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One thing I think most on any bobcatattack board agrees: the MAC is inconsequential and small time and happy with the niche they're in.  So, any school that remains in this conference really must feel the same way.  I'd love to see the schools that have had enough of this league plus a few others form a league which has some real value in mid major country!

I woke up still bitter about the unbalanced schedule that put us as the 5 seed and Akron as the 4.  We ran out of gas down the stretch.

No complaints from me as far as our play, actually.  I thought our guys played relatively well, we just got beat.  We shot the ball well, outrebounded Akron, and the turnover number was not as horrible as it has been at several points this year.  The timing of the turns were what killed us.  As well as Akron was scoring, when we gave away possessions late, they pulled ahead, end of story.  I'm not unhappy about the way this season unfolded, in general.  I think given the losses from last year's senior class, coupled with the injury woes, winning 23 games is one hell of an accomplishment.  People can bark all they want about Christian, it's their opinions, but I think complaining about the coaching in a 23 win season after losing 4 big seniors and having critical players with major injuries this year is beyond idiotic.  That's my opinion.  I hate Akron as much as the next Bobcat fan, but they played a pretty good game last night.  My only real beef with last night was the non-interference call when Campbell's shot was rattled out because of a shaking basket.  Would the outcome have changed, who knows?  What if Nick made that wide open 3 from the corner coming out of the timeout?  There's a lot of woulda/coulda/shoulda's, but as a whole it's hard to complain with the way we played.

Side note, classic Buffalo.  Ousted in the quarters after winning the East.  McCrea looked to have had a bad night according to the stat sheet.  I'm hoping now for a Western/Toledo final.  Those two have been the best in the MAC pretty much all year, time to settle that score.

Ohio has faced Akron in Cleveland 4 of the last 5 years and is 2-2 in those matchups. The 2012 game is the only game where Akron outscored Ohio in the first half (29-28) and is the only game where Ohio outscored Akron in the 2nd half (36-34).

In the other 3 games Ohio had the lead at halftime by a combined score of 103-93, but was outscored by Akron in the 2nd half by a combined score of 88-123. That's -15 in the 2nd half for Ohio and +30 for Akron. We need to do a better job of putting them away.

I agree that the MAC's TV coverage for the tourney is second-rate.  At least when it was on STO/FSN everyone on satellite or cable in Ohio had access to it.  It's pretty sad when someone in Ohio has to turn to a European pirate website to get a decent feed of a conference tournament game played in Ohio.

The last five or so minutes is attributable to it being our sixth game in four days.  Unbalanced schedules contributed some to our seeding, but the injuries and blown leads were the real culprits. 

I know there's probably some b-ball left to play, but I'm really impressed with the way this team performed this season.  Losing four starters in one season to graduation, plus another to injury, would shake most teams to the core.  But I think this team outperformed any reasonable expectations we had going in. 

Some of the underclassmen got some valuable playing time this year.  That should bode well for next year.

I would probably watch these games but since my Directv has no package I will settle for BIG, BIg12, ACC and all the others I can surf around and find. Done with the MAC. Not worth my time and effort.