Pre-season rankings

by **Dansen** » November 4th, 2020, 11:22 am

From Kenpom:

47-Loyola
77-UNI
127-Bradley
134-Indiana State
147-Valparaiso
157-Drake
172-Missouri State
185-SIU
194-Illinois State
269-Evansville

Makes sense to me more or less. I think Valpo and SIU are a little surprising for opposite reasons. I thought Loyola would be favored over UNI just due to the amount of returning players and new additions, but the gap is a little wider then I thought and UNI seems a little underrated.

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by **ACECARD** » November 4th, 2020, 8:55 pm

SIU is not an 8th place team. I would put them in 4th place. Valpo, and Drake, could possibly flip, and the Aces will be unchallenged for 10th. Other than that, the list looks pretty good.

by **Adunk33** » November 5th, 2020, 10:33 am

https://cbbcentral.com/2020/11/05/2020- ... y-preview/

by **Salukimadness86** » November 6th, 2020, 10:34 am

ACECARD wrote:SIU is not an 8th place team. I would put them in 4th place. Valpo, and Drake, could possibly flip, and the Aces will be unchallenged for 10th. Other than that, the list looks pretty good.

Agree.

by **Salukimadness86** » November 6th, 2020, 10:39 am

Adunk33 wrote:https://cbbcentral.com/2020/11/05/2020-21-32x32-missouri-valley-preview/

Nice analysis, thanks for sharing.

by **sivert** » November 9th, 2020, 1:11 pm

AP poll 20-21
UNI #42, Loyola #40 (each got one vote)
Known opponents for UNI:
Richmond #32
Possible opponents for UNI:
St Louis #35
LSU #26

I’m not sure what Loyola has for OOC...

by **Dansen** » November 9th, 2020, 2:37 pm

Loyola got 3 votes.

OOC is still up in the air for Loyola outside of Chicago State. DePaul is supposed to be on the schedule but no updates there, if the MTE comes together they will likely play Cincinnati and maybe Duquesne

by **sivert** » November 9th, 2020, 3:49 pm

Loyola was ranked #23 by one writer, which is why I said one vote. They did get three points for that one writer, though.

by **BCPanther** » November 10th, 2020, 3:43 pm

Your annual reminder that KenPom still uses results from last year and greatly overvalues returning numbers until everyone has played 12 games.

I honestly think that UNI and Loyola are both teams that are going to end up in the upper 20s/lower 30s when all is said and done.

by **Salukimadness86** » November 10th, 2020, 5:21 pm

BCPanther wrote:Your annual reminder that KenPom still uses results from last year and greatly overvalues returning numbers