CLEVELAND — Eight teams scattered about the Midwest and western New York converged here this weekend for the Mid-American Conference men’s basketball tournament. They all shared a common goal: crash the Big Dance.
With each victory, smiling coaches and players filed into a makeshift interview room in the bowels of Quicken Loans Arena. But there are two sides to every game. There’s also a loser, a team that knows March will pass by with no appearance in the NCAA tournament.
