The Futon Report

As the regular season comes to a close, we look at the finales of this year’s Mid-American Conference basketball season.

Kent State 61, Akron 58 ◼ This was quite possibly the most noxiously oxidized finish to a MAC game this year. Three 3-point field goals were drilled in the final 21 seconds, one by Akron’s Nick Dials to cut the lead to 3, one by Jeremiah Wood to tie the game with 8 seconds remaining, then a bucket by Kent State’s Al Fisher to seal the game with 2 seconds left.

Considering the rest of the game was slightly blasé — oh look, Kent’s pulling away again — it was good to see that final collapse followed by Fisher’s dramatic OMG THAT JUZT HAPND moment. Read more

The Greg Stempin Variety Hour is the periodical celebration of excellence and existence of MAC basketball.

The story this year has been teams going on the road and losing nine out of 10 times. No exaggeration. After last Saturday, the home team was 32-4 in conference play. But Wednesday night the home team as 1-3. The exception? Of course it was Toledo. Read more