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vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:55 am
by mbenecke
Another Tuesday night in the Stroh Center sees our BG men's basketball team taking on Akron (14-11, 6-6 MAC) at 7:00pm. If you are able to attend, I highly suggest you do so - our team is for real, and it deserves to see no less than 2,000 people there in the seats on Tuesday night. If not, the game is available for stream on ESPN3 and for discussion right here on this board.

Winning this game would almost wrap up a bye to Cleveland, as we would then be 5 games ahead of Akron with 5 left and at least 4 games up on Central Michigan, holding the seeding tiebreaker over them as we've swept them already.

Akron may not be as incredible as they have been in some previous years, but they will be ready, and as recent history would suggest, this is not an easy team for BG to beat.

It's time to hold serve at home and get the job done, getting win 19 overall and win 11 in MAC play. I'm hoping to see a lot of you there!

Go Falcons!

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:49 pm
by zete
Make no doubt about it, Akron will be ready and they are a very good basketball team.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:11 am
by zete
Here's is my attendance over/under for tonight -- 1550 -- I will go with the over. :-k

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:42 pm
by footballguy51
My wife and I will be there, so we need 1548 more! :-D

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:44 pm
by mbenecke
footballguy51 wrote:My wife and I will be there, so we need 1548 more! :-D
As with almost every home men's BGSU athletic event (football, hockey, men's basketball, and some soccer), and due to the lucky access to free student tickets, I am there as well.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:45 pm
by 60yearsofsicsic
This team is so much better and more fluid wheb Plowden is on the floor instead of Wiggins

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:07 pm
by TalonsDownForWhat
Was not the prettiest win but this time of year a win is a win! With Toledo and Kent losing tonight gives us a nice cushion in the MAC standings! Ideally Kent gets the 3 and UT the 4 and we avoid UT and UB until the finals

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:27 pm
by mbenecke
FALCONS WIN, 73-69!

Turner hit a layup to score his 1000th point with 0.9 seconds left. Then, we got 2 Mike Laster free throws to ice it.

2nd win against Akron since 2010.
19 wins overall on the season, same amount as hockey. (!)
11-2 in the MAC, still sitting at the 1-seed with 5 regular season games remaining.

Long way to go, but I love this team. Let's get win #20 on Friday night in Athens!

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:58 pm
by Globetrotter
At times it feels like they are just coasting, like their unpredicted success this year is enough. Many times when they seem to be struggling it just has to do with low energy leading to bad defense and bad ball movement and spacing on offense.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:00 pm
by ZuluWarrior
[Ideally Kent gets the 3 and UT the 4 and we avoid UT and UB until the finals]
UB and UT better be hoping they don’t have to face us until the finals!!!!

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:08 pm
by FalconTurf
ZuluWarrior wrote:[Ideally Kent gets the 3 and UT the 4 and we avoid UT and UB until the finals]
UB and UT better be hoping they don’t have to face us until the finals!!!!
Assuming our guys finish 2nd. I wouldn’t write this team off yet even though they have a tougher road to #1 than Buffalo. The only thing our guys can control is their own destiny and I’m enjoying their journey.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:46 pm
by Falconfreak90
At this moment, I am just savoring a win over the Zips...living 10 min from the U of A and hearing about 1-19 all the time.

FINALLY.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:02 pm
by mbenecke
Attendance for tonight was 1,954, up 500 over last Tuesday. Hoping to see 500 more against Miami next Tuesday!

This team deserves your support, so come on out and show them how this fan base and community is behind them.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:48 pm
by Hooper
Not antimob. Globeflotter you need some more positivity in your life. If you were at the game but you weren’t it had nothing to do with lack of energy just shots not going down. Get on the bandwagon, seats are limited.

Re: vs. Akron (2/19)

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 12:14 am
by Globetrotter
Hooper wrote:Not antimob. Globeflotter you need some more positivity in your life. If you were at the game but you weren’t it had nothing to do with lack of energy just shots not going down. Get on the bandwagon, seats are limited.
ESPN is good for me. There were lots of guys standing around doing nothing again. This isn't like the all 22.