Best and Worst possible MVC record

[CLBravesfan]

Just curious what everyone thinks about the chances of having the worse MVC record since the mid 1950's. In previous post our worse conference records have been 3-15 in the early 90's and 3-13 in late 1970's. I graduated in 1980 and recall the 3-13 season, I do not recall the 3-15 season as well.

I know people will say that once Ruffin comes back we will become more competitive, but I also know that it will take him sometime to get back in shape and have his timing down and it may not come until the season is over.

At this point I can't see us winning 3 conference games, especially if we keep playing like we are. I see us splitting the games against Evansville (Hopefully) and perhaps one other home game. As bad as we have been at home lately we are worse on the road. I cannot see us winning any road conference games.

I see us at this point going 2-16 in conference, I hope that is not the case but unless some players start to step up or improve or unless JL changes the way we play and the players who get the playing time I cannot see much better than that.

Now on the opposite end, if we begin to gel, rebound, shoot the ball better, get a healthy and same as old Ruffin back I can see us going maybe 6-12 (6-9 the rest of the way) based on the fact the Ruff still is a few weeks away at best.

so my perdiction is 2-16 at worst and 6-12 at best.

What do you all perdict?

[Braves4Life]

I'd like to know what you would have predicted our record to be after the Mich. State game? I can assure you that there have been MUCH worse Bradley teams than this in a MUCH tougher MVC......................the MVC is very weak this year.

I'm gonna say there is not a snowball's chance in he11 that this will be our worst team ever. At worst this will be a slightly under .500 Valley team; at best we go 12-6 (IMHO).

[CLBravesfan]

Sorry I was not trying to be critical of the team, I was just wondering what people think at this point of the season what our MVC record will be.

At the beginning of the season and upto the MSU game I thought we would be about 10-8 or 11-7, as we had not shown any promise of playing well on the road. I thought we would go 8-1 at home and about 3-6 on the road, which I thought was a realistic prediction.

I remember the 79 team as I was a student back then and I agree we are much better team now than back then, in fact, no comparison can be made between the two. Even if we go 2-16 I do not think this is the worse team we ever had despite the record. The MVC is much stronger now than in the past.

I simply was curious what people think what the best record they "realistically" think we can achieve and the worse we can achieve at this stage of the season.

[squirrel]

Just a quick point of information, Bradley was not in the Missouri Valley Conference from 1951-1956 or '57. The league members voted Bradley out of the Conference after Bradley's Philip Becker, Jr. resigned as President of the league, for its defense of Drake during the Johnny Bright Incident, citing also the point shaving and academic issues at Bradley during that time.

Within two weeks of being voted out of the MVC, Bradley issued a statement saying it was withdrawing in support of Drake.

[TRIMAN]

I'd like to know what you would have predicted our record to be after the Mich. State game? I can assure you that there have been MUCH worse Bradley teams than this in a MUCH tougher MVC......................the MVC is very weak this year.

I'm gonna say there is not a snowball's chance in he11 that this will be our worst team ever. At worst this will be a slightly under .500 Valley team; at best we go 12-6 (IMHO).

No way we end up slightly under .500. I think, sadly, that 2-16 is VERY realistic at this point... 6 wins would probably be "good" at this point. Impossible to go 12-6.

I thought that E-ville should be removed from the MVC for not being competitive. We are probably as bad or worse than they are at this point.

If I had to put a prediction on it, I would guess 4-14.

[daPAWW1]

Predicted 2008 Record

Based on all the original hype on this board I once held hope that this team had a can't miss chance to finish in the top 4 of the MVC and go to post season play and produce a very win heavy record! However as the season unfolded and I actually saw the player's talents and the team in action it was fairly clear that even with Ruff this team wasn't what we had hoped for and certainly not as good as last years. Now without Ruff, and this is in no way critical of Sam who I believe will be a tremendous point guard, I think that we're looking at: 1) a 2-16 MVC record and; 2) an obvious thursday tourney play-in game and same day early exit! That I believe will leave us with a 9-23 record (maybe 10-22 if we get to play the cupcake 'bracket buster' at home).

To do any better than this will take, IMHO (gosh I'm sick of that), a realistic evaluation of the strenghts that each player has (including walk-ons) and try to design offensive sets and defensive schemes that can utilyze those talents, whatever they may be! Hopefully coach can come up with something to give this group something to be proud by year end so that we don't see too many year end defections and transfers.