Welcome Guest! Create an Account login email: password: remember me: BASKETBALLFOOTBALLMESSAGE BOARDCHATLINKS site searchcontact usabout usadvertise with ushelp Message Board BobcatAttack.com Message Board Ohio Basketball Topic:  REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST??? Topic:  REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST??? Author Message OUcat General User Member Since: 10/13/2011 Post Count: 207 Status: Offline     REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 11/27/2025 10:59:47 PM  While it's obvious the Bobcats have not played as most predicted/expected, who thinks MAC play will see Ohio regroup a bit and who thinks otherwise? Records aside here is how things look to me. Tier 1 -- Akron is clear No. 1 Tier 2 -- Miami is clear but suspect No. 2 Tier 3 -- Buffalo, Kent, Toledo, Eastern are mid-pack. Tier. 4 -- Bowling Green, UMass, Ohio are still unknowns. Tier 5 -- NIU, CMU, WMU, Ball State bring up the rear. My questions reside with Tier 3 and Tier 4. (1) It will be interesting to see if any Tier 3 teams become a title threat by the end of January. Or, will Akron and Miami quickly separate. (2) Can/Will any one or more Tier 4 team rise to Tier 3, turning the chase for 6-7-8 seed in the MAC Tournament into a dog fight. Individually speaking, still have questions about Kent as they have yet to play a true road game. Also question if BG can put it together for the long haul. I think UB and EMU - unexpectedly - look capable of earning a Top 4 MAC Tournament seed. But time will tell. To my knowledge Kent is the only team so far that has lost a key player (Sumlin) for the season to (foot) injury. We'll see if injury bug hits anyone else before MAC play begins. As for the Bobcats, the road looks rough. But pedigree in the MAC usually means something. Can't lose more than two home games to have a shot at a .500 MAC season. And there are a couple of winnable road games if this team is up to the task. The season is not lost. Target now should be Cleveland or Bust!! Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 15,248 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 11/27/2025 11:41:09 PM  My predictions: UMass will rise to Tier2 in conference play; and my beloved Bobcats will sink to the bottom Tier. I hope I'm wrong, but the MAC top to bottom looks like it is stronger this year than it's been in awhile, and OHIO looks like a bunch of guys playing pickup ball at Ping. Speaking of playing pickup ball at Ping, my sources tell me that Quinn Corna is enrolled at OHIO again, and has been spotted there this year jacking up and making threes at an incredible high percentage. Perhaps a return of this living legend could give the Bobcats the spark that they need! After all he further honed his Duke-level BBIQ last year at OWU and scored a career high of 12 points against #1 ranked Trine University. The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top bobcat 2000 General User Member Since: 1/21/2006 Post Count: 247 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/16/2025 3:50:36 PM  Umass is like a lot of teams that had a great coach who made the team into a national power. then these teams lost their great coaches and became a middle of the pack team at best. Unlv was a team that won national championships when tarkanion was coach. then he left and unlv has,nt been close to that since. same goes for indiana and bobby knight. of course when jhon calipari coached umass they were a national power too. then calipari left and umass has not been anywhere near that level since. in this day i gotta wonder how long LOU Rowe and Marcus camby would have stayed at umass before hitting the transfer portal to hope fully play for team like Kansas. Back to Top GoCats105 General User Member Since: 1/31/2006 Location: Seattle, WA Post Count: 7,626 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/16/2025 6:28:06 PM  bobcat 2000 wrote: Umass is like a lot of teams that had a great coach who made the team into a national power. then these teams lost their great coaches and became a middle of the pack team at best. Unlv was a team that won national championships when tarkanion was coach. then he left and unlv has,nt been close to that since. same goes for indiana and bobby knight. of course when jhon calipari coached umass they were a national power too. then calipari left and umass has not been anywhere near that level since. in this day i gotta wonder how long LOU Rowe and Marcus camby would have stayed at umass before hitting the transfer portal to hope fully play for team like Kansas. Hey you made some sense with this one. Since UNLV's title in 1990: UNLV - 9 NCAA Tournament appearances (last was in 2013), 4 conference tournament championships UMass- 8 NCAA Tournament appearances (last was in 2014 after a 16 year drought), 5 conference tournament championships Back to Top M.D.W.S.T General User Member Since: 12/23/2021 Post Count: 3,321 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/17/2025 9:33:42 AM  It's always Cleveland or Bust. I'm not sold on Miami being anything more than a middle tier team. They're winning with the worst schedule in the country. Dead last. Incredible schedule, honestly. But the hype around them shows why I chose having an ass schedule vs having a Top 35 schedule in that poll. MU v Maine: 93 - 61 OU v Maine: 79 - 57 It's hard to find much more via common opponents, but OU also beat Marshall, who beat Wright State by 2, who hung with Miami to the end last night. They're hardly a world beater. They're a team that couldn't shake a below .500 team all night. Last Edited: 12/17/2025 9:34:31 AM by M.D.W.S.T Back to Top The Optimist General User Member Since: 3/16/2007 Location: CLE Post Count: 5,602 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/17/2025 1:06:59 PM  Cleveland is always the goal, but the year is still young. Rough start but we are starting conference play on a 4-game winning streak I've seen crazier things happen. Back to Top Ohio69 General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 3,090 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/18/2025 3:51:10 PM  The entire MAC is always Cleveland or Bust..... That could change if 2 schools load up some NIL funds but I'm not holding my breath. Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?..... Back to Top MonroeClassmate General User Member Since: 8/31/2010 Post Count: 2,262 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/18/2025 5:50:25 PM  My top four pick: Zips Flashes UMass Bulls/OHIO tie Once Miami starts losing it will go downhill fast for them. Back to Top Bobcat1996 General User Member Since: 1/2/2017 Post Count: 1,138 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/21/2025 9:43:48 PM  Miami will end up ahead of the Bobcats in the regular season standings. The above forecast has them outside of the top five. That won’t happen. Back to Top bobcatsquared General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 5,638 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/21/2025 10:31:10 PM  Miami's PG Ipsarro injured yesterday, out for the year. Back to Top OUcat General User Member Since: 10/13/2011 Post Count: 207 Status: Offline     RE: REALISTICALLY --- IS IT CLEVELAND OR BUST???    Posted: 12/23/2025 7:41:23 PM  As of 12/23/25 .. the MAC guess is: Akron Miami BG Buffalo KENT UMass Toledo Ohio-EMU WMU NIU CMU BSU The top 2 in that second group look to be MAC Tournament locks, shy of any meaningful injury issues. The last 2 look to be fighting for the last MAC Tournament slot ... which makes hed-to-hed matchups critical. The last 4 teams are who the are. 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