Official 208-19 MVCfans.com Prediction - 10th Place

by **MVCfans** » October 9th, 2018, 3:47 pm

Back by popular demand:
It is amazing to me that this is the 9th year of our site. Today we begin the MVCfans.com preseason user poll to rank the MVC teams. We will work in reverse order, predicting the 10th place finisher this week and concluding with the predicted MVC champion chosen by our users between the last two teams remaining in week 9.

Here are previous MVCfans.com results (predicted / actual):
2010-11: Wichita State / Missouri State
2011-12: Creighton / Wichita State
2012-13: Creighton / Creighton
2013-14: Wichita State / Wichita State
2014-15: Wichita State / Wichita State
2015-16: Wichita State / Wichita State
2016-17: Wichita State / Illinois State-Wichita St (tie)
2017-18: Missouri State / Loyola

Week 1 - Who will finish in 10th place during the 2018-19 MVC men's basketball season?
-You are choosing the team that you believe will finish in last place for this regular season.

Poll open until the evening of Wednesday, October 11.

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by **Adunk33** » October 9th, 2018, 4:08 pm

Man. I forgot about the Mo State hype before last season. Amazing to see the 180 the program took. They are in good hands with Dana Ford.

by **BradleyFan71** » October 9th, 2018, 5:16 pm

Adunk33 wrote:Man. I forgot about the Mo State hype before last season. Amazing to see the 180 the program took. They are in good hands with Dana Ford.

They didn't take a 180 though. They finished 7-11 last season and the season before that.

The bigger question is why were they hyped so much prior to last season for a team coming off a 6th place tie with Bradley?

by **IWokeUpLikeThis** » October 9th, 2018, 5:21 pm

Walter McCarty was a shrewd hire but it’ll be tough sledding year 1 until all ammunition materializes.

by **Jsnhbe1Birds** » October 9th, 2018, 5:22 pm

IWokeUpLikeThis wrote:Walter McCarty was a shrewd hire but it’ll be tough sledding year 1 until all ammunition materializes.

And, the few they had all ran out.

by **Majik45** » October 10th, 2018, 7:15 am

Honestly, this was a toss-up for me between Drake and Evansville. Both schools will have a tough go of it this year.

by **BEARZ77** » October 10th, 2018, 8:54 am

Majik45 wrote:Honestly, this was a toss-up for me between Drake and Evansville. Both schools will have a tough go of it this year.

I think Drake is being a little undervalued. They have a quality big man returning, a proven grad transfer pg, and the top rated juco coming into the Valley. Depthwise they probably can't maintain a level of play necessary to climb too high, but their top 4-6 are probably as good as a number of teams in the 5-7 range in this poll. JMO

by **Red** » October 10th, 2018, 9:18 am

Looks like we've got 10th and 9th decided already.

by **BEARZ77** » October 10th, 2018, 9:39 am

Red wrote:Looks like we've got 10th and 9th decided already.

Yeah, and I'm sure MSU will be pretty consensus on 8th as well. Then the picking will get more homer centric.

by **tribecalledquest** » October 10th, 2018, 9:49 am

BEARZ77 wrote:
Majik45 wrote:Honestly, this was a toss-up for me between Drake and Evansville. Both schools will have a tough go of it this year.

I think Drake is being a little undervalued. They have a quality big man returning, a proven grad transfer pg, and the top rated juco coming into the Valley. Depthwise they probably can't maintain a level of play necessary to climb too high, but their top 4-6 are probably as good as a number of teams in the 5-7 range in this poll. JMO

Right. They are quite a bit better than Evansville at this point.