One MVC games on Sunday, Nov. 26

[Da Coach]

Chicago State at Drake- 2 PM-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/18/date/20171126

[Da Coach]

Drake pulled away late to beat Chicago State 79-67. Reed Timmer had 32 points to boost his average to 23.6 ppg and overtake ISU's Keyshawn Evans for the scoring lead among MVC players-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989625

MVC stats (not updated with today's Drake game stats as of the time of this post)-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/statistics/player/_/stat/scoring-per-game/year/2018/seasontype/2/group/18

[tornado]

we don't have anyone among the individual scoring leaders but...
Bradley has 3 players averaging 7 rpg or more (Donte, Koch, Elijah Childs)

I think because of the way our guys have been sharing minutes (10 different players with double digit minutes per game)
and distributing shot attempts - we probably won't have a lot of offensive stat leaders.

But check our stats and you'll see that we have compiled our 6-1 record against the best Strength of Schedule so far - and we've done it despite a total of 14 missed games by our key players (Koch Bar 3, Hodgson 2, DLO 1, Luuk 1, Pittman 7 and counting the games they went out in the 1st minute and weren't able to return)

I don't think any other Valley team even comes close in regard to missing personnel despite all the excuses we've heard.

[PTTB]

While I can't argue with your point that anyone has missed 14 games with their top guys due to injury, I would say that to this point, UNI has missed Lohaus (7 games) and Phyfe (2.5 games due to concussion) from our top 8 rotation (and I think most though Wyatt was a starter...and all indications from the coaching staff were of him being a starter). If you expand it to top 10 rotation, my belief is that Hunter Roades would have been/is in that 9-10 range. He missed the first 4 games due to injury. While UNI has two clunkers holding down our non-con SOS, I think we can expect that non-con SOS to finish somewhere in the top 20 range (I believe rpiforecast.com has it top ten projected).

I think Jake was just keeping it in a tight rotation due to experience levels, keeping a certain flow against higher level competition, and also limited still with injuries/returning from injuries while in Bahamas.

I'm impressed with Bradley's improvement and am happy to see the RPI so high. Everyone in the MVC needs to raise their game.