2 MVC games Tuesday 12/18

[Da Coach]

Missouri State (2-8 ) is at Alabama A&M and Oakland City (Division II) is at Evansville (6-4)-

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/scoreboard?d=2012-12-18&refresh=60&c=mvc

[Tulsa Brave]

Missouri State is trailing Alabama A&M at the half...if they don't win this one, they may not win against a D-1 team all season.

[Tulsa Brave]

46-35 Alabama A&M with 11 to play. According to Pomeroy, Alabama A&M is #345 out of 347 D-1 teams.

[Da Coach]

Looks like Evansville will cruise to a win over Oakland City. They are up 20 in the 2nd half-

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201212180193

But things are getting worse for Missouri State- they trail Alabama A&M 39-29 with 15 minutes left.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201212181037

Alabama A&M is one of the worst teams in Division I. They are 0-6 against D1 schools, with an RPI of 323. Evansville beat them by 26.

Missouri State is 0-8 against D1 schools. Their only 2 wins were against Philander Smith, and Malone.

[shaunguth]

Missouri State loses 59-47.

[Rusty 54]

Wouldn't it be interesting if Barry took SIU down to MSU and won? Bet that would go over well.

[lefty]

Wouldn't it be interesting if Barry took SIU down to MSU and won? Bet that would go over well.

Many at MSU still like Barry and wish he was still there

[Da Coach]

Missouri State (2-8 ) is at Alabama A&M and Oakland City (Division II) is at Evansville (6-4)-
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketb...fresh=60&c=mvc

Does anyone know why in the world Missouri State would play a road game at Alabama A&M? It was especially a bad idea in a year when MSU would be struggling. This was a deal between the 2 schools, and not part of any tournament or return game from BracketBusters.

This has got to be the worst scheduling decision I can ever recall by an MVC team.


One other result from tonight- Western Illinois dominated UIC in the 2nd half to pull away to a 70-54 win-

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201212180638

This is a nice win for Coach Molinari over his former assistant Howard Moore. UIC had started the season 9-1 with their only loss at ranked New Mexico.
WIU is now 8-3 and has won 5 in a row.

[shaunguth]

Does anyone know why in the world Missouri State would play a road game at Alabama A&M? It was especially a bad idea in a year when MSU would be struggling. This was a deal between the 2 schools, and not part of any tournament or return game from BracketBusters.

I think it had something to do with a former AD or Assistant AD that's now at Alabama A&M.

[tornado]

Many at MSU still like Barry and wish he was still there

ha, ha lefty -- doesn't it show how fickle fans are some times???
There's even FIRE LUSK threads already going on their boards!!!! -- they even want to send their AD packing!
All you have to do is a simple search on this board and see that there were many here who wanted Lusk or Montgomery badly at Bradley -- and each is in their 2nd years...and...

Geno has us headed to 8-2 -

Montgomery has NIU 1-7 against D-I opponents - also scoring frequently in the 40's

and Lusk has MSU losing horribly on the road to Alabama A&M and currently 0-9 against Division I opponents...scoring in the 40's 4 times, and in the 50's three more times- of their players who score 5ppg or more - all but one shoots around 30% from the field and 25% from 3-pt

[Bravesfan]

Does anyone know why in the world Missouri State would play a road game at Alabama A&M? It was especially a bad idea in a year when MSU would be struggling. This was a deal between the 2 schools, and not part of any tournament or return game from BracketBusters.

This has got to be the worst scheduling decision I can ever recall by an MVC team.


One other result from tonight- Western Illinois dominated UIC in the 2nd half to pull away to a 70-54 win-

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201212180638

This is a nice win for Coach Molinari over his former assistant Howard Moore. UIC had started the season 9-1 with their only loss at ranked New Mexico.
WIU is now 8-3 and has won 5 in a row.

It might be a bad scheduling decision, but still a team they should have beaten even on the road. But as scary as this sounds, MSU might be worse than we were last year! Although I do expect MSU to pull off an upset or two in the Valley this year, I think this is as good a year as any to finally be able to pull off a win in Springfield!

Great win for Coach Mo though against a red hot UIC team that beat Northwestern earlier this year.

[Rusty 54]

ha, ha lefty -- doesn't it show how fickle fans are some times???
There's even FIRE LUSK threads already going on their boards!!!! -- they even want to send their AD packing!
All you have to do is a simple search on this board and see that there were many here who wanted Lusk or Montgomery badly at Bradley -- and each is in their 2nd years...and...

Geno has us headed to 8-2 -

Montgomery has NIU 1-7 against D-I opponents - also scoring frequently in the 40's

I wanted Lusk here. Happy to say that I was wrong and that it seems like our admin made the right call.

[Art Haines is God]

Lusk's start in Springfield hasn't been good. But he has had some bad luck. We lost Jarmar Gulley who was probably the best guy coming back, and then lost two signed JUCOs before the season. At least one of the JUCOs would have been a starter, and the other would have had some minutes. Last night we also were missing an additional starter and a key bench guy. So it is going quite poorly, but I can't say it is all around in-game coaching.

As far as Barry goes, Zo got us a title in three years with less talent than Barry ever had. I'm sure there is an argument there somewhere but I'm not in anguish over the little general, but do wish him well with dogs.

[TheAsianSensation]

This has got to be the worst scheduling decision I can ever recall by an MVC team.

Many times we get caught up in speaking in hyperbole.

This time, it's warranted.

Hands down the worst scheduling decision I've ever seen a Valley team make. Forget the result of the game. Just having it there in the first place is disgraceful to the Valley. MSU administrators owe the conference multiple apologies for the existence of this game.

[Bravesfan]

Many times we get caught up in speaking in hyperbole.

This time, it's warranted.

Hands down the worst scheduling decision I've ever seen a Valley team make. Forget the result of the game. Just having it there in the first place is disgraceful to the Valley. MSU administrators owe the conference multiple apologies for the existence of this game.

They still should have been able to beat this team, bad scheduling or not. Our teams have to play some road games, but unfortunately this was the equivalent of losing a road game to Chicago St. or Prairie View A&M. I guess this team is in bad shape though due to some last minute player defections and injuries.