MAC tournament in Oxford starting Wednesday

On MURedhawks.com It cheers for the RedHawks winning our 8th consecutive regular season championship. However, when I look at the seeds for the tourney we are the #3 seed. So what happened was that James Madison, App State, and Miami all finished 7-1. JMU beat us but lost to App State, App State lost to Miami but beat JMU, Miami lost to JMU but beat App State. Somehow JMU is #1 seed and App State #2.

Top 6 ( out of 8) make the tournament. Schedule goes like this, with the winner getting the automatic NCAA bid which we have been winning every year.

Wednesday Quarter Finals
Game 1 #4 Kent vs #5 Ball State 11:30 AM
Game 2 #3 Miami vs #6 Ohio 2:30 PM

Thursday Semi Finals
Game 3 #1 JMU vs winner of game 1 11:30 AM
Game 4 #2 App State vs winner of game2 2:00 PM

Saturday Championship Game 2:00 PM

JMU joined the league this year, App State fairly recently. Next year UMass enters the league, they are ranked #14 and won the A-10. So our league is suddenly getting much stronger.

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Maybe we will become a two bid league. Hard to believe how successful we’ve been but also hard to fathom it all ending if you have a top 15 joining and only one bid. Not so say we can’t still win it or beat them just harder.

Does anyone know why we are hosting despite being the 3 seed

Won the MAC last season.

The champion from the previous year gets to host.

Miami has been hosting for many years!

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Miami wins round 1 vs OU 6-1 will play App state tomorrow

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