This is the End

Our last two conference tourneys get under way on  Thursday and then Saturday. Some MAC-tion and Ivy to finish this year off.

It hurts to set you free

But you’ll never follow me

The end of laughter and soft lies

The end of nights we tried to die

This is the end.

MAC- From Cleveland, comes MAC-tion. The sadness of this league is enough to make a clown cry. Akron won the league at 17-1 and is 100 in KenPom. Miami, OH finished 2nd but is 160 in KenPom. College roommates kid goes there, so that’s something.

Kent State is the 2nd best team in the league according to KenPom, 129th overall with Ohio at 196 rounding out the teams in the KenPom top 200. The pick is Akron, hoping the best team comes out of here but that doesn’t happen here often. In fact, since 2019, no regular season champ has won the league tourney.

IVY- The smart kids have their 4-team playoff beginning this Saturday in Providence. Can’t be that smart if you’re playing this thing in Providence, eh?

Anyway, Yale coasted to the title, going 13-1. They did lose last week to Harvard who sucks this year but you throw the records out and all that jazz in rivalry games. They’re 72 in KenPom. 

Nicely, the other 3 teams in this are all top-200 in KenPom but Cornell is 2nd at 132 and Princeton and freaking Dartmouth are 182 and 193. Not quite at Yale’s status. Dartmouth hasn’t been to the tournament since 1959.

The pick is Yale who feels like a team Maryland doesn’t want anything to do with next week