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Checking In On… the MAC

rtmsf — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:55:03 +0000

Bill Hupp is the RTC correspondent for the MAC. Follow him on Twitter (@Bill_Hupp) for his thoughts on hoops, food, Russian nesting dolls and life.

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The Week That Was

Non-Conference MAC MVP? Miami (OH) may be mired at the bottom of the East Division with a 2-4 record, but it’s not because of Julian Mavunga. The 6’8’’ senior forward from Indianapolis is averaging nearly a double-double, and leads the conference in both scoring (21.5 PPG) and rebounding (9.8 RPG). Western Michigan’s Rough Non-Conference Schedule: While the Western Michigan brass deserves some credit for scheduling a rigorous non-conference slate to [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #18 – Mid-American Conference

nvr1983 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:17:08 +0000

This conference primer was prepared by the RTC staff. If you are knowledgeable about the MAC and have an interest in becoming the correspondent for this league, please e-mail us at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

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The Freshman Grow Up. After having 15 freshman start for MAC teams last year, this year promises a more balanced, less chaotic version of basketball as many of those freshmen will have matured (although we know that is not always the case). With increased experience, the MAC promises to offer a higher quality of basketball with less inconsistency across its teams. It also bodes [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:24:23 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

Overall, Mid-American Conference teams went 5-7 in last weekend’s BracketBusters. Not great, but not bad either. Akron, Western Michigan, Buffalo, Ohio and Eastern Michigan picked up confidence boosting non-conference wins. Amongst the weekend’s losers, Kent State’s seven-point loss at Drexel, and Miami (Ohio)’s one-point loss at James Madison were of the most importance, but likely won’t hurt either team too much in terms of potential NCAA Tournament seeding.

Turning to conference action, Kent State was the first team to reach ten league wins after Thursday’s [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:50:11 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

Could this season’s Mid-American Conference champion be relegated to a Number 16 seed? It’s possible, as current leader Kent State (RPI: 91) is the only team in the league with a RPI of better than 100. ESPN’s Bracketology has Kent State currently penciled in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 15 seed, while Rush the Court’s own Bracketology has the Golden Flashes as a No. 14 seed. What continues to hurt the MAC is not only the relative weakness of the league’s top teams, [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:14:51 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

First, a quick look at the Mid-American Conference Standings (with conference records only).

East

Buffalo 4-2 Kent St. 4-2 Miami (Ohio) 4-2 Bowling Green 4-2 Akron 2-4 Ohio 2-4

West

Ball State 5-1 Western Michigan 3-3 Northern Illinois 3-3 Central Michigan 2-4 Eastern Michigan 2-4 Toledo 1-5

The conference season is just heating up, but the early returns in league play indicate that this conference is wide-open and full of surprises. This is most true in the East Division, where the preseason favorites were Ohio, Akron, [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:23:04 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

Conference play has arrived in the Mid-American Conference, and once again, the MAC has proven to be one of the most competitive and balanced leagues in the country. Check out the following results from just the first few games of the conference season.

Western Michigan over Central Michigan, 64-56 (OT) Miami (Ohio) over Ohio, 92-88 (3OT) Bowling Green over Buffalo, 74-71 (2OT) Akron over Kent State, 65-62 Miami (Ohio) over Buffalo, 70-67 Northern Illinois over Eastern Michigan, 71-69

Midway through the month of January, [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:00:25 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

With the turn of the calendar to a new year comes the meat of the college basketball season: conference play. So, in what is the last Mid-American Conference Check-In of the year 2010, let’s review how the MAC has done in the non-conference portion of the season.

So far, MAC teams have gone a combined 63-82 in non-conference games. That 43.4 winning percentage is further evidence that the overall quality of the MAC is not up to the standard that the [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:24:25 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

Is the Mid-American Conference in the midst of a down year? Early returns to this point in the non-conference season indicate that yes, this league is down. Kent State has been the one team to look like a viable NCAA Tournament squad so far, and while contenders such as Ball State and Miami (Ohio) have shown flashes of quality play, the conference’s bottom-dwellers (see the Power Rankings below) have been a major disappointment and are dragging down the MAC’s overall profile.

For further evidence of the [...]

Checking in on… the MAC

Brian Goodman — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:00:36 +0000

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

A Look Back

Once again, there appears to be a clear divide between the Mid-American Conference’s East & West Divisions. Four of the East’s six teams (Kent State, Ohio, Akron, Buffalo) have winning records at this early junction in the season, while a fifth (3-4 Miami (Ohio)) just upset Xavier of the Atlantic 10. Meanwhile, none of the West’s six teams have a winning record, three have fewer than two wins (Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Toledo), and the only team without a losing record (Ball State) just lost to Alaska-Anchorage.

Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the MAC and the CAA.

A Look Back

The 2010-11 college basketball season is barely underway, and already the MAC is down to just one unbeaten (Ball State). On the whole, it’s been a fairly disappointing start for the league, as the conference’s twelve teams have a combined 12-15 record, with three of those wins coming over non-D1 opponents. Furthermore, in games against teams from the “Power 6” conferences, MAC teams are 0-5, with none of the five games decided by fewer than 19 points.

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Checking in on… the MAC

jstevrtc — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:58:04 +0000

Matt Giles is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.

Standings as of 1/29

West Division

Central Michigan 4-2 9-8 Northern Illinois 4-2 8-10 Ball State 4-3 9-9 Western Michigan 3-3 11-8 Eastern Michigan 2-4 10-9 Toledo 0-6 3-17

East Division

Akron 4-2 14-6 Kent State 4-2 13-7 Buffalo 3-3 10-6 Bowling Green 3-3 10-8 Miami OH 4-3 6-13 Ohio 2-4 11-9

Superlatives

Team of the Week Ohio: After starting the conference season 0-4 against East Division foes, the Bobcats erupted from the three-point stripe in their only two games this [...]

Checking In On… the MAC

jstevrtc — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:22:11 +0000

David Sanchirico is the RTC correspondent for the MAC.

Current Standings

East Division

Team Record

Ohio 3-0 Kent State 3-0 Bowling Green 1-1 Buffalo 1-1 Akron 0-1 Miami (Ohio) 0-2

West Division

Team Record

Ball State 1-0 Eastern Michigan 1-0 Central Michigan 2-1 Western Michigan 1-1 Northern Illinois 0-2 Toledo 0-2

The MAC continues to struggle during out-of-conference play as potential upsets slipped out of teams’ hands, others succumbed in blowouts, and teams that were expected to win, didn’t.

But there were also some good showings from a few surprise teams, including a club from Oxford, Ohio that almost pulled off [...]