TheDrake wrote:MVC1972 wrote:Jeff Goodman knows nothing about the Valley. Terrible...and I mean terrible article. He ranked Aces 9th for History/Tradition. They won 5 National Championships under Arad McCutchan. It was the College Division. However, the teams that they beat were: 1959 - Aces beat Missouri State, 1960 - Aces beat Chapman, 1964 - Aces beat Akron, 1965 - Aces beat Southern Illinois (that was back when Walt Frazier played for them), 1971- Aces beat Old Dominion. One of those years the Aces beat John Wooden's UCLA team. Has any of the other Valley teams won a National Championship at any level? A lot of the Valley teams were playing in Division II during that time period.
Yes.
Yes, there have been a few. Loyola won the NCAA in '63. Bradley won a few NIT Championships when it was considered the premier post-season tournament. Drake, Wichita State and of course Loyola all made the Final Four. SIU won a NIT Championship with Walt Frazier....and of course, what I consider the greatest Valley season in my lifetime, the 78-79 Indiana State team that went undefeated to the NCAA Championship game.
Tradition is very subjective, and hard to determine with any real accuracy. As you can see, there is a lot in the Valley. I don't know where we should actually be, and probably not #1, but certainly nowhere near the bottom either.....unless we are only looking at the Marty years.
