The MAC Tournament - where BG goes to die!!!

[BGSU33]

Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen, it's the moment we've all been waiting for - the MAC Tournament (aka The BG Graveyard)! Yes, it's the 35th year of the tournament where BG has never - that's right - NEVER - won the event! Ball State has won it 7 times, Ohio has claimed it 6 times, Kent State has won it 5 times, Miami and EMU have both won it 4 times, Akron won it 3 times, CMU won 2 of them, and Toledo, WMU and NIU each won it once. Then, we have the Bowling Falcons....oh yes, the gold old Orange & Brown. Not only has BG never won it, the Falcons also hold the dubious honor of having the second worst wining percentage in the event. And while a MAC East school has won the MAC Tournament in each of the last 9 years with four different teams winning titles (Ohio 3, Akron 3, Kent State 2, Miami 1), BG hasn't even advanced to Cleveland the past couple years despite hosting first round games.

So step right up and buy those tickets BG fans, let's pack The Q with orange and cheer on Coach Orr and his Falcons! The Ohio Lottery is running a ticket promotion of turning in a non-winning ticket for a buy one ticket get one free deal. And for those out of their mind and crazy enough to think BG could win this thing, keep in mind your chances of winning the Ohio Classic Lotto is greater than BG winning this tournament. You have a 1-in-13,983,816 odds of winning the Classic Lotto and not a frickin' chance in hell of BG winning this thing - unless - The Q implodes and the tournament is moved inside church in downtown Cleveland where the hands of God gives us a 1-in-14,000,000 shot ourselves!

[factman]

You will see more BG fans in Cleveland than a "normal" men's home game! MAC champs AGAIN for the women.

[BGSU33]

You will see more BG fans in Cleveland than a "normal" men's home game! MAC champs AGAIN for the women.

No question there will be some for our women's team, and there should be. And the turnout and atmosphere we had in the MAC Championship fief football was awesome (much better than the bowl game). Hell, even the turnout and support for the baseball team in the MAC Tournament was better than what we get in men's hoops.

[BGSU33]

BG at NIU in the MAC Tournament. Pretty fitting matchup since we played our biggest piece of crap game against NIU this year. Why not wrap up this pathetic season by facing a team that we looked the worst against. Just one more loss and it's over, finally.....

[guest44]

How sad would it be if some of these players never once make it to Cleveland in 4 years? PATHETIC.

[BGFalconfromCincy]

How sad would it be if some of these players never once make it to Cleveland in 4 years? PATHETIC.

That will be the next coach's job to prevent as the seniors went their freshmen year

[BGSU33]

Here goes nothing.....we're dressed in black tonight.

[BGSU33]

I do love these uniforms

[BGSU33]

NIU all over us early 10-2. We look like $hit! We have twice as many turnovers (4) as we do points (2). Black with hands like stone and Clarke crossed himself up and fell on his ass while throwing the ball away that led to a breakaway dunk.

[BGSU33]

NIU leads 30-26 at halftime.

[BGSU33]

Ohio beats Ball State and Miami defeats Kent State. OU and Miami move on to Cleveland and will play each other, winner faces Akron.

[gmartin]

Eastern going to win as well. Home teams 3-0 so that means BG will win and we got Orr for 2 more days.

[BGSU33]

BG now up 37-34 with 13:50 to go.

[BGSU33]

Why are we continuing to feed Black the ball and have him shoot like he is Patrick Ewing??? He not! He is slow, off-balance and lethargic. Damn man! Couple more missed shots by Black and BG is now down again.

[BGSU33]

BGSU with 16 turnovers already (Clarke with 6 of them).