To be honest  he has seen tougher competition in just tonight's game than he will see in an entire MAC basketball season.

It would have been better for Ohio U. though if he were in a different kind of Cats jersey.

No way would I trade Ivo.  Ivo is well on his way to becoming an all-MAC power forward. I think Ivo will be all MAC next year. I think he averages 15 and 8 next year.  With the guards we got he will have plenty of space to go one on one. Ivo one on one means 2 pts for the Bobcats.  He is too quick for a big in the MAC.  He lit up the MAC the second half of the year. He knows how to finish.  He will get a lot more touches the next two years.  Until the MAC learns how to stop him keep feeding him the rock.    

The question is, does a young basketball player prefer playing <10 minutes/game and score <2 pts/game for a team among the Elite 8 or play >30 minutes/game for a team bounced in its second game of the CBI or BCI or whatever tournament Ohio played in?

Get off of it.

While you are allwoed an opinion you are beating a dead horse. Had BSU accepted the CBI bid there would have been every legitimate program in the MAC playing in one of hte 4 post season tourneys. When I spoke to their SID they were a little banged up and wanted a HOME game (read willing to pay) on Wednesday rather than a road game on Tuesday but could not come to terms

WHether you like it or not the use of the post season to move your team forward and keep your kids together for the lesson learned and the experience of a one and done tourney are not going away. THe fact that some of them do not feel like playing while others go out and give with every fiber is not lost on fellow team mates and coaches who are eyeing PT next year. COmmitment and learning are part of the evaluation .....actualy there are many more reasons to play these tourneys than can be explained to floks who are not going to listen anyway.

As for Kyryl .....look at Morehead ...who is getting more exposure to move a post collegiate experience forward....a player from an OVC school in MOrehead KY  or a 2nd stringer from a school in a weak PAC 10 that can't get on the floor.

Coaches see the value in post season play and the AD sees the value. I would hope this fanbase that claims to want a winning program and expects their teams to compete for the MAC title every year sees the fact that Dambrot is telling his recruits he has played in 5 straight post season tourneys and Kent is doing the same while all the MAC schools that accepted post season bids are all looking to squeeze every chance for their kids to compete out of the possibilites.

If you all want big time basketball and have those expectations then this fanbase has to move forward as a whole and be bigtime basketball. You dont get something for nothing. Collectively,.How hard is it for you to look at the name on your jacket and say...."I AM a BOBCAT SUPPORTER" and start being one. Apologies to the choir.

It's a fair assumption. Isn't that what a lot of kids have to decide? Whether to go to a bigger school and maybe play later in their career, if at all, or play at a lower level and play right away. But you can still support Ohio basketball and think the two latest tournaments are not worth playing. There are 100 teams between the NCAA and NIT, then another 40 teams in the CIT and CBI fields. I guess any extra games your team plays may be helpful to the younger players, but if all you did was play in the CBI and CIT for the last five years, I don't think a recruit will be all that impressed. You can spin it all you like, but the kids know and so does everyone else. I think we had a nice year and wouldn't be embarassed to say we didn't play in a tournament. That's what you're shooting for and we came up short.

Duke played a bad game last night, that's basketball. Every team has good and bad games.

Duke has plenty of talent. They have three players who will be drafted in this year's NBA draft, including Irving who will be a top 3 pick. They have as much talent as any team, Arizona was just better last night.

As for Kyryl, he played more in the Texas game when Williams was in foul trouble. He doesn't have much of a role in the offense yet, besides setting 100's of screens on every posession, but I think he will become a big part of that team in the next two years.

Obviously every player is different. You have guys like Walter Offutt and Justin Tubbs at ETSU, who would rather transfer to a Mid-Major school and play big minutes instead of playing a small role on a higher team.

But, you also have guys like Anthony McClain at UC who are content with playing a tiny roll at a top school. A lot of players probably stick at the top school thinking that they are one injury or player leaving early from getting playing time. Look at Josh Harrellson at Kentucky. Barely played the last couple years, Cousins/Orton/Patterson all declare early for the draft, all of a sudden Jorts is playing a huge role this year.

All due respect Giacomo

I know you dont think anyone but the conference season cahmps should be playing. Back to the days of 24-28 teams in.

Wayne Duke and otheres watched the NC State / Maryland  ACC championship game in 1974 and decided it was time to expand the tourney as there were teams in the next 4 or 5 slots that were superior to that of other conferences.

At one time I had heard several coache s talking saying they would favor taking 2 regular season games off the regualr schedule and adding one more round to bringing the tourney to 96 or 128 teams. I like that one , you don't . THe fact is that there is such parity in hoops presently that about 100 teams is a legit number. Fact also is that the NCAA has gone from 180 or so member schools inthe 60's to its present 341 and adding. Some people dont like the 3 point line but still to sit here and beat the horse is not going to make it go away. Some people dont like the shot clock but they are not going to make it go away. I am surprised  that you have never commented on those subjects as tenaciously as you hold the idea that only the confeerence champs should make the tourney. Personally I would not mind the other tourneys going away if the expansion was in place. They would be superfluous to those schools who are legitimately decent enough to make the big Dance but have for a variety of reason fell short whether it be a team that gets hot and finally puts it together at the end of the year and defeats the team that has been performing well all year long knocking them out of the dance. Both hav e legit claims but no recourse.  

Only 7 mid major teams haved made the final 8. My theory is that the numbers would be higher if the Big 6 conferences did not have a stranglehold on all the spots, whichis why I suppport regualr season conference champs be rewarded as well as tourney champs. If they are the same then that opens one more spot. The regular season has no meaning anymore. How about another equalizer? Make the Big 6 actually play on the road. Tell them no more sprint Center Nuetrals for Kansas and the Dookies have to come out of Cameron for half their OOC schedule.. Shake it up. If you are going to stay with 64 or 68 then get the Big 6 to make some concessions. One of the most inequitable situations in all of sport comes when any team in college basketball has to go on the road or to some "nuetral" sitre.

You are assuming a lot here. And incorrectly, I might add.
 
Find one post from me criticizing Ohio playing in this tournament. The fact is, I haven't posted one thing about Ohio's involvement in this tournament, pro or con. To set the record straight, as a Bobcat fan I was happy seeing Ohio's season extended. As a college basketball fan I could care less about this tournament and the other post-season tournament not named the NIT.

Thanks bigtilly and giacamo for having no trouble understanding the intent of my original post.

Who wouldn't want this on your team. Kyryl doing the "Bernie".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorHIetf1i4

Duke can't handle athletic teams.  Gets them every time.  K has a system, but the system gets run over by athletes.

It looked to me like Arizona wore Duke out.  They seemed out of gas about midway through the second half, if not a little before that.  Better conditioning?  I wasn't able to keep good track of the substitution patterns.  Did UA run deeper into its bench and give more players significant PT?  Whatever it was, it seemed that Duke ran out of gas and "lost their" legs trying to keep up with 'zona's pace.  That's my analysis, but remember I have a Buckeye Basketball IQ of 85, which would be equal to a Hoosier Basketball IQ of 75.