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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
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  Message Not Read  2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/24/2025 8:26:06 PM 
First game is 10 days away. What do folks expect?

vs Arkansas State
vs Illinois State
@ Saint Mary's
@ 11 Louisville
vs Bethune-Cookman
vs George Mason *
vs FAU or Loyola Marymount
vs Maine
vs Marshall
vs St. Bonaventure *
vs Ohio Wesleyan
vs Bowling Green
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton
@ Central Michigan
@ Eastern Michigan
vs Massachusetts
vs Buffalo
@ Toledo
@ Ball State
vs Northern Illinois
vs Akron
@ Kent State
@ Buffalo
vs Western Michigan
at Sun Belt Team
@ Miami (OH)
vs Ball State
@ Northern Illinois
vs Toledo
@ Massachusetts
vs Miami (OH)

MAC Tournament

Leaving this one blank so folks can copy & paste. Will post mine below.
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   Posted: 10/24/2025 8:37:32 PM 
vs Arkansas State -- L
vs Illinois State -- L
@ Saint Mary's -- L
@ 11 Louisville -- L
vs Bethune-Cookman -- W
neutral site George Mason * -- L
neutral site FAU or Loyola Marymount -- L
vs Maine -- W
vs Marshall -- W
neutral site St. Bonaventure -- L
vs Ohio Wesleyan -- W
vs Bowling Green -- W
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton -- W
@ Central Michigan -- W
@ Eastern Michigan -- W
vs Massachusetts -- W
vs Buffalo -- W
@ Toledo -- L
@ Ball State -- L
vs Northern Illinois -- W
vs Akron -- L
@ Kent State -- L
@ Buffalo -- W
vs Western Michigan -- W
at Sun Belt Team -- W
@ Miami (OH) -- L
vs Ball State -- W
@ Northern Illinois -- W
vs Toledo -- W
@ Massachusetts -- L
vs Miami (OH) -- L

Overall: 17-14
MAC: 11-7

MAC Tournament -- Win Game 1 as 4 seed, lose in semis
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/24/2025 10:02:56 PM 
vs Arkansas State - L
vs Illinois State - L
@ Saint Mary's - L
@ 11 Louisville - L
vs Bethune-Cookman - W
vs George Mason * - L
vs FAU or Loyola Marymount - W
vs Maine - W
vs Marshall - L
vs St. Bonaventure * - L
vs Ohio Wesleyan - W
vs Bowling Green - W
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton - W
@ Central Michigan - L
@ Eastern Michigan - W
vs Massachusetts - L
vs Buffalo - W
@ Toledo - L
@ Ball State - W
vs Northern Illinois - W
vs Akron - L
@ Kent State - L
@ Buffalo - L
vs Western Michigan - W
at Sun Belt Team - L
@ Miami (OH) - L
vs Ball State - W
@ Northern Illinois - W
vs Toledo - L
@ Massachusetts - L
vs Miami (OH) - W

MAC Tourney 0-1

Total: 14-18, 9-9 in MAC

I said it last year, and I'll say it again this year because it's still true - a team led by Jackson Paveletzke and AJ Clayton/Aidan Hadaway isn't winning the MAC.
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/24/2025 10:35:14 PM 
Another depressing basketball thread. I guess I'll go back to the football forum. It's clear we are now a football school and basketball is kind of a second thought. It sounds like in March, we'll all be saying, is it football season yet?

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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/25/2025 10:34:30 AM 
GraffZ06 wrote:


I said it last year, and I'll say it again this year because it's still true - a team led by Jackson Paveletzke and AJ Clayton/Aidan Hadaway isn't winning the MAC.


Feels like your view of the team has changed quite a bit. I kind of remember you spending a lot of last year as one of Boals' most vocal defenders and chalking up the lack of results to bad luck. You said this in February of last season:

GraffZ06 wrote:

You don't think an Ohio team with Pavs/Mitchell/Brown/Hadaway/Clayton as it's healthy starting 5 and a combo of Sheldon/Elliott/James/Searls off the bench isn't a top 1/2 team in the MAC? We'll never know because we never got to see it, but the only team that could even remotely hang with that team is Akron IMO.


Sounds like you thought they were the most talented team in the league, no? And in the thread about Boals' record against Kent, Akron, and Toledo you were still suggesting we could win the conference tournament in mid February.

Seems like you've finally come around to the critiques of Boals' roster construction. Welcome to the dark side.

