Indiana State injury report

[Da Coach]

Indiana State's leading scorer Isaiah Swope "battling multiple knee injuries" and will require surgery after the season - https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/sta...23358772371611

Swope is averaging 17.3 ppg. He is also 6th in the MVC in playing time (34.5 minutes per game)

MVC stats- https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit..._MBB_Stats.pdf
Current Standings- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ngs/_/group/18

[carter]

Thanks for the update.I wish it wasn't so but I think Drake is the better team roster wise.

[Stryker]

Thanks for the update.I wish it wasn't so but I think Drake is the better team roster wise.

Concur, I expect Drake to run the table and win in St. Louis.

[BUfan17]

Concur, I expect Drake to run the table and win in St. Louis.

Agree.

Indiana St seems to be running out of gas at this point. One of their best players having multiple knee injuries isn't good. Would be a big loss for them if he goes down.

Really I hope Drake wins the conference and we end up 3rd so we're opposite sides of the bracket. That would be best case for us to win Arch Madness.

[bradleyfan124]

We can beat both those teams

[Tommy]

We can beat both those teams

This is why I love you, bro!

[Da Coach]

IMO, Indiana State has the slightly easier schedule over the final 3 games of the regular season, though Drake has been playing better.
Indiana State will be pulling for Bradley on that final day of the regular season.

Drake-

Sat, Feb 24	@Northern Iowa
Wed, Feb 28	@UIC
Sun, Mar 3	vsBradley

Indiana State-

Sat, Feb 24	vsUIC
Wed, Feb 28	@Evansville
Sun, Mar 3	vsMurray State

[BUfan17]

We can beat both those teams

Can we? Yes if we put together a full 40 minutes this team can compete with anyone.

But so far we are 0-3 against them with the final game being a tough one at Drake. A win there would be great but so far it doesn't make me too confident going into Arch Madness.

[Stryker]

IMO, Indiana State has the slightly easier schedule over the final 3 games of the regular season, though Drake has been playing better.
Indiana State will be pulling for Bradley on that final day of the regular season.

Drake-

Sat, Feb 24	@Northern Iowa
Wed, Feb 28	@UIC
Sun, Mar 3	vsBradley

Indiana State-

Sat, Feb 24	vsUIC
Wed, Feb 28	@Evansville
Sun, Mar 3	vsMurray State

Who has the tie-breaker if they both win out? I believe they split against each other correct?

As far as BU beating Drake, it won't happen if the league takes a look at the UNI game and realizes that physically pressuring the BU guards is so disruptive it makes BU easily beatable. Frankly I think the cat is out of the bag on how to beat BU and what type of defense to play.

[Tommy]

Frankly I think the cat is out of the bag on how to beat BU and what type of defense to play.

I think Missouri State would disagree.

[Da Coach]

Who has the tie-breaker if they both win out? I believe they split against each other correct?...

They split the season series, each team won at home. The tiebreaker was simplified this year.
The next tiebreaker after head-to-head is NET on the morning after the final regular season game.
2024 MVC tiebreaker - https://mvc-sports.com/documents/202...eaker_2024.pdf

Current NET- Indiana State 32, Drake 44 - https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basket...l-net-rankings

[️ Fanatic]

I think Missouri State would disagree.

Does Missouri State play defense (well, for the entire game)??

[️ Fanatic]

Current NET- Indiana State 32, Drake 44 - https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basket...l-net-rankings

i don’t believe that if Drake beat Bradley @ home, the last game of the season - Drake would move up 9 points in the NET?? Assuming both teams keep this similar NET score by winning the rest of the games on their schedule (Yet I admit, I don’t know how NET is measured)

[Da Coach]

I don't know everything that goes into NET, but making up a 9 point difference between Drake and Indiana State this late in the season seems unlikely.
It would probably only happen if Indiana State lost a couple more games or if a bunch of teams ahead of Drake lost games to lower ranked opponents and dropped down

[bigjimmy]

Right now we can count on us playing really well for 20 minutes, really bad for 10+ minutes and somewhere in between for the other minutes. What was good about the Missouri St game was that we didn’t go down early. We stayed in the game despite throwing up bricks and got to extend the lead a bit in the last few minutes and then we put it to them in the second half. Just need to keep building on that for each of the last 3 regular season games and put it to whoever we play at Arch Madness.