MAC postseason

[gmartin]

Toledo loses to George Washington 73-69
Ball State loses to Fort Wayne 88-80
Akron beats Houston 78-75, advancing in the NIT

[Falconfreak90]

Tonight Kent State gets a shot to slay Goliath, I mean UCLA. 10 pm tip in Sacramento.

[hammb]

I've got the bruins winning it all in my bracket. I don't think Kent can make this a game.

[gmartin]

Just shut Ball and his daddy up. Gee, I wonder why his house got robbed the other day. That guy is making people mad. Plus his other son was a ball hog the other week and scored something like 91 pts in a half game. That family is nuts!!

[Flipper]

Yeah...I think people are really getting tired of that dude living his life through his kids and running his mouth about it

[hammb]

Funny thing is I think the kid seems like a good, hard worker. I think he's gonna be an NBA Star.

Dad is just...Odd.

[hammb]

KSU doesn't belong on the same court right now...

[Class of 61]

Hambb,

Don't know when u wrote this, but I gave KSU a lot of credit. After awful start came back to a 5 pt margin, before fatigue, and UCLA size completely took over in las 10-12 min. Or so. And Hall played his guts out against two huge guys. Whoever heard of a team making TWELVE shots in a row?

[gmartin]

I think he wrote it, by the timestamp, when it was 16-2.

There were 2 bad calls when it was a 5 pt game with 11:00 remaining. Hall made a basket and drawn a foul for a +1 but ref said foul occurred before the shot. B.S. That would have made it a 2 pt game. Instead ball out of bounds and then a turnover. Then 20 secs later UCLA knocked ball out of bounds, reply shows it was off UCLA player. They get ball back score. Kent does score on next possession. Without those two b.s. calls could be a tie game. Instead UCLA goes on time make 12 straight shots to blow it open.

[Class of 61]

You're right, especially on the possible Hall bucket. Coach was livid and I don't blame him. UCLA was good enough to win on own without zebra help. But again compliments to Kent. Too bad they ran out of gas, but that bad start was the real killer IMO.

[hammb]

Haha...Yeah it was 16-2 when I wrote that they didn't look like they belonged. They actually played a helluva game. Like gmartin said 2 (I think there might have been a 3rd oob call) that were all blatantly in UCLAs favor. At a key point in the game too. That was just the opening UCLA needed to blow it back open. Very unfortunate...The "foul on the floor" call was especially awful.

Still, I think UCLA has championship caliber talent. Although he was hobbled in the 2nd half I think Lonzo Ball is the best guard in the NCAA; size, athleticism, can shoot, court vision, passing...He's really got it all. If anything I think his father's antics detract what the kid actually does on the court, which is special.

In that vein major props to KSU. They played their asses off and it was a much closer game than the final score would suggest and better than I expected. I was pretty surprised Halls game played so well against greater competition, and after the early jitters they hit some big time shots as well.

[threestooges]

Just to bring closure to this thread, Akron got rolled by UT Arlington and I for one could not be happier.

[zete]

When was the last time a MAC team was ranked in the Top 25 regular season? I am thinking it has been since the early part of the century. Miami?? kent??