Valley Thoughts

[DUShock]

Tied at 37 w/ 7:30 to play.

UNI / LUC

FG Made-Attempted	16-38	17-43
Field Goal %	42.1	39.5
3PT Made-Attempted	3-10	2-13
Three Point %	30.0	15.4
FT Made-Attempted	2-3	1-1
Free Throw %	66.7	100.0
Total Rebounds	25	23
Offensive Rebounds	3	3
Defensive Rebounds	22	20
Team Rebounds	0	0
Assists	10	9
Steals	2	5
Blocks	3	4
Turnovers	10	6
Team Turnovers	0	0
Total Turnovers	10	6
Personal Fouls	7	5

[Play Angry]

37-37

Under 8 Timeout

Offenses have been as phenomenal as you'd expect from this torrid pace.

[Play Angry]

UNI 37
Loyola 33

Under 12 timeout in the 2nd half.

[Play Angry]

No 1 or 2 seed has ever lost its opening game since the Tournament moved to St. Louis.

Edit: Nope, I stand corrected - announcers just mentioned it happened in 1997 to the 2 seed.

[DUShock]

I just popped over to the ESPN website to check in on the MVC tourney and was surprised to see that the tourney games are being televised across the traditional medium, only carried on ESPN3. That is sad and a good illustration of how mediocrity can drive one toward the abyss.

Edit: I did check Fox KC/Midwest and the MVC tourney lost out to a rerun of "This Week in the UFC." I do recognize that streaming is the future, however , in the present the dollars are still with the endangered species that is traditional cable & television.

[MadaboutWu]

Nope, though Loyola almost took us down in 2016.

[RoyalShock]

5-1/2 minutes in and Loyola has scored 2 points to UNI's 6. Scorcher, that one is.

Has the 1-seed ever gone down against a Thursday team in the Arch Sadness era?

[ShockdaWorld]

Alize Johnson is the real deal. Too bad Lusk is so good at coaching his kids down.

[Rlh04d]

This! Go Bradley.

Couldn't care less about the rest of it.

[Dave Stalwart]

I still think that’s your Sunday matchup waiting to happen. MSU-UNI... although I think I’d rather see Barry win it all.

loyola will lose and they will taste the sting of being in the MVC by getting left out. if you think you had a nice season, just wait till you lose in St. Louis and get left out at large.

Id like to know how many loyola fans are there. 300? For a top 30 season? I guess we will see what kind of fan base they have

[WuDrWu]

And they nearly got Evansvilled by Valpo. Preseason 1 and 2 on Thursday, just wow.

[Aargh]

Drake, Bradley, and Indy State all managed to miss Drake Night this year. It took every bit of Pual Lusk's coaching ability for MSU to achieve getting a game on Drake Night. A better coach could have never done that, considering the talent MSU had this season.

[WheatShock]

1st Drake night with no Drake in quite a while.

[jdmee]

Valley champs Loyola gets Preseason #2 UNI tommorrow.

In the second Drake Night game. Preseason #1 MSU plays WSU replacement Valpo.

[wufan]

Echoing ShockBand from last week after looking at the final MVC standings...

Man, am I glad WSU isn't in that league any more. I know Warren Nolan has the Valley 8th in RPI, just one step behind the American (although the ELO rating varies somewhat more: 7th for the American, 10th for the Valley), but when I look at the names from the two leagues, it is NOT a close comparison, even though Loyola does bring the coveted Chicago market (yeah, suurrrre) to the Valley.

Absolutely zero question from a competition and name recognition perspective. Loyola does have a very nice team this year (similar to the Redbirds last season), and I’m glad to see Bradley continuing to make strides.