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Games of Interest 11/19
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BradleyBrave
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Wow the Shockers are bad!
MacabreMob
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Shox down 4 at 3:56 Media T/O
59-55
59-55
MacabreMob
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Shox down 2, timeout, got ball with under 18 secs (I think)
MacabreMob
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Shox at FT line 10 secs left
Made 1
tip to UMKC and WSU foul
Made 1
tip to UMKC and WSU foul
SaintLouBrave22
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UIC wins 84-77
SaintLouBrave22
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See they were fine all along...just needed a little more Josh Young...man he's gonna be tough to guard this year, but fun to watch
BradleyBrave
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I guess the Shuckers are the 'Class of the Valley' as many on ValleyTalk would have you believe...
MacabreMob
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I don't go there very often. Does it really have a "bias" for certain teams? I don't know - just asking. If I am curious about another MVC team I might (and that is a stretch) scour the message board for that team and then maybe check the ValleyTalk board.
Guess I feel a little surprised a "Conference" message board is lop-sided for a particular team. Then again - good thing I don't go there often.
Oh come on Shockers! You can't be losing games like this! And at home on top of that!
Something tells me we will have three or four teams rise to the top, and the rest will be utter crap. But that may actually help us get multiple bids in that sometimes two or three teams with stellar records at the top of a mediocre conference look better to the committee than one team running away with things in a decent conference like Drake did last year.
I seem to remember two years ago when four teams were in NCAA contention in the Colonial Athletic Conference while the rest of the conference was very mediocre to downright bad. Two teams received bids that year (VCU and Old Dominion), and VCU beat Duke in the first round, just weeks after Bradley beat them in the Bracketbuster. Ditto for the 1993-94 season when the Valley was ranked 13th. The conference was still very mediocre, but consisted of three strong 20+ win teams at the top in Tulsa, SIU and Bradley. Bradley received an NIT bid based on a slightly weaker schedule, but SIU won the automatic bid and Tulsa earned an at-large bid. So sometimes quality is much more important than quantity to the committee.
Irregardless, the Valley can still make a big statement tomorrow night when SIU plays Duke on a neutral court. I got a good feeling about this game even with SIU not expected to contend for the Valley title this year. Let's hope I'm right and SIU pulls off a big win on ESPN2 tomorrow night!
Something tells me we will have three or four teams rise to the top, and the rest will be utter crap. But that may actually help us get multiple bids in that sometimes two or three teams with stellar records at the top of a mediocre conference look better to the committee than one team running away with things in a decent conference like Drake did last year.
I seem to remember two years ago when four teams were in NCAA contention in the Colonial Athletic Conference while the rest of the conference was very mediocre to downright bad. Two teams received bids that year (VCU and Old Dominion), and VCU beat Duke in the first round, just weeks after Bradley beat them in the Bracketbuster. Ditto for the 1993-94 season when the Valley was ranked 13th. The conference was still very mediocre, but consisted of three strong 20+ win teams at the top in Tulsa, SIU and Bradley. Bradley received an NIT bid based on a slightly weaker schedule, but SIU won the automatic bid and Tulsa earned an at-large bid. So sometimes quality is much more important than quantity to the committee.
Irregardless, the Valley can still make a big statement tomorrow night when SIU plays Duke on a neutral court. I got a good feeling about this game even with SIU not expected to contend for the Valley title this year. Let's hope I'm right and SIU pulls off a big win on ESPN2 tomorrow night!
SaintLouBrave22
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Ugh....I don't know who I can't stand worse...SIU or Duke...
Can someone flip a switch and turn the lights out?
Well, that's easy. We have to root for our fellow Valley teams until the conference season starts. A bad non-conference season will affect all of the Valley teams in a bad way.