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This SHOULD put the Valley back on the Map!

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After getting disrespected with a 9 seed, UNI may have done all of us in the Valley the greatest favor ever! Congrats to UNI! No longer will the valley be treated as 2nd rate. Look for multiple bids next year based just off this win alone. I'm ecstatic right now!
 
chitown fanatic said:
After getting disrespected with a 9 seed, UNI may have done all of us in the Valley the greatest favor ever! Congrats to UNI! No longer will the valley be treated as 2nd rate. Look for multiple bids next year based just off this win alone. I'm ecstatic right now!
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I wouldn't go that far. I'd say this year of upsets will result in no more than 5 mid-major at larges next year. The people in the room have a pretty clear agenda...
 
chitown fanatic said:
After getting disrespected with a 9 seed, UNI may have done all of us in the Valley the greatest favor ever! Congrats to UNI! No longer will the valley be treated as 2nd rate. Look for multiple bids next year based just off this win alone. I'm ecstatic right now!
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Me too! With all the potential talent coming back next year, I saw multiple bids and potentially ranked teams anyway next year, including us. Now UNI has just given the Valley some national attention ahead of time.

With all the talent BU has coming back, if we get a guy or two in recruiting, and with our schedule potentially being very good next year, I really think everything is setting up for us and the Valley to have a great year next year.
 
Tonights win will help but the Valley will keep getting treated like all the other mids until the MVC starts backing up these big wins. The MVC needs to follow up UNI's performance with another run next year. Multiple bids needs to be the norm and not the exception. When we do get multiple teams in the big dance, the MVC needs to get some wins. Until this happens the MVC will still be just another mid-major to all the talking heads.

Congrats to UNI and I hope the Valley keeps getting stronger.
 
The sports guy on local channel 3 in Phoenix just said that Northern Iowa is the first MVC team to reach the Sweet 16 since Larry Bird and Indiana St. Guess he didn't know about SIU, Bradley and Wichita.
 
Chico said:
The sports guy on local channel 3 in Phoenix just said that Northern Iowa is the first MVC team to reach the Sweet 16 since Larry Bird and Indiana St. Guess he didn't know about SIU, Bradley and Wichita.
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or listening to the talking heads at CBS! It's so nice that the professional media can't do easy decent research before just copying a wrong answer.
 
chitown fanatic said:
After getting disrespected with a 9 seed, UNI may have done all of us in the Valley the greatest favor ever! Congrats to UNI! No longer will the valley be treated as 2nd rate. Look for multiple bids next year based just off this win alone. I'm ecstatic right now!
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Hmmm, I don't know about that. Using that logic, the Horizon League and the WCC would get multiple bids every year, and that doesn't always happen unless someone other than Butler (last year) and Gonzaga (this year) win their respective conference tournaments.

I think the Valley will get multiple bids next year because we have several veteran teams coming back. But that will have less to do with a Sweet Sixteen or even Final Four run by UNI than by teams who earn their way in like the MWC and A-10 had this year.

Besides, Memphis's multi-year run of Sweet Sixteens and Final Fours did nothing to garner multiple bids by CUSA until ironically this year when Memphis fell to NIT status! More a little luck for CUSA this year than anything else.
 
amckillip said:
I wouldn't go that far. I'd say this year of upsets will result in no more than 5 mid-major at larges next year. The people in the room have a pretty clear agenda...
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The "agendas" that occur usually have more to do with the last couple of mid-major at-large bubble teams than anything else. Even if Utah St. and UTEP got left out, we would still have more mid-major at-large teams this year (6 vs. 4) than last year. Some years though, Utah St. and UTEP would be in, and in other years they would be left out. Maybe this year, last year's Creighton team would have made it in as well. It all depends on the selection chairman and his/her beliefs. But the ultimate number has more to do with qualifying teams than anything else, with those one or two teams on the edge anyone's guess year-in and year-out.
 
Bravesfan said:
Hmmm, I don't know about that. Using that logic, the Horizon League and the WCC would get multiple bids every year, and that doesn't always happen unless someone other than Butler (last year) and Gonzaga (this year) win their respective conference tournaments.

I think the Valley will get multiple bids next year because we have several veteran teams coming back. But that will have less to do with a Sweet Sixteen or even Final Four run by UNI than by teams who earn their way in like the MWC and A-10 had this year.

Besides, Memphis's multi-year run of Sweet Sixteens and Final Fours did nothing to garner multiple bids by CUSA until ironically this year when Memphis fell to NIT status! More a little luck for CUSA this year than anything else.
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I have to agree. The valley failed to capitalize after the BU, WSU runs. Multiple teams need to get in and ADVANCE to get respect for the conference. All that this means is that UNI gets known nationally, just like SIU was from years ago.
 
Chico said:
The sports guy on local channel 3 in Phoenix just said that Northern Iowa is the first MVC team to reach the Sweet 16 since Larry Bird and Indiana St. Guess he didn't know about SIU, Bradley and Wichita.
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Sportscenter just said that UNI was the first MVC champion since Larry Bird's ISU team to make it to the Sweet 16.
 
amckillip said:
That is a true statement... Though misleading. The last few (BU, WSU, SIU) were NOT MVC champions.
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Actually WSU and SIU were regular season champions when they went to the Sweet 16. I guess they meant MVC Tournament Champions, in which case they would be correct.
 
I got my mid 90's mixed up. Tulsa was the regular season champ in '94 & '95 and went to the sweet 16 both years. The following year they beat BU to win the tournament, but lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
 
here's what the big boys think of the mid-majors...

a couple days ago Bruce Pearl made this ignorant comment...

March 18 --
"There will be more higher seeds win this year than ever,'' Pearl said, referring to the NCAA Tournament."

and when someone suggested that the mid-majors can play with the big boys....one of the Tennessee players said..
"People from mid-major schools always think that,'' Prince said. "We'll see who deserves what when the ball is tipped.''

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/askgriff/2010/03/griffith_vols_tangle_with_azte.html
 
tornado said:
here's what the big boys think of the mid-majors...

a couple days ago Bruce Pearl made this ignorant comment...

March 18 --
"There will be more higher seeds win this year than ever,'' Pearl said, referring to the NCAA Tournament."

and when someone suggested that the mid-majors can play with the big boys....one of the Tennessee players said..
"People from mid-major schools always think that,'' Prince said. "We'll see who deserves what when the ball is tipped.''

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/askgriff/2010/03/griffith_vols_tangle_with_azte.html
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I would like to see what Bruce was saying when he was at UW-M on the subject.
 
It's a step in the right direction. The next thing that MVC schools need to do is to schedule up. We need to schedule BCS schools in preseason tournaments and add quality mid-major schools.
 
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