You sure this isn't an April Fool's joke that had been quarantined because of Covid-19?
It's long past time for the MAC to get rid of the divisions for b-ball. The MAC is the last D1 conference to have divisions and when they rightly did away with the division champs automatically getting the 1-2 seeds a few years ago, there was no reason for having divisions. While shrinking the tourney to 8 teams removes possible dark-horses (like our 2009-10 team) going to the dance, it puts more value on regular season games.
The changes also make sense for at least some of the other sports (I'm not familiar with how many MAC schools field teams for all of them). Baseball, for example, is down to 11 teams (no Buffalo) so every team can play every other team in the conference the same number of games. That makes a tourney (or a football championship game, as the B12 does) useless. If postponements create an inequity that have a bearing on the championship, they can be made up at the end of the regular season.
Last Edited: 5/12/2020 11:00:26 PM by Pataskala