Kent and BG have already said they're CBI/CIT bound.

I'm seeing Buffalo opened at -2.5, and the line has moved to -3. If I was a betting man, I would love to load up on CMU getting 3.

I'll fight the first person to say "It's hard to beat a team three times."

Fight on. ;-)

I don't like Hurley as much as the next guy, but though it can be done it does make it a little harder if you are going up against a team you've already beat twice in the regular season. It's more psychological than physical IMHO.

In the house for the final. Crowd is pathetic. Honestly not very different from the women's final.

Can you cite any college basketball statistics to prove your objective point? The figures that I could find referred the NBA, where your assertions were correct, but you'd expect pro players to be less likely to succumb to overconfidence and other psychological factors that would affect younger college players.

I don't have stats at hand but I'd be absolutely stunned if it were not much more true at lower levels than in the NBA. Most of these win twice and then play a third time situations in college basketball would occur when a team finishes first or second in a conference, this beating most of the middling and lower teams in the league twice in the process, and plays a 8 or 7 seed in the first round of the tournament.

A much smaller data set would be the rare instance where two teams tie for the regular season title with one having beaten the other twice (MAC this year and with Ohio and Akron a couple of years ago) and THEN they play a third time. This is more in line with what people are usually talking about when they say that. I'd still personally be a little surprised if the adage is true and the team that won the first two still didn't won the third at at least a clip around 50%.

I dislike UB but still better than Akron winning. He needs one more stepping stone job, but Hurley could be destined to replace Coach K someday

Well, it now must be down to 73.5%. ;-)

Seriously, it would be interesting to see similar stats from other conferences.

Wyoming winning the Mountain West helps; they'll be below Buffalo.

Michigan schools barely draw in Michigan, let alone anywhere else. Not all that surprising.

It definitely is a different animal when no Ohio schools make the finals.

The combined average attendance for UB and CMU this season is 5,427 and the attendance for the MACC game was listed at 5,266. Makes sense, I guess.

I think UB is the best equipped team to represent the MAC in the tournament this year but I have to admit that I'm a little bummed that they won. I've grown fond of their fans' Marshall-like conspiratorial pessimism. The MAC wants the Ohio based schools to succeed at the expense of UB, the refs always pick on them because they're in on the conspiracy too, etc. etc., it's really entertaining. Their Charlie Brown kicking a football like failures helped fuel the anguish and paranoia. Now that they've won its reminds of a t-shirt I saw after the Red Sox finally won the World Series in '04. It said something along the lines of "turns out there was no curse, we just sucked for a really long time".

Oh well, best of luck to you THE New York University At Buffalo In Amherst Just Off The 290 Over There By The Chuck E Cheese, or whatever it says on your jerseys, I couldn't make it out. and I hope your success doesn't cost you your coach because we all benefit from his commitment to Professionalism.

I hope as a recovering Cub Fan that I can purchase and wear a similar t-shirt before I shuffle off this mortal coil.