Toledo Rockets at Eastern Michigan in Pictures

When I wrote up my season preview for the Eagles, I was thinking that they would be making some noise in the MAC. With three seniors and two pretty exciting other starters from last year, I thought they would find themselves in a position with a first round bye. After starting MAC play at 4 and 1, I was feeling like my thoughts were being confirmed.

After losses at Akron and Ball State, they beat Miami pretty soundly and I thought that maybe they had righted the ship. Then they went on a seven game losing streak. That pretty much ended any hopes of a first round bye.

With the pretty sound beatings of Northern Illinois and Central Michigan, I thought the Eagles were in a pretty good shape to beat Toledo and secure home court for the first MAC Tournament game. I was a little bummed to see them in the position of having to win a game in order to have a chance to play at home one more time. It seems like that has been the them since I started photographing at Eastern Michigan games.

After a pretty back and forth first half, it looked like Eastern Michigan was going to beat Toledo and secure that home game. They managed to continue it into the second half but then Toledo got a tiny lead that they managed to hold. Fortunately, Bowling Green and Northern Illinois lost which means that Eastern Michigan’s first game will be in Ypsilanti.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures.

Grid View

• Raven Lee launches a shot Kenneth Bailey
• Raven Lee ignites the crowd with a nice dunk. Kenneth Bailey
• Raven Lee levitates the ball on his hand.
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• Raven Lee going to the basket.
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• It almost looked like a reverse dunk by James Thompson Kenneth Bailey
• Tim Bond launching the shot
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• Would have been a nice shot, but the whistle blew.
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• Swoop!
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• One of the Toledo players worms through the defense for a basket.
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• Ty Toney gets the ball stripped as he goes for the basket.
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• Raven Lee launching a shot
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• James Thompson launches the two.
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• Tim Bond gets mugged on the way to the basket.
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• Ty Toney launching a layup.
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• Have you ever considered decaf? There’s lots of good brands these days.
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• Ty Toney sets up a nice shot for me.
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• Another nice shot courtesy of Ty Toney. Kenneth Bailey
• Coach Murphy drawing up plans for the game.
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• Tim Bond at the charity stripe.
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• Willie Mangum puts up a shot.
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• Willie Mangum going for the nice layup. Kenneth Bailey
• James Thompson with the dunk. Kenneth Bailey
• Tim Bond launching the two...
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• Tim Bond launches the last second shot...only to have it clank off the rim.
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