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Missouri Valley Conference Standings - 2/19/08 with tiebreakers

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BUBraves2006

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After the huge Bradley win tonight, we've all but locked up staying out of Thursday now! Now if we can win our next two games, we WILL finish 3rd in the Valley. Sure that's a tall order, but after tonight, anything is possible!
 

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tornado said:
Can we make up 2 games on ISU?
If so we have the tiebreaker now with the most points.
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Possible...but not likely...
We'd have to win out and ISU would have to lose 2 out of 3...They have road games against Evansville and SIU, and a home game against Creighton...
If they somehow lost at Evansville tomorrow, things could get very, very interesting....Go Aces.
 
Creighton would have to beat ISU on senior night, which I don't see happening. Creighton at home v. the road is like Bradley a few years ago - a completely different team.

We control our own destiny to 3rd place though. That's pretty amazing considering we started out 1-5!

If by some chance we did tie ISU, we would definitely have more tiebreaker points ... oh how that Wichita game still comes back to bite us!
 
ISU has 3 tough games left.
Wright St
@Evansville
Creighton
@SIU

Very easily could be 1-3 with 2 more conference losses would put us there once we run the table!
 
How does the points system work? We could potentially tie for 2nd with ISU or tie for 3rd with Creighton and/or SIU.
 
Either way we would be in the same bracket w/ ISU but would much rather be playing NIU then Creighton in that first game.
The way the Valley is shaping up this year anyone could make it to the finals but at this point I would have to say that the top dogs are still SIU, BU, Creighton, ISU and/or DU even though they were the regular season champs, then NI, MS and then the rest in any order. my reasoning in picking the order isn't disrespecting DU as I have really enjoyed them and think that BU and DU are a very close match which has been proven w/ the 2 games played but I say that because of the experiience those 1st 3 teams have having been their so much over the years compared to the other schools. Should be an interesting weekend.
 
My Ideal seeding is:
1)DU
2)BU or ISU
3)BU or ISU
4)SIU
5)CU
6)InSt
7)UNI
8)Mo ST
9)Wichita St
10)E-Ville

I want to avoid CU a 3rd time in three weeks and SIU on their "home" court. I will count on the Trees being the trees away from Hulman and the Birds going into their ten-minute funk that allows us to get to Sunday vs. Whoever.
 
Double D said:
If we were to get 3rd, can you imagine how "krausened" we'd be by around 9 o'clock on Friday night in STL! :)
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I have been talking about that quite a bit with my people. 6+ hours of good MVC basketball, 6+ hours at the arena, 6+ hours of fretting over our game...all prior to the 8:30 or so tip. I guess the silver lining is that win or lose, we may not remember it. The unfortunate thing for the players and the fans is the quick turnaround. Let's just get 2nd and spend the 2nd game of the night session celebrating. ;)

In response to chitown - I want nothing to do with ISU in St. Louis. They're deep, they have good bigs, and they have the best player in the league.
 
Ideally, the #2 seed would be the best position. However too many things have to happen for that to be reality.

In my opinion, I would like to be on the top half of the bracket and be in the 4/5 game against Creighton with Drake lurking. Neither of these opponents have an inside game. SIU's strength is on the frontcourt and ISU has a better one than BU.
 
it's boogie time said:
Ideally, the #2 seed would be the best position. However too many things have to happen for that to be reality.

In my opinion, I would like to be on the top half of the bracket and be in the 4/5 game against Creighton with Drake lurking. Neither of these opponents have an inside game. SIU's strength is on the frontcourt and ISU has a better one than BU.
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I want to see how we play SIU again before we say that they are a bigger problem than Drake. SIU's O is not that good and if we find ways to score consistantly they will not be able to keep up. I still say we need to find ways to score easy baskets (SM did just that yesterday) and a few in the paint to keep the other teams D honest. I'm sure JL is going to work on the driving in and kicking out plays a bit more this week, to many TOs because either our guy were a bit wild or players were not where they should have been for the kick outs.

ISU vs Bradley is always and will be especially if we meet in the Tourney a special and probably a very hard fought game that will come down to the last shot. I'd rather play ISU in the championship game and let them beat DU to go that far. After last night it showed that there is not a real dominate team in the Valley this year. I'm not disrespecting DU but they do not scare the h$() out of me.
 
BradleyBrave said:
I have been talking about that quite a bit with my people. 6+ hours of good MVC basketball, 6+ hours at the arena, 6+ hours of fretting over our game...all prior to the 8:30 or so tip. I guess the silver lining is that win or lose, we may not remember it. The unfortunate thing for the players and the fans is the quick turnaround. Let's just get 2nd and spend the 2nd game of the night session celebrating. ;)

In response to chitown - I want nothing to do with ISU in St. Louis. They're deep, they have good bigs, and they have the best player in the league.
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Totally agree. I think they are the only team I am scared of in the tournament. If we can somehow aviod hem, at least until Sunday that would be great. How fun would a war on 74 rematch be in the championship gme?
 
I don't know what my ideal seeding would be because I really want to avoid Creighton or SIU in the first round in a 4/5 game if possible (Indiana State or UNI would be a much easier game), but I think Drake would be the better match-up for us in the 2nd round as opposed to facing ISU.
 
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