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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/25/2025 12:41:59 PM 
We were the most talented team, when healthy, last year. Shoot, we might have the best collection of talent this year too. Doesn't help though, that no matter what combinatorics you try - there isn't a group of 5 that actually compliments each other well.

Pavs/Mitchell/Brown/Hadaway/Clayton > Pavs/Sheldon/Elliott/Hadaway/Simmons

And off the bench Elliott/Sheldon/EJ4/Searls > Conners/Breath/.....?


I still think Boals is a great coach. I think our current roster construction is....head scratching. I think we lost a ton of talent from an under-performing team last year, and replaced it with a lot of talented, but young unknowns (Fisher/Kelly/Burris/Mosley) who don't look ready YET.

Combine that with what was an absolutely embarrassing performance against a middling, lower level WSU team (even as a scrimmage) - and I don't see how we don't take a step back this year.

Even last year I was begging to move Elliott to his natural guard position and fill the SG spot with a true 3pt shooter, and then go bigger at 3/4/5 to help with defense and rebounding (but that moves boy wonder to the bench). Nobody liked that idea. We have the same dang problem this year - only the guys who need to fill that shooter role are all unknowns right now (Conners/Burris/Fisher/Kelly).

Now if 2 or 3 of that group of 4 I just listed emerge and are capable of being that shooter, and can defend/rebound well enough to get significant minutes? I think that changes the entire equation. They become the missing ingredients that allow pieces to fit - and allows our talent to naturally come to the forefront. That hypothetical team could challenge for the MAC. My brain just doesn't believe it until I see it.
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/25/2025 3:36:29 PM 
GraffZ06 wrote:
We were the most talented team, when healthy, last year. Shoot, we might have the best collection of talent this year too. Doesn't help though, that no matter what combinatorics you try - there isn't a group of 5 that actually compliments each other well.



I'm not really following. You spent the entire year pushing back against people saying that exact thing -- that the roster construction made no sense -- and insisting that if we were healthy, we'd have been a top team. Now you're saying that the talent didn't matter, because of the roster construction. That's what everyone was saying last year and you were arguing against.


GraffZ06 wrote:

Even last year I was begging to move Elliott to his natural guard position and fill the SG spot with a true 3pt shooter, and then go bigger at 3/4/5 to help with defense and rebounding (but that moves boy wonder to the bench). Nobody liked that idea.


Who would have been the bigger option at the 3 last year? Elliot/AJB (presumably the shooter)/???/Hadaway (for the brief stretch he was healthy) / Clayton. Who was on the roster that allowed for that option?
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/26/2025 12:21:45 AM 
vs Arkansas State -- W
vs Illinois State -- L
@ Saint Mary's -- L
@ 11 Louisville -- L
vs Bethune-Cookman -- W
neutral site George Mason * -- L
neutral site FAU or Loyola Marymount -- W
vs Maine -- W
vs Marshall -- W Let's GOOOOOOOOOO!!!
neutral site St. Bonaventure -- W
vs Ohio Wesleyan -- W
vs Bowling Green -- W
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton -- W
@ Central Michigan -- L
@ Eastern Michigan -- W
vs Massachusetts -- W
vs Buffalo -- W
@ Toledo -- L
@ Ball State -- W
vs Northern Illinois -- W
vs Akron -- W
@ Kent State -- L
@ Buffalo -- W
vs Western Michigan -- W
at Sun Belt Team -- W
@ Miami (OH) -- L
vs Ball State -- W
@ Northern Illinois -- W
vs Toledo -- W
@ Massachusetts -- L
vs Miami (OH) -- W

Overall: 22-9
MAC: 13-5
Boals finds 2 3pt shooters out of Pavs, Conners, Sheldon or Burris and finishes strong.
MAC Tournament Champs Baby!
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/26/2025 9:48:52 AM 
I would love a sweep vs Fiami. But 22-9 even with a split isn't bad.
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/26/2025 2:57:05 PM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
GraffZ06 wrote:
We were the most talented team, when healthy, last year. Shoot, we might have the best collection of talent this year too. Doesn't help though, that no matter what combinatorics you try - there isn't a group of 5 that actually compliments each other well.



I'm not really following. You spent the entire year pushing back against people saying that exact thing -- that the roster construction made no sense -- and insisting that if we were healthy, we'd have been a top team. Now you're saying that the talent didn't matter, because of the roster construction. That's what everyone was saying last year and you were arguing against.


