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Ted Thompson
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Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/5/2014 8:25:24 PM

Use this thread to talk about anything game-related.

Date: March 8th, 2014 12:00 PM

Opponent: Miami (12-16, 8-9 MAC)

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/5/2014 8:48:38 PM

Fiami sucks.

With Akron playing Kent Friday night we'll know where we stand regarding a bye long before game time Saturday.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/6/2014 11:14:42 PM

What time is the KSU-UA game? I assume it's on TWC since they just love NE Ohio so much. I really hope we can squeeze in that bye and have a little longer to heal our walking wounded. If we can get healthy, I really do see a possible analogy here to the 2012 football team's post season turnaround.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 12:41:42 AM

I would love to see Akron loose Friday night and we win on Saturday and get the bye over them on the last day of the regular season.
I believe Kent could win this game. They already beat them earlier in the year. Beating Akron twice this year would be a big deal for Kent.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 1:02:08 AM

I have a weird feeling that we will win, Kent will win, and everything will look all sunny and then Toledo blows it and Eastern wins. hello 5 seed

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 1:25:39 AM

Must be ESPN that loves NE Ohio so much this time.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 6:50:49 AM

OhioCatFan wrote:

ESPN2 at 7:00.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 9:53:16 AM

OhioCatFan wrote:

If we can get healthy, I really do see a possible analogy here to the 2012 football team's post season turnaround.

One meaningless game? I sure hope not.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 10:25:43 AM

If Akron wins tonight there's really no need to put N'dour, Taylor or TJ on the floor tomorrow. If Akron wins, win or lose tomorrow we would play Monday night at home against either CMU or BSU, so it would be better to rest the injured -- especially with the possibility of five games next week.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 11:56:27 AM

I agree with the above ^ (as of now, Akron is a 6.5 pt favorite)

So does JC wear a turtleneck for this game? He said in his post game comments last time that he would for all future Ohio vs. Miami games. Or is it just those games played in Athens?

Last Edited: 3/7/2014 12:07:59 PM by A-townBound

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 12:16:08 PM

Miami sucks.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 12:56:59 PM

Tickets show $5-8 on fiami's website. Anybody know if prices increase on game day at the box office?

I'll tell ya where we'll go. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' bout a little place called... ATHENS.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 1:12:06 PM

I know many of you feel this game does not matter if Akron wins, but what about post season invitations and seeding? Right now, some projections have Ohio in the NIT (http://www.bracketmatrix.com/nit.html) as an 8th seed. A loss could move us out of the NIT and into the CBI or CIT! If we can win it all in Cleavland and make the "Big Dance," the NIT is the next big option. I want post season play in any form I can get it!! It's not NCAA on nothing at all in my book. Winning matters regardless!!!!

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 1:29:10 PM

Bball Jones wrote:

I think they're assuming that Toledo and WMU won't tie for the regular season MAC championship. They're tied right now; WMU is at CMU tonight and Toledo is home to EMU tomorrow, so there's a really good chance that both will win. At any rate, the probably that both will win or both will lose is 50%. If they tie (or tied with Buffalo, should something freaky happen) the one (or two, or three) that's not in the NCAA tourney gets into the NIT. Right now, our chances of making the NIT are pretty slim. I would rather we give ourselves our best chance at making a deep run in the MAC tourney by resting our injured players. Besides, if we play the way we played Tuesday night, we can beat Fiami even without N'dour, Taylor and TJ.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 1:37:43 PM

Pataskala wrote:

Bball Jones wrote:

Only the #1 seed in the Conference Tournament gets the auto NIT bid (if they don't win the tournament). We tied Akron last year for the league title and did not recieve an auto bit to the NIT.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 2:00:12 PM

And, just what is this guy smoking? WMU is for sure ahead of us in the pecking order and right now EMU might be too. I agree, NIT chances are slim unless we win at Miami AND go far in the tourney.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 3:27:00 PM

bn9 wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

Bball Jones wrote:

Only the #1 seed in the Conference Tournament gets the auto NIT bid (if they don't win the tournament). We tied Akron last year for the league title and did not recieve an auto bit to the NIT.

Even so, our NIT odds are pretty long unless we get to the tourney championship game. Toledo's RPI is 37, so they may get in the NCAA even without winning the MAC tourney. We have the 2nd best RPI in the MAC (84), WMU's is 86, EMU's is 91 and Buffalo's is 95 so we're all pretty tightly bunched together. If Toledo wins the MAC tourney, it'll probably take being in the tourney championship game to make an impression on the NIT people (they don't have to choose by RPI, although it's one factor). There isn't that much difference between a 5 and a 6 seed, so if tomorrow's game isn't going to get us a bye, I think it's more important to rest our injured to give us a better shot at going deep in the tourney.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 7:34:23 PM

JSF wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

If we can get healthy, I really do see a possible analogy here to the 2012 football team's post season turnaround.

One meaningless game? I sure hope not.

I didn't think the Independence bowl was meaningless. Just because it's not the national championship doesn't make it meaningless.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 9:03:04 PM

I must begin by apologizing for my absence this week. I was sequestered in a spiritual retreat. It was a good time for me to take some time away and reflect on how fortunate I am. It appears that while I was spending some time in reflective contemplation, our Bobcats also reflected on what they wanted to become and found great strength on the barren plain.

Now, it is on to Oxford and the end of our scheduled journey. The trip to Oxford is one I make with great trepidation. My dislike for Miami University was not borne of my years as a Bobcat.

Once upon a time, a rural community's grade school students were offered the opportunity to attend a program at Miami University. We had to leave town before sunrise in order to make the drive across the southern half of the state. Most of my classmates slept in the van, but I could not. Not only was I excited for the opportunity to see a real college and meet real college professors, I was also prone to bouts of motion sickness. I rode a fine line between joy and vomit.

The van stopped at the corner of Talawanda and Church Streets. I was mostly nauseous after rolling up and down the hills of Southwest Ohio. My classmates were groggy and stiff having just woken up. We were supposed to walk to Brandon Hall, where we would be met by a resident director that would chaperone our visit. Having never been to a college campus, none of us were certain where we were going. We stumbled down the street, confused and essentially lost in plain sight.

Katie thought it would be a good idea to ask some college students on a front porch which way we needed to go. They were less than helpful, instead jeering our Sunday finest as cornpone. One cretin said if we were too hungover to find our dorm we should come into their house for hair of the dog. I started to explain that we were not hung over, we were 7th graders. I didn't get very far. The fear of the boys and a discontented stomach did not permit me to finish my explanation, and a well-balanced breakfast of sausage gravy and scrambled eggs was regurgitated on the steps of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

I remember little else except shame and a solemn vow that I would never return to such an awful, awful place.

It was by grace I became a student at Ohio. And as such, I amended my oath that I would go to Oxford as an enemy combatant. I have done so ever since.

Muck Fiami.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/7/2014 10:00:00 PM

Bball Jones wrote:

We are not going to the NIT. If the MAC reg season champ doesn't win the tourney, then they will go. Ohio is not going.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/8/2014 9:13:19 AM

Not sure where this crazy NIT talk started. I don't see a CBI or CIT or CTI bid unless we make the MAC Final and lose.
Bottom line...Christian should sit anyone that has an injury today and let them loose next week.
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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/8/2014 9:15:00 AM

A top 100 RPI will almost certainly ensure an invite to a postseason tourney at this point. Do the math.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/8/2014 9:29:06 AM

Will the game be blacked out on ESPN Full Court as well as ESPN3? If so are there any bars in Athens that has TWC?

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/8/2014 12:07:59 PM

Fiami is streaming the TWC video feed. Go to the MAC website and use the live streaming link from Fiami.

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RE: Official Game 31 Thread: Miami

Posted: 3/8/2014 12:25:47 PM

Pataskala wrote:

Fiami is streaming the TWC video feed. Go to the MAC website and use the live streaming link from Fiami.

The MAC feed is also perfectly timed up with the Ohio radio feed. Prefer listening to Russ and Rob and muted the MAC feed.

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