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The Western Michigan Broncos defeated the Toledo Rockets 98-77 for the 2014 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Tournament championship. How has the Twitter-verse reacted to the news? Let's take a look...
Picture is worth 1,000 words and one ticket to the Dance!! @ESPNCBB @NCAA Quite the #ViewfromtheQ pic.twitter.com/hUZij0r1zc
— WMU Men's Basketball (@WMUMBB) March 16, 2014
Pretty sweet celebration! Here's congratulations from the MAC...
Congratulations to @WMUMBB, 2014 MAC Men’s Basketball Tournament Champions! #MACtion pic.twitter.com/ghZbOPDvdh
— MAC Sports (@MACSports) March 16, 2014
You can't argue with this logic...
Michigan, Michigan State, and Western Michigan making strong case that best hoops in America right now coming from the Mitten State
— Haskell Shelton (@Haskdog) March 16, 2014
And ESPN chimed in with a word of congratulations, too...
Western Michigan gets an invite to the party! Broncos rout Toledo 98-77 to win the MAC's auto-bid. pic.twitter.com/wQItSzPGjc
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 16, 2014
As for this? We can only hope...we can only hope.
I can see the headlines now: "BUSTER BRONCO BUSTS BRACKETS: Western Michigan Beats Odds, All Opponents to Win National Championship"
— Molly B-E (@mocarbe) March 16, 2014
And how about Toledo? Yes, fans are disappointed, but here's some perspective...
#Toledo fans...Chill out. @UTRocketHoops goes from 4 wins to 27 wins in 4 years...more wins coming...
— Norm Wamer (@normwamer) March 16, 2014
Perspective, mixed with sad reality.
Toledo with 27 wins and high 30s rpi reminds me a lot of Ohio's 1995 resume. Good enough for severe disappointment Sunday night.
— Pete Chouteau (@columbusiceguy) March 16, 2014
And finally, the truth. Toledo's now on a 35-year streak with no NCAA appearances.
This is one heartbroken Toledo Rockets fan. My dream of seeing Toledo in the NCAA tournament will have to wait at least another year.
— Torey Hickman (@toreyhickman) March 16, 2014