Falcons Triumph Over Flashes/Updated MAC Standings

And that, of course, is what keeps us coming back.  When, after weeks of up and down play, win at home, lose on the road, when after all that your team comes onto the floor and out of nowhere plays their best game of the season (or maybe second best) and pulls of a huge, emphatic win over one of the conference's top teams...yeah, that's the stuff.

It was just one of those great nights...a  great night to be a Falcon.  More later, but it was simply a great victory for our team, who played hard, gritty, got contributions up and down the lineup.  Everyone on our team should be satisfied with their performance tonight....

Speaking of which, here are the standings as they stand now...

I believe with the Falcon win and the WMU loss, BG has clinched 6th.  Even if you ended up with a four way tie at 8-6, BG was 2-1 in that group, EMU would be 3-2, and WMU and UT 2-3, so BG would finish 5th under that scenario.  BG wins a head-head tiebreaker against WMU or Toledo and the best they can do is tie BG.  I'm always cautious about these scenarios, but even a 3-way tie with EMU, BG and WMU (for example) would leave EMU 2-1, BGSU 1-1 and WMU 1-2, meaning BG is 6th.

So, at worst, BG plays at home against probably NIU or CMU.

On the upside, EMU has no more home games left, so BG has a shot at finishing 5th.  And, in fact, BG is still in the running for a bye.  BG could win out and Kent could split, and BG wins a head to head tie breaker with Kent because of the season split and BG would have a better record against the East.  You get into all kinds of things with multiple teams in a tie breaker and the cart is a little ahead of the horse, since BG still has two tough games ahead.

Of course, with the big win, what you hear in your head is "what if"...as in...."what if this team can replicate that performance coming home?"