Can't get a feel for what to expect tonight. I'm pretty confident we'll have recovered some energy after a brutal stretch and we've just owned BSU for a while now. Not so surprising as we've been the better team mostly, but still an uncanny stretch against them.
So... that said, Ball State is really really due against us and we haven't fared well against them in Cleveland. What's the line on this one? I would guess we're about a 3 point fave?
Current lines for todays quarterfinals. (per Vegas insider)
Toledo -17 vs. Central Michigan
Buffalo -2.5 vs. Akron
Kent State -6.5 vs. Miami
Ohio -8 vs. Ball State
Surprised we're a bigger favorite over BSU than Kent over Fiami.
HOly hell. Kent looks like easy money, but hey it's Cleveland. Maybe miami will do one thing right for the first time in like 15 years and knock them off. Would be glorious. it wouldn't be that rare to see Miami outperform their seed at the very least.
While a very close game can easily end up in double figures late with freethrows and desperation misses, 8 seems like a really heavy line for us.