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3 MVC games Wednesday 2/18

Announcers just said Drake wins the "Mythical State Championship"

:lol:

(and to clarify... they only count 1 matchup between Drake and UNI and alternate the host team year to year... Drake beat Iowa, Iowa St and then won the game that mattered with UNI)
 
MacabreMob said:
missed...

Drake wins!
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Well, UNI sucks. In terms of the actual hot teams, it's Creighton 1, Indiana State 2, Wichita State, Illinois State, then Bradley, Northern Iowa, Drake, SIU, Evansville, Mo. State. The seeds won't mean much except that InSt. and WSU? will have to play on Thursday. But as long as Creighton is playing this well, nothing else matters...
 
So Creighton will be picking up the conference title likely it seems.

And we can no longer pass up ISU to make 3rd, right? Since they won tonight.

Means (unless we tank) we're in the 4/5 game? I guess 6th could happen. And at this point, I think I'd rather play ISU in the 3/6 game and UNI in the semi's...
 
TheAsianSensation said:
It's my favorite time of all!

*sharpens needle*

You know what's coming.
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I was waiting for you. ;)

This actually does the committee a favor. I expect UNI to lose at ISUred. So a 2nd place finish regardless of what they do in the Bracketbuster and regardless of how far they go in the MVCTourney (unless they win it of course)... UNI is OUT.

Now Creighton, on the other hand. They are starting to create the "portfolio" (sorta) if they continue to win games. An outright MVC Championship, an RPI in the 40's, and losing in the MVCTourney... that is Bubble Worthy for discussion.
 
MacabreMob said:
I was waiting for you. ;)

This actually does the committee a favor. I expect UNI to lose at ISUred. So a 2nd place finish regardless of what they do in the Bracketbuster and regardless of how far they go in the MVCTourney (unless they win it of course)... UNI is OUT.

Now Creighton, on the other hand. They are starting to create the "portfolio" (sorta) if they continue to win games. An outright MVC Championship, an RPI in the 40's, and losing in the MVCTourney... that is Bubble Worthy for discussion.
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All the more reason why I didn't want to see CU until Sunday. If they're a perceived 'lock' on Sunday, I think their opponent has a better chance in doing 'what's best for the league'. Obviously that didn't hold true with Drake last year, as they went for the clean sweep, but we see this year after year in league after league - League champ going down and a 1 bid league becomes a 2 bid league. CU has the name recognition (yes, it means something), will have an outright league title, and are starting to have the 'resume' of an at-large. CU could survive a Sunday loss IMO. I'm not sure they could survive a Saturday loss to a team like us, and I don't see Dana letting them lose to us...he rarely does.
 
bluedevils1 said:
Well, UNI sucks. In terms of the actual hot teams, it's Creighton 1, Indiana State 2, Wichita State, Illinois State, then Bradley, Northern Iowa, Drake, SIU, Evansville, Mo. State. The seeds won't mean much except that InSt. and WSU? will have to play on Thursday. But as long as Creighton is playing this well, nothing else matters...
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I think it is more likely for Wichita to earn the 5 seed and play us on friday. They have to beat Indiana State at home, and win @ SIU. I think Drake should lock up the 6 seed as well over Evansville, making the Thursday teams Evansville, Indiana State, Southern Illinois, and Missouri State. But knowing this league... I'm sure I'm wrong.
 
ISU has an outside shot at tying for the league title at this point. That would be good for us as ISU would have the #1 seed with their sweep of CU and a possible date with us Saturday, but would be bad for the league as I think CU's at-large chances disappear with losses to MSU and ISU to end the season (which is what has to happen for ISU to tie for 1st). Not sure what to root for (besides BU winning out).
 
bluedevils1 said:
I would not want to face Indiana State in St. Louis. They have hit their stride.
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You might be right, but I just can't bring myself to believe it. I've seen InSU play four different times this season (which is an admittedly small sample), and each time they've been maybe the worst MVC team I can ever remember watching. I may have caught them on off nights, but it's hard for me to ignore what I saw.
 
thefish7 said:
You might be right, but I just can't bring myself to believe it. I've seen InSU play four different times this season (which is an admittedly small sample), and each time they've been maybe the worst MVC team I can ever remember watching. I may have caught them on off nights, but it's hard for me to ignore what I saw.
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I think I've lowered my standards to look at the relative MVC view. If I were an outside observer, I would say InSU still stinks, but since I am used to the mediocrity and poor play at times in the MVC this year, I look at them as "hot". :) That way, if we lose to this bad team at some point somehow in StL, I will at least have some consolation.
 
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