Thursday, March 01, 2012

Real MAC Standings....



So here are the standings.  For BG, the drama is more or less over.  BG will finish #5 or #6.  NIU will be either or CMU.  (As I see it, even in a three-way tie, CMU finishes behind Ball State and Miami since they lost all 3 games played among the teams) and therefore would lose two-way tie breakers.  The MAC is pretty soft at the bottom, so that's your reward for at least finish #5 or #6.

Buffalo can still win the #1 seed and the regular season championship.  The Akron-Kent game is Friday night, so by Saturday we will know if Buffalo is playing for that or not.  Buffalo could still end up without a semi-final bye.  They lost both games to OU, which could come into play in a tie-breaker with OU or with Kent.  In fact, it is possible that Buffalo could be looking at a regular season title with a win against BG and falling to a 1/4 final bye with a loss.  If OU and Kent  both lose on Friday, then Buffalo would have nothing to play for.

Beyond that, EMU can still get a bye and some seeding is still at stake.

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