MVC games Sat Dec. 9- MVC goes 7-0 in non-conference

[Da Coach]

Saturday December 9, 2006

Illinois St. 6-2 (Conf: 0-0) 3:05pm
Evansville 5-3 (Conf: 0-0) ET
Roberts Stadium (Evansville, IN)

(10) Wichita St. 6-0 (Road: 3-0) 5:30pm
Wyoming 7-1 (Home: 5-0) ET
Auditorium (Laramie, WY)

Missouri St. 7-1 (Road: 0-0) 7:00pm
N.C. Wilmington 3-4 (Home: 2-0) ET
Raiford G. Trask Coliseum (Wilmington, NC)

(15) Butler 10-0 (Road: 2-0) 7:05pm
Indiana St. 4-3 (Home: 3-0) ET
Hulman Center (Terre Haute, IN)

Southern Ill. 6-1 (Road: 1-0) 8:00pm
West. Kentucky 8-1 (Home: 4-0) ET
E.A. Diddle Arena (Bowling Green, KY)

(24) Xavier 7-1 (Road: 0-0) 8:05pm
Creighton 3-2 (Home: 3-0) ET
Qwest Center Omaha (Omaha, NE)

Mo. Kansas City 3-6 (Road: 0-4) 8:05pm
Northern Iowa 7-1 (Home: 3-0) ET
UNI-Dome (Cedar Falls, IA)

Georgia Southern 5-2 (Road: 2-2) 8:30pm
Drake 4-2 (Home: 2-0) ET
Drake Regency Classic
Knapp Center (Des Moines, IA)

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/scoreboard?d=2006-12-09&c=mvc&refresh=0

[Bravesfan]

That Creighton game is the most important one of the day, IMO. With Fresno St. looming around the corner, this is a must win, and will help right their ship.

Of course, that would mean one more difficult team for Bradley to beat later on, but CU needs this win to help the conference continue their OOC dominance.

[Da Coach]

I just checked the ISU-Evansville score. It was close at halftime, 28-27 Evansville.
But ISU has gone stone cold in the 2nd half, and Evansville has outscored ISU 19-2 to start the half, and now lead 47-29 with 11:07 left.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090193

[smitty]

It looks like ISU is still struggling to put points on the board like last year. The margin is now 23 points with a little over 8 min to go. They will not make 50.

[Braves4Life]

Upset Picks

I wouldn't be surprised by the following upsets:

UNCW over Mizzou St.
Wyoming over WSU
Creighton over X
Geo Sou. over Drake (is this even an upset?)
Ind. St. over Butler (ISU is pathetic, but they always seem to play their year's best game against Indiana's best team)

[Da Coach]

Final score- Evansville 69 - ISU 41

ISU only scored 14 in the 2nd half.

[Bravesfan]

Wow! 7-0 for the Valley today, and the #2 rated conference according to realtimerpi, with WSU #1! I know it's early in the season, but everyone in the conference is ranked in the top 120. Dang! Imagine if our Braves had taken care of Tennessee Tech. We could have ranked even higher!

[Da Coach]

What a night for the MVC! Wonder how Billy Packer will spin things this year. I guess the MVC has "cracked the code" for good!
Here are all the finals from Saturday--

Illinois St. (6-3) 41
Evansville (6-3) 69
ISU shot 27% from the floor and from 3-point. Point guard Boo Richardson had a nightmare game- 0-11, 2 assists, 5 turnovers.
UE's Matt Webster had 21 points, and UE shot 53%.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090193

(10) Wichita St. (7-0) 83
Wyoming (7-2) 69
Wichita State moves to the #2 spot in RPI

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090661

http://realtimerpi.com/

Missouri St. (8-1) 78
N.C. Wilmington (3-5) 62
MSU shot 16-30 from 3-point

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090398

(15) Butler (10-1 64
Indiana St. (5-3) 72
Sycs outshoot and outrebound Butler and beat them at their own game.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090274

Southern Ill. (7-1) 75
West. Kentucky (8-2) 72
SIU gives up a lot more points than usual but shoots lights out.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090639

(24) Xavier (7-2) 67
Creighton (4-2) 73

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090639

Mo. Kansas City (3-7) 53
Northern Iowa (8-1) 85
Total domination by UNI, and a lot of playing time for the bench.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090418

Georgia Southern (5-3) 75
Drake (5-2) 87

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612090170

The MVC moves back into the #2 spot in Conference RPI

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_conf_Men.html

And all 10 MVC teams are ranked at RPI 114 or lower. Bradley is now the lowest ranked team in the league.

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_mvc_Men.html

[Dallas Brave]

What a night for the MVC! Wonder how Billy Packer will spin things this year. I guess the MVC has "cracked the code" for good!

If Billy wants to regain his spot as a preeminent voice in college basketball, he'll start touting the MVC as a 5 bid conference this year

[ser_solace]

MVC

This is great! The competition is going to be awesome when more conference games get rolling.

[Dallas Brave]

I think the BU nation needs to prepare itself this year for a wild ride accompanied by a lot of cheers and a lot of groans when playing on the road within the MVC.

[OrangeandBlack74]

Was watching the Indiana - Kentucky game yesterday when one of the commentators (I think it was Clark Kellogg) put up a graphic of Valley victories over top teams this year, and then said "The Valley is at it again this year!" Among the games listed was Bradley over DePaul.

Guess they can add a couple more to the list after last night, eh?

[Da Coach]

More love for the MVC--

Here is a blogger who thinks the MVC is better than the Big 12?

http://rams.aolsportsblog.com/2006/12/09/is-the-missouri-valley-conference-better-than-the-big-12/