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Valley Rosters

Here are the numbers of new or inexperienced players on each roster/vs. the # of returning players
(I tried not to count walk ons or players who redshirted after playing a couple games,
but am not 100% sure I know who all are walk ons for each team and count any transfer as new to the team)

Bradley............4/9 (Prosser, Simms-Edwards, Knezevic, & Eastman are new)
Creighton.........5/7 (not sure about Witter)
Drake...............9/4 (only Templeton, Stanley, Young, and Eaddy)
Evansville.........7/5 (very little experience returning)
ISU...................8/5 (Eldridge, Dinma, Phillips return plus subs Robinson, Rubin, and Thornton I am counting as a walk-on)
InSU.................5/8 (lots of returnees, but lack scorers)
Missouri State...6/7 (lots of new names, but again, ? scoring..only one returnee (Weems 10 ppg) was even close to double digit scoring)
UNI...................5/8 (surprising since we hear "they have everyone back", but Sonnen, Pehl, Morrison, Lange, Jake Koch, & James are new)
SIU...................7/6 (massive player losses and Creanings, will the mainstays step up?)
Wichita.............5/8 (post play is the big question)

so this is clearly a BIG year in the Valley for roster turnover.....and even though Bradley has four freshmen, the Braves return as much or more experience as anyone.
Even though some have picked ISU and SIU among the top of the Valley, they are among the teams that return the least experience.
 
SIU returns 7 scholarship players from last season, Kevin Dillard, Anthony Booker, Ryan Hare, Carlton Fay, Nick Evans, Justin Bocot, and Tony Freeman. Tony Freeman transferred from Iowa last season and had to sit out per NCAA transfer rules. Walk-on Brandon Allen will also return.

This year's recruits include freshmen Eugene Teague, Kendal Brown-Surles, and Jordan Meyers, as well as junior college transfers Jack Crowder and John Freeman. Additionally, freshman Caleb Long and Aaron Moise will walk on to the team. Nathanial Mitchell, a transfer from Southeastern Illinois junior college will reportedly walk on to the team as well, although he has not been officially added to the roster.
 
yes, but as I stated he has not played at all with SIU before, thus I consider him a newbie..just drawing the line on that..
as I said.... I "count any transfer as new to the team"
 
I know you said you didn't know who was what for walk-ons, but for UNI, they have 8 experienced scholarship players coming back (Eglseder, Koch, Ahelegbe, Farokhmanesh, Moran, Dunham, O'Rear, and Haak) while Rodenberg was a walk-on who played in pretty much every game he was eligible to (about 6 min/game) after transferring in from Cal-Irvine.

UNI's newbies (based on your criteria) are scholarship athletes (Pehl, James, Jake Koch, Antonio Jones, Marc Sonnen) and walk-ons (Matt Morrison---4 for 5, and Tyler Lange).

IMO, it would probably be '5/9' if truly talking about contributing experience, especially with Rodenberg and Haak being seniors. UNI is really going to miss the group of seniors when they leave (Koch, Eglseder, Farokhmanesh, Rodenberg, and Haak). UNI is trying to find guys who replace Koch and Eglseder, and the guys they go after are going to Big Ten and Big Twelve schools. It's pretty tough to replace that kind of size and skill when not many in the Valley have that available to them.
 
THANKS....my purpose was not to get picky, but to show and assure the BU people that we really are NOT inexperienced at all relative to the rest of the Valley...even with four totally new freshmen, more than we've been used to the entire Jim Les era.
 
I understood. I was just adding to the conversation with some clarification on UNI's outlook. Bradley has alot of weapons back. And in all honesty, so do several other teams. This is good for the conference...the deeper the MVC is, the more teams we have a shot at getting to the Big Dance. :)
 
tornado said:
yes, but as I stated he has not played at all with SIU before, thus I consider him a newbie..just drawing the line on that..
as I said.... I "count any transfer as new to the team"
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Fair enough, but that still only makes six new players - T. Freeman, J. Freeman, Teague, Brown-Surles, Myers, and Crowder. SIU only has 12 scholarship players heading into the fall semester.
 
The trend of Valley schools filling their regular season schedules with D-II's continues!!

University of Indianapolis just released their schedule...and they play SIU on 11/17/09, but not as an exhibition, it is a regular season game...
U of Indy has two new assistants, and both came from SIU...one was a grad asst, the other Director of Basketball Operations.

U of Indy also play Indiana State as an exhibition 11/7
http://athletics.uindy.edu/news/2009/8/31/MBB_0831092301.aspx
http://athletics.uindy.edu/schedule.aspx?schedule=155
 
tornado said:
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Also, Aaron Moise & Caleb Long are listed, they are walk-ons..
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Caleb Long has quit the team and will not play for SIU.
What's with all the players quitting at SIU...Long, Josh Bone, Torres Roundtree, Chris Cornelius, Drew Barham, Brandon Wood, Jordan Armstrong, Jamaal Foster, ...
 
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