It was an afternoon full of conference hoops at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Mid-American Conference hosted the first day of games in its new eight-team format.
Under the new format, all eight teams play on the first day, as opposed to the top four seeds gaining BYEs into the next round. In previous seasons, all 12 teams made the tournament and played in a “campus round” prior to going to Cleveland.
The action started at 11 a.m. on Friday morning, and went all the way to X;XX p.m. the same evening.
Here are the results from today’s quarterfinal action:
#1 Bowling Green Falcons 63, #8 Eastern Michigan Eagles 47
It was a tale of two halves in this Battle of the Birds, as EMU initially ran away with control of the game, holding BGSU to a paltry 24 percent from the floor in the first half (including just 18 percent from three-point range,) before the Falcons buckled down on defense and found their shooting stride to leave the Eagles stunned in a 63-47 victory.