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What school should leave the MVC?
- Thread starter Murph
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We sould be careful kicking anyone out just based on recent performance.
Evansville won the MVC in 1999, which is 3 years more recent than when Bradley last won it. They have been pretty bad in recent years, but I think Marty Simmons will turn that around.
BradleyBrave
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We should kick out no one. We should add two teams, split into two divisions, and truly become a 'power' basketball conference. Butler and SLU would be my first two choices.
Come on! I need to be able to count one road game as a win at the beginning of each season (and some years that might be a stretch).
I'm opposed to expansion for expansion's sake.
I don't want 11 teams unless a 12th is involved.
A big factor will be if Evansville ever re-considers going to DIII as they did a few years back. If they were to, that would open up room for 3 teams.
We've debated SLU joining the A10 over the Valley before, but one rhetorical question I ask: would you oppose BU moving to the A10?
There's been some talk about St. Bonaventure being removed from the A10, and it's possible that a team or two from the league may split or join with another league.
BU and SLU could/would be travel partners.
Any chance Evansville rejoins former conference rivals in the Horizon League?
I don't want 11 teams unless a 12th is involved.
A big factor will be if Evansville ever re-considers going to DIII as they did a few years back. If they were to, that would open up room for 3 teams.
We've debated SLU joining the A10 over the Valley before, but one rhetorical question I ask: would you oppose BU moving to the A10?
There's been some talk about St. Bonaventure being removed from the A10, and it's possible that a team or two from the league may split or join with another league.
BU and SLU could/would be travel partners.
Any chance Evansville rejoins former conference rivals in the Horizon League?
Dallas Brave
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How about Bradley leaves and joins the Big East 
Out of Bounce
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Your on target again BB. I'm with you all the way on this one. And I really like your choices of teams to add! As quoted by Da Coach, we (BU) are in no position to kick anyone out based on recent performances in the MVC. It's been a long time for a title and 4-6 finishs is not putting a gavel in our hands, nor should it.
If ST.Louis gets back in the conference then it will be so much harder to get tickets to Arch Madness plus it would give them a huge advantage of playing at home even though they have their own arena; the rest of the valley teams would want the tournament moved out of ST.Louis ; is this what fans really want to happen?
it's boogie time
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I wouldn't mind moving the MVC tournament to the Sprint Center for a change. Maybe a new venue would help BU.
Yeah, that's the problem ... :roll:
I feel like this thread pops up every couple of months or so. I like having evansville, its a pretty sure home win and every year a great chance to win onn the road. I agree with everyone who has posted somewhere along the lines of wanting to win the valley or the conference tourney before we start wanting to drop teams or even add really good teams. If we did have to move the MVC Tournament, i think it would hurt our fan numbers a lot. We already get outnumbered by Creighton and SIU, and moving farther from us won't help that any.
The Valley
The Valley
Since it is called the "Missouri" Valley I say they expand to 16 teams like the BIG East and add SLU, UMKC, SouthEast Missouri State, Butler, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville/SIUE (they just moved up to DI from DII), and just for fun kickout Wichita State and replace them with Washington University St. Louis (hey, they won the DIII championship last year). Syracuse has an advantage by playing the tourney at the Garden every year so you could still keep ARCH Madness at the dome in the Lou.
The Valley
Since it is called the "Missouri" Valley I say they expand to 16 teams like the BIG East and add SLU, UMKC, SouthEast Missouri State, Butler, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville/SIUE (they just moved up to DI from DII), and just for fun kickout Wichita State and replace them with Washington University St. Louis (hey, they won the DIII championship last year). Syracuse has an advantage by playing the tourney at the Garden every year so you could still keep ARCH Madness at the dome in the Lou.
But you're right about St. Johns having a home-court advantage. I didn't remember how many games they play at Madison Square Garden, so I checked their schedule from last year--
http://redstormsports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/stjo-m-baskbl-sched.html
They played 7 of their 16 home games there last year. The other 8 were played at their on-campus arena.
There are other examples as well, of conferences playing their postseason tournament on a member's home court. It is a huge advantage for that team.
http://redstormsports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/stjo-m-baskbl-sched.html
They played 7 of their 16 home games there last year. The other 8 were played at their on-campus arena.
There are other examples as well, of conferences playing their postseason tournament on a member's home court. It is a huge advantage for that team.