2 MVC games Wednesday, 12/10

[Da Coach]

There are 2 MVC games tonight, Wed. Dec. 10-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?date=20141210&confId=18

UNI puts their undefeated record on the line in a road game at Denver. UNI is 4 point favorites.
SIU plays a road game at SEMO, where SEMO is a 2 point favorite.

[tornado]

UNI is cruising 44-28 over Denver shooting 83% in the first half!!!

but SIU got beat 55-54 on a buzzer beater as time expired by former Geno Ford signee Jarekious Bradley of SEMO

[tornado]

Seven MVC games today, Saturday Dec. looks like MVC could go 6-1


Wichita State @ Detroit 11am
Indiana State @ Iona 1pm
Drake @ Green Bay 1pm
Murray State @ Evansville 1:05pm
UNI @ VCU 6pm
Missouri State @ Southeast Missouri State 6pm
Jackson State @ Loyola 7pm


Sunday, December 14, 2014

Chicago State is at SIU 3pm

then tomorrow is a big game for ISU
They play at DePaul at 3pm.......DePaul is 21-4 all time against ISU -
..a chance to pick up a win against a big conference opponent!

[tornado]

Iona beats Indiana State 94-81 - Iona with a 49-point 2nd half
and Murray State beats Evansville 81-79 - Balentine 31 and Mockevicius 12 & 14, but eveans ville acts like just a 2-man team sometimes
...looks like defense went out the window in the Valley today..

Wichita got by Detroit 77-68 but Detroit led until the final 5 minutes or so


St. Mary's just beat Creighton in a pretty entertaining OT game 71-67, breaking a 23 game home winning streak for Creighton
The hero was a little guy - 5-10 Aaron Bright who ISU fans will remember, and I do too.....
It was an eternity ago, March 2012, under Tim Jankovich - ISU went to play at Stanford in the post-season NIT.
At that time their tiny sophomore substitute point guard was Aaron Bright - before he transferred to St. Mary's -
and he put on an immaculate shooting display --
he went 11-13 and 6-7 from deep - for 29 points and 6 assists to end the Redbirds' season. - LINK

[tornado]

Drake's score looks familiar...
losing 49-35 with about 10 minutes to go...
MVC going to start the day going 1-3 -

half the Valley already has SWAC-caliber non-conference RPI's and the other half, except for UNI & Wichita all have bad losses to high RPI teams (ISU to Utah St., Loyola to Tulane, now Evansville)
But at least it looks like two MVC teams are in line to get NCAA bids if they can stay tough.

[tornado]

VCU knocks UNI from the ranks of the unbeaten
Loyola 58-46
Missouri State 73 - SEMO 61
MVC goes 3-4

Scores-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?date=20141213&confId=18

MVC overall is 50-36, 43-36 vs DI

[cpacmel]

half the Valley already has SWAC-caliber non-conference RPI's and the other half, except for UNI & Wichita all have bad losses to high RPI teams (ISU to Utah St., Loyola to Tulane, now Evansville)

Tornado, not trying to nit pick here, but at this point in time would you really call Utah State, Tulane, and Murray State bad losses to high RPI teams?

Murray State 72
Utah State 102
Tulane 153

Maybe in time these will be bad losses with high RPI's. But right now, IMO, they don't look bad at all.

[tornado]

Certainly the home games