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Great win for your program and for the MAC!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!

WNIT champs, beating four BCS Schools along the way. Congrats to UT and local community turnouts which enbaled the AD to place competitive bids for getting the home games.

MAC Women did well during the regular season and earned six postseason bids. Lead, of course, by the Rocket phenoms.

Indeed the story is UT and the MAC women.

They were as good as the MAC men were bad.

Great job by the UT women. Kudos! Congrats to the Rockets.

It may not have been the NCAA championship, but it is a championship and it will generate some buzz.

Locally it has generated a buzz unlike any the NCAA could have provided short of an Elite Eight run or something. Of course I'm hoping to test that theory next year. The pride that this town has in playing nothing but home games in the WNIT has been a great thing for a place hard hit by the economy. Everywhere you went you heard people talking about the Rockets. Coach Cullop owns the place.

(04-02-2011 04:38 PM)emu steve Wrote: [ -> ]Indeed the story is UT and the MAC women.

They were as good as the MAC men were bad.

Partially agree. Yep, the men played like low-majors during the season. But they redeemed themselves somewhat in the post-season. Going 5-5 (6-6 if you include the intraMAC WMU-UB game) may not sound like much but around the .500 mark is commendable in single-elimination tourneys. Especially when you consider four of those five wins were on the road.

Only time will tell if this is a harbinger of Men's Hoops re-establishing itself as a high-major conference.

The Women? They were high-major all year and I believe there is enough ammunition for them to continue their winning ways.

All-in-all, a very satisfying post-season for MAC Basketball with reasons to look forward to next year.

Toledo's win was great on so many levels (for the school, for the MAC and for those girls that played so well all year). I just hope that the NCAA takes notice. The Rockets should have been in the NCAAs (despite a semifinal exit) and BGSU was certainly better than a 12 seed.

It was a great year for the MAC. BGSU had the women's hoops version of Jimmer (if you know, he could do anything other than score) and UT owned the WNIT!

I don't think the MAC women are done.. there is potential for a few of these players to play at the next level. Kourtney Brown and Lauren Prochaska could both be WNBA draft selections.

(04-02-2011 05:49 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-02-2011 04:38 PM)emu steve Wrote: [ -> ]Indeed the story is UT and the MAC women.

They were as good as the MAC men were bad.

Partially agree. Yep, the men played like low-majors during the season. But they redeemed themselves somewhat in the post-season. Going 5-5 (6-6 if you include the intraMAC WMU-UB game) may not sound like much but around the .500 mark is commendable in single-elimination tourneys. Especially when you consider four of those five wins were on the road.

Only time will tell if this is a harbinger of Men's Hoops re-establishing itself as a high-major conference.

The Women? They were high-major all year and I believe there is enough ammunition for them to continue their winning ways.

All-in-all, a very satisfying post-season for MAC Basketball with reasons to look forward to next year.

My only caveat about the men is that a lot of the wins were in lower tier post season tourneys.

Congratulations to the Toledo women. It was a great win. And what else can be said about Naama Shafir? She played what was likely the best game any MAC player has ever played. 40 points!! She was a one-woman wrecking crew. Hats off to her and her teammates.

Well done Rockets! I was able to watch the game earlier, but just now got to a computer to make a comment. It's always good to see someone beat USC.

Excellent! Great job Lady Rockettes.

Combined w/ Akron's championship, it's a solid MAC year.

WMU fans really giving a lot of praise. Toledo fans appreciate it.

(04-02-2011 07:20 PM)emu steve Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-02-2011 05:49 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-02-2011 04:38 PM)emu steve Wrote: [ -> ]Indeed the story is UT and the MAC women.

They were as good as the MAC men were bad.

Partially agree. Yep, the men played like low-majors during the season. But they redeemed themselves somewhat in the post-season. Going 5-5 (6-6 if you include the intraMAC WMU-UB game) may not sound like much but around the .500 mark is commendable in single-elimination tourneys. Especially when you consider four of those five wins were on the road.

Only time will tell if this is a harbinger of Men's Hoops re-establishing itself as a high-major conference.

The Women? They were high-major all year and I believe there is enough ammunition for them to continue their winning ways.

All-in-all, a very satisfying post-season for MAC Basketball with reasons to look forward to next year.

My only caveat about the men is that a lot of the wins were in lower tier post season tourneys.

As opposed to the NIT? lol

My point about the men's post season is there is the NCAA, NIT and what two 'third' tier tourneys.

The women have the NCAAs and WNIT.

My point about the men's post season is there is the NCAA, NIT and what two 'third' tier tourneys.

The women have the NCAAs and WNIT.

I consider NIT/WNIT wins as significant as those are top 100 teams in the tourneys.

Congratulations!!

(04-03-2011 04:46 AM)emu steve Wrote: [ -> ]My point about the men's post season is there is the NCAA, NIT and what two 'third' tier tourneys.

The women have the NCAAs and WNIT.

I consider NIT/WNIT wins as significant as those are top 100 teams in the tourneys.

The average RPI of the teams Kent played in the NIT was 69. The average RPI of the teams Ohio played in the CIT was 72. The average RPI of the teams that Toledo played in the WNIT was 78. Ohio's win was against a Top 100 team (54). I'm not trying to downplay what Toledo and Kent accomplished, only point out that the CBI and CIT tournaments are filled with pretty good teams as well.

This is off of memory but Toledo was 64..... Deleware 78, Auburn 77, Alabama 85, Syracuse 55, Charlotte 51, USC 44. May be off by a little but close to that anyways. Delware also was missing their best player(All American Della Donne) for the first half of the season where 10 of their 12 losses came, so they were much better than their RPI. I agree the men beat some good teams around the MAC, but a streak of winning 6 games even if all are barely top 100 teams isn't easy to do.