Don't know a thing about it...didn't see it or listen...but a road win in MAC at this time of year for this apparently rising group: very good call.

I bet Jeff McKinney AND Fake Jeff McKinney think tonight was a good win.

Nice , easy ride home tonite. 6 minutes. Best game of the year.

KK was good. TC was good. Treg was good.

Balls played well...much improvecd in the middle with footwork. Outside shooting was not as strong as it has been. We rose to the occasion as the team is starting to play together well. Balls ran a very disciplined offense off multiple screens. Whitford is doing well and they will be getting better under him. Teague next year will be a load.

Treg made some great plays on both ends. The D at the end was excellent...up 3 off his made jumper...defending the line, going for the steal he still got a deflection and even if he got whistled for the foul under 3 secs he would have been fine. KK had some killer 3s ....good ride home for the guys.

Nice to see coaching staff happy and enjoying seeing them with a plan. Watching this team I am impressed by how much they actually like each other. No factions, no jealousies...just fun. Much different than previous teams over the years. Block is easy to talk to, Dart is pretty well grounded, TC just quiet and humble, Laster getting a bit of run and much needed confidence. Good core and solid foundation for the future.

Speaking of Balls, the shots that Kaminski and Setty hit at the end took some cajones.

good pregame. Had fun sharing some stories. The couple was the poster that we knew aa a student from Buffalo. I think it was buffalobobcat or something similar. He is now in Ft Wayne covering sports. Nice to catch up with fellow BAers and with Joe McKinley and "big head" Hetts. Looking forward to seeing a few more folks before the Fiami game.... lots of FB talk in the chat last night.

Worthen is a nice arena...built when Majerus was ruling the roost and is clean , large, good underneath facilities with training rooms and locker facilities. Wide concourses where people walk for exercise. Nice graphics and great lighting/scoreboards. Yeah it's nice...but getting on that floor is near impossible. Still love the fact that the Convo is open and accessible. Like the COnvo even 3-4 K in there makes it look really empty while Stroh and the JAR looks filled to the brim.

I like Worthen, but it feels like a missile silo or a hangar at Wright-Patt with how much free space there is above the court.

Sorry, the fiancee had a client until 4:30 so we were a little late getting to Muncie. We were behind the BSU bench in the mid-level reserves, so kinda far from all y'all over there.

Completely agree on the signage. Inexpensive and effective.

But I hope Muncie warms up to that team. They're a nice team, with a nice venue and it would be fantastic to have Ball State back and roaring as a program for the MAC's national reputation.

Saul had one of those great quotes on the ESPN3 feed afterwards. He said Simmons has stomach flu but he gutted it out. Geez, I hope not.

Not only are we above .500 in the MAC for the first time in the Saul era, but we're in a four-way tie for the 4th seed in the tourney. Much more fun than last Feb.

Team seems to be playing as well as any in the MAC not named Akron.

Question on the tourney seedings. Is Western Division Champion guaranteed one of the top four spots? I guess it's likely one of them would end up in top four based on East teams beating each other up, but right now, the overall is: Akron, Buffalo, Kent and tie between Ohio + 3 West Teams. Ohio is in good position on the tie breaker at 3-1 vs. the West teams.

Or it's just outright top four teams regardless of division? Which, in that case, what's the point of divisions?

+1

I've had exactly the same thoughts about the cohesiveness of this team. I've come to the conclusion that in addition to athletic ability that Saul looks very closely at certain personality traits in his recruiting. It doesn't appear that he'll ever go after the 5-star recruit with a swollen head and attendant personality disorders. A hallmark of his teams truly does seem to be teamwork and the concept the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

I was sitting with my Friend Paul Baron during the game some Ball State chump got mouthy with him at the end of the game. Paul put him in his place and he shut up. What do you expect Hoosier versus a New Yorker no contest. LOL Any one at the game here this.