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Morning Five: 04.27.12 Edition

rtmsf — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:33:03 +0000

Yesterday we mentioned that Luke Winn had written a piece handing out eight different coaching awards based on efficiency metrics from the entire season. His follow-up article published on Thursday broke down six more awards based on the data from the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Several of the usual suspects populate this list, but you might be surprised at which head coach had the best after-timeout numbers in the Dance this year — he’s widely considered a very good coach, but probably not to the extent he deserves. Assistant coaches around the country must have thrown up in their mouths Thursday after [...]

ATB: Kroger Kontroversy, Chris Mack’s Dunk, and a Bunch of Non-Upsets…

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:04:09 +0000

This Weekend’s Lede. This was the first full weekend of conference play, and as expected, teams that hadn’t played many legitimate road games prior to the turn of the new year found life away from home in hostile environments to be considerably tougher than lacing another game up at home. It wasn’t the best of college basketball weekends, nor was it the worst, but as we begin to settle ourselves into competition within the family for the next two months, it’s time to separate legitimacy from fraudulence through actual play on the court around the nation. Let’s jump into this [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:02:43 +0000

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

A Look Back

End of the Non-Conference Season—Some people may say it is a relief to see the end of the Missouri Valley Conference’s non-conference season. Every school in the conference had opportunities against top teams in the nation and none of them could come through and separate themselves, nor get into the national spotlight. The conference really needs to take a look at the scheduling that each of the schools do and maybe re-evaluate what can be accomplished in the non-conference season. There [...]

Missouri Valley Tournament Preview

rtmsf — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:38:15 +0000

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 [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:28:45 +0000

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 24-3 (14-2) (1) Wichita State 22-7 (11-5) (2) Illinois State 20-8 (10-6) (3) Creighton 14-14 (8-8) (4) Bradley 14-13 (8-8) (5) Indiana State 16-12 (8-8) (6) Missouri State 18-10 (7-9) (7) Drake 13-16 (7-9) (8) Southern Illinois 15-12 (6-10) (9) Evansville 7-20 (1-15) (10)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Bracketbusters Dominance—The Missouri Valley Conference had a nice showing in Bracketbusters this past weekend, going 7-3 against the competition and 2-1 in televised games. Northern Iowa had all [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:18:15 +0000

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 22-3 (13-2) (1) Wichita State 21-6 (10-5) (2) Illinois State 18-8 (9-6) (3) Creighton 13-13 (8-7) (6) Bradley 13-12 (8-7) (7) Indiana State 15-11 (7-8) (4) Missouri State 17-9 (7-8) (5) Drake 11-16 (6-9) (8) Southern Illinois 14-11 (6-9) (9) Evansville 7-18 (1-14) (10)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Northern Iowa clinches conference—UNI clinched a share of the MVC title on Wednesday night with their win against Drake. They will go into the MVC Tournament as the [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:30:50 +0000

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 21-2 (12-1) (1) Wichita State 20-5 (9-4) (2) Illinois State 16-8 (7-6) (3) Indiana State 14-10 (6-7) (7) Missouri State 16-8 (6-7) (6) Creighton 12-12 (7-6) (5) Bradley 12-11 (7-6) (8) Drake 11-14 (6-7) (4) Southern Illinois 13-10 (5-8) (9) Evansville 6-17 (0-13) (10)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

2010 Bracketbusters—The people in Bristol announced the 11 TV matchups for this season’s Bracketbusters for Friday and Saturday, February 20th and 21st, while the other conference [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:17:09 +0000

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 [...]

Monday’s Conference Check-Ins…

rtmsf — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:43 +0000

We’re back from a busy weekend and heading into a really light week, but that doesn’t mean our correspondents are taking a break!

ACC – Steve Moore (READ MORE)

UNDER THE BIG TOP: Much has already been written about the UNC-Texas shootout/circus at The-House-That-Jerry-Built. The 103-90 Texas win proved that Roy Williams’ Tar Heels still have plenty to do on the defensive end, as UNC gave up 100 points in regulation for the first time in Williams’ tenure there. Does this mean that UNC is not good enough to reach the Final Four? Absolutely not. If there’s any team that [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:37:58 +0000

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

Current Records and my standings (Last Week)

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

STORIES OF THE WEEK

MVC-MWC Challenge winding down—The Valley continues to lead the challenge against the Mountain West Conference 4-3 heading into the final weekend of games. Illinois State went on the road to defeat Utah and Creighton had a chance to close out the conference’s victory but lost [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

rtmsf — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:12:03 +0000

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 [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players – Wrap-Up

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:02:32 +0000

Over the course of the last ten weeks we’ve broken down sixty players from around the country whom we expect will have the biggest impact on college basketball this season. We performed this exercise geographically, choosing five high-major and one mid-major player from each of the somewhat arbitrary ten regions of the country. If you’d like to read through the individual regions (and we highly encourage that), you can check all ten here.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to read through all of the previous posts, we’ll summarize here for you by [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #10 – Missouri Valley Conference

rtmsf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:33:51 +0000

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

Predicted Order of Finish:

Creighton (24-6, 14-4) Northern Iowa (23-6, 13-5) Wichita St. (23-8, 12-6) Southern Illinois (21-8, 12-6) Illinois St. (23-7, 11-7) Bradley (19-10, 10-8) Indiana St. (17-13, 8-10) Drake (13-18, 5-13) Evansville (10-19, 3-15) Missouri St. (9-21, 2-16)

All-Conference Team. This is a guard laden league which will populate the Missouri Valley All-Conference team this season.

Kevin Dillard (G), So., Southern Illinois ( 12.2 pts., 4.2 ast.)—The bright spot for Southern Illinois last season is a tenacious ball handler and defender. Clevin Hannah (G), Sr., Wichita St. (11.2 pts. 4.3 ast.)—Hannah comes in as the leader for [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players: Lower Midwest Region

zhayes9 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:29:05 +0000

Ed. Note: the previous posts in this series (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Atlantic South, Deep South and Mid-South) are located here.

It’s time for the sixth installment of our RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series, the group of rust belt and farming states that we like to call the Lower Midwest. Each week we’ll pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on their teams (and by the transitive property, college basketball) this season. Our criteria is once again subjective – there are so [...]

RTC Aftermath: MVC Finals

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:00:25 +0000

RTC Aftermath will come to you each night where our correspondents are at the conference tournament games as a part of RTC Live. Patrick Marshall was in St. Louis all weekend covering the MVC Tournament for RTC.

First off, I would like to apologize to Rush the Court and Rush the Court fans that due to a family issue, we were not able to do an RTC Live event for the Missouri Valley Conference Final as expected.

UNI: MVC Champs (photo credit: WCFCourier.com)

Northern Iowa is the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament champion and [...]