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100%Cat
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Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 12:59:21 PM

Just looking at the senior players each squad is losing after this year. A lot of talent is leaving the conference.

Akron: Johnson (MAC POTY), Cheatham

BGSU: Denny, Alcegaire

Buffalo: Hamilton, Conner, Kadiri

Kent St: Edwin, Hall

Miami: no seniors of note lost, but let's see what the Weathers' do with Cooper leaving

Ohio: Kaminski, Campbell (all but certain)

Ball St: House

Central Mich: Keene (draft), Rayson

Eastern Mich: Lee, Mangum, Toney

Northern Ill: Armstead, Maric (has it ever been conformed if he's done or not?)

Toledo: Williams, Taylor, Lauf

Western Mich: Haymond

That list includes 4 of the top 5 scorers in the league. 7 of the top 10 scorers. 3 of the 5 MAC First Teamers for the tournament will be gone. I don't know about anyone else, but to me it feels like a lot of turnover for the top players in the league. And for Akron, who has dominated the East lately, they lose their most experienced bigs in Cheatham and Johnson. They return a lot of parts but the big guys not so much.

Last Edited: 3/20/2017 1:00:02 PM by 100%Cat

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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 1:09:38 PM

100%Cat wrote:

From the Huskies' website final game story: The NIU senior class ended their four seasons in DeKalb with 65 total victories, the second-best four-year total in school history. Marin Maric ended his Huskie career with 27 double-doubles, falling just 11 points shy of 1,000 for his career. Aaric Armstead closed his Huskie career with over 1,000 career points, 600 career rebounds and 150 career assists, he is one of just five active players in Division I to reach those three milestones.

We will return four starters and a guy in Laster who might as well have been starting by year's end. What we will be missing other than Doug is bench help. We NEED Butler and 2 of either Gollon, Vander Plas, Gareri or Dozier to step up. That is unless we get Big Tone back or some stud freshmen, grad transfers or Jucos.

How sweet would it be for the league to lose all these quality big men (Thompson and Wiggins being the lone holdovers) and we return Tone?????? Wishful thinking I know!

Last Edited: 3/20/2017 1:11:59 PM by Bobcat1998

OUVan
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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 1:43:32 PM

100%Cat wrote:

And for Akron, who has dominated the East lately, they lose their most experienced bigs in Cheatham and Johnson. They return a lot of parts but the big guys not so much.

Anybody know what Akron has for a recruiting class coming in? They are in some dire need of some size. They have four guys 6'6" or taller left on the roster and three of those guys are more wing-type players and the other is a big who registered a total of 11 minutes PT in conference play.

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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 2:04:43 PM

OUVan wrote:

100%Cat wrote:

And for Akron, who has dominated the East lately, they lose their most experienced bigs in Cheatham and Johnson. They return a lot of parts but the big guys not so much.

Not that it's gospel, but here's who they are known to have coming in:

http://verbalcommits.com/schools/akron

Also, didn't Hughes play more that 11 minutes?

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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 2:19:05 PM

OU_Country wrote:

Also, didn't Hughes play more that 11 minutes?

Not in conference play. He played 5 minutes total after January 10th. To put that into perspective, that's the same amount of time that Ellis Dozier got over that timeframe.

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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 2:19:53 PM

Bobcat1998 wrote:

The NIU senior class ended their four seasons in DeKalb with 65 total victories, the second-best four-year total in school history.

That's sad.

To put that in context. You have to back to 2003 to find a Senior class at Ohio that had fewer than that. The Tony, Wadley, Khari class had 78 which puts them at 7th for Ohio in the last 15 years.

Last Edited: 3/20/2017 2:26:39 PM by OUVan

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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/20/2017 11:14:28 PM

OUVan wrote:

100%Cat wrote:

And for Akron, who has dominated the East lately, they lose their most experienced bigs in Cheatham and Johnson. They return a lot of parts but the big guys not so much.

I think they have a freshman who looked like he stood in the same buffet line as Big Dog.

100%Cat
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RE: Senior talent leaving the MAC

Posted: 3/21/2017 7:18:38 AM

Roasting Joe wrote:

OUVan wrote:

100%Cat wrote:

And for Akron, who has dominated the East lately, they lose their most experienced bigs in Cheatham and Johnson. They return a lot of parts but the big guys not so much.

I think they have a freshman who looked like he stood in the same buffet line as Big Dog.

On the Zippy board, they complained a lot about Hughes being out of shape. If they said that about Hughes, and not about Lard Dog, you can imagine how out of shape he truly is.

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