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While it's hard to believe at this point, Joe Lunardi on ESPN's Bracketology makes the case that none of the bubble teams are doing much. He still has us as a 13 seed, though it should be noted we would need to make a run starting tonight and carrying through our road game at Miami, including beating SIU.

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The MAC warrants a second team, but Kent State tried to kick that away by losing at home to Bowling Green. Bracket Buster game (Southern Illinois) is very important for the Golden Flashes.

Why seeded here?
Flat-out running out of worthy bubble teams. MAC is No. 9 conference.

May change because:
Three of next five on the road. 4-7 road record.

Good Wins
RPI 1-25: Miami-OH
RPI 26-50: None

Bad Losses
RPI 101-200: @Ball State
RPI 201+: None

It's still all right in front of us. Nothing is lost yet. I think if we win out, we'll actually win the #1 seed. All it takes is for Miami to drop one more conference game and they have 3 road games left. For all our struggles, we need to come together now.
Tonight: We are 13-2 vs. UB, 5-2 on their floor.

Let's go Flashes!!!!!! Finish strong, not fade away like the past few years. The 2005 run starts in Buffalo tonight!!!

The chances of us making the NCAA as an at-large team about as good as me being the next QB for the Browns.

The way the season is panning out across the country, I'd say the MAC regular season champ will get an at-large bid if it fails to win the tourney.
We still have a shot at that. A better chance than you have at being the Browns QB.
Not as good a chance as you would have at being better than the QB's they had this year. You might win that one.

axeme Wrote:The way the season is panning out across the country, I'd say the MAC regular season champ will get an at-large bid if it fails to win the tourney.
We still have a shot at that. A better chance than you have at being the Browns QB.
Not as good a chance as you would have at being better than the QB's they had this year. You might win that one.

I haven't followed the NCAA projections closely this year, but there must be a total lack of bubble teams for Kent to be in this mix. This is a second 50 team, but one that can get a chance at a bid, if they get hot. They have two Top 25 teams to play left (at Miami and vs. Southern Ill). Scoring 4 wins out of their last 5 could (big could here) push them in, but it'll take at least that.

Also, no one is sure how the committee will handle the new RPI, so there is a lot of guessing out there. They probably overdid the correction. Check out CBS Sportline for where the teams rank under the old RPI. Miami University is #50; Kent is #75; Buffalo is #83 and so on.

Not to be overly negative, but the MAC has eaten their own. Miami will get a bid if they play reasonably well the next three weeks, but, if the brackets came out today, they'd be alone MAC team in the tournament.

I really think we need to win to get in. Pure and simple. The way we have played on the road will probably keep us out if we don't get the automatic bid.

Jus imagine if we would have beaten BC.

Crenshaw's cost us about 16 points tonight one way or another with Haynes in foul trouble. Bad shots, bad passes, failure to inbounds. Got to gut this one out now. Down one under 4:00.

Kent State's East division hopes are now gone. The At-large bid is also gone. How did Espn have Kent State as bubble team when they are 3-6 vs the MAC's top 9 seeds. Kent State is the 8th seed in the MAC after tonites games. Their non-conference record is more impressive that their MAC record. If would be kinda weird if Kent State got an At-large bid for the MAC. That win over Florida State(11-13) looks a lots less impressive after tonite. The MAC really doesn't have a second team other than Miami which deserves an NCAA at-large bid. They take the best 32 at-large teams. WMU is a joke, Toledo can't win any big games while Ohio, BGSU, Akron, UB beat no body non-conf. Ball State has imploaded the last two weeks. The Missouri Valley and WCC have better at-large teams this year. I think this is the year of the big conferences. C-usa, BE, SEC, ACC, PAC ten and Big 12 will get most of the bids. Miami may have a case. They have gotten a lots of breaks this year. They could be 8-6 just like Kent, but a couple of lucky shots this year and an MAC refs error at Ball State have Miami looking much better than they really are. If the selection commitee watched that Ohio-Miami game the Red hawks are toast.