A couple notes from the big dance

Whew. Kent State dropped a big-old egg against UNLV. What a shame after the year they had. At halftime they had only 10 points, and the record keepers were digging into the pre-shot clock era for comparison. How do you do that? Shoot 21% and make 17 freaking turnovers--in the first half. Ouch.

It is a bigger problem for the conference. We used to be a common pick to win a game in the tourney. Kent, EMU and Ball State made exciting runs. However, now we are one and out for five straight years---the last win was a Chris Kamen-led CMU team beating Creighton in 2003. Yes, 2003.

On another note, Falcon fans had special reason to root for Belmont as they battled Duke yesterday, since we played and beat Belmont (by nine) in Cincy early this season. That would have been cool.....