Permutations

MAC play takes a little break now for the bracket buster, so here's what the conference chart looks like today....

Kent and Akron now have a two-game lead with three to play over the next competitors.  They should capture the #1 and the #3 seeds.  Ball State now has the lead for the #2 seed with its win over CMU last night, and Miami and Buffalo are battling for the last bye.  They finish the season in Oxford.

On the bottom of the standings, BG had to finish better than four teams to get a home game.  Obviously, they will finish ahead of Toledo, and have a two game lead and a tie-breaker on NIU, so that's two.  They lead OU by a game and play OU, so you're kind of in control of that one, and it you don't beat OU, probably you're on the road anyway.  Which means that BG realistically needs to hope for some WMU and EMU losses.  Regardless, it would appear that we would play someone in that range in the tournament, regardless of where the game is.