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8 MVC games Saturday 12/1

Da Coach

Da Coach

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Indiana St. 3-2 (Road: 0-2) 2:00 pm CST
at Purdue 3-1 (Home: 3-0)
Mackey Arena (West Lafayette, IN)


Creighton 4-0 (Road: 0-0) 3:30 pm CST
at Drexel 5-2 (Home: 2-0)
John A Daskalakis Center (Philadelphia, PA)


Evansville 1-3 (Road: 1-1) 6:00 pm CST
at Buffalo 4-3 (Home: 3-0)
Alumni Arena (Buffalo, NY)


SE Missouri St. 4-3 (Road: 1-2) 7:05 pm CST
at Bradley 5-2 (Home: 3-0)
Carver Arena (Peoria, IL)


Loyola Chicago 2-3 (Road: 1-1) 7:05 pm CST
at Northern Iowa 5-1 (Home: 3-0)
McLeod Center (Cedar Falls, IA)


Ill. Chicago 3-3 (Road: 1-0) 7:05 pm CST
at Illinois St. 4-2 (Home: 4-0)
Redbird Arena (Normal, IL)


(15) Indiana 5-1 (Road: 0-0) 8:30 pm CST
at Southern Ill. 3-1 (Home: 1-0)
SIU Arena (Carbondale, IL)


Duquesne 6-0 (Road:3-0 ) 8:30 pm CST
at Drake 4-1 (Home: 2-0)
Iowa Realty Drake Tournament
Knapp Center (Des Moines. IA)

MVC Scoreboard for 12/1--
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/scoreboard?d=2007-12-01&refresh=0&c=mvc
 
I'll go with a few predictions here...becuase its almost midnight and I should be going to bed!

*Indiana St. in a SHOCKER (no, not you WSU) over Purdue by 2
*Creighton coasts over Drexel by 15
*Evansville gets "Bullied" (yes I looked up the mascot) by Buffalo by 17
*BU is down 4 at half, wins by 8 vs SEMO, more questions raised about lack of intensity out of the gate
*UNI blows out Loyola by 20
*ISU blows out UIC by 18
*Indiana regrets agreeing to this game @SIU, but pulls it out late by 7
*Duquense and Drake battle into 2 OT, Drake prevails by 2
 
WOW....you gotta be kidding me....
Jimmy Collins just turned 60!!!

I absolutely can't believe it....he looks at least 75 or older....
I guess college basketball does age a coach fast....


Here is a current picture of 60 year old Jimmy Collins
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8 games against teams from 6 conferences ... time for the MVC to flex it muscle:

B10 - (Purdue, Indiana)
A10 - (Duquesne)
CAA - (Drexel)
Horizon - (UIC, Loyola-Chicago)
MAC - (Buffalo)
Ohio Valley (SEMO)
 
Here are my picks:

57 - Indiana State
71 - Purdue

68 - Creighton
56 - Drexel

62 - Evansville
66 - Buffalo

70 - SE Missouri State
80 - Bradley

59 - Loyola-Chicago
70 - Northern Iowa

65 - Illinois-Chicago
70 - Illinois State

71 - Indiana
67 - Southern Illinois

72 - Duquesne
77 - Drake
 
Creighton blew out Drexel on the road 72-48. For as much as they lost, they sure are looking good early in the season. It's amazing what Altman does year in and year out at Creighton.
 
Looks like ISU is a lot better on their home court this season. UIC shot 29% for the game, and Levi Dyer had an awesome game going 7-8 from 3-point.
Official attendance 4,749, but lots of no-shows.
ISU 73 UIC 47--
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200712010269

And the other impressive wins were--

Creighton 72 Drexel 48 at Drexel
Crieghton only shot 4-24 from 3-point, but Drexel shot poorly too and turned it over 27 times--
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200712010172

Drake 77 Duquesne 73
Only 3,793 in attendance
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200712010170

UNI 61 Loyola 50
Poor outside shooting dooms Loyola again--
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200712010170
 
Da Coach said:
SIU loses 64-51. They were 0 for their first 13 from 3-point, until Matt Shaw made one in the final minute.

As I expected, poor outside shooting is SIU's weak point. They shot .375 overall, and were 1 for 14 from 3 (7.1%).

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200712010528
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I said it a while back, SIU will not win this league this year. They lost a lot more than people think when Tatum and Young graduated. They lost great guards, and the general BB public & media seemed to have underestimated the impact of those losses by rating them so high early. I do not know who will win the league (BU) but it will not be SIU.
 
georgethedog said:
I said it a while back, SIU will not win this league this year. They lost a lot more than people think when Tatum and Young graduated. They lost great guards, and the general BB public & media seemed to have underestimated the impact of those losses by rating them so high early. I do not know who will win the league (BU) but it will not be SIU.
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(My Coach Les impersonation....)

No, no... you're right.

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Da Coach said:
Official attendance 4,749, but lots of no-shows.
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whoa....did anyone else see some of the televised highlights last night on the 10 o'clock sports?

What gives....ISU is playing well, it's a Saturday night, the weather sure wasn't all that bad, and yet the highlight clips from the ISU game last night showed that WELL over HALF of all the lower bowl seats were unoccupied. They must have had a 50% no-show rate.....what's up??


My guess is that the weather service's nasty forecast and their call for people to stay in and stay off the roads, really hurt the attendance. Maybe wayyy too many bought into the scare tactics of the weather service, and in the end, the weather was not that bad at all. I think people should make up their own minds and not let the weather service determine what you do, as they are all too wrong, all too often.
 
tornado said:
My guess is that the weather service's nasty forecast and their call for people to stay in and stay off the roads, really hurt the attendance. Maybe wayyy too many bought into the scare tactics of the weather service, and in the end, the weather was not that bad at all. I think people should make up their own minds and not let the weather service determine what you do, as they are all too wrong, all too often.
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Same thing for the Drake-Duquesne game. All day long, the weather people were telling everybody to stay off the roads, blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Nobody but the die hards came out.

It's the midwest. It's winter. I don't think they need to tell us to stay off the roads everytime there's snow/sleet/ice.
 
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