How's that selling out for football working out for you? Care to pay any attention to b-ball NOW?

This after showing Akron clips early in the NIT selection show.

How do you win 26 games and not even make the NIT???!!!!!

With all due respect, there is not a rating system out there that doesn't have AKRON rated well within the at-large NIT field. What does our conference commish have to do with convincing 8 old fart coaches from the Big Schools the Zips should not only have been in the tourney, but hosting a game as one of the Top 16 teams?

News Flash: Toledo will be on the tube at 6PM EDT on Tuesday at Florida State.

as a zips fan i cannot belive this b.s. 26 wins for what. i was not complaing about the ncaa bid .we lost to miami. however this conference really needs to evalaute the mac office and what these guys are doing for mac basketball.

On the bright side, I may be watching Pitt vs Duke next Saturday!!

It shows that our conference commish has no influence at all. It also shows the lack of interest in improving b-ball like they have f-ball. Poor officiating, poor scheduling/ no scheduling plan. Ridiculous. The MAC office has abandoned b-ball and this what happens.

Additionally, it's BS ESPN has NO say in this. Look at the teams in and tell me that the ratings have nothing to do with the selections.

THIS IS CRAP! and I HATE the Zips.

Akron finished #63 in the real-time RPI.

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html

The Zips are #59 in the Sagarin ratings; #46 in the predictor part of the rating.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkt0607.htm

With the NCAA now controlling the NIT, look for the same garbage of the MAC being annually undervalued or dissed, just like in every other sport.

The MAC has snubbed basketball and basketball has snubbed it back.

Face facts. We are a crap basketball conference. Only FIVE teams finished above .500 this year. Last time I looked, we were ninth among D IA conferences in RPI. We have allowed competition to deteriorate, play awful OOC schedules, and keep coaches because they are nice guys. Young talent develops more slowly because of poorer competition than they can play in other mid major conferences, if they come here at all.

So now we have outrage as the quality teams don't want to play us post season? Direct your anger to your AD's office.

Meanwhile, at Conference USA... one team in the NCAAs; zero teams in the NIT.

But at least they have MEMPHIS.

with the ncaa in controll of the n.i.t we will have one bid for each tourney.
akron was in the nit last year ,and won a road game. they win 26 this year and sit at home. this conference does suck,and it starts from the mac office.

Hose job!!

Akron really played themselves with that schedule. I think they are tourney (either) caliber, but the weak schedule makes it hard to argue for them.

The talk about the league is not current. The league began to model their scheduling on what the valley and colonial have been doing before this season began. Toledo dropped the typical non Div1 opponent, worked out a 3 way deal with the valley and colonial to get a home game with UNCW and a road game at Missouri State and also played at tons of good teams. Western did a similar thing. Miami and Ball St. always schedule well. Central picked up their schedule a bit this year. Kent played good teams. Ohio had a solid schedule and won some. Buffalo played a pretty good schedule. Northern and BG slacked off a bit to get some wins for coaches in the last year of their deals. Eastern continues to play winnable non conf D1 teams home and home, instead of beefing up on teams that will probably clobber them on the road. I expect Ramsey will improve the quality as the talent gets better there.

Ultimately, the MAC usually gets screwed. Then again, Drexel was one of top teams in the nation during the non-conf slate, played well in their league and still didn't get a bid, despite what George Mason did as an at large last year out of the same league. Appalachian State had a tremendous year and beat good teams on the road and neutral courts, but got screwed. The Valley on got 2 teams, despite having a good non conf year and playing great in the tourney in recent years.

The word is if you are a mid major and strong at the top of your league. then, the NCAA will take the top 2 teams. This applies to leagues from about 8-12 in overall strength. Anybody beyond that needs to get their auto bid. Look at freakin Winthrop. That's a tremendous team whose only losses the entire season were at Wisconsin, N Carolina and Maryland by about 4 points a game. They got what, a 12 seed?

Thus, the MAC can't get out of this rut unless our better teams win more big non conf games. Too many close losses non conf this year, plus Akron playing a weak schedule assured us 1 bid. Hard to see how the Zips didn't get to play in the NIT, though. Man, my sympathy to their fans. Good team, excellent year, all their losses were last minute heartbreakers and now the Penno shot followed by a double NCAA and NIT snub. Whoa.

You do have to question what Rick Boyagnes does? I haven't figured it out.

Remember last year's NIT had 40 teams. Akron and Miami both made it, but neither might have made it in a 32 team field last year.

Still Akron should have made it.

Regardless of OOC strength, winning 26 games and being microscopically close to taking the MAC tourney, then not even getting the NIT as a consolation prize has to sting. I feel for the Zips fans this weekend.

Nevertheless, good luck to Miami and Toledo!

last team to eam an at large in the NIT was Utah State. All the other low seeds were automatic bids by winning their leagues. Utah State beat Nevada (twice I think) while Akron lost to them by 2 at home. that was probably the deciding factor. other low seed NIT at large teasm are NC State, Appalachian State, Depaul and Hofstra. I see the zips over Depaul but can see why they other schools might be chosen instead.

Akron was the highest RPI team (#63) not to get a bid to either tournament. All the other teams chosen ahead of them for the lower NIT at large bids were in the 65-75 RPI range but had some bigger name wins during the season and a better schedule.

boy, all this talk from Akron/Kent St./Toledo/Miami fans have me wondering what if...what if the MAC doesn't get their act together in years to come...could we see a new conference formed?!

so, when will the petition start that the MAC needs a new commish?! ;-) lmfao

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One of the highest rated teams not to make {insert tourney name here} was {insert MAC team here}.