2018 MVC - Opening Week

[BirdsEyeView]

Bradley let me down, really had high hopes for them this year. I am not off of them yet, but losing the opener to Drake is hard to explain. I think Bradley is the better team, but they just got out played by Drake. I still think Bradley avoids Thursday, but it might be closer than I thought.

Most of the computer models had the game as pretty much a 50-50 proposition....Drake won by 2....not sure that's hard to explain. I'm not going to lie; Drake didn't even play that well.

Yep no surprise. Parity will result in a close race for every position in the Valley this year from first to last. Unfortunately, that parity is good, but no great teams leading to no at larges in 2018

[pafan]

Aces lead Loyola 28 to 20 at the break. First few minutes were ugly for the Aces, but the whole half was pretty ugly for Loyola.

[ACECARD]

Aces lead Loyola 28 to 20 at the break. First few minutes were ugly for the Aces, but the whole half was pretty ugly for Loyola.

Was the defense for both teams that good, or was the offense that bad? Aces shooting 39%, Ramblers 36%. Probably a combination of the two.

[Blers]

Ramblers surge from down 8 to beat evansville 66-59. Marques Townes should be in the running for newcomer of the week as he absolutely took over in the second half. Scoring 17 of his 19 points.

[SalukiHoops]

Thik Bol expected to make a return tomorrow on New Year's Eve in Carbondale against the Drake Bulldogs. It will be interesting to see how Pippen and Bol play when on the floor together.

[underdawg]

A Blues Band will play in the lobby of the Saluki Arena for hour before the game Ought to be very interesting experience indeed!

[Rollbird5]

Bradley taking it to Northern Iowa, up 16 under 8 to play

[BirdsEyeView]

Bradley taking it to Northern Iowa, up 16 under 8 to play

This is more of what I expected of UNI this year. They were a big surprise the first few months to me.

Offensively defecient, inconsistent and no game changers. Koch and Carlson are just not two guys you can rely on regularly to lead the way.

[BirdsEyeView]

Keyshawn Evans out today with a knee injury. Uh oh.

[ptownbraves]

Bradley over UNI 72-53. This is the Bradley team we saw in the non-con and why we were collectively freaking out over the Drake loss.