New MVC Blog

[MVCBeat]

Hello Braves,

I just wanted to reach out and let you know that I started a new blog that will be focused on MVC Basketball and MVFC Football. I am a longtime Valley fan who is a veteran of 17 Arch Madnesses. I have been making MVC writeups for my friends for years and consider myself a pretty good writer, so I figured why not post my write-ups publicly for other MVC fans to read if they'd like? I intend to post a couple times a week. Sometimes I'll comment on the current league goings-on, sometimes I'll talk about the mid-major/NCAA scene overall, and sometimes I'll post about MVC history.

I launched yesterday with five articles. I have my 2020-21 MVC Preview broken into three parts, a piece detailing how I'd handle the NCAA Tournament during the pandemic, and a piece listing each MVC school's greatest basketball team of the 21st century (spoiler: Patty O'Bryant makes an appearance). I think it is pretty good sampling of the things I intend to do moving forward.

Check it out if you'd like: www.missourivalleybeat.com

Thanks!

[Da Coach]

Pretty good blogs so far. Thanks!

[Tommy]

Keep heavy on the BU love and I’ll make it a regular stop.

[MVCBeat]

Pretty good blogs so far. Thanks!

Thank you for the kind words!

[MVCBeat]

Keep heavy on the BU love and I’ll make it a regular stop.

Now that Wichita is gone, I love every team in the league haha!

[Tommy]

Now that Wichita is gone, I love every team in the league haha!

Haha! I like it!

[MVCBeat]

Two new blog posts today.

One runs down the action in week one and updates the power rankings.

The other ranks the top 30 returning players in this year's MVC.

Check it out here: https://www.missourivalleybeat.com

Thanks!

[MVCBeat]

Hey Braves,

Two new writeups today. One is the power rankings and summary from week two. The other ranks all the DI conferences by strength (via RPI over the last 7 years). I've also written MVC preview articles, an article highlighting each school's best team of the 21st century (featuring BU's 2006 S16 team), and an article ranking the top 30 players in the MVC this year (featuring Childs, Henry, and Kingsby).

I've also added an "MVC Resources" page compiling all the MVC fan sites, blogs and podcasts I could find. If you have any I should add, let me know.

https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/

[MVCBeat]

Hello Braves fans,

There are two new posts on the blog this week.

-Week 3 MVC Power Rankings, Summery and Mid Major Tidbits: A decent amount of movement this week.

-Recapping Every Arch Madness Championship Game: Starting with the first St. Louis based MVC Tournament final in 1991, through last season, I recap every Arch Madness final as well as give a short summary of how the MVC did in the postseason that year. That includes recaps of the Braves titles in the two most recent tournaments.

You can also check out my other, older posts including my MVC Season Preview, Every MVC School's Best Team of the 21st Century, The MVC's Top 30 Returning Players, and Every DI Conference Ranked. I also have a page with links to every MVC message board, blog, and podcast that I know of. Let me know if I am missing anything.

Check it all out here: https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/

[MVCBeat]

Hello Braves Fans,

Sorry about today. That ending was a real bummer, and to find out your opener is cancelled to boot. That sucks.

That said, I have two new blog posts this week. The first ranks the MVC coaches. The second is the week four summary, power rankings, and mid-major bits. You'll probably like where Wardle is ranked, not so much where the Braves are. It was really tough to rank the top four. Even though I don't have them in the top two right now, I do think BU is still the top title contender after Loyola.

There is lots of other Valley content there as well if you haven't taken a look yet. Next week I am starting a two-part series where I simulate an MVC season (via whatifsports) using each team's best team of the 21st century from my earlier article. Should be fun.

Check it out at https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/ . Have a great holiday all!

[MVCBeat]

Hello Braves,

I am really looking forward to your series with Loyola this weekend. It will probably decide the league title, and both games are on national TV. How awesome for the league.

I just posted the week 5 updated power rankings. I am also using the ten teams from my first article, "Every MVC School's Best Basketball Team of the 20th Century" to play out a simulated all-time MVC season using whatifsports.com. Part one of my two part series on that is also posted. Bradley's participant is the 2006 Sweet 16 team.

Have a happy new year all.

https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/

[MVCBeat]

The Week 6 Power Rankings and Tidbits are now posted.

I have also posted the second part of my All-Time MVC simulated season. The regular season has finished so you can see the final standings, where the 2006 Braves landed and their scores.

Really looking forward to next week when I play out my all-time season's Arch Madness complete with box scores and game summaries. I have already started and it has been a blast.

Thanks for those of you who are reading. Really cool to see multiple hundreds of views on my articles!

https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/

Looking forward to seeing the Braves back on the court this weekend.

[MVCBeat]

Hello Braves Fans,

There are two new posts this week. The first is my standard weekly power ranking, summaries and tidbits.

The second is one I am really excited about. It is Session 1 of my "All-Time Arch Madness" featuring all the teams from my "Every MVC School's Best Team of the 20th Century" article. For this, I have supplied a writeup and a box score for each game as provided by whatifsports. Session 1, Thursday Night, is posted, and I will be posting one session a day for the next five days. 2006 Bradley makes its tournament debut in today's article against 2001 Indiana State. After this week, I'll get back to my normal stuff.

Thanks all. The link is here: https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/

[MVCBeat]

Hello Braves Fans,

The new weekly power rankings and summaries are posted. This week's other article is about the "Top 30 Newcomers in the MVC in 20-21 (So Far)". Featured Braves include Mast, East and Nolan. Also my "All-Time Arch Madness" was played out in five sessions over the course of last week and that is now finished and posted.

The link is here: https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/

Thanks all and good luck.

[MVCBeat]

Braves!

I just made two new blog posts. One is the standard power rankings and tidbits for week 9. The other is "Every MVC School's Most Famous Basketball Alum". The Bradley rep is Hawkins. I also included an addendum for other famous alums at each school. Please let me know which ones I missed. I really enjoyed researching this one.

https://www.missourivalleybeat.com/