GraffZ06 wrote:

Even last year I was begging to move Elliott to his natural guard position and fill the SG spot with a true 3pt shooter, and then go bigger at 3/4/5 to help with defense and rebounding (but that moves boy wonder to the bench). Nobody liked that idea.


Who would have been the bigger option at the 3 last year? Elliot/AJB (presumably the shooter)/???/Hadaway (for the brief stretch he was healthy) / Clayton. Who was on the roster that allowed for that option?




And it’s basketball season. Graff contradicting himself and hating Pavs.
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   Posted: 10/27/2025 1:06:18 AM 
FJC31 wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
GraffZ06 wrote:
We were the most talented team, when healthy, last year. Shoot, we might have the best collection of talent this year too. Doesn't help though, that no matter what combinatorics you try - there isn't a group of 5 that actually compliments each other well.



I'm not really following. You spent the entire year pushing back against people saying that exact thing -- that the roster construction made no sense -- and insisting that if we were healthy, we'd have been a top team. Now you're saying that the talent didn't matter, because of the roster construction. That's what everyone was saying last year and you were arguing against.


GraffZ06 wrote:

Even last year I was begging to move Elliott to his natural guard position and fill the SG spot with a true 3pt shooter, and then go bigger at 3/4/5 to help with defense and rebounding (but that moves boy wonder to the bench). Nobody liked that idea.


Who would have been the bigger option at the 3 last year? Elliot/AJB (presumably the shooter)/???/Hadaway (for the brief stretch he was healthy) / Clayton. Who was on the roster that allowed for that option?




And it’s basketball season. Graff contradicting himself and hating Pavs.


How am I contradicting myself? Compare what I wrote in this thread above and what I wrote at the end of last season in the "Breaking Down the Disappointment" thread.

GraffZ06 wrote:

Definitely a frustrating and disappointing season.

This team was hard to watch because they never did the little things, or important things, required to win well. Defense. Rebounding.

They were never healthy at the same time.

They never really got on a roll.

And at times it seemed even Boals was frustrated with the play - but even moreso - the lack of a true leader.

We had a bunch of really nice guys who will go on to great success in life. That's more important than basketball. But for this basketball season it just wasn't enough.

Not making the semis in Cleveland shouldn't be acceptable. Boals needs to put a team together that makes it to Saturday next year. Otherwise, 26-27 could get interesting as far as his job.

Also, Vic Searls needed to play more. He was our best big this year. Sure, he turned the ball over 3 times a night. So did half our guards.

As for offseason departures we know we're losing Clayton, Searls, Reef. I think it's possible we see Nicol move down a level, or that Ajay Sheldon moves somewhere else - but honestly, the one guy I can see transferring right now is Elmore James. The next guy might be Pavs.

Regardless, when looking at the roster, I think we see a MUCH different team next year. Especially if we land a big in the portal.

Hypothetical world where EJ4 is the only remaining departure. Here would be my ideal lineup for next year:

PG - Elijah Elliott - 6'3 So
SG - AJ Brown - 6'4 Jr
SF - JJ Kelly - 6'6 Fr (Dude looks like a freak)
PF - Aidan Hadaway - 6'8 Sr
C - Portal TBD

PG - Pavs - 5'10 Sr
SG - Jordan Fisher - 6'5 Fr (Can he develop into that Nick Kellogg role?)
SF - Jesse Burris - 6'5 Fr (He's better than ppl credit but gets forgotten)
PF - Kiir Kuany - 6'9 Fr (I think he could be our best backup big)
C - Ayden Evans - 6'9 So (He makes a jump next year, at least on D)

G - Ajay Sheldon
F - Zay Mosley (He could fight for minutes. Seems like an undersized PF to me)
F - Ben Nicol

I see 3 ballhandlers (Elliott, Pavs, Sheldon)
3-4 good and athletic wings (Elliott, Brown, Kelly, Fisher)
And 4-5 bigs (Hadaway, TBD, Kuany, Evans, Mosley)

That roster is going to have a LOT of new faces and a lot of new guys getting minutes. That means we won't be pre-season picked for anything (fine by me) and we should improve over the season (fine by me). And honestly, given how poor this season's team was, I'm good with next year looking drastically different.


https://bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=...

That post was from March 14, before the departure of Brown and before the transfer in of Simmons, Breath and Conners.

