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Sources last night told me that since the Women won the game on tuesday, they ARE the MAC Champions of 2005....so then what's the MAC Tournament @ the Gund for? I always thought that WAS the championship. So are we officially the best in the MAC already?

They are MAC champions. You could clarify that if you want by saying MAC regular season champions. But yes, regardless of what happens in the tourney, the championship they won is real. They will put 2005 on that big white banner hanging on the north wall.

The MAC tournament champion, is just that, the MAC tournament champion. And of course, that is the champion that the conference (as with most conferences) chooses to give its automatic NCAA tournament bid to these days.

You could say there are two championships to fight for. BG has won one of them.

well thank you VERY much for clearing that up for me. I wasn't sure if that banner would be for real or not!

If there ever was a more appropriate name for a thread.

hahaha... genius!

nice choice of words UK.

UK Peregrine wrote:If there ever was a more appropriate name for a thread.

Gave me the best laugh of the day so far...

falconboy has to be LOVING this!

hey im still two years new to the MAC...gimme time

golfertk14 wrote:hey im still two years new to the MAC...gimme time

So you are what, 4 years old now. And I thought you were in elementary school. Guess I gave you too much credit. But you can spell pretty good for someone who is still in training pants.

I've always thought the leagues or the NCAA have it backwards. Seems to me the team that got it done during a 16-game league schedule is the one who should get the automatic bid, not a team that all of a sudden gets hot and wins three tournament games. Any team can get hot and win a couple of tournament games. Oh well. Hopefully we can take care of business and win the MAC Tournament and leave no doubt.

99, I think you are right about that. There was a really interesting article on SI.com about how conference tournaments aren't working. It doesnt sit well with me that teams can string together 3 wins, and still end up playing in NCAA with a sub .500 record (Oakland comes to mind) at least football requires a winning season to make a bowl game.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/w ... index.html

transfer2BGSU wrote:The NCAA gives each league an automatic bid. It is up to each conference to determine how they are going to award that one automatic bid. Hence the MAC decided to go for t ahe $$$ and hold a conference tournament and the tourney winner claims the bid.

My opinion is to hell with the regular season - we should play no one but ACC, A10, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, and PAC 10 schools. Only play MAC schools in the tournament since that is the only thing that really matters. The regular season is a joke,

The only problem is that we would never have a home game...

On more than one occasion the conference tournament has cost the men's team a spot in the NCAA'S. The same is probably true for the women as well. With the MAC ususally getting only one team in each year it is wrong for the regular season champion to be excluded simply because they may have lost in the conference tournament. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the season champion to, in a sense validate what it did over the 16 game regular season.

It is unfortunate that the MAC usually ends up with the same number of teams in the NCAA's as much smaller conferences do. I do believe MAC women have a better chance of getting an at-large bid than do any MAC men's teams.