5 games Saturday, March 1

[Da Coach]

All 10 teams play on March 1st, the final day of the regular season schedule

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?date=20140301&confId=18

[bigjimmy]

ISU Blue leads UNI at the half 39-35. UNI led by 10 for a lot of the half but ISU went on a 16-3 run during the last 6 minutes to get the lead. They are 17-1 when they lead at the half.

[bigjimmy]

ISU broke out to an 11 point lead early but UNI has come back to tie it up at 46 with 15:00 left. Wichita up 16-6 early. The Shockers have had 46 straight home games with over 10,000 fans.

[bigjimmy]

Wichita leads MSU 39-21 at the half. UNI and ISU Blue had a heck of a game as neither team led by more than 4 in the last 15 minutes. Seth Tuttle scored the last 6 for UNI and they survived a 3 point shot at the buzzer by Jake Odum that went in and out twice to beat ISU 71-69. UNI will now be the #3 seed.

[tornado]

.. UNI will now be the #3 seed.

when BU gets to Friday and beats Indiana State, then the Saturday game will be vs. the SIU/UNI winner

[Da Coach]

Indiana State loses at home to UNI 71-69-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400500141

Wichita State beats Missouri State easily 68-45-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400500140

[tornado]

ISU jumped out to an 8-pt lead early then gave it up as SIU now takes a 27-24 lead over ISU in Carbondale
Lynch has 6pts & 4 blks early but....also has 2 fouls early and this is gonna hamper ISU

[tornado]

SIU is outrebounding ISU 25-11 but trails by 3

[bigjimmy]

SIU leads ISU 61-54 with 5:30 left. Evansville leads Loyola 64-55 with 4:00 left.

[Da Coach]

Illlinois State takes SIU to the wire, but SIU wins 66-65 on a late three by Tyler Smithpeters, who came up big (why didn't we recruit this kid?)-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400500139

Evansville never trailed and won just their 2nd MVC road game 75-72 at Loyola-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400500138

MVC Scoreboard-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?date=20140301&confId=18

Final MVC Standings-

[bigjimmy]

SIU, with a 3 pointer with 9 seconds left by Tyler Smith-Peters, beat ISU 66-65. ISU got the ball down court but didn't get off a shot. That means ISU will be the 5th seed as they will play Missouri State in Game #2 on Friday. Evansville had an 18 point 2nd half lead chopped to one but held on with a 75-72 win over Loyola.

[tornado]

SIU/ISU game was there for anyone to take at the end but missed FT and dropped balls out of bounds made it interesting but then the skinny, un-athletic shooter that nobody recruited - hit the shot & won the game

Illini beat MSU - but the Spartans really looked bad

and on FoxSports Midwest Xavier is up 12 over Creighton
..announcers of the Creighton/Xavier game making fun of DM getting his own bobblehead..

[Da Coach]

SIU, with a 3 pointer with 9 seconds left by Tyler Smith-Peters, beat ISU 66-65. ISU got the ball down court but didn't get off a shot. That means ISU will be the 5th seed as they will play Missouri State in Game #2 on Friday. Evansville had an 18 point 2nd half lead chopped to one but held on with a 75-72 win over Loyola.

The 3 teams that tied for 4th, Missouri State, Illinois State, and SIU all split the season series with each other. Thus the seeds will be determined by non-conference SOS.-
Illinois State's Non-conference SOS is 108
Missouri State's Non-conference SOS is 152
Southern Illinois' Non-conference SOS is 238

So why is MSU the #4 seed?

Bracket-


Final MVC Standings-

[tornado]

Illini beat MSU - but the Spartans really looked bad.....

Illini really needed this win even to entertain the thought of a CBI bid...
Illini go to just 6-10 with Northwestern having severe trouble scoring again and about to lose and fall to 5-11 and sole possession of Big Ten last place.
Remember - Illini were 13-2 shortly after knocking off Mizzou and had gone 1-10 until getting back into the win column at Minnesota.

[cpacmel]

The 3 teams that tied for 4th, Missouri State, Illinois State, and SIU all split the season series with each other. Thus the seeds will be determined by non-conference SOS.-
Illinois State's Non-conference SOS is 108
Missouri State's Non-conference SOS is 152
Southern Illinois' Non-conference SOS is 238

So why is MSU the #4 seed?

I don't your #'s are accurate. Mo State's Non-conf SOS was about 10 spots better than ISU's the morning.