...needs to kindly STFU. This team was hit with more injury issues than any Bobcat team in at least 10 years. Yet time and time again, this squad embraced "next man up" and "Pack". Four players who did not start against Northern Iowa raised their games immensely over the course of the season. To win 23 games with the problems we've suffered is an incredible accomplishment!

I know it stings to lose when we played very well for the majority of the game. Believe me, this result feels just like the 2005 Kentucky loss and the Ohio State football loss in '08. But do you realize that we have the best record of any of the four other MAC teams playing tonight? I can handle a loss if we played well against a better team, and two Akron players who always give us problems had great games. Face it, Akron was a bigger, deeper, and more experienced team than we were this year.

Some of you who are consistently negative need to calm down for once.

This loss is nowhere near the disappointment of that Kentucky game. We had Kentucky dead to rights and Jeremy Fears was outplaying RAJON freaking RONDO. I'm still mad about that game nine years later. This team was a 19 or 20 win team at best I thought even if it was healthy. It competed, it came back in some wacky, fun ways and it won two tournament games with the tank on E. REally nice coaching job by JC and if they can figure out what the heck they're doing at guard, they can win 25 or 26 next year.

I would never say this team quit. I still stand by a statement I made a few weeks ago that if we had a healthy Ric to go with healthy Stevie, Mo, T.J. etc. we are the No. 1 seed. We don't lose to Kent, BG or Kron at home and we probably split with Western. That's 15-3 in the MAC and top seed. Then we're sitting till Friday. I tip my hat to guys like Setty, Tony, Bean and Trav who should have been role players and totally played above their respective pay grades when injuries forced it. I for one am looking forward to the CBI or CIT. I truly want to see this group play again. Love them.

Yeah, no regrets on this loss. They left it all out there... just ran out of gas. Guess those byes turned out to be important. I felt like we played about as well as we could have. Losing sucks, but it's a loss I hope they can know they shouldn't be ashamed of.

Still, we ended Miami's season, so I'll take it. And I didn't give us much of a chance against WMU.

It's hard proving perspective an hour after a loss, but I'll try: I don't think any Bobcat team played harder. This team didn't have the talent of the past two years, but it sure competed as hard as it could.

Go Bobcats in whatever postseason tourney gives a call!

Is absolutely clueless!  And, Ohio played Akron MUCH BETTER  than in last year's championship game for sure!

The refs were pretty lousy all the way around tonight.  I thought Campbell(?) committed a pretty obvious over-and-back in the first half that wasn't called. But it seemed we got the worse of it. 

Agreed Shab.

23 wins for a banged up team says it all.  As does Shab's STFU comment to the fair weather, bandwagon types.