Official 2018-19 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

[Blers]

Valpo is so interesting to me. Bakai Evelyn is a stellar talent; Golder's an exciting player, i love Freeman and think he could start for them early and compete for freshman of the year... Smits has potential to be a real nice big man. My only question is who is this teams leader and what's their identity. From the outside it seems like a lot of good individuals but I don't know how they all fit. With that in mind I agree that anywhere from 4-8 is realistic.

[BradleyFan71]

I think they'll struggle to stay out of Thursday this year and then totally agree that 19-20 is when they take a step towards the top half. That 19-20 season is going to be fascinating with Valpo and UNI looking to take a big, big step forward and SIU being gutted with graduation, Loyola losing Custer and Townes and Illinois State losing Fayne and Evans.

This league is going to be so much fun for the next 5 years.

Agreed. I think Bradley will make some serious noise in 19-20 too!

[Birdfan2018]

[quote="BCPanther"]I think we're overvaluing Valpo a bit by a couple spots but it'll all work itself out when we actually play games.

I think they'll struggle to stay out of Thursday this year and then totally agree that 19-20 is when they take a step towards the top half. That 19-20 season is going to be fascinating with Valpo and UNI looking to take a big, big step forward and SIU being gutted with graduation, Loyola losing Custer and Townes and Illinois State losing Fayne and Evans.

AND Yarbrough and Tinsley! But the Birds will still finish in the top half of the MVC in 2019-20 season.