With the new additions, my lineup above gets modified into:

PG - Elijah Elliott - 6'3 So
SG - (insert best shooter of Conners/Burris/Fisher - default option seems to be Conners based on experience and defense so far)
SF - JJ Kelly - 6'6 Fr (Boals obviously doesn't think he's ready yet. Based on fit/skills he's the best option for this position IMO but likely won't be starting there Game 1 vs. Ark State - hopefully he gets enough minutes to grow and be the guy here come March).
PF - Aidan Hadaway - 6'8 Sr
C - (insert either Javan "Burrito Buggy" Simmons, but he's not a true 5 - or Jalen Breath). Neither of those fit what I wanted out of an All-MAC center. We needed a DW3. At least Breath can play defense and rebound.

*Side Note: I said it as soon as we landed Simmons. I like the player (before he showed up 30 lbs overweight). The problem is "fit". He's a PF not a C. Problem is - so is Hadaway. Aidan is a PF not a SF. So now we're either playing one/both of them out of position, or relegating one of them to the bench when in reality they're 2 of the 5 most "talented" players on the team.

PG - Pavs - 5'10 Sr
SG - Ajay Sheldon - 6'0 Sr (Fisher would be my ideal backup, but similar to Kelly he doesn't look ready yet in limited scrimmage minutes - defaults to Sheldon, or can STAY Sheldon if he magically regains his shooting stroke)
SF - Jesse Burris - 6'5 Fr (He can shoot and he can rebound. Can he defend?)
PF - Kiir Kuany - 6'9 Fr (Mr. Zany Energy. Both good and bad. He'll both get a dunk and trip over himself 3 times and foul out in 8 minutes)
C - (the 2nd option of Simmons/Breath)

C - Ayden Evans - 6'9 So
SG - Jordan Fisher - 6'3 Fr

The difference is, even in my new lineup above, I don't think that roster is good enough to win the MAC this year. A lineup of Elliott/Reef/Brown/Hadaway/Clayton (when healthy and if they actually played this lineup) had the talent to win it all last year. Boals never went to it, and we were never healthy together. It didn't happen.

Bottom line is March in Cleveland. Whatever lineup we roll out there, we make it to Saturday and Boals gets another year. We win it all and Boals gets another 3-4 years. We don't make it to Saturday and his seat is hot/in question IMO.

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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/27/2025 1:55:36 AM 
Judging by the first games? No, I don't play that kind of game anymore. :D
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   Posted: 10/27/2025 9:35:04 AM 

Last Edited: 10/27/2025 9:36:07 AM by FJC31
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  Message Not Read  RE: 2025 - 2026 Season Predictions
   Posted: 10/27/2025 9:37:39 AM 
GraffZ06 wrote:
FJC31 wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
GraffZ06 wrote:
We were the most talented team, when healthy, last year. Shoot, we might have the best collection of talent this year too. Doesn't help though, that no matter what combinatorics you try - there isn't a group of 5 that actually compliments each other well.



I'm not really following. You spent the entire year pushing back against people saying that exact thing -- that the roster construction made no sense -- and insisting that if we were healthy, we'd have been a top team. Now you're saying that the talent didn't matter, because of the roster construction. That's what everyone was saying last year and you were arguing against.


GraffZ06 wrote:

Even last year I was begging to move Elliott to his natural guard position and fill the SG spot with a true 3pt shooter, and then go bigger at 3/4/5 to help with defense and rebounding (but that moves boy wonder to the bench). Nobody liked that idea.


Who would have been the bigger option at the 3 last year? Elliot/AJB (presumably the shooter)/???/Hadaway (for the brief stretch he was healthy) / Clayton. Who was on the roster that allowed for that option?




And it’s basketball season. Graff contradicting himself and hating Pavs.


How am I contradicting myself? Compare what I wrote in this thread above and what I wrote at the end of last season in the "Breaking Down the Disappointment" thread.

GraffZ06 wrote:

Definitely a frustrating and disappointing season.

This team was hard to watch because they never did the little things, or important things, required to win well. Defense. Rebounding.

They were never healthy at the same time.

They never really got on a roll.

And at times it seemed even Boals was frustrated with the play - but even moreso - the lack of a true leader.

We had a bunch of really nice guys who will go on to great success in life. That's more important than basketball. But for this basketball season it just wasn't enough.

Not making the semis in Cleveland shouldn't be acceptable. Boals needs to put a team together that makes it to Saturday next year. Otherwise, 26-27 could get interesting as far as his job.

