Four MAC teams took the floor on Wednesday night and three finished the night with wins. For a league — currently rated 24th by Ken Pomeroy — that needs to start racking up OOC dubbyas, this is, well, only kind of good news.
Of Wednesday’s wins, only one, Western Michigan defending their turf in a 83-67 win over Virginia Commonwealth at The ‘Zoo, can be considered a quality win. And it’s only a quality win because the Rams’ league, the Colonial Athletic Association, is one of the top Mid-Major leagues. VCU is going through a transition period, which might explain why the Broncos were able to win on the rare off-night by senior guard David Kool. Oh yeah, it helped immensely that senior wing Martelle McLemore went off for 22 points.
The other wins just aren’t that impressive. Central Michigan survived a sloppy scrap with an Illinois-Chicago side that figures to struggle in the Horizon this season and Kent State beat perpetual Horizon doormats Youngstown State. Wins are definitely better than losses, but neither the Chipps or the Golden Flashes win says that much about the quality of either team or the strength of the MAC.
Similarly, Wednesday’s loss is no more telling either.
Cincinnati thumped a rebuilding Toledo side, 92-68. Deonta Vaughn and Company blew this one open right out of the gates, sprinting to an early 21-8 lead and pretty much toyed with the Rockets the rest of the way, as cats are wont to do. MAC observers know Toledo is going to struggle this season, and they lived up (down, sideways) to that expectation.
I guess we just don’t enough about the MAC yet to predict how the 2009-10 season is going to turn out. We just know that MAC teams need more wins — of all types! — in non-league play.
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