MVC Players of the Week

[Da Coach]

Not much mention of Bradley in this week's Weekly Notebook, considering:
BU currently has 2 NET Quadrant 1 wins, which is 2 more than all other 11 MVC teams have combined,
BU is 4-0 with the best SOS in the MVC so far
BU is ranked #18 SOS in all of D1
BU has the best Ken Pom ranking in the MVC
BU has the top RPI ranking in the MVC
Bradley is currently #5 in RPI in all of Division I.

MVC Notebook- https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...pdate_N20a.pdf

Player of the Week- Isaiah Rivera, UIC
Newcomer of the Week- Isaiah Stafford, Valparaiso
Freshman of the Week- Kevin Overton, Drake

The MVC apparently is not counting 4-year transfers as "Newcomers" eligible for Newcomer of the Week, since Isaiah Rivera, the POW did not get awarded NOW. I seem to recall in past years that they did include transfers as eligible for NOW.

[egib52]

Not much mention of Bradley in this week's Weekly Notebook, considering:
BU currently has 2 NET Quadrant 1 wins, which is 2 more than all other 11 MVC teams have combined,
BU is 4-0 with the best SOS in the MVC so far
BU is ranked #18 SOS in all of D1
BU has the best Ken Pom ranking in the MVC
BU has the top RPI ranking in the MVC
Bradley is currently #5 in RPI in all of Division I.

MVC Notebook- https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...pdate_N20a.pdf

Player of the Week- Isaiah Rivera, UIC
Newcomer of the Week- Isaiah Stafford, Valparaiso
Freshman of the Week- Kevin Overton, Drake

The MVC apparently is not counting 4-year transfers as "Newcomers" eligible for Newcomer of the Week, since Isaiah Rivera, the POW did not get awarded NOW. I seem to recall in past years that they did include transfers as eligible for NOW.

Or they just decided to spread the publicity?

[Da Coach]

Or they just decided to spread the publicity?

Haha... sure, but it just didn't get spread very much toward Bradley.

I am joking a bit. I doubt the Bradley guys care if they are shorted on publicity by the MVC office, whose job it is to promote their best teams.
And I fully expect there will be some low points coming. It's a long season ahead. So let's enjoy it while we can. Go BU, beat Tulane!

[egib52]

Haha... sure, but it just didn't get spread very much toward Bradley.

I am joking a bit. I doubt the Bradley guys care if they are shorted on publicity by the MVC office, whose job it is to promote their best teams.
And I fully expect there will be some low points coming. It's a long season ahead. So let's enjoy it while we can. Go BU, beat Tulane!

I do agree though. The conference should do what it can to keep it's best teams in the spotlight.

[Da Coach]

Yep. And I am not saying Bradley players deserved the POW, NOW, or FOW awards. They didn't.
But that press release had only a short blurb about Bradley and it was only about the 17 threes in the Tarleton game.

[Da Coach]

MVC Weekly awards for week ending Nov. 27- https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/FNLVfmZPi0awz/

Still no weekly awards to anyone connected to Bradley, but a couple nicer mentions of Bradley on page 2- https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...Update_N27.pdf