MVFCFAN'S M/OVC Basketball Top 22 Rankings 2019-20

by **mvfcfan** » October 10th, 2019, 8:48 pm

I have been doing a weekly Top 19 for the MVFC and OVC for football that can be found on Any Given Saturday. I will be doing a Top 22 for basketball as well that I will update at the beginning of each week once basketball season starts (most likely Monday's). I am an Indiana State and Eastern Illinois fan, and with a couple of regular Murray State fans on the board I think it is appropriate to include OVC schools. If you don't like the OVC schools being included just ignore them. I also plan on doing this for baseball in the Spring.

My MVC Preseason Poll
1) Loyola Chicago
2) Bradley
3) Missouri State
4) Northern Iowa
5) Drake
6) Illinois State
7) Evansville
8) Indiana State
9) Southern Illinois
10) Valparaiso

My OVC Preseason Poll
1) Belmont
2) Murray State
3) Austin Peay
4) Jacksonville State
5) UT Martin
6) Eastern Illinois
7) Morehead State
8) Eastern Kentucky
9) SE Missouri St
10) Tennessee State
11) SIU Edwardsville
12) Tennessee Tech

*Note: The BOLD team is my conference tournament champion prediction that will receive the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

My Preseason M/OVC Top 22 Rankings
1) Belmont
2) Murray State
3) Loyola Chicago
4) Bradley
5) Missouri State
6) Northern Iowa
7) Austin Peay
8) Jacksonville State
9) Drake
10) Illinois State
11) UT Martin
12) Evansville
13) Eastern Illinois
14) Indiana State
15) Southern Illinois
16) Morehead State
17) Eastern Kentucky
18) Valparaiso
19) SE Missouri State
20) Tennessee State
21) SIU Edwardsville
22) Tennessee Tech

MVC Average Team Ranking= 9.6
OVC Average Team Ranking= 13.1

My Basic Preview for both leagues.

The top 4 schools in the MVC appear to all be title contenders. Who comes out on top is anyone's best guess. I picked Loyola. Until someone proves they can top them, they deserve the benefit of the doubt in my eye. I look for Bradley to build off of last season's success. Missouri State appears to be the most talented team, but their success will depend on how well they play together. The other 6 schools will more than likely be in a battle to stay out of Thursday.

Belmont and Murray State lost plenty of good talent, but still appear to be the best teams in the OVC. Austin Peay, Jacksonville State, and UT Martin look like schools that could also contend for the OVC title. For everyone else, the race to finish in the top 8 to make the OVC tournament is on!

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by **Kip Dynamite** » October 10th, 2019, 9:03 pm

Must you? Who cares about the OVC on this board?

by **MissouriValleyUnite** » October 10th, 2019, 10:36 pm

Eastern Illinois/Indiana State beat Illinois/Indiana by a combined 33 in Nov 2017.
https://www.pantagraph.com/sports/colle ... b2daa.html

by **Drakey** » October 11th, 2019, 8:34 am

I like Mississippi Valley State, so lets include the SWAC

by **BEARZ77** » October 11th, 2019, 8:49 am

I'm from Missouri and only two hours from Fayetteville, so I like to follow SLU, MU and Arkansas as well as Missouri State, so lets add the SEC and the A-10 . Also there are more Wichita fans on this board than Murray State so I think the AAC has a gripe if not included.

The point being, this is a MVC board; lets keep it that way. JMHO

by **TheDrake** » October 11th, 2019, 9:01 am

What, so we're just going to completely ignore the MEAC? What did Bethune Cookman do to you?

by **BigMacAttack** » October 11th, 2019, 10:50 am

BEARZ77 wrote:I'm from Missouri and only two hours from Fayetteville, so I like to follow SLU, MU and Arkansas as well as Missouri State, so lets add the SEC and the A-10 . Also there are more Wichita fans on this board than Murray State so I think the AAC has a gripe if not included.

The point being, this is a MVC board; lets keep it that way. JMHO

by **AD1770** » October 11th, 2019, 10:57 am

by **mvfcfan** » October 11th, 2019, 11:00 am

I guess everyone missed the part where I said "if you don't like the OVC being included to just simply ignore them". Everyone talks about Murray State and Belmont all year long, but then as soon as I make a simple top 22 poll everyone freaks out. At least half of the schools in the MVC have some sort of rivalry with other OVC schools. If someone wants to make their own poll with other teams in it, or with just MVC teams in it, you're more than welcome to.

by **Kyle@MOState** » October 11th, 2019, 12:27 pm

mvfcfan wrote:I guess everyone missed the part where I said "if you don't like the OVC being included to just simply ignore them". Everyone talks about Murray State and Belmont all year long, but then as soon as I make a simple top 22 poll everyone freaks out. At least half of the schools in the MVC have some sort of rivalry with other OVC schools. If someone wants to make their own poll with other teams in it, or with just MVC teams in it, you're more than welcome to.

Pretty sure they saw that and disregarded it... Kinda like how you disregarded the name of the board.