Valley Predictions - Order of Finish

[PTownHawkeye]

Here is where I think things will shake out this season:

1. Creighton - they are about 2 notches above any other team
2. UNI - deepest team in the league, and aren't weak at any single position
3. Illinois St - this is a senior-laden team, and probably their last shot at being in the top half for a few years
4. Evansville - maybe I'm wearing my Colt Ryan goggles, but he can take them a long way
5. Wichita St - losing their top 5 scorers will be significant, but they have pretty good talent to replace those losses
6. Drake - Rice is a loss, but he wasn't a good teammate and this may be one of those "addition by subtraction" scenarios
7. Indiana St - I have trouble believing Jake Odum will allow them to place much below 7th
8. Bradley - hey, it's 2 spots better than the past 2 years!
9. Missouri St - they lost more than anybody other than WSU, but they don't have as good of a recruiting class
10. SIU - not much to like about this SIU team...

How do you rank the order of finish in the Valley?

[tornado]

last year had you said there are only going to be ONLY two Valley teams above .500, very few people would have agreed..

BUT -- I think we will see a similar thing this year ..
Creighton will be well above .500 and finish first but they won't be 18-0.
I think UNI & ISU will be above .500 but only because of the plethora or weak teams that'll give them some wins...
Then everyone else will be at or under .500,,,,,

[Da Coach]

Here is where I think things will shake out this season:

1. Creighton - they are about 2 notches above any other team
2. UNI - deepest team in the league, and aren't weak at any single position
3. Illinois St - this is a senior-laden team, and probably their last shot at being in the top half for a few years
4. Evansville - maybe I'm wearing my Colt Ryan goggles, but he can take them a long way
5. Wichita St - losing their top 5 scorers will be significant, but they have pretty good talent to replace those losses
6. Drake - Rice is a loss, but he wasn't a good teammate and this may be one of those "addition by subtraction" scenarios
7. Indiana St - I have trouble believing Jake Odum will allow them to place much below 7th
8. Bradley - hey, it's 2 spots better than the past 2 years!
9. Missouri St - they lost more than anybody other than WSU, but they don't have as good of a recruiting class
10. SIU - not much to like about this SIU team...

How do you rank the order of finish in the Valley?

I'd like to be optimistic, but the 2 teams you rated lower than BU both beat us twice last year. I hope I am proven wrong, but I can't see us moving up much.

[Gary the Gargoyle]

What you've come up with seems reasonable to me. I don't know what place Bradley will finish, but I think that 6-12 is about where they'll end up.

[LittleBrave]

Here is where I think things will shake out this season:

1. Creighton - they are about 2 notches above any other team
2. UNI - deepest team in the league, and aren't weak at any single position
3. Illinois St - this is a senior-laden team, and probably their last shot at being in the top half for a few years
4. Evansville - maybe I'm wearing my Colt Ryan goggles, but he can take them a long way
5. Wichita St - losing their top 5 scorers will be significant, but they have pretty good talent to replace those losses
6. Drake - Rice is a loss, but he wasn't a good teammate and this may be one of those "addition by subtraction" scenarios
7. Indiana St - I have trouble believing Jake Odum will allow them to place much below 7th
8. Bradley - hey, it's 2 spots better than the past 2 years!
9. Missouri St - they lost more than anybody other than WSU, but they don't have as good of a recruiting class
10. SIU - not much to like about this SIU team...

How do you rank the order of finish in the Valley?

While ISU-red plays a much tougher non-conf. schedule, UNI's extremely tough non-conf. schedule will pay dividends in prepping them for Valley play.

I'm going to predict the records for each team too - Here goes!

1) 14-4 Creighton (losses @ UNI, Evansville, Drake)
2) 12-6 UNI
3) 11-7 ISU - red
4) 10-8 Evansville
5) 10-8 Wichita St.
6) 9-9 Drake
7) 7-11 Missouri St.
8 ) 7-11 Indy St.
9) 6-12 BRADLEY
10) 4-14 SIU

[BUfan39]

Creighton
UNI
ISU R
Wichita St.
Evansville
ISU B
Bradley
Missouri St.
Drake
SIU

Maybe wishful thinking putting us 7th, but I think we have a shot. This team looks a lot better with Will and Pickett in there, they just gotta stay out of foul trouble..