Official Preseason Prediction Thread

[SaintLouBrave22]

As of this moment:

Creighton (14)- 1st - 213 points

Bradley (4) - 2nd - 185 points

Illinois St. (2) - 3rd - 162 points

SIU - 4th - 136 points

Drake - 5th - 122 points

Indiana State - 6th - 82 points

Evansville - 7th - 73 points

UNI - 8th - 55 points

Wichita State - 9th - 53 points

Missouri State - 10th - 46 points

**Things of note**
Bradley, Creighton, and ILSt. were the only teams not picked lower than 5th

Most Picks by seed:

1- Creighton
2- Bradley
3- ILState
4- Drake
5- Drake
6- Evansville
7- Wichita St
8- Indiana St
9- Missouri St
10- Wichita St

No team was picked by everyone for play-in round, BUT 5 teams were picked by majority for play-in (Evansville, WSU, INSU, MSU, UNI)

Drake and SIU were picked by majority to play in the 4/5 game

**I can add more if you have any questions**

[Scouter]

Pretty impressive stuff, SaintLou. I'm not trying to volunteer your services in organizing this, but is there any chance we could start a weekly MVC "power poll" once the season starts? I think it'd be interesting to get everyone else's take on the rest of the league throughout the year.

[amettrick]

1. bradley
2. creighton
3. southern illinois
4. illinois state
5. drake
6. evansville
7. indiana state
8. missouri state
9. indiana state
10. northern iowa

poy: andrew warren

[LG281]

I'm curious as to why you pick ISU Blue so high? They're really not returning any more than one solid player(who's out for non-con) and don't have much of a class coming in...

Not really a concrete reason. Just have a feeling that they'll have a decent year. If they come out hot, like they have in the past, they will fizzle by conference time...however, I think if they can stay healthy and eak their way through their noncon by the time the team is complete they may just be able to pull a season together.

I also think SIU and DU will not perform anywhere near where they have recently...EU, WSU, UNI will be stuck at the bottom but could really end up anywhere from 6-10.

I didn't even notice until now that I'd left MSU out of my post. (WHOOPS) But I lump them in with 6-10 crowd probably around 7th.

[SaintLouBrave22]

Pretty impressive stuff, SaintLou. I'm not trying to volunteer your services in organizing this, but is there any chance we could start a weekly MVC "power poll" once the season starts? I think it'd be interesting to get everyone else's take on the rest of the league throughout the year.

Sounds like a good idea actually...

That being said, here is the Updated Bradleyfans MVC Poll:

1) Creighton (14) 222 pts

2) Bradley (5) 195 pts

3) ISU (2) 169 pts

4) SIU 144 pts

5) Drake 128 pts

6) Indiana State 86 pts

7) Evansville 78 pts

UNI 56 pts

9) Wichita State 55 pts

10) Missouri State 49 pts


**BTW...amettrick, you put Indiana State TWICE in your poll and Wichita none so I kindly placed INSU 7th and WSU 9th**

[basketball nut]

This is very interesting to say the least. I have to think about this before voting. 1 part of me wants and really beleives BU to be the best team this year and that InSt and EU could be real sleepers. (maybe InSt is just because I think they have an outstanding young coach in the same mold as his mentor-his teams always come prepared to compete). The one thing that keeps popping up in my mind is the fact that the Valley except for about 3 teams are going to be in every game played and those 3 bottom teams (WSU, NIU, & MSt-not especially in that order) could very well surprise some people just like EU did last year. This will again hurt the Valley's chances of getting more the 1 or 2 teams into the dance.
Basketball must, finally, be coming to forefront as we are getting some real good posts going now and yes I will post my order of finish but it might have to wait until after next Wednesday night. Then I hope to have a better idea of where BU is at as a team.
By the way TW may be only the 3rd best player on the team this year from some things I have heard-time will tell because if he is only the 3rd best player then we better be dancing in March or he had a bad year-one or the other

[amettrick]

**BTW...amettrick, you put Indiana State TWICE in your poll and Wichita none so I kindly placed INSU 7th and WSU 9th**

haha. oops. well you assumed correctly as i meant to have WSU 9th. not sure how i managed to mess that up.

[SaintLouBrave22]

Not a problem...hopefully we can have some more predictions come in...

That being said, I agreed on a great idea for a BradleyFans.com MVC Power Poll...

What we will most likely do is go off the preseason poll and update it once a week w/ voting on Mondays and we can even add little pieces to help our voters if need be...

Sound good?

[shaunguth]

1. Creighton
2. Bradley
3. SIU
4. isu
5. Drake
6. Evansville
7. UNI
8. Indiana St.
9. Wichita St.
10. Missouri St.

[Out of Bounce]

1. Creighton
2. Bradley
3. SIU
4. isu
5. Drake
6. Evansville
7. UNI
8. Wichita St.
9. Missouri St.

missing one my friend, INSU

[SaintLouBrave22]

1. Creighton
2. Bradley
3. SIU
4. isu
5. Drake
6. Evansville
7. UNI
8. Wichita St.
9. Missouri St.

I'll take it that you as well were going to put Indiana State in last so that will be noted as such...

[Garland 22]

1. ISU - I really like their talent and their coach
2. CU - see above but just not as much
3. DU - who knows but i respect what they did last year
4. SIU - Tradition gets you at least 4th
5. WSU - I love their young kids and the young coach
6. BU - 09-10 is the year of the Brave
7. UE - Nice move up, but long way to go
8. INSU - building a program from scratch = hard
9. UNI - Don't like the coach or the players
10. MSU - 6 freshmen, new coach

[Stryker]

How in the world can you put WSU above BU? What's your reasoning? As far as I know WSU has ALOT of new guys and a 2nd year coach...

[Garland 22]

I really like what WSU has coming in. I actually think WSU and BU will battle for the championship in the 09-10 season.

I really think this will be a growing year for BU. I like what they are putting together and think we can get something rolling next season.

I also haven't seen Les finish higher than 4th, and every year he has had either the best or 2nd best roster. I'm not bashing him, cuz I like him, but talent hasn't been his issue, road X's and O's has.

[shaunguth]

I'll take it that you as well were going to put Indiana State in last so that will be noted as such...

Slipped them in at #8.