MVC Tournament

[KillerB]

The Missouri Valley Conference will conduct a press conference at 2 p.m. CT on Wednesday, July 9, at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark Hotel in downtown St. Louis. Commissioner Doug Elgin will have an historic announcement regarding the future of the Missouri Valley Conference Men??™s Basketball Tournament.


The press conference will be streamed live via the MVC web site, and a link to the full replay of the stream (and downloading instructions) will be provided.

[tornado]

any hint ??
-- the fact that the press conference IS being held in St. Louis hints to me that it's gonna be an announcement about the MVC Tourney staying in St. Louis for a while... but we'll see........

[Nacho]

Anyone hearing anything on this? I'd like to think since it's being held at a prominent STL hotel, that its staying in STL. You'd think they'd just be able to have the press conference at the MVC HQ if they were going to move it out of STL...

[it's boogie time]

Don't they still need a title sponsor for arch madness?

[Da Coach]

Don't they still need a title sponsor for arch madness?

Yes. State Farm's sponsorship ended with the 2012 Tournament.
2012

The 2013 and 2014 tournaments did not have a title sponsor-
2013
2014

[Da Coach]

The official release from the MVC says only "Commissioner Doug Elgin will have an historic announcement regarding the future of the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament."

But the beat writer for the Missouri State Bears, Lyndal Scranton, seems to have a bit more information-

https://twitter.com/LscrantonNL/status/486531079814545408

Missouri Valley Conference to announce sites of men's basketball tourney beyond 2015 on Wednesday. Presser in St. Louis (not Kansas City)

Some are speculating other possibilities, such as alternating sites-

https://twitter.com/Pg_Benson/status/486550367639842816

Will MVC go Big Ten route and alternate cities such as STL and KC to host tourney? I would be all for that.

Recall that back in mid-March, 2014, the MVC asked 4 cities to bid for the MVC Tournament starting in 2016 through 2020- St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, and Las Vegas-

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/morning_call/2014/03/is-missouri-valley-looking-for-a-new-homecourt.html

[KillerB]

No insider info here.. just my guess that it will be a rotating event announcement.
"Historic" is not signing back up here in St. Louis. I'm not sure a sponsor is either unless AB agrees to pay mega-millions.
Chicago seems like the better place to alternate than KC.

Just my 2 cents.

[Da Coach]

I think a lot of fans would like Las Vegas, but I don't see attendance doing well there with the much further distance for everyone.

[tornado]

we used to have a rotating system - different sites each year - and found reasons to dump that model - now we have a fine, single site that almost everyone likes and has served us well - and we seem he**-bent on dumping this system now for the almighty $$

[Braves2006]

You can't really call it Arch Madness if you're playing in KC or any other city.... That would be ridiculous

[tornado]

I hope it is to announce the tourney will stay in St. Louis for the next decade

[tornado]

Want a laugh....?
Missouri State people want it moved to Kansas City - but I'd have to think that if that were the announcement - they'd have scheduled it to take place in KC.

Anyway - some of that Missouri State guy's logic is wacky - that Kansas City has better food, would provide better attendance (what?? That's Big 12 territory !) that shot clock malfunctions won't happen in KC (he flashes way back to 2006 for this silly argument which btw - didn't even involve a game in the MVC Tournament!!!), or that some twitter followers want it over in KC!
...or that Kansas City is somehow more connected to some MVC team than St. Louis is!

With the loss of Creighton and addition of Loyola - the geometric center of the MVC has shifted strongly towards Illinois - so moving the tourney out west to KC will likely drop attendance considerably.
Then - what if....
what if we lock in to Kansas City for 6-7 years and Wichita State chooses to leave the MVC somewhere in the interval.
Then we'd be having a conference tournament in a city well west of every single team in the entire conference!
The closest school to the tourney site would be Missouri State - 170 miles & 3 hours drive away...
then every other school would be 5, 6, 7 hours or more away....when currently more than half the Valley is within 2-3 hours or so..
We've seen some really bad decisions lately that have hurt attendances around the MVC - let's hope we don't see another one today....

[lightsout]

MVC Tournament is staying in St. Louis for 2016, 2017, 2018 and options for 2019, and 2020. St. Louis does a great job hosting the tournament and I love making the trip down every year, great choice by the commissioner and everyone involved.

[molar50]

This is good news. It has been a few years since I have been to St Louis to watch the Braves. I am hopeful that Bradley will not be playing Thursday next season and we can see them play on Friday in St Louis.

[AZ BU Fan]

Darn! I was hoping the MVC Tourney would move to the Quad Cities!