5 MVC games Saturday, Feb. 24

[Da Coach]

There are 5 MVC games Saturday, Feb. 24. All are afternoon games-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/18/date/20180224

Bradley might know who their opponent will be by the time their game starts. Correct me if I am wrong, but if ISU wins at Loyola in their 1:00 game, then Bradley will play Drake.

[BUfan39]

There are 5 MVC games Saturday, Feb. 24. All are afternoon games-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/18/date/20180224

Bradley might know who their opponent will be by the time their game starts. Correct me if I am wrong, but if ISU wins at Loyola in their 1:00 game, then Bradley will play Drake.

That??™s correct. Or if ISU loses, we??™ll know by halftime of the Bradley game who we play once the Drake/Valpo game goes final. They start at 2pm CST.

[Da Coach]

In the early games-

ISU and Loyola are close in the 2nd half-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989754

UNI leading Missouri State in the 2nd half-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989756

Evansville annhiliating SIU in the 2nd half-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989757

Valpo at Drake getting started, and Bradley game at 3 PM

MVC Scoreboard-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/18/date/20180224

If SIU loses (and they are now down by 23 at Evansville with 11 minutes left in the game), and ISU wins (ISU down by 3 with 11 minutes left), then ISU will jump up to the #2 seed, since they split the 2 regular season games with both SIU and Drake, and ISU's RPI will be better than either SIU's or Drake's.
Thus, ISU will win the tiebreaker with either SIU or Drake. SIU will get the #3 seed, and win or lose, Drake will get the #4 seed because of a lower RPI and will be Bradley's opponent next Friday in the #4-#5 game.


Valpo leads early at Drake-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989758

If Valpo could pull off a win at Drake, and if Bradley wins, Bradley would move into a tie with them for 4th place. If both Drake and ISU lose and Bradley wins, Bradley would tie for 3rd! (but will still get the #5 seed). But what a nice way to finish that would be to get into a tie for 3rd place!

[Da Coach]

Finals-

Northern Iowa beats Missouri State 71-56. UNI finishes 7-11 and MSU drops to 7-11-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989756

Evansville clobbers SIU by 31 points! Evansville 75 SIU 44. Ryan Taylor locks up the MVC scoring title with 25 points. SIU finished 11-7, Evansville finishes 7-11-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989757

Loyola hangs on the beat ISU 68-61. Loyola finishes 15-3, and ISU drops to 10-8.-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989754

Valparaiso and Drake are tied 30-30 at halftime-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400989758

Here is the MVC standings updated to include the 3 games that are completed-

http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2018/conference/Missouri-Valley

Bradley's opponent next Friday comes down to this-
If Drake wins their game, they will finish ahead of ISU and Bradley will play ISU. If Drake loses at home to Valpo, then ISU wins the tiebreaker, and Bradley will play Drake next Friday.

[braves16]

Valpo just beat Drake.

[Da Coach]

Big upset in Des Moines! Valparaiso lead almost the entire game and held on to beat Drake 69-64.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay?gameId=400989758

That means Drake falls to 10-8, the same record as ISU. Bradley has a chance to tie for 3rd place if they can win.

[tornado]

Aliza Johnson goes out with a wimper - hopefully he will have a decent game in the tourney

[tornado]

In Evansville's Saturday game - prior to the game they honored their seniors...

..but senior Dylan Traore proposed to his girlfriend...and she said "yes"....
I have always wondered what would happen if one of these very public proposals backfired and she said "no"....

[cpacmel]

Drake's Ore Arogundade

https://twitter.com/OA23_/status/967579677014585344

[tornado]

that is cool- thanks for posting - congrats to Ore and the future Mrs. A

Hmmm - wonder if this might have been a distraction - Ore had kind of a bad game and drake lost at home to Valpo
...At Evansville, Traore also had a bad game..

[BUSongwriter]

Someone should enlarge Ore's proposal photo to poster size for BU fans to distract him with on Friday afternoon . . . .

[Da Coach]

That's nice, and I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but are there other fans who don't really like to see public sports events hijacked for someone to propose?
Are we going to see someone propose during a timeout of the MVC Tournament championship game?

[cpacmel]

If it??™s done after the game is over, what part of the game is being hijacked? Majority of the fans are on their way back to their cars already.

[Da Coach]

If it??™s done after the game is over, what part of the game is being hijacked? Majority of the fans are on their way back to their cars already.

I personally don't care what the Drake players do there, though there might have been people who stayed wanting to see and hear the senior day program.