Also, Vic Searls needed to play more. He was our best big this year. Sure, he turned the ball over 3 times a night. So did half our guards.

As for offseason departures we know we're losing Clayton, Searls, Reef. I think it's possible we see Nicol move down a level, or that Ajay Sheldon moves somewhere else - but honestly, the one guy I can see transferring right now is Elmore James. The next guy might be Pavs.

Regardless, when looking at the roster, I think we see a MUCH different team next year. Especially if we land a big in the portal.

Hypothetical world where EJ4 is the only remaining departure. Here would be my ideal lineup for next year:

PG - Elijah Elliott - 6'3 So
SG - AJ Brown - 6'4 Jr
SF - JJ Kelly - 6'6 Fr (Dude looks like a freak)
PF - Aidan Hadaway - 6'8 Sr
C - Portal TBD

PG - Pavs - 5'10 Sr
SG - Jordan Fisher - 6'5 Fr (Can he develop into that Nick Kellogg role?)
SF - Jesse Burris - 6'5 Fr (He's better than ppl credit but gets forgotten)
PF - Kiir Kuany - 6'9 Fr (I think he could be our best backup big)
C - Ayden Evans - 6'9 So (He makes a jump next year, at least on D)

G - Ajay Sheldon
F - Zay Mosley (He could fight for minutes. Seems like an undersized PF to me)
F - Ben Nicol

I see 3 ballhandlers (Elliott, Pavs, Sheldon)
3-4 good and athletic wings (Elliott, Brown, Kelly, Fisher)
And 4-5 bigs (Hadaway, TBD, Kuany, Evans, Mosley)

That roster is going to have a LOT of new faces and a lot of new guys getting minutes. That means we won't be pre-season picked for anything (fine by me) and we should improve over the season (fine by me). And honestly, given how poor this season's team was, I'm good with next year looking drastically different.


https://bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=...

That post was from March 14, before the departure of Brown and before the transfer in of Simmons, Breath and Conners.

With the new additions, my lineup above gets modified into:

PG - Elijah Elliott - 6'3 So
SG - (insert best shooter of Conners/Burris/Fisher - default option seems to be Conners based on experience and defense so far)
SF - JJ Kelly - 6'6 Fr (Boals obviously doesn't think he's ready yet. Based on fit/skills he's the best option for this position IMO but likely won't be starting there Game 1 vs. Ark State - hopefully he gets enough minutes to grow and be the guy here come March).
PF - Aidan Hadaway - 6'8 Sr
C - (insert either Javan "Burrito Buggy" Simmons, but he's not a true 5 - or Jalen Breath). Neither of those fit what I wanted out of an All-MAC center. We needed a DW3. At least Breath can play defense and rebound.

*Side Note: I said it as soon as we landed Simmons. I like the player (before he showed up 30 lbs overweight). The problem is "fit". He's a PF not a C. Problem is - so is Hadaway. Aidan is a PF not a SF. So now we're either playing one/both of them out of position, or relegating one of them to the bench when in reality they're 2 of the 5 most "talented" players on the team.

PG - Pavs - 5'10 Sr
SG - Ajay Sheldon - 6'0 Sr (Fisher would be my ideal backup, but similar to Kelly he doesn't look ready yet in limited scrimmage minutes - defaults to Sheldon, or can STAY Sheldon if he magically regains his shooting stroke)
SF - Jesse Burris - 6'5 Fr (He can shoot and he can rebound. Can he defend?)
PF - Kiir Kuany - 6'9 Fr (Mr. Zany Energy. Both good and bad. He'll both get a dunk and trip over himself 3 times and foul out in 8 minutes)
C - (the 2nd option of Simmons/Breath)

C - Ayden Evans - 6'9 So
SG - Jordan Fisher - 6'3 Fr

The difference is, even in my new lineup above, I don't think that roster is good enough to win the MAC this year. A lineup of Elliott/Reef/Brown/Hadaway/Clayton (when healthy and if they actually played this lineup) had the talent to win it all last year. Boals never went to it, and we were never healthy together. It didn't happen.

Bottom line is March in Cleveland. Whatever lineup we roll out there, we make it to Saturday and Boals gets another year. We win it all and Boals gets another 3-4 years. We don't make it to Saturday and his seat is hot/in question IMO.


Literally, this ->

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
GraffZ06 wrote:
We were the most talented team, when healthy, last year. Shoot, we might have the best collection of talent this year too. Doesn't help though, that no matter what combinatorics you try - there isn't a group of 5 that actually compliments each other well.



