Just watched on STO.  Good lord, I thought our game on Saturday was ugly.  Bad basketball.

I'd never seen EMU's arena before.  It looks pretty nice.  What didn't look very nice were the maybe 1,200 fans in attendance.  Sad state of affairs in Ypsilanti.

I was trying to be kind.  It may have been less.

It's only an embarrassment if you think people care about college basketball before March, which almost no one does.

By the way, the EMU-BG game was worse.

Huh? There's lots of D1 programs that have good crowds year-round. Last year, over 90 programs averaged 6,000+ per game. The lack of interest across the MAC (i.e. crowds in the hundreds or thousands) is a bit alarming.

Saying no one cares is a hard argument to make, IMO.

For a fairly new arena, EMU's has terrible TV sight lines. I thought I was watching a game from old St. John Arena.

I agree with his 72s original statement.  MAC attendance is an embarassment.  But, at most of the schools, so is the product, so it's hard to blame the fans.

Just makes me thankful for what we have in Athens.  I love leading the league in attendance every year.  Now, I just want to lead the standings as well.

I thought at times Eastern played pretty good basketball last night.  They definitely faded down the stretch but held on for the win.

Eastern's 2-3 zone has the potential to lock down opponents and make them look bad.  Remember that last season, it took Ohio over 10 minutes off the clock in the first half before they scored their first point.  

Eastern's arena is nice.  I've been to a few games there.  It was built when Eastern was a good program.  Unfortunately, the program began declining with the building of the new arena and really hasn't recovered since.

They used to draw well during their glory days in the less than 5,000 capacity fieldhouse they used to play in.  I attended the game there during Trent's senior year when Boals got his knee blown out.  Full house.