Week 2 of #MACTION

Tuesday 1/10
Akron 89 @ Central Michigan 85
Eastern Michigan 81 @ Bowling Green 53
Miami 74 @ Ball State 85
Northern Illinois 74 @ Kent State 70
Ohio 74 @ Buffalo 72
Toledo 74 @ Western Michigan 90

Wednesday 1/11
No games

Thursday 1/12
No games

Friday 1/13
Toledo 88 @ Central Michigan 96

Saturday 1/14
Northern Illinois 69 @ Bowling Green 52
Ball State 92 @ Buffalo 77
Kent State 88 @ Western Michigan 92
Eastern Michigan 53 @ Ohio 49
Akron 74 @ Miami 70

Sunday 1/15
No games

Akron is currently at #11 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. Ohio's sitting at #15.

Central Michigan, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan all receiving votes.

CI Mid Major Top 25

(01-10-2017 05:07 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  Akron is currently at #11 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. Ohio's sitting at #15.

Central Michigan, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan all receiving votes.

CI Mid Major Top 25

It still amazes me they count Gonzaga and Wichita State as mid-majors yet exclude C-USA from these rankings.

(01-10-2017 05:18 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:07 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  Akron is currently at #11 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. Ohio's sitting at #15.

Central Michigan, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan all receiving votes.

CI Mid Major Top 25

It still amazes me they count Gonzaga and Wichita State as mid-majors yet exclude C-USA from these rankings.

What????? Please tell me that's just an oversight.

(01-10-2017 05:22 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:18 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:07 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  Akron is currently at #11 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. Ohio's sitting at #15.

Central Michigan, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan all receiving votes.

CI Mid Major Top 25

It still amazes me they count Gonzaga and Wichita State as mid-majors yet exclude C-USA from these rankings.

What????? Please tell me that's just an oversight.

I wish I could. The poll has been around for 18 years and I believe C-USA has never been included. Notice how C-USA isn't listed below.

"NOTE: The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast, Western Athletic."

(01-10-2017 05:32 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:22 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:18 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:07 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  Akron is currently at #11 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. Ohio's sitting at #15.

Central Michigan, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan all receiving votes.

CI Mid Major Top 25

It still amazes me they count Gonzaga and Wichita State as mid-majors yet exclude C-USA from these rankings.

What????? Please tell me that's just an oversight.

I wish I could. The poll has been around for 18 years and I believe C-USA has never been included. Notice how C-USA isn't listed below.

"NOTE: The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast, Western Athletic."

C-USA chooses not to participate, because they want to pretend that they're not a mid-major.

Zips went on a 22-1 run and lead by 8 at the half.

Ohio is down 14 at half.

Coops needed to have been fired last March...

Akron wins in Mount Pleasant, 89-85. Isaiah Johnson and Marcus Keene both finish with 33 points.

UB should've had the ball with 30 seconds left and a tie score. Instead Ohio got the ball after that BS jump ball call and hit a came winner with 1 second left.

The whole game was one bad call / missed call after another going in Ohio's favor.

3 technicals fouls called on UB too for arguing to the refs at how absurd this game was officiated.

Congrats MAC refs.

(01-10-2017 08:42 PM)SUisBigEast4ever Wrote:  Buffalo is getting royally F'd by the refs again. Officiating doesn't get much more one-sided than this.

MAC refs don't even hide it how much they hate UB.

It's that time of the year again!

NIU mounts a comeback and wins at Kent State in OT.

When is Kent on the WatcESPN btw?

EMU beats the doors off of BG without Raven Lee. Might not be so crazy to say we are better off without him.

(01-10-2017 05:51 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:32 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:22 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:18 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 05:07 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  Akron is currently at #11 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. Ohio's sitting at #15.

Central Michigan, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan all receiving votes.

CI Mid Major Top 25

It still amazes me they count Gonzaga and Wichita State as mid-majors yet exclude C-USA from these rankings.

What????? Please tell me that's just an oversight.

I wish I could. The poll has been around for 18 years and I believe C-USA has never been included. Notice how C-USA isn't listed below.

"NOTE: The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast, Western Athletic."