I'm not really following. You spent the entire year pushing back against people saying that exact thing -- that the roster construction made no sense -- and insisting that if we were healthy, we'd have been a top team. Now you're saying that the talent didn't matter, because of the roster construction. That's what everyone was saying last year and you were arguing against.



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   Posted: 10/27/2025 9:45:14 AM 
My hopeless optimism for this program is that this team figures it out despite the rough exhibition showings. I also don't think there's a dominant team this season.

vs Arkansas State - W
vs Illinois State - W
@ Saint Mary's - L
@ 11 Louisville - L
vs Bethune-Cookman - W
vs George Mason * - L
vs FAU or Loyola Marymount - W
vs Maine - W
vs Marshall - W
vs St. Bonaventure * - L
vs Ohio Wesleyan - W
vs Bowling Green - W
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton -W
@ Central Michigan - L
@ Eastern Michigan - W
vs Massachusetts - W
vs Buffalo - W
@ Toledo - L
@ Ball State - W
vs Northern Illinois - W
vs Akron - W
@ Kent State - L
@ Buffalo - W
vs Western Michigan W
at Sun Belt Team - L
@ Miami (OH) - L
vs Ball State - W
@ Northern Illinois -W
vs Toledo - W
@ Massachusetts - L
vs Miami (OH) - W

Record: 21-10, MAC: 12-6

MAC Tournament: MAC finals appearance.

Lineup prediction - JJ Kelly makes his way into the starting 5 by MAC play since he's the only ready looking natural 3 on the roster.

Last Edited: 10/27/2025 9:45:41 AM by FJC31
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   Posted: 10/27/2025 9:46:31 AM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Another depressing basketball thread. I guess I'll go back to the football forum. It's clear we are now a football school and basketball is kind of a second thought. It sounds like in March, we'll all be saying, is it football season yet?


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   Posted: 10/27/2025 10:39:13 AM 
vs Arkansas State L
vs Illinois State L
@ Saint Mary's L
@ 11 Louisville L
vs Bethune-Cookman W
vs George Mason * L
vs FAU or Loyola Marymount L
vs Maine W
vs Marshall L
vs St. Bonaventure L
vs Ohio Wesleyan W
vs Bowling Green L
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton W
@ Central Michigan W
@ Eastern Michigan W
vs Massachusetts L
vs Buffalo W
@ Toledo L
@ Ball State W
vs Northern Illinois W
vs Akron L
@ Kent State L
@ Buffalo W
vs Western Michigan L
at Sun Belt Team L
@ Miami (OH) L
vs Ball State W
@ Northern Illinois W
vs Toledo L
@ Massachusetts L
vs Miami (OH) L

MAC Tournament
First Round KO by Akron

Record: 12-20 (7-11)

Is there talent with this group? I believe there is. However, until we carry a MACk Truck (pun intended) in the middle and ultimately mesh as a unit, this group will struggle like no other, especially in Cleveland. I believe this could be a group that could put together something late down the stretch. Otherwise, I expect a very long November and a short March for our boys.....

Last Edited: 10/27/2025 10:42:02 AM by Buckeye to Bobcat
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   Posted: 10/27/2025 1:05:03 PM 
vs Arkansas State - W
vs Illinois State - W
@ Saint Mary's - L
@ 11 Louisville - L
vs Bethune-Cookman - W
vs George Mason - L
vs FAU or Loyola Marymount - W
vs Maine - W
vs Marshall - L
vs St. Bonaventure - W
vs Ohio Wesleyan - W
vs Bowling Green - W
vs Miami (OH)-Hamilton - W
@ Central Michigan - W
@ Eastern Michigan - L
vs Massachusetts - L
vs Buffalo - W
@ Toledo - L
@ Ball State - W
vs Northern Illinois - W
vs Akron - W
@ Kent State - L
@ Buffalo - W
vs Western Michigan - W
at Sun Belt Team - L
@ Miami (OH) - L
vs Ball State - W
@ Northern Illinois - W
vs Toledo - L
@ Massachusetts - L
vs Miami (OH) - W

19-12

MAC Tournament - Advance to semifinals

Basing this fully on the fact that those games we've seen were just scrimmages and Boals is still trying to tinker with lineups, matchups, etc. The talent is too good to go below .500 in a mediocre MAC.
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