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Some please figure this out and let me know....
After only one MVC team gets into Rivals' Top 64 Countdown....someone e mailed a question to their editors.
"Where's the MVC love?
How can you overlook the Missouri Valley Conference? The MVC will have four teams (Bradley or Illinois State, Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois and Creighton) in the NCAA Tournament. It's a lot better than the A-10 or Conference USA (Rivals.com writers recently debated whether the A-10 or C-USA would be the better non-BCS conference in 2007-08 ).
-- Jim from Ft. Washington, Md."
Then the Rivals writer responds...........
"Other than Southern Illinois, the top programs relied heavily on seniors last season. The amount of top players who left the league is staggering....
...Northern Iowa and Bradley are both losing a pair of double-digit scorers.....etc..."
Ok...I agree, Bradley loses Will Franklin (14ppg) and Zach Andrews (11ppg), but they return their floor leader and best shooter.
But SIU also loses two double digit scorers in Tatum (15ppg) and Young (10ppg), but that includes their floor leader and best shooter!
Other team that remain ranked by Rivals also lose multiple top scorers, even some who lose top scorers and rebounders (like Pitt, Alabama, Ohio State, Florida...) and yet they seem to use this argument only against the MVC.
I guess it doesn't surprise me.....the Valley gets lack of respect every single year.
I guess the only way to respond is go out there a whup their butts on the court,
so I will be pulling for the Valley in every non-conference game, especially the ones against their beloved big boys!
After only one MVC team gets into Rivals' Top 64 Countdown....someone e mailed a question to their editors.
"Where's the MVC love?
How can you overlook the Missouri Valley Conference? The MVC will have four teams (Bradley or Illinois State, Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois and Creighton) in the NCAA Tournament. It's a lot better than the A-10 or Conference USA (Rivals.com writers recently debated whether the A-10 or C-USA would be the better non-BCS conference in 2007-08 ).
-- Jim from Ft. Washington, Md."
Then the Rivals writer responds...........
"Other than Southern Illinois, the top programs relied heavily on seniors last season. The amount of top players who left the league is staggering....
...Northern Iowa and Bradley are both losing a pair of double-digit scorers.....etc..."
Ok...I agree, Bradley loses Will Franklin (14ppg) and Zach Andrews (11ppg), but they return their floor leader and best shooter.
But SIU also loses two double digit scorers in Tatum (15ppg) and Young (10ppg), but that includes their floor leader and best shooter!
Other team that remain ranked by Rivals also lose multiple top scorers, even some who lose top scorers and rebounders (like Pitt, Alabama, Ohio State, Florida...) and yet they seem to use this argument only against the MVC.
I guess it doesn't surprise me.....the Valley gets lack of respect every single year.
I guess the only way to respond is go out there a whup their butts on the court,
so I will be pulling for the Valley in every non-conference game, especially the ones against their beloved big boys!
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