Posts Tagged ‘Western Michigan’

The Big Picture: Defensively-challenged University of Bulls allow very average Western Michigan side that was coming off a two-game losing streak to shoot 60% from the field on their way to a 85-70 rout of UB. The loss, Buffalo’s third in their last four games, has the Bulls back in the middle of [...]

To anyone that had the misfortune of being at Rose Arena tonight for Central Michigan playing host to Ball State. I didn’t see the game, but the final box yields me to conclude that the Chippewas’ 53-38 win set basketball back about 3000 years. The ancient Mayan ballgame had to have more artistry [...]

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 [...]

The big question about the MAC West this season is whether anyone other than those with a close — i.e. friends and family — relationship to coaches and players in the league should really care what happens. And, to be honest, I don’t know that anybody else should. The six sides in [...]

Despite what Nate Linhart’s over the top WWE-worthy acting job might make you think:
The 2009 MAC tournament tips off today with four games, featuring teams seeded 5 through 12. We’re going to pick the winners in each of those four games.
Game 1: #7 Central Michigan (7-9, 11-18) vs #10 Eastern Michigan (6-10, 8-23)
Vegas [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Games like this expose the lack of depth in the MAC right now. There are three teams — WMU, Akron (19-7, 9-4),and Kent State (22-5, 11-2) — that are much better than everyone else in the league, followed by two teams — Ohio (17-9, 8-5) and Miami (13-12, 7-6) — that can win on any given night. The rest of the teams in the MAC, including EMU, gritty Ball State (5-19, 4-8), and somewhat surprising Bowling Green (11-14, 6-7), have fatal flaws that can see them end up on the wrong side of a rout when facing the best five or so sides in the league.

And that’s as unlikely to change in a few weeks time as is Mike Huckabee to officiate Larry Craig’s gay nuptials.

On it’s face a double-overtime 100-90 loss to Western Michigan (11-9, 5-2), the best team in the MAC West, does not seem to be a major disaster nor does it seem to foretell the collapse of a college basketball program.
Look closer, however, and that’s exactly what this loss was.
Buffalo fell to 0-7 in [...]

But then again, how was I to know that Giordan Watson and Central Michigan were going to put an epic display of offensive impotence, which they did for almost all of the 72-52 WMU win. So ghastly were the Chippewas on O in that first half that

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 [...]