Here's the deal: Win the next two and we're a top-three seed, playing a team that hasn't beaten us this season (we're 11-0 against the bottom seven in the MAC, 3-4 vs top-five teams). Win the quarter-final game, and we probably play a team that we've beaten this year (Toledo is the only MAC team that skunked us). We have some issues to address but there's no need for gloom-and-doom.

Several on here mistake reality for doom-and-gloom.

Zero gimmes this week. Not with the way this team is limping down the stretch.

Reading the BG board throughout the season,I get the feeling their locker room is in disarray. Pretty sure their big man Reece has separated from the team. They need to clean house one way or another in the off-season. Let's clown this clown team in their own building.

BG players appear to me to have quit on their coach in recent weeks.

Joe Reece and Myron Gordon have both been dismissed from the BG roster for failure to uphold program standards. They've both been gone a couple weeks. Gordon had 18 points in our first meeting.

Would not be shocked by a 30 point win or a 10 point loss. No idea what to expect but hope we play the way we are capable and comfortably cruise.

I've got a question for those on this board with a basketball IQ higher than mine (which is at least 50 percent of regular posters). Is the high shooting percentage of our recent foes due mainly to players who got extremely hot in their shooting that is something out of our control or is it mainly due to crappy defense on our part, which theoretically we could take steps to improve going forward.

For what its worth, I asked a juco basketball coach watching the Akron game this question and he said Akron was just shooting lights out. Also said we get are not great inside on D and rebounding. And can't have both happening.

BG situation getting juicy (From the BG board):
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What I got from Mr. Reece (dismissed player's father) is that he agrees with us all that Huger cannot coach/draw up anything in any situations.
Had a conversation they had with Moosebrugger left them thinking he's a joke.
Mr. Reece told me his son had several offers this offseason and he chose BG largely because he was aware of the tournament drought and wanted to end it.
He feels, and says that the other guys on the team as well, that Joe & Myron are being scape-goated in an effort by Huger to save his job/save face even though he is a defeated coach.
Also points out (correctly) that as rough as the year has been we're still in contention to earn a MAC tournament berth with a big game coming up Saturday and just jettisoned 2 key rotation pieces. Feels like if they end up losing Huger will use the fact that he had to jettison 2 guys late in the year as an excuse why they couldn't make the tournament.

Below is a direct paste of his comments to me...I cannot paraphrase this...again, it's all posted with his permission since he cannot get approved to use his own voice on here:
James Reece (Joe's Dad) wrote:
And let them know that the reason “straight from the coaches mouth,” was he didn’t like their attitude… mind you.. Joe was never late for practice, never any altercations on or off the court! 3. Something GPA never cursed out a coach .. but his body language was poor and his “energy” .. I’m still like HUH !! I guess I didn’t know that you were supposed to be a I guess happy when you are losing games… especially the ones that you know you could have won!

The betting line has moved all the way up to 9.5.

Is it an energy problem (fatigue maybe a bit) or is it the fact that 3/5 of our rotation is now under 6'1? Defense and rebounding matter and it's hard to do when you're giving up 3-5 inches and 25-30 lbs.