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MVC Preseason games

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Dates and times for the MVC Preseason Exhibition Games-
Sat., Oct. 11- 1pm- Drake at Wichita State
Sat., Oct. 11- 6pm- Bradley at UW-Green Bay
Fri., Oct. 17- 6pm- Austin Peay at SIU
Sat. Oct. 18- 1pm- Murray State at Xavier
Sun., Oct. 19- 2pm- ISU at Illinois
Thurs., Oct. 23- Time TBA- St. Louis at Bradley
Sat., Oct. 25- Time TBA- Henderson State at Evansville
Sun., Oct. 26- 4pm- Northern State at Murray State
Mon., Oct. 27- 6:30pm- Tenn Tech at Belmont
Tues., Oct. 28- 7pm- Brescia at Valparaiso
Wed., Oct. 29- 6pm- Indiana State at Butler
Wed., Oct. 29- 7pm- SIU at Lindenwood
Wed., Oct. 29- 7pm- ISU at Northwestern
Sat., Nov. 1- 7pm- Upper Iowa at UNI

Bradley, Murray State, SIU, and ISU each have two exhibition games listed on their schedules.
UIC does not have any exhibition games listed. The other 6 teams each have one exhibition game.
 
Drake/Wichita State, St. Louis/Bradley. Sounds like old times in the MVC when the Valley was one of the best, if not the best, conference in the country.

I wonder how much Murray is paying Northern State to travel from South Dakota (unless there's another Northern State that's closer to Murray that I'm not aware of). Henderson State at Evansville is a bit of a trek, also.
 
Yep, I thought of that, too. The Northern State that Murray State is playing on Oct. 26 is a D2 school from Aberdeen, South Dakota. That is located in northeast part of South Dakota, a pretty isolated part of the country. Their schedule shows that they do a lot of traveling-

2025-26 Men's Basketball Schedule - Northern State University Athletics

The official 2025-26 Men's Basketball schedule for the Northern State University Wolves
nsuwolves.com nsuwolves.com

They have had a good basketball history in their past, but not in the last couple years. As recently as 2020-21, they were 19-2 overall and 13-1 in their conference (Covid year). And in 2019-20, they were 26-6, 18-4.
In 2017-18, they were 36-4, and made it to the D2 National Championship game, losing a close game to Ferris State 69-71.
But last year, they were just 2-26, 1-21. They lost 3 of their top 4 scorers from last year, so this should be a relatively easy game for Murray State.
I noticed they have a Peoria kid on their roster- Nelson Reynolds, a Peoria Notre Dame grad.
 
Nelson is the younger brother of Noah Reynolds, who Bradley recruited and who played at Wyoming, Green Bay & TCU,
and also the younger brother of Nic Reynolds, who is an assistant at Wyoming & formerly Green Bay.
They all went to Peoria Notre Dame & are all half-brothers of Nate Reynolds who played on Peoria Christian's IHSA 2004 Final Four basketball team.
 
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