CURRENT Valley Standings.....

[Big Mike]

This is counting yesterdays blow-out @ DU by UNI...WS upset win over CU....UE over INS.......sundays isu over MS...Braves loss to siu

__________MVC____total
1.UNI.........6-1.......12-6
2.BU..........5-2......11-7
3.isu..........5-2.......16-2
4.CU..........4-3.......14-5
5.DU..........4-3.......13-6
6.UE..........4-3.......12-5
7.SIU.........3-4.......8-10
8.INS.........2-5.......4-14
9.MS..........1-6.......8-10
10.WS........1-6.......7-11

[shaunguth]

So much for a 5-way tie at the top. UNI took care of that in the first game of the weekend!

[Big Mike]

Good day for the Braves with the losses by CU and DU!

[MacabreMob]

Go BU... Go Go BU!

[Big Mike]

For some reason I think realtime is down today....nothing has changede since 7 this morning!

[DUBrave5]

Go BU... Go Go BU!

I agree but I want to add to that cuz I would really like to see MSU beat isu (red)

[Big Mike]

Final game today INS losing to UE 57-63....UE is hanging around!

[SaintLouBrave22]

This game is just as big tomorrow for both teams involved...

A win for Bradley separates BU from Creighton, Drake, and Evansville by 2 games and also from already beaten ISU by a game (unless they lose) and sets up another 1st place matchup in Cedar Falls on Wednesday night...

A loss and as we know we fall back toward the pack a little more...



On the other hand, a win for SIU and they edge a game closer to evening things out and getting towards the middle of the pack...

A loss and they distance themselves by a full two games into the bottom 4 and the play-in scenario.


Yes its a long season, however, at this point we are getting closer to the halfway point, and teams are starting to group themselves in areas...

Right now the top 3 are Bradley, UNI, and ISU

Mid 3 are Creighton, Drake, and Evansville

Bottom 4 and the play in are SIU, InSU, Missouri State, and Wichita State


Things are taking shape a bit more and it'll be interesting to see in the next couple weeks where teams are after the halfway point...

If we can buckle down and have a big week we then come back home w/ 6 home games remaining and only 4 road games in at least 2 of 4 winnable road locations...we absolutely MUST win the rest of our home games though...

Lets continue to overachieve

[Big Mike]

Sunday......
isu over MS 68-56

[bugregshu]

For some reason I think realtime is down today....nothing has changede since 7 this morning!

Realtimerpi isn't down. I thought the same thing. They changed their website so that you need to sign up and pay $19.99 a year in order to get updated stats, otherwise you're gonna get stuck with delayed stats now. Kinda crummy.

[Big Mike]

68-62 siu over the Braves

you don't win many games scoring 17 pts in the 1st half!

[MacabreMob]

Realtimerpi isn't down. I thought the same thing. They changed their website so that you need to sign up and pay $19.99 a year in order to get updated stats, otherwise you're gonna get stuck with delayed stats now. Kinda crummy.

Sweet.

As a subscriber to Palm's site... I like seeing this.

Another thing... other RPI site's don't go out of their way to make sure they calculate the RPI correctly. Palm's does. Palm might be a B10 and Purdue Wonk but his site is based on perfection.

He knows the formula. He calculates the formula. He seeks out to make sure games are calculated correctly.

[SaintLouBrave22]

Sweet.

As a subscriber to Palm's site... I like seeing this.

Another thing... other RPI site's don't go out of their way to make sure they calculate the RPI correctly. Palm's does. Palm might be a B10 and Purdue Wonk but his site is based on perfection.

He knows the formula. He calculates the formula. He seeks out to make sure games are calculated correctly.

The only formula I care about at this point is figuring out how we get our way out of the 4/5 matchup because at this point it looks as though we're headed back in that direction.

[jeffsu]

The only formula I care about at this point is figuring out how we get our way out of the 4/5 matchup because at this point it looks as though we're headed back in that direction.

...and we're back to being "negative" after one loss again.

Not just you, SLB... but I dreaded coming on here (and didn't last night) because I knew this would happen.

[pfunk880]

...and we're back to being "negative" after one loss again.

Not just you, SLB... but I dreaded coming on here (and didn't last night) because I knew this would happen.

Yeah, let's not hit the panic button yet. SIU is always a tough place to win. The fact that they are having a down year is irrelevant. Is it a win I really wish we could have gotten? Yes... the bottom line is we didn't play very well. But I think we will hopefully get something to learn from out of this experience, and we will be ready to play @ UNI.