RPI....Valley leaders...Braves stats...

[Big Mike]

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_mvc_Men.html

Good news....the Best player in the Valley (DR) is back on the list.....

http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/confldrs.htm#conf.wki

For some reason the Braves stats are still on Feb 16?

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19334&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1309880

[Da Coach]

For some reason the Braves stats are still on Feb 16?
http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle....ATCLID=1309880

The BU staff were in Des Moines last night. Maybe they haven't made it back through the frozen tundra to Peoria? I am sure it will get updated, soon.

[Big Mike]

The Braves broke the made 3's record for the Valley last season with 349 and were the 1st Valley team to surpass the 300 mark! This season the Braves have 261 3's and should be on pace to surpass the 300 mark again!

JC has 84 3's so far and is on pace to break the single season record of 90 by Aaron Zobrist!

Here are JC's stats for his career on 3's....
Fr........46
So.......15
Jr........83
Sr.......84*

(*= more will be made)

JC now has 228 3's surpassing Phillip Gilbert for #2 all time career and closing in on Aaron Zobrist all time record of 233! Pretty nice accomplishment for only making 15 his soph season!

The Braves are now sitting on 10,041 per game on home attendance with 2 big games left....

[tornado]

In case anyone was thinking the Valley could land a couple at large bids....here are the facts:

RPI
Drake .................... 15
Illinois St. .............. 52
Southern Illinois .......56
Creighton................ 71
Bradley ...................87
Indiana St. ........... 113
Northern Iowa ....... 125
Missouri St. .......... 159
Wichita St. ........... 207
Evansville ..............245

Then...

Nonconference Strength of Schedule
Southern Illinois ........ 5
Bradley ...................53
Missouri St. ............ 59
Indiana St. ........... 118
Illinois St. ............. 133
Drake ................... 161
Creighton .............. 185
Wichita St.............. 196
Northern Iowa......... 267
Evansville .............. 272


No team with an RPI worse than 74 ever received an at large NCAA bid and since 1999 no at large bid has gone to a team with an RPI worse than 70.
And it is exceedingly rare for a team with a nonconference SOS over 75 to get one either. Possibly Drake with such few losses could still get an at large bid with a SOS well over 100, but they'd be on the bubble.
Also--Bradley and SIU have 12 losses, and at least one of them will get another one or two more losses, and at large bids just don't go to 13-14 loss teams.

[MacabreMob]

The only way the MVC gets 2 bids (that's right, 2 - and no more) is if Drake loses the MVCT. Drake will get an at-large even if they lose out.

But if Drake wins the MVCT - don't cry on Selection Sunday when nobody else gets their name called.

[Bravesfan]

The only way the MVC gets 2 bids (that's right, 2 - and no more) is if Drake loses the MVCT. Drake will get an at-large even if they lose out.

But if Drake wins the MVCT - don't cry on Selection Sunday when nobody else gets their name called.

I don't know. I wouldn't count Bradley, ISU or SIU out of the at-large pool just yet. I had nothing better to do tonight, so I looked at a lot of the bubble's teams profiles throughout the country. There are a lot of BCS teams that are on the fence. More importantly, in case anyone hasn't noticed, what once looked like a guaranteed five bid conference in the Atlantic 10 now looks like a complete mess, much worse than even the MVC! Even the Pac-10 now has a bunch of 6-6 teams, and the ACC picture is muddled after Duke and UNC. So I think the various conference tournaments across the country will be more important than ever this year, but there could also be more at-large slots than usual as well.

Then again, there could also be plenty of time for things to sort themselves out, but we have a long way to go. We will, as always have to let things play out first.

[audacious_aficionado]

we don't have a "signature win" this year that will put us over the edge. we had three good opportunities with mich st, vandy, and butler but we managed to lose all three. you cannot count drake as a big enough win because nobody has respect for the program anyways and people were just waiting for someone to beat them. not saying they aren't good this year, just that the selection committee will not see it as a huge win. there is no way we get an at large bid if we don't win the mvc tourney. there are a lot of teams that are truly on the bubble but we are not one of them.

[Majik45]

No one in the Valley is getting an at-large bid but Drake. I can't believe people still think it's possible.