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MVC 2007-2008 Preview

A great read. From the article:

"More people (22,612) attended the MVC title game than any other league championship tournament."

Helllll-LLLOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I'm wondering if their team capsules are in order of predicted finish? I don't see any other logic for the following order:

SIU
Bradley
Creighton
Missouri St.
Northern Iowa
Illinois St.
Wichita St.
Indiana St.
Drake
Evansville
 
I saw that, too and assumed that was their reasoning.
But I notice the top 5 teams are the ones that didn't change coaches, and the bottom 5 did.
 
Here's great news.........Bradley has been determined the leader in overall student athlete graduation rates in the MVC (for all sports).

The Valley tracks this data (as well as the NCAA) and BU is the leader among all scholarship athletes.

One other things, the most recent full semester, Spring 2007, Bradley had a 3.2 cumulative grade point average among all scholarship athletes, the record highest they have ever had!! This is the average of all student athletes under scholarship.

Good job and congrats to everyone involved.



Here are the exact figures..four class average (those entering 2000-2004)
Bradley 76%
Creighton 75%
Evansville 67%
SIU 66%
Drake 64%
Missouri St. 63%
ISU 64%
UNI 61%
InSU 59%
Wichita State 50%
 
CBSSports is counting down the conference rankings..
They are now down to #9 Conference USA

13: West Coast
12: Colonial
11: Mountain West
10: Western Athletic
9: Conference USA
http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10427128

Thankfully they aren't predicting 4 NCAA bids for CUSA like some other guy did earlier this week.

I am guessing that tomorrow's report (the revealing of #8) might well be the MVC.
If so, then #7 will be the A-10, and then the top 6 will be the 6 power conferences
(SEC, Big East, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10)
 
SanFranciscoPete said:
As T predicted we are #7 http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10431305

SIU again is predicted as it should be to win the MVC.
Click to expand...

I'd say those are right where I'd put us(MVC and SIU #1), and honestly I'm glad to see it. I think BU can will win the league(yeah, kool-aid) but to say we're the favorites when a whopping 3.5 players saw time last year is a little much, So SIU should be the favorites. I'm just glad they have us as the #1 non BCS conference. I really think if MVC teams show up in the non-conference, RPI-wise we could again be #4 maybe even #3 going into January.
 
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