CLEVELAND – Western Michigan’s David Kool wasn’t going to lose his final game against his top rival without doing something about it.
Kool, who leads the Mid-American Conference in scoring with 20.9 points per game, was quiet in the first half of WMU’s 69-60 win against Central Michigan in the MAC Tournament quarterfinals at Quicken Loans [...]

Senior guard Jordan Bitzer could only watch as his team’s biggest rival, Western Michigan, put the finishing touches on a 14-point comeback to advance to the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

Thursday marks the third meeting of the season between the Central Michigan and Western Michigan men’s basketball teams. But for CMU coach Ernie Zeigler, the other two don’t matter.
It’s ‘win or go home’ time for the rivals, which meet at noon Thursday for the first time ever in the Mid-American Conference Tournament at Quicken Loans [...]

The CMU men’s basketball team will get its third look at rival Western Michigan this season.
Western Michigan beat Bowling Green 75-73 on Sunday afternoon in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Kalamazoo, advancing to the quarterfinals.
No. 2 seed CMU (15-14, 9-7 MAC) meets No. 7 WMU (17-14, 8-8 MAC) at noon Thursday [...]

YPSILANTI — Leave it to the CMU men’s basketball team to win a title by defying odds. Afterall, the Chippewas did it all season.
The Mid-American Conference West Division belongs solely to the Chippewas, who held Eastern Michigan (8-8 MAC) scoreless in the game’s final 2:35 and overcame a five-point deficit Thursday at the Convocation Center.
They [...]

The men’s basketball team wasn’t about to let this lead get away.
In CMU’s final regular-season game at Rose Arena, senior guards Jordan Bitzer and Robbie Harman each scored 22 points and Bitzer grabbed 10 rebounds in a 74-66 win against Western Michigan.
CMU trailed most of the game before Bitzer’s 3-pointer nearly 7 minutes into the [...]

Jordan Bitzer and Robbie Harman still have to prove themselves.