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The Missouri Valley Conference will conduct a press conference at 2 p.m. CT on Wednesday, July 9, at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark Hotel in downtown St. Louis. Commissioner Doug Elgin will have an historic announcement regarding the future of the Missouri Valley Conference Men??™s Basketball Tournament.


The press conference will be streamed live via the MVC web site, and a link to the full replay of the stream (and downloading instructions) will be provided.
 
any hint ??
-- the fact that the press conference IS being held in St. Louis hints to me that it's gonna be an announcement about the MVC Tourney staying in St. Louis for a while... but we'll see........
 
Anyone hearing anything on this? I'd like to think since it's being held at a prominent STL hotel, that its staying in STL. You'd think they'd just be able to have the press conference at the MVC HQ if they were going to move it out of STL...
 
The official release from the MVC says only "Commissioner Doug Elgin will have an historic announcement regarding the future of the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament."

But the beat writer for the Missouri State Bears, Lyndal Scranton, seems to have a bit more information-
https://twitter.com/LscrantonNL/status/486531079814545408

Missouri Valley Conference to announce sites of men's basketball tourney beyond 2015 on Wednesday. Presser in St. Louis (not Kansas City)

Some are speculating other possibilities, such as alternating sites-
https://twitter.com/Pg_Benson/status/486550367639842816

Will MVC go Big Ten route and alternate cities such as STL and KC to host tourney? I would be all for that.

Recall that back in mid-March, 2014, the MVC asked 4 cities to bid for the MVC Tournament starting in 2016 through 2020- St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, and Las Vegas-
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/...souri-valley-looking-for-a-new-homecourt.html
 
No insider info here.. just my guess that it will be a rotating event announcement.
"Historic" is not signing back up here in St. Louis. I'm not sure a sponsor is either unless AB agrees to pay mega-millions.
Chicago seems like the better place to alternate than KC.

Just my 2 cents.
 
I think a lot of fans would like Las Vegas, but I don't see attendance doing well there with the much further distance for everyone.
 
we used to have a rotating system - different sites each year - and found reasons to dump that model - now we have a fine, single site that almost everyone likes and has served us well - and we seem he**-bent on dumping this system now for the almighty $$
 
Want a laugh....?
Missouri State people want it moved to Kansas City - but I'd have to think that if that were the announcement - they'd have scheduled it to take place in KC.

Anyway - some of that Missouri State guy's logic is wacky - that Kansas City has better food, would provide better attendance (what?? That's Big 12 territory !) that shot clock malfunctions won't happen in KC (he flashes way back to 2006 for this silly argument which btw - didn't even involve a game in the MVC Tournament!!!), or that some twitter followers want it over in KC!
...or that Kansas City is somehow more connected to some MVC team than St. Louis is!

With the loss of Creighton and addition of Loyola - the geometric center of the MVC has shifted strongly towards Illinois - so moving the tourney out west to KC will likely drop attendance considerably.
Then - what if....
what if we lock in to Kansas City for 6-7 years and Wichita State chooses to leave the MVC somewhere in the interval.
Then we'd be having a conference tournament in a city well west of every single team in the entire conference!
The closest school to the tourney site would be Missouri State - 170 miles & 3 hours drive away...
then every other school would be 5, 6, 7 hours or more away....when currently more than half the Valley is within 2-3 hours or so..
We've seen some really bad decisions lately that have hurt attendances around the MVC - let's hope we don't see another one today....
 
MVC Tournament is staying in St. Louis for 2016, 2017, 2018 and options for 2019, and 2020. St. Louis does a great job hosting the tournament and I love making the trip down every year, great choice by the commissioner and everyone involved.
 
This is good news. It has been a few years since I have been to St Louis to watch the Braves. I am hopeful that Bradley will not be playing Thursday next season and we can see them play on Friday in St Louis.
 
lightsout said:
MVC Tournament is staying in St. Louis for 2016, 2017, 2018 and options for 2019, and 2020. St. Louis does a great job hosting the tournament and I love making the trip down every year, great choice by the commissioner and everyone involved.
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good - just what I was hoping for and logical since all the other options offer too many negatives
 
lightsout said:
MVC Tournament is staying in St. Louis for 2016, 2017, 2018 and options for 2019, and 2020. St. Louis does a great job hosting the tournament and I love making the trip down every year, great choice by the commissioner and everyone involved.
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Great news! I have attended every tournament since the move to St. Louis in 1991.
 
tornado said:
Want a laugh....?
that shot clock malfunctions won't happen in KC (he flashes way back to 2006 for this silly argument which btw - didn't even involve a game in the MVC Tournament!!!),
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Apparently you forgot the debacle 4 short months ago that especially affected the Sunday semifinal between SIU and Indiana State? Several delays that day due to the shot clock...


Personally I would have welcomed KC...enjoy that city more than STL and of course it is closer for me.
 
This article suggests that the Kansas City offer was far inferior to the St. Louis offer for the MVC Tournament, especially comments by Kyle Moats, the Athletic Director of Missouri State. MSU is reportedly one of the couple schools that favored the move to Kansas City. Springfield is closer to Kansas City-
http://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/2014/07/09/valley-basketball-remaining-st-louis/12419347/


???I was disappointed in Kansas City??™s proposal,??? Moats said. ???A lot of people, myself included, were very open to going to Kansas City. But their bid simply was not on par with St. Louis.???
The MVC president??™s council voted unanimously to keep the tourney in St. Louis.

Elgin said the league sent Request for Proposals to five cities ??” St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Indianapolis and Las Vegas...Kansas City and Chicago joined St. Louis in submitting bids. Kansas City??™s bid involved the Sprint Center, with Chicago??™s proposal that the tourney be played at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates,

???But when you looked at the totality of the bids, St. Louis was the clear winner. From a financial standpoint, the central location and the momentum of the downtown area, there??™s an awful lot of positive energy here.???


Las Vegas and Indianapolis never bothered to send in bids.
Plus, the Chicago bid only included an offer to play the games at the much smaller, suburban arena, the Sears Centre, in Hoffman Estates. Many Bradley fans have been there, and it is nowhere near as nice an arena as the Savvis Center. It's capacity is just 11,000, compared to the capacity of the Savvis Center, which is well over 20,000 for basketball. There have been many sessions in St. Louis over the years with attendance figures well in excess of the 11,000 capacity of the Sears Centre.
Also, there are very few hotels and virtually no attactions in close proximity to the Sears Center, plus it is 40 miles from downtown Chicago attractions that would interest MVC fans. It sounds like the Chicago bid never had a chance.
 
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