MAC Sports Blog by VanDelay Sports

There’s no single day where a conference can improve their RPI better than in the Bracket Buster games each year, yet each season the MAC proves why we are a one-bid league. Mediocre showings in the annual Bracket Buster games are becoming expected, and while Akron fought hard at home agains a talented VCU team, the Zips had muliple chances to make a better game of it as they fell to VCU 57-52. The key stat of this game was shooting as Akron was ice-cold all day long. Akron shot 28.3% from the field (13-46) for the game and had just one player, Cedric Middleton (17 points), in double-figures scoring.

The O’Reilly Bracket Busters have begun as Colonial member VCU (20-6, #60 RPI) is in Akron (19-7, #91 RPI) facing the Zips. With an 11 am tip-off, the VCU @ Akron game marks the first game of the day for both the MAC and the Bracket Buster match-ups. At halftime, Keith Dambrot’s Akron team holds a slim 24-23 lead after a sloppy and slow first half from both teams. We’re not sure if VCU Fears the Roo, the 2007 Capital One Mascot of the Year, but what we do know is that we have a good game going on in Akron.

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