Recruiting Class Rankings

[tornado]

FWIW - 247 Sports ranks all the DI recruiting classes...

here's how they rank the MVC teams - although note there are a lot of inaccuracies & incompletes in their database..
..interesting, but probably not too meaningful...

Wichita ranks #61 in Division I ...then
#101 SIU
#107 Drake
#116 Loyola
#144 Bradley
#145 Indiana State
#147 Missouri State
#160 ISU
#180 UNI
#197 Evansville
http://247sports.com/Season/2015-Basketball/CompositeTeamRankings

BUT -- and here's a BIG, big qualifier....

They have an incomplete database of recruits - so Bradley's ranking, since so much was done so late, is based on only one recruit - Ronnie Suggs!
So Suggs alone apparently puts Bradley in 5th place in the MVC - gotta figure if the 247 guys knew about the other 8 new guys, then we'd probably be ranked quite a bit higher!
And Loyola's #116 is based on the presumption they landed Roosevelt Smart, which they have not, while SIU's ranking seems pretty up to date with their late signing of Lloyd...

 

[letsgobears]

Based on your description of the Bradley rating and my knowledge of the MO State recruiting class - no reason to click on that link or ever pay attention to 247sports.com recruiting rankings. There is no way that 150+ D1 schools had a worse recruiting class than the Bears, could easily put them objectively as the worst class in the Valley.

letsgobears!

 

[tornado]

... no way that 150+ D1 schools had a worse recruiting class than the Bears...

I know - the rankings as I said are not too meaningful...
.. once the ranking got down to around #150 - then anyone with even a single recruit or two - no matter how low they were rated - filled those spots from about 150 to 190, then from about 190 to the end (350) were teams that had nobody rated at all and thus there's a 153-way tie at #197.