C-USA chooses not to participate, because they want to pretend that they're not a mid-major.

had a conversation with Angela Lento (she runs the poll) and asked her specifically about CUSA's absence from it. She confirmed that CUSA insisted on not being included because they see themselves as "high profile" and refuse to be labeled mid-major. A couple of schools in CUSA tried to make the case to the league office but were shut down.

(01-10-2017 09:22 PM)SUisBigEast4ever Wrote:  UB should've had the ball with 30 seconds left and a tie score. Instead Ohio got the ball after that BS jump ball call and hit a came winner with 1 second left.

The whole game was one bad call / missed call after another going in Ohio's favor.

3 technicals fouls called on UB too for arguing to the refs at how absurd this game was officiated.

Congrats MAC refs.

shouldn't even have been close, Buffalo blew it. deal with it.

(01-10-2017 10:15 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 09:22 PM)SUisBigEast4ever Wrote:  UB should've had the ball with 30 seconds left and a tie score. Instead Ohio got the ball after that BS jump ball call and hit a came winner with 1 second left.

The whole game was one bad call / missed call after another going in Ohio's favor.

3 technicals fouls called on UB too for arguing to the refs at how absurd this game was officiated.

Congrats MAC refs.

shouldn't even have been close, Buffalo blew it. deal with it.

I don't disagree with you. Buffalo lost its cool and had players getting t'd up and ejected with the lead... I don't think UB got screwed, i just think it was a terribly officiated game on both sides. I will say this on Ohio's behelf.. Campbell had a lot of soft fouls called on him too.

UB has to be more disciplined and if they are they come away with that win and no other reason.

(01-10-2017 09:22 PM)SUisBigEast4ever Wrote:  UB should've had the ball with 30 seconds left and a tie score. Instead Ohio got the ball after that BS jump ball call and hit a came winner with 1 second left.

The whole game was one bad call / missed call after another going in Ohio's favor.

3 technicals fouls called on UB too for arguing to the refs at how absurd this game was officiated.

Congrats MAC refs.

(01-10-2017 10:27 PM)BullBoy Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 10:15 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 09:22 PM)SUisBigEast4ever Wrote:  UB should've had the ball with 30 seconds left and a tie score. Instead Ohio got the ball after that BS jump ball call and hit a came winner with 1 second left.

The whole game was one bad call / missed call after another going in Ohio's favor.

3 technicals fouls called on UB too for arguing to the refs at how absurd this game was officiated.

Congrats MAC refs.

shouldn't even have been close, Buffalo blew it. deal with it.

I don't disagree with you. Buffalo lost its cool and had players getting t'd up and ejected with the lead... I don't think UB got screwed, i just think it was a terribly officiated game on both sides. I will say this on Ohio's behelf.. Campbell had a lot of soft fouls called on him too.

UB has to be more disciplined and if they are they come away with that win and no other reason.

no doubt the refs were not great and I don't agree with the jump ball call at the end either. I think their justification for it was the demonstrative way in which the Bull's player twisted and yanked the ball and with the Ohio player falling they might have seen that as one cause the other when that might not be the case. just guessing. either way, they should have let them play it out.

(01-10-2017 11:05 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 10:27 PM)BullBoy Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 10:15 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  

(01-10-2017 09:22 PM)SUisBigEast4ever Wrote:  UB should've had the ball with 30 seconds left and a tie score. Instead Ohio got the ball after that BS jump ball call and hit a came winner with 1 second left.

The whole game was one bad call / missed call after another going in Ohio's favor.

3 technicals fouls called on UB too for arguing to the refs at how absurd this game was officiated.

Congrats MAC refs.

shouldn't even have been close, Buffalo blew it. deal with it.

I don't disagree with you. Buffalo lost its cool and had players getting t'd up and ejected with the lead... I don't think UB got screwed, i just think it was a terribly officiated game on both sides. I will say this on Ohio's behelf.. Campbell had a lot of soft fouls called on him too.

UB has to be more disciplined and if they are they come away with that win and no other reason.

no doubt the refs were not great and I don't agree with the jump ball call at the end either. I think their justification for it was the demonstrative way in which the Bull's player twisted and yanked the ball and with the Ohio player falling they might have seen that as one cause the other when that might not be the case. just guessing. either way, they should have let them play it out.

Yeah.. I hate how quickly jump balls get called.. These are men in conference play.. You have to let them duke it out a little for a rebound, especially in the final minute of play.