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***** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that’s what it takes to watch this game live **** – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home *** – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later ** – set your tivo but we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2013 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

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Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

A Look Back

BracketBusters Matchups—BracketBuster matchups were announced last week, and the Missouri Valley Conference was awarded three games on national television.

2/18, 6PM, ESPN2–VCU @ Wichita State 2/19, 4PM, ESPN2–Missouri State @ Valparaiso 2/19, 6PM, ESPN2–George Mason @ Northern Iowa

The other matchups between the other conference members:

Creighton @ Akron Evansville @ Murray State Morehead State @ Indiana State UW-Green Bay @ Southern Illinois Illinois State @ Western Michigan Detroit @ Drake Bradley @ Tennessee-Martin

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***** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that’s what it takes to watch this game live **** – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home *** – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later ** – set your tivo but we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2013 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

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Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

A Look Back

ACC Beatings: The Missouri Valley Conference was featured this week in a pair of games on Wednesday night—a sort of ACC/MVC challenge.  It wasn’t much of a challenge for Duke and North Carolina to dispose of Bradley and Evansville both by over 25 points.  Fans love the idea of the matchups, but the end result on national TV may not be the best for the league. Missouri State Quietly Consistent: Everyone anointed Wichita State the preseason favorites.  Some [...]]]>
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Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

You only need one video clip to sum up the Missouri Valley Conference last season: Ali Farokhmanesh hitting the dagger three-pointer against #1 Kansas in the NCAA Tournament to advance to the Sweet 16.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Missouri State (24-6, 14-4) Wichita State (23-7, 13-5) Creighton (23-8, 13-5) Southern Illinois (21-9, 11-7) Northern Iowa (20-11, 10-8) Bradley (19-11, 10-8) Illinois State (16-16, 7-11) Drake (12-18, 4-14) Evansville (11-16, 4-14) Indiana State (9-21, 4-14)

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RTC Live comes to you from the Gateway City on Friday night, as Day Two of Arch Madness continues with the second seeded Wichita State Shockers taking on the Missouri State Bears. Wichita State wrapped up the regular season 23-8, 12-6 in the Valley, and was in the discussion for an NCAA at-large bid until they lost to previously winless Evansville in early February. Since then, they’ve lost twice more, both on the road (Utah State and Bradley, the former in the BracketBusters event). The Shockers are perhaps the most physical team in the MVC, as their +5 rebound margin [...]]]>
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Missouri Valley Tournament Preview http://rushthecourt.net/2010/03/03/missouri-valley-tournament-preview/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/03/03/missouri-valley-tournament-preview/#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:38:15 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=18569

 

Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

PRESEASON vs. ACTUAL RESULTS

As you can see from the preseason predictions I made on the Missouri Valley conference back in October versus how things ended up, the MVC turned out to be difficult to predict this year as none of the teams performed as expected other than Northern Iowa and Wichita State.

I originally was not sold on the Panthers, but as the season wore on, I could see the [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/03/03/missouri-valley-tournament-preview/feed/ 0 Checking in on… the MVC http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/25/checking-in-on-the-mvc-8/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/25/checking-in-on-the-mvc-8/#respond Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:17:09 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=16366

Standings & Records (Conference Standings) (Last Week)

Northern Iowa  17-2  (8-1) (1) Wichita State 15-4 (6-3) (2) Illinois State  14-6 (5-4) (3) Drake  10-11 (5-4)  (8) Bradley  10-9 (5-4) (6) Creighton  10-10 (5-4)  (4) Missouri State  14-6 (4-5) (5) Southern Illinois   11-7 (4-5) (9) Indiana State  11-9 (3-6) (7) Evansville 6-12 (0-9) (10)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Wichita State/Northern Iowa game was as expected—The matchup of the top two teams in the conference was quite the game this week.  Getting the TV exposure is needed for the MVC.  Wichita State came out fast against the [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/25/checking-in-on-the-mvc-8/feed/ 0 Checking in on… the MVC http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/05/checking-in-on-the-mvc-5/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/05/checking-in-on-the-mvc-5/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:54:36 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=14896

Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Current records and my standings (Conference Standings) (Last Week):

Northern Iowa 12-1 (3-0) (3) Wichita State 13-2 (2-1) (1) Missouri State 12-2 (2-1) (2) Illinois State 11-3 (2-1) (5) Southern Illinois 9-3 (2-1) (4) Indiana State 10-4 (2-1) (6) Bradley 6-7 (1-2) (8) Creighton 6-8 (1-2) (9) Evansville 6-7 (0-3) (7) Drake 5-10 (0-3) (10)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Northern Iowa mowing down the Valley — Those that don’t consider Northern Iowa the class of the Valley [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/05/checking-in-on-the-mvc-5/feed/ 1 Checking in on… the MVC http://rushthecourt.net/2009/12/28/checking-in-on-the-mvc-4/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/12/28/checking-in-on-the-mvc-4/#respond Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:40:40 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=14668

Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Current records and my standings (Last Week):

Wichita State (11-1) (2) Missouri State (10-1) (1) Northern Iowa (9-1) (3) Southern Illinois (7-2) (4) Illinois State (9-2) (5) Indiana State (8-3) (6) Evansville (6-4) (7) Bradley (5-5) (8) Creighton (5-6) (10) Drake (5-7) (9)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Valley wins the first MVC-MWC Challenge — Northern Iowa defeated Wyoming to take the Valley to win 5-4 the first ever MVC-MWC Challenge.   UNI, Illinois State, Missouri State, Indiana State, and Wichita State were [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2009/12/28/checking-in-on-the-mvc-4/feed/ 0 Checking in on… the Missouri Valley http://rushthecourt.net/2009/12/14/checking-in-on-the-missouri-valley-11/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/12/14/checking-in-on-the-missouri-valley-11/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:46:31 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=14023

Patrick Marshall of White and Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Current Records and My Standings (Last Week’s Rank)

Missouri St. (9-0) (1) Wichita St. (9-1) (2) Northern Iowa (7-1) (5) Illinois St. (7-1) (3) Southern Illinois (5-2) (8) Bradley (5-3) (4) Indiana St. (6-3) (6) Evansville (4-3) (7) Drake (5-5) (10) Creighton (3-5) (9)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Missouri St. wins two more games.  The Bears are continuing to win, much to the chagrin of my pre-season rankings. I thought they would have at least 3 losses by now. Home court advantage was probably a help to their [...]]]>
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Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Current Records and My Standings:

Missouri State  (5-0) Wichita State  (5-1) Bradley  (4-2) Illinois State  (6-0) Indiana State  (5-2) Southern Illinois  (3-1) Northern Iowa  (4-1) Evansville  (2-2) Drake  (2-4) Creighton  (2-4)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Creighton lays an egg.  Creighton had Michigan on the ropes in their opening game of the Old Spice Classic with a five point lead in the closing minutes but let Michigan back.  It took a full court drive by Creighton’s Antoine Young to send the game to overtime, but the Bluejays could not stop Manny [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2009/12/01/checking-in-on-the-missouri-valley-10/feed/ 0 Checking in on… the MVC http://rushthecourt.net/2009/11/23/checking-in-on-the-mvc/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/11/23/checking-in-on-the-mvc/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:12:03 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=13093

Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

MY STANDINGS (current records)

Missouri State  (4-0) Wichita State (2-0) Illinois State (2-0) Indiana State (2-1) Southern Illinois (2-1) Creighton  (2-1) Bradley  (2-1) Northern Iowa  (2-1) Evansville (2-1) Drake  (1-4)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Injuries, Illness and Suspensions—The Valley has started out with several injuries, illnesses and suspensions this season, causing some teams to play without some veteran leaders including:

Bradley lost Dodie Dunson for the season with a broken arm suffered in their game against Idaho State while Taylor Brown is [...]]]>
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