Don’t ask me why, but opening night of the 2009-10 NBA season has me thinking hoops… Just not pro hoops. Instead, I’m thinking of the massive job new MAC commish Jon Steinbrecher has in front of him when it comes to reversing the league’s slide to college basketball irrelevance and Big Dance footnote that [...]
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MAC Nightcap: How The West Was Not Won
Please, someone, put the MAC West out of it’s misery. The six teams that did their level best (or is it worst) to drag the entire league out of Mid-Majordom and into Low-Majordom — Ken Pomeroy ranks the MAC 18th overall, percentage points above the Southland — went at it tonight. While the [...]
The MAC Nightcap: Something in the Water?
To be honest, I think it was Sunday, when teams from the MAC West won all three intra-division scraps, that things started getting really weird in the MAC nation. That trend continued tonight, but in a vastly different way, as several of the games seemed to have involved time travel, with the squads involved [...]
MAC Nightcap: Pity, the Poor MAC West
Another night and another pair of crushing routs for the MAC West sides in cross-division play.
Miami (6-2, 13-7) dismantled Ball State (5-3, 10-10), the West’s best team, 59-41, in a game that I thought would be a lot closer. Instead, it seems that the Cardinals couldn’t handle Michael Bramos — few teams in the [...]
The MAC Nightcap: This Has To Be…
Embarrassing for the MAC West.
Another day of cross-division showdowns and another goose egg for teams from the MAC West. And two of tonight’s three games — Akron’s 78-41 dismantling of Eastern Michigan and Kent State’s 81-53 throttling of Toledo — were downright ugly. Given that Central Michigan shot 38% from the [...]
On The MAC: Every Game Counts?
Not really when it comes to the regular season.
At this point, with the possibility of an At-Large invite to the Big Dance all but impossible for the league — my Buffalo Bulls are probably the only team that could end up in a position to make the case for an At-Large bid, but they [...]
On The MAC: Rockets Ready To Launch In MAC West?
Kent State is the Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. of college hoops. Led by ballhawking forward Haminn Quaintance, the Golden Flashes are relentless on the defensive end, constantly attacking and pressuring opponents. In today’s game, Kent State fought back from an early double digit deficit by harassing Toledo into rushed shots and turnovers while vigorously contesting every shot the Rockets got off.
MAC Nightcap: Order Restored In The MAC West?
What can we say about the MAC West other than that it’s made less sense than a Matthew Barney flick — yeah, that’s right, I called the Cremaster Cycle a flick — since league play started? Perhaps, this hump day’s results have helped things to make at least some semblance of sense.
Pre-season West faves [...]
