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Toledo vs Central Michigan College Basketball Prediction, Game Preview

Toledo vs Central Michigan prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might – or might not – win on Thursday.

Toledo vs Central Michigan prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch: Thursday, March 10

Toledo vs Central Michigan How To Watch

Date: Thursday, March 10
Game Time: 11:00 ET
Venue: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, Cleveland, OH
How To Watch: ESPN+
Record: Toledo (25-6), Central Michigan (7-22)
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Toledo vs Central Michigan Game Preview, MAC Tournament

Why Central Michigan Will Win

It’s been a rough run for the Chippewas with eight losses in the last ninth games in the midst of an ugly season, but they pushed a strong Toledo team in a 68-66 loss in mid-February.

The defense isn’t all that bad at forcing mistakes, and the offense works as long as the backcourt is doing a good job of spreading the ball around and doing things quickly. Toledo’s defense doesn’t force mistakes and come up with turnovers, but …

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Why Toledo Will Win

Central Michigan doesn’t do enough on defense to keep up.

The offense isn’t totally miserable. It’s not dangerous from the outside and it doesn’t do any one thing all that well, but the defenses allows teams to average 77 points per game and hit 41% of their shots – Toledo can shoot.

More than anything else, the Rockets should own the boards. Central Michigan can’t and doesn’t rebound, but it did in the second meeting and still lost. It was closer, but it still wasn’t enough.

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Toledo vs Central Michigan: What’s Going To Happen

Toledo is on a five game winning streak because it’s making everything.

It’s hitting close to 55% from the field over the second half of the season and that’s not stopping against this Central Michigan defense.

Toledo vs Central Michigan Prediction, Lines

Toledo 83, Central Michigan 66
Line: COMING, o/u: COMING
ATS Confidence out of 5: COMING

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Report: Tony Barbee to be hired as next head coach at MAC school

Former Auburn head coach and Kentucky assistant Tony Barbee is reported to become the next head coach at Central Michigan.

Heads up, golf courses in the Mount Pleasant, Michigan area. Tony Barbee is on his way.

Per Pete Thamel, the former Auburn coach is expected to be named the head coach at Central Michigan after spending the past seven seasons as an assistant at Kentucky under John Calipari.

Hired from UTEP in 2010 by Auburn, Barbee never lived up to the hype as the Tigers went 49-75 (18-50 SEC) in his four years on the Plains.

The Chippewas have made the NCAA Tournament just four times in program history, the last coming in 2003.

REPORT: Michigan State Basketball trying to add midweek game vs. Central Michigan

Tony Paul of The Detroit News is reporting MSU is working to schedule a game with Central Michigan this week on either Tuesday or Wednesday.

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The Spartans are reportedly looking to add yet another in-state opponent to their non-conference schedule.

Tony Paul of The Detroit News tweeted late on Sunday that Michigan State is working to schedule a non-conference game with Central Michigan this week on either Tuesday or Wednesday. This, of course, would be to replace Virginia after the Cavaliers had to cancel their game with MSU last week due to COVID-19.

Should this game in fact get scheduled, this would mark the fifth in-state non-conference opponent for MSU and complete playing every Division I basketball team from Michigan. The Spartans have already played Detroit Mercy, Eastern Michigan, Oakland and Western Michigan and the only Michigan-based team left to add would be Central Michigan.

Central Michigan is 2-3 on the season with wins against Western Illinois and Valparaiso in their last two games. The Chippewas are scheduled to play on Monday against St. Francis (Ill.), but don’t return to the floor until Friday, so a Wednesday evening meeting between MSU and Central Michigan could work out nicely.

Keep an eye out for any type of formal announcement in the next few days. MSU still has one more game to add so I fully anticipate that will occur this week, thus making an official announcement very likely to come on Monday or Tuesday.

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REPORT: MSU Basketball non-conference schedule finalized, including season-opener vs. EMU

We are still awaiting the official announcement, but the Michigan State basketball non-conference schedule appears to be finalized.

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We are still awaiting the official announcement, but the Michigan State basketball non-conference schedule appears to be finalized — and just in time for the season that starts next week.

Kyle Austin of MLive reported on Tuesday that the Spartans will open the season against in-state foe Eastern Michigan on Nov. 25 (the first day games can be played this season). The game will reportedly take place at the Breslin Center, but there are no additional details at this point in time.

With the season-opener officially known, we have what is believed to be the finalized non-conference schedule. Here is the non-conference slate:

  • Nov. 25 – Eastern Michigan
  • Nov. 28 – Notre Dame
  • Dec. 1 – at Duke (part of Champions Classic)
  • Dec. 4 – Detroit
  • Dec. 6 – Western Michigan
  • Dec. 9 – at Virginia (part of ACC-Big Ten Challenge)
  • Dec. 13 – Oakland

Keep in mind that this is based on reports and announcements from other schools since Michigan State has yet to officially post their schedule. The Spartans should be announcing something very soon, based on this tweet from MSU Associate Athletic Director Kevin Pauga:

The Big Ten has yet to reveal the conference slate for the 2020-21 season, but as Austin pointed out in a follow-up tweet, it appears the conference schedule won’t begin until after Dec. 13. In the past two seasons, there were a pair of conference games in the middle of December to break up the non-conference slate, but that won’t be the case this year.

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