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.

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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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Lost to App State 3-2 in overtime. I assume this means the end of the season, because I doubt the #3 MAC team is getting an at-large, no matter our history.

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???

We beat App State. We’re going to the championship on Saturday.

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More Cure Bowl revenge

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Excellent news:

https://x.com/thereportohio/status/1855351780214702412?s=61

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As skin66 would say “yea us”

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Take that you goofy affiliate members. Miami still rules the MAC.

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Before today’s commanding 3-0 victory over #37 JMU, Miami had an RPI of 26. It’s an 18-team tournament. Would be extremely awesome to avoid the first round and get a bye into the round of 16.

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I will speak for myself, YEA US!

What a program. Has to be a record for championships won in a row. Possibly women’s tennis has won more but maybe not.

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Dynasty! Always knew we were a hockey school!!!

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Champions 7 years in a row. We walked down to the field hockey stadium after basketball and watched the second half. A lot of James Madison player’s family there, so a standing room crowd.

All our stars are 4th or 5th year players, wonder if we can win again next year? We outscored the opposition 12-3 in winning the 34 tournament games.

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Michigan beat undefeated Northwestern to win the B1G title. Is another trip to Evanston in our future?

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Normally I don’t like play-in games, but I would not mind Miami hosting one of the two play-in games.

Facing Vermont (RPI 39) in 1st round. Winner faces…yeah, you all know the drill.

Miami has higher RPI (26), but I think all games are at home of the region seed?