2/13/13 Valley Standings

[shaunguth]

__________________Valley___Home___Away_____All___
Creighton__________9-4______6-1____3-3____20-5___
Wichita State______9-4______6-1____3-3____20-5___
Indiana State______9-5______7-0____2-5____16-9___
Evansville_________7-6______6-0____1-6____14-11__
Northern Iowa______7-6______5-2____2-4____14-11__
Bradley____________6-7______5-2____1-5____14-11__
illinois state_____6-7______3-3____3-4____15-10__
Missouri State_____6-8______5-2____1-6_____8-18__
Drake______________5-8______3-3____2-5____11-13__
Southern Illinois__2-11_____2-4____0-7_____9-15__

Wednesday, February 13
Bradley @ illinois state, 7:00pm CT (WTVP; WMBD Radio)
Creighton @ Northern Iowa, 7:00pm CT
Drake @ Wichita State, 7:00pm CT
Evansville @ Southern Illinois, 7:05pm CT

[shaunguth]

Predictions:

65 - Bradley
75 - illinois state (-12)

65 - Creighton
64 - Northern Iowa (+2)

64 - Drake
73 - Wichita State (-14.5)

66 - Evansville
64 - Southern Illinois (-1)

[peoriaspitfire]

ISU Red favored by 12. hmmm. I wish I had the guts to take this bet.
I'm just too worried that they will correct their mistake from the last outing and go inside to JC more. I agree that ISU can win by double digits easy, but if JC gets in early foul trouble and Brown sprains an ankle, then I think we can cover. Heck, why not go all in. BU 95 ISU 43??¦ JC breaks the backboard on a monster dunk early in the second half and with no replacement on hand, their scoring is done. Eventually ISU gets frustrated and begins shooting at BU??™s basket, thus the inflated BU score.

[tornado]

at a time we've been getting very little production off the bench - I note that Jalen Crawford's playing time has diminished...
he got 15-25 minutes of playing time in almost every game up thru the end of January...
then has only gotten 9.75 minutes per game over the past four games...
In that four game interval he's hitting 40% from floor and 50% from 3-pt range...
Is he injured, or what's the reason his PT has slipped?

In that same interval Shayok's playing time has dipped, too - he's played just 5 minutes per game over the past four games compared to
17-21 minutes per game in the majority of previous games going back to December.

[Da Coach]

That is a concern- that is 2 of the top 3 bench players who ever see significant playing time (Crawford, Shayok). And Jordan Prosser is the other. He is the top bench player in minutes played, yet his playing time has dropped significantly lately. He has played below his season average in 7 of the last 8 games despite starting several of those games in Will's absence, and his playing time keeps dropping. He played a season low 9 minutes against UNI, and a next-to-low 13 minutes against Evansville (and it was not from foul trouble).