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There are 7 MVC games today, Saturday, Nov. 21, including #1 ranked North Carolina at Northern Iowa-
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In MVC games that have already started or are finished-
Northern Iowa is tied with North Carolina 54-54 with 10 minutes to go in the game-
Evansville beat a pretty good Belmont team-
Wichita State will win easily and go to 2-1 playing D2 Emporia State-
On the down side, SIU, which was the only 3-0 team coming into today, is losing at Sam Houston State in the 2nd half-
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UNI got hot late in the 2nd half, pulled ahead and hung on to upset the #1 ranked team in the country 71-67-
SIU and Sam Houston State tied at 77-77 at the end of regulation, and they are now in overtime-
Wichita State up big over Emporia State at halftime 38-13-
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Northern Iowa (over North Carolina) and Evansville (over Belmont) both had impressive wins today.
SIU beat Sam Houston State in overtime-
Wichita State won easily over Emporia State. Their bench players got a lot of playing time-
Toledo at Loyola is just starting-
Illinois State and Drake play tonight
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Loyola beat Toledo 69-62.
Toledo started strong and lead by as many as 18 points in the first half, and held a 39-24 halftime lead. But in the final 10 minutes of the 2nd half, Loyola got hot and pulled ahead to stay. Milton Doyle had a nice game- 26 points on only 9 shot attempts. He was 8-9 from the field, 6-6 from three, though he did have 9 turnovers. -
Former BU recruit Nate Navigato started for Toledo, and had 3 points & 3 rebounds. He had much better games in Toledo's first 2 games. He had 8 points in Toledo's opener against West Virginia Tech, and 17 points against Youngstown State in their 2nd game.
Nate Navigato's stats through 3 games
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ISU leads Houston Baptist by only two at half
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ISU came on strong in the 2nd half to easily beat Houston Baptist 72-56.
Attendance for the game was only 4,100 at Redbird Arena.
But in the last MVC game of the day, Drake played well for the first 30 minutes against UMKC, but then had trouble making shots the last 10 minutes while UMKC pulled away to win 79-73-
Attendance was a paltry 2,862 at the Knapp Center on the Drake campus.
So the MVC went 6-1 on the day-
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Loyola at home drew only 1,556 at the Gentile Center on the Loyola campus for their win over Toledo.
Evansville drew 4,227 at the Ford Center for their win over Belmont.
Wichita State's attendance was announced as 10,506 for their win over D2 Emporia State.
And Northern Iowa drew a full house (7,018 ) for their upset of North Carolina.Comment
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Watched the end of that game... and I swear... the fans didn't seem loud enough to me on possessions. Yes - they roared on made shots. But, honestly... it seemed like a bunch of fans standing and holding their breath, worried.Originally posted by Da Coach View Post
Dang... I would think in the throat of a game with a team that has been good and is good, the fans would be loud and strong on every possession, every dribble, every pass, every second.
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As someone who was there, the crowd was loud...yes a crescendo on missed UNC shots and made UNI buckets, but the crowd was into it for the majority of the game...standing the last 12 minutes for the most part. It was a great atmosphere and was fun to see everyone into it. There were a couple hundred UNC fans there too, which made it a little bit of a nice back and forth. So, I don't know if the audio just wasn't picking it up, but the crowd was pretty strong. I'd just like to see that same crowd for Bradley on Dec.30th. I believe that was a game that was a part of the UNC 3 pack.Comment
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Even if there's no other quality MVC wins- then this one victory over a #1 ranked team has to qualify 2015-16 as a pretty successful year for the MVC
Good job by Ben Jacobson and his crew..
once again- something that Bradley fans have been stupefied for several years about...this game shows the value of having good 3-pt shooters..
Just about every Braves fan has been calling for our guys to go out and use some of our scholarships on shooters instead of completely unproductive, flat-footed, single-digit scoring juco big men, and transfers who had completely flopped elsewhere then had to sit out a full year here before flopping again.
It doesn't take a genius to see which MVC teams are at the bottom of the 3-pt shooting every year (Bradley, Missouri State) and who's at the top (UNI, Wichita).Comment
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It always amuses me how ignorant pollsters must be... This week's rankings demonstrate how they were much more impressed with an unranked (and not receiving votes in week 2) George Washington win over #6 Virginia than an unranked (and not receiving votes in week 2) UNI win over #1 North Carolina.
Week 3 polls have George Washington receiving more votes than UNI in BOTH polls.
Pathetic.
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UNI does have a loss to at home to Colorado State.Originally posted by MacabreMob View PostComment
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Originally posted by cpacmel View Post
I knew that Cpac, but so yes - it causes a mental traffic jam for pollsters.
But can't any of them do a little investigative work and think... well maybe Colorado St isn't too bad? They WERE an NIT team last year. They finished 27-7 last year and 3rd in the MWC. As for George Washington, they had beaten Lafayette and South Florida. Hmmmm... Lafayette a 16 seed in last season's NCAA tourney that lost by 41 to Villanova. South Florida manages 9 wins overall and 3 in-conference last year. Yea... I'm impressed.
The pollsters are just one or maybe 2 dimensional.Comment
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the pollsters know little about any team west of Villanova..
If UNI didn't have Iowa in their name, I am sure they'd put them in Indiana on their map like they did to Bradley...Comment
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