Missouri Valley Conference media day

[Da Coach]

The MVC media day is tomorrow (Tuesday) in St. Louis.

Coaches and media will vote on a poll predicting the conference finish, and also they will select a Player of the Year, and the All-MVC team.

Anyone want to take a guess?

Here are my guesses (these are not my personal picks, but my prediction of what the coaches & media will pick)--
MVC-
SIU
BU
CU
MSU
UNI
ISU
WSU
InSU
DU
UE

POY- Randall Falker (Daniel Ruffin a close second)

1st team All MVC-
Ruffin
Falker
Coleman
Couisnard
Crouch

[tornado]

No way, ISU is returning almost everyone, they will get voted higher than 6th.
And I will be surprised if two players from BU land on the 1st team
for the very reasons that this guy wrote when he turned in his ballot.

"As for the all-league team, Falker, Ruffin a close second. I’m almost
flabbergasted reading some preseason stories on the Valley which don’t put
Eldridge on the all-league team. .......P.J. Couisnard and Northern Iowa
forward Eric Coleman. I almost picked Crouch, but how can you have two
Bradley players on the first team and not pick the Braves No. 1?"

This MVC Media voter will NOT put two BU players on his First Team ballot
(last paragraph)

[DoubleJayAlum]

Don't know if anybody is interested, but an Omaha sports radio station is covering the media day festivities again this year. They don't stream, but they do have podcasts. Last year there were several interviews with coaches and players that the station played (i.e., its not just Creighton people).

link to the site where the podcasts should be available: www.bigsports590.com (the on-air personality doing the show is Matt Perrault)

[Da Coach]

The Missouri Valley Conference website also had audio clips of the Media Day interviews of all the coaches. And although I doubt it will be live coverage, I suspect they will again have the audio archived for this year's event.

MVC basketball site--

http://www.mvc-sports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7600&KEY=&SPID=2901&SPSID=36371

Last year's audio clips--

http://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=36371&SPID=2901&DB_OEM_ID=7600&ATCLID=661018

[BU ICEMAN]

No way, ISU is returning almost everyone, they will get voted higher than 6th.
And I will be surprised if two players from BU land on the 1st team
for the very reasons that this guy wrote when he turned in his ballot.

"As for the all-league team, Falker, Ruffin a close second. I??™m almost
flabbergasted reading some preseason stories on the Valley which don??™t put
Eldridge on the all-league team. .......P.J. Couisnard and Northern Iowa
forward Eric Coleman. I almost picked Crouch, but how can you have two
Bradley players on the first team and not pick the Braves No. 1?"

This MVC Media voter will NOT put two BU players on his First Team ballot
(last paragraph)

I don't buy this argument at all. I mean, it's not as if BU is in the middle of the pack and he's putting 2 guys on it, they're still up in a projected 2nd. It's still a team game and team rankings and I don't think people would automatically say because they've got 2 all-MVC 1st teamers they should be #1 because of that. Sure, there's a strong correlation, but not an absolute. It takes more than two guys to carry a team.....

[tornado]

Here is a media release today from BU

Bradley Basketball Notebook -- Oct. 29, 2007

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1291332

http://www.bubraves.com/pdf6/93051.pdf?ATCLID=1291332&SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400

[Da Coach]

Jim Les mentioned on his Monday night rdio show that he will be driving down to St. Louis with Daniel Ruffin and Jeremy Crouch this morning for the MVC Media Day event. I suspect Ken Kavanagh, and some others from the BU athletic department will also be there.