MVC Games Week 13 2024-25

[ValpoDad]

UIC looks the strongest overall in the last month. Yes they do have better players than Bradley. If playing to full potential fully clicking this is the best team in the league. Koval Ciani Kanceleris. Give me just one of those at Valpo paired with Cooper and we could get over 2000 fans into the ARC. And be pretty good at basketball.

[Redbird82]

ISU gets a good win against a red hot Belmont team. Weird game, Redbirds shot 30% from 3 and 5 for 14 from the line, but found a way to win. The league is unpredictable is an understatement.

Did I read correctly that Evansville scored on 28 of 31 possessions in the 2nd half? That’s insane…

[E-Villan]

ISU gets a good win against a red hot Belmont team. Weird game, Redbirds shot 30% from 3 and 5 for 14 from the line, but found a way to win. The league is unpredictable is an understatement.

Did I read correctly that Evansville scored on 28 of 31 possessions in the 2nd half? That’s insane…

Yes, after an 11+ minute drought in the first half without a basket. Luckily, the defense kept Murray from pulling away during that stretch.

Horrific officiating as well. Honestly, probably the worst called game I have seen in quite some time. Jeff Malham is not a MVC or even D-1 level ref.

[BCPanther]

ISU gets a good win against a red hot Belmont team. Weird game, Redbirds shot 30% from 3 and 5 for 14 from the line, but found a way to win. The league is unpredictable is an understatement.

Did I read correctly that Evansville scored on 28 of 31 possessions in the 2nd half? That’s insane…

Yes, after an 11+ minute drought in the first half without a basket. Luckily, the defense kept Murray from pulling away during that stretch.

Horrific officiating as well. Honestly, probably the worst called game I have seen in quite some time. Jeff Malham is not a MVC or even D-1 level ref.

Never a good night when you get Malham-ed.

Luckily, nights like that have been an outlier this year. John Higgins is absolutely killing it as the assignor. We're even pulling some bigger names on Saturdays right now and mid-weeks have been full of the elite tier of guys (Kissinger, Padilla, Sirmons, Pettigrew, McCall, Greenstein, Wells, Walton, Moore) and a couple that haven't gotten any better (Pfeiffer, Bonner, Kimball) all left for the Big Ten/MW consortium. It's been a noticeable and welcome change.

I just miss Gerry Pollard.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Never a good night when you get Malham-ed.

Luckily, nights like that have been an outlier this year. John Higgins is absolutely killing it as the assignor. We're even pulling some bigger names on Saturdays right now and mid-weeks have been full of the elite tier of guys (Kissinger, Padilla, Sirmons, Pettigrew, McCall, Greenstein, Wells, Walton, Moore) and a couple that haven't gotten any better (Pfeiffer, Bonner, Kimball) all left for the Big Ten/MW consortium. It's been a noticeable and welcome change.

I just miss Gerry Pollard.

I'm still amazed the guy who got banned from a Nebraska school district for banging one of his high school students just after she graduated is in a public-facing position and well-respected in the officiating community, but I guess he's a pretty good official.

[BCPanther]

Never a good night when you get Malham-ed.

Luckily, nights like that have been an outlier this year. John Higgins is absolutely killing it as the assignor. We're even pulling some bigger names on Saturdays right now and mid-weeks have been full of the elite tier of guys (Kissinger, Padilla, Sirmons, Pettigrew, McCall, Greenstein, Wells, Walton, Moore) and a couple that haven't gotten any better (Pfeiffer, Bonner, Kimball) all left for the Big Ten/MW consortium. It's been a noticeable and welcome change.

I just miss Gerry Pollard.

I'm still amazed the guy who got banned from a Nebraska school district for banging one of his high school students just after she graduated is in a public-facing position and well-respected in the officiating community, but I guess he's a pretty good official.

That's just it. He's gotten really good and he's got the right to make a living so at least he's not walking the halls in a high school anymore. Probably best that he's in a different city every night for 5 months out of the year.

[Dawgbit]

ISU gets a good win against a red hot Belmont team. Weird game, Redbirds shot 30% from 3 and 5 for 14 from the line, but found a way to win. The league is unpredictable is an understatement.

Did I read correctly that Evansville scored on 28 of 31 possessions in the 2nd half? That’s insane…

Yes, after an 11+ minute drought in the first half without a basket. Luckily, the defense kept Murray from pulling away during that stretch.

Horrific officiating as well. Honestly, probably the worst called game I have seen in quite some time. Jeff Malham is not a MVC or even D-1 level ref.

Never a good night when you get Malham-ed.

Luckily, nights like that have been an outlier this year. John Higgins is absolutely killing it as the assignor. We're even pulling some bigger names on Saturdays right now and mid-weeks have been full of the elite tier of guys (Kissinger, Padilla, Sirmons, Pettigrew, McCall, Greenstein, Wells, Walton, Moore) and a couple that haven't gotten any better (Pfeiffer, Bonner, Kimball) all left for the Big Ten/MW consortium. It's been a noticeable and welcome change.

I just miss Gerry Pollard.

Every Saluki home game I would shout “pull your pants up Pollard!”, which he was constantly doing. He is a real narcissist.

[Dawgbit]

Never a good night when you get Malham-ed.

Luckily, nights like that have been an outlier this year. John Higgins is absolutely killing it as the assignor. We're even pulling some bigger names on Saturdays right now and mid-weeks have been full of the elite tier of guys (Kissinger, Padilla, Sirmons, Pettigrew, McCall, Greenstein, Wells, Walton, Moore) and a couple that haven't gotten any better (Pfeiffer, Bonner, Kimball) all left for the Big Ten/MW consortium. It's been a noticeable and welcome change.

I just miss Gerry Pollard.

I'm still amazed the guy who got banned from a Nebraska school district for banging one of his high school students just after she graduated is in a public-facing position and well-respected in the officiating community, but I guess he's a pretty good official.

It could be argued that he exercised remarkable restraint, in waiting until she graduated.

[Dawgbit]

The Racers make me sad.

Hey cheer up man, football season will be here before you know it!

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Drake in a dog fight in Carbondale. Manyawu picked up 3 early fouls.