Blue Ribbon Guide

[tornado]

The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook picks UNI to win the Valley (not much surprise).

Here's how they pick the rest of the Valley

1. Northern Iowa
2. Illinois State
3. Creighton
4. Southern Illinois
5. Indiana State
6. Bradley
7. Wichita State
8. Drake
9. Evansville
10. Missouri State

ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
G-Osiris Eldridge, SR, Illinois State
G-P'Allen Stinnett, JR, Creighton
G-Tony Freeman, SR, Southern Illinois
G-Josh Young, SR, Drake
F-Adam Koch, SR, Northern Iowa

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Osiris Eldridge, SR, Illinois State

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
Tony Freeman, SR, Southern Illinois


Anyone else wanna go with Indiana State 5th as a real surprise team?

[SycamoreFanatic]

Yeah I go along with that. BlueRibbon is the first one to do enough research to get it right....................Lindy's ? Athlon ???????????????

No surprise over this way that our Sycamores should vault over the dastardly Shockers and even your Braves this season. Kelly eligible or not, the team is pretty solid this season.

[Jack Bauer]

Indiana St will be good this year. It shouldn't be a surprise, either.

[Da Coach]

Pretty safe projections by Blue Ribbon. But the Indy State prediction will only have a chance if Kelly is eligible. They don't have enough scoring and rebounding options otherwise.

Indiana State will miss Jay Tunnell's scoring perhaps as much as any team will miss their departed seniors. Tunnell was amazing, and singlehandedly won or kept the Sycs in games with his outside shooting. He shot 42.6% from three last year, one of the top percentages in the league, and the best among non-guards.
Here were the three point shooting percentages of the other players-
Harry Marshall- 25.6%
Rashad Reed- 35.9%
Aaron Carter- 35.5%
Jordan Printy- 35.5%
Carl Richard- 27.5%
Dwayne Lathan- 29.8% (from his last season at Louisiana Tech)
Jake Kelly- 36.5% (from last year at Iowa)

[it's boogie time]

I'm not very good at predictions, but I doubt Wichita State will be playing in the Thursday night game again in the next couple of years.

[shockerfan13]

7th???!! LMAO I could see anywhere from 3-5th (with 5th being the most likely where the coaches and media will pick them). But 7th? LOL

[jeffsu]

Everone's appalled when they're not near the top...

Remember guys.. SOMEONE'S got to be 6-10.



Oh, and it's not BU!

[BUFAN]

Pretty safe projections by Blue Ribbon. But the Indy State prediction will only have a chance if Kelly is eligible. They don't have enough scoring and rebounding options otherwise.

Indiana State will miss Jay Tunnell's scoring perhaps as much as any team will miss their departed seniors. Tunnell was amazing, and singlehandedly won or kept the Sycs in games with his outside shooting. He shot 42.6% from three last year, one of the top percentages in the league, and the best among non-guards.
Here were the three point shooting percentages of the other players-
Harry Marshall- 25.6%
Rashad Reed- 35.9%
Aaron Carter- 35.5%
Jordan Printy- 35.5%
Carl Richard- 27.5%
Dwayne Lathan- 29.8% (from his last season at Louisiana Tech)
Jake Kelly- 36.5% (from last year at Iowa)

Thanks coach I love stats, very surpurised to see marshall at only 25.6% he looked like the real deal, if martin would bulk a little he could be a fore in the valley. it would indeed be something if ISU had a breakthrough year and finished 5th...

[SFP]

There's a reason they play the games! I'm really not into these guides because there is so much that goes into these games during the season that we know we'll get a few wrong. Drake the year before is a perfect example of these supposedly experts knowing what they are writing about.

Besides talent the other areas that is reflective of how well a team does is, team chemistry, injuries and off court personal issues. I like our team chemistry and I hope the other two ugly heads stay in their hole.

[chitown fanatic]

the trees.... are the trees. Besides playing in the most sterile gym in D 1, they're not very good for the reasons mentioned above. they won't be better than BU....book it.

[BU_EMT128]

There's a reason they play the games! .

"They are who we thought they were! Now if you want to crown them, then crown their a$$! But they are who we thought they were."


Sorry SFP... that is the only thing i think of when i read your post.

[tornado]

For what it's worth....

2007-2008 The Blue Ribbon Yearbook picked Drake 8th and SIU 1st and Creighton 6th (Drake finished 1st easily and SIU finished 4 games back in 3rd and Creighton finished 5 games back in 4th.

2008-2009 The Blue Ribbon Yearbook picked Creighton 1st and UNI 4th (both finished 14-4 and tied for 1st)

so they haven't been any more accurate than the posters on certain message boards.


BTW-- ESPN's Andy Katz also thinks Wichita at #7 is odd

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4494619&name=katz_andy

[Chico]

the trees.... are the trees. Besides playing in the most sterile gym in D 1, they're not very good for the reasons mentioned above. they won't be better than BU....book it.

Haven't been to a game at Indy St in a few years. Always liked their arena. Don't they still play in the same place?

[Indy_BB]

Don't they still play in the same place?

Can't miss it. Drive to the Copper Bar on Wabash and immediately behind it there will be a nondescript cube with various signs hanging off of it, that's your target.

[chitown fanatic]

Haven't been to a game at Indy St in a few years. Always liked their arena. Don't they still play in the same place?

Imagine a rubber room in an insane asylum with sterile white walls all around you..that is their gym....the only good thing about a trip to terre Haute is a stop to the Beefhouse on the way.