If the goal of the new MAC tournament format was to give the NCAA tournament the best representative of the Mid-American conference, then it is going to succeed, as the two best teams all year are battling it out for conference supremacy tonight in Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Mac has got one more first round game than RDoc, so he leads the standings by 3 points.\u00a0 They both have Ohio, so Mac will take the title if the Bobcats win.\u00a0 If Akron wins tonight, Mac will have to share the 2012 MAC title with Bry.\u00a0 The money division is between RDoc (Ohio) and Bry (Akron).<\/p>\n
#1 Akron vs. #3 Ohio Bry, Rikey, and Waters are the only three who actually took the top seed in this tournament.\u00a0 Ohio is, by far, the most popular champion pick here, as they were pegged by Alexi, Doogan, Gersh, Lohse, Lynch, Mac, RDoc, RSmith, Scoot, and Stri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the goal of the new MAC tournament format was to give the NCAA tournament the best representative of the Mid-American conference, then it is going to succeed, as the two best teams all year are battling it out for … Continue reading
\n<\/em><\/span>The Akron Zips, thanks to their semifinal win last night over Kent St., have now made an incredible 6 consecutive MAC finals.\u00a0 While that is really good, they have struggled at this point, only winning one of the previous 5.\u00a0 This year, Akron has done what they hadn’t done earlier and that is win the regular season title in the MAC.\u00a0 Ohio, who can probably already be penciled in as the 2013 favorite, is trying to win this tournament a year ahead of schedule.\u00a0 The Bobcats got here by beating Toledo on Thursday night and winning a really tough game against #2 Buffalo last night.<\/p>\n