Arch Madness 2025

by **SalukiWorld** » March 2nd, 2025, 4:22 pm

https://i.imgur.com/9am5Ymj.png

From Matt Hackman (@mjhackman) on Twitter, this should be the schedule barring final NET adjustments which could take SIU to 9 and Indiana State to 8.

Thursday, March 6th, 2025:
8. Southern Illinois vs 9. Indiana State 12:00 PM ESPN+
5. Illinois State vs 12. Missouri State 2:30 PM ESPN+
7. Murray State vs 10. Evansville 6:00 PM ESPN+
6. UIC vs 11. Valparaiso 8:30 PM ESPN+

Friday, March 7th, 2025:
1. Drake vs 8. Southern Illinois/9. Indiana State 12:00 PM ESPN+
4. Belmont vs 5. Illinois State/12. Missouri State 2:30 PM ESPN+
2. Bradley vs 7. Murray State/10. Evansville 6:00 PM ESPN+
3. Northern Iowa vs 6. UIC/11. Valparaiso 8:30 PM ESPN+

Saturday, March 8th, 2025:
Semifinals Game 1 2:30 PM CBS Sports Network
Semifinals Game 2 5:00 PM CBS Sports Network

Sunday, March 9th, 2025:
MVC Championship 1:10 PM CBS

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by **MissouriValleyUnite** » March 2nd, 2025, 4:26 pm

Could be the highest attended Thursday Afternoon session ever with everyone wanting to see halftime of the second game.

by **bluebird0306** » March 2nd, 2025, 7:59 pm

Bingo, kinda torn. Want to see the Sugar Bears have an extended stay but tired of losing on Thursday too

by **BCPanther** » March 2nd, 2025, 10:10 pm

Thursday night attendance is going to make Thursday night attendance from the 10 team days look like a sellout...

by **bluebird0306** » March 3rd, 2025, 9:05 am

Anyone know besides Bradley and Drake who sold a lot of tickets? Feel like it'll be a ghost town when one of them loses before Sunday?

by **BCPanther** » March 3rd, 2025, 9:18 am

bluebird0306 wrote:Anyone know besides Bradley and Drake who sold a lot of tickets? Feel like it'll be a ghost town when one of them loses before Sunday?

UNI sold over their allotment though there are a lot of people pretty upset that we're surrounded by Bradley after the exact same thing happened with Indiana State last year.

At least the Bradley folks are a lot easier to get along with because they've been there before.

by **MissouriValleyUnite** » March 3rd, 2025, 9:32 am

Bradley sold the most all session tickets of anyone since 2017 with the all-session allotment spanning 5 sections.

Attendance the last 2 years was a big step up over 2018-2022. Not just in the announced numbers, but the difference is even more pronounced when I look at my year-to-year photos.

by **bluebird0306** » March 3rd, 2025, 10:35 am

Wow, that was the year ISU & Wichita both brought a ton of people,, how do you access that info on all session tickets sold per school?

by **MissouriValleyUnite** » March 3rd, 2025, 10:43 am

bluebird0306 wrote:Wow, that was the year ISU & Wichita both brought a ton of people,, how do you access that info on all session tickets sold per school?

We'll never have access to tickets sold. We can only go off seating charts. I keep the year-to-year maps and this is the first year a school's all-session allotment spanned 5 sections on the map since ISUr/WSU in 2017. Last year did have ISUb/BU spanning 4 sections but no one at 5.

https://i.ibb.co/GvFCCcXD/Seating-map.png (larger resolution)

Last year's
https://i.imgur.com/UKujSOd.jpeg (larger resolution)

by **squirrel** » March 3rd, 2025, 12:26 pm

Indiana St 1-0 vs. SIU (Indiana State won at home by 18)
Illinois St 2-0 vs. Missouri St (Birds won by 6 at home, 2 in Springfield)
Murray St 1-1 vs. Evansville (Lost by 2 at Evansville, won by 9 at home)
UIC is 2-0 vs. Valpo (won by 7 at Valpo, 4 at home)

Drake is 3-0 vs. Indiana St (2-0) and SIU (1-0) and 5-0 vs. Belmont (1-0 [H)], Illinois St (2-0) and Missouri St (2-0)
Belmont is 3-1 vs. Illinois St (1-1) and Missouri St (2-0) and 4-1 vs. Drake (0-1), Indiana St (2-0) and SIU (2-0)
Bradley is 3-0 vs. Murray St (2-0) and Evansville (1-0) and 4-2 vs. UNI (1-1), UIC (1-1) and Valpo (2-0)
UNI is 2-1 vs. UIC (2-0) and Valpo (0-1) and 4-1 vs. Bradley (1-1), Murray St (2-0) and Evansville (1-0)

But my favorite line of all is Bradley is 4-4 in league on Wednesdays and 11-1 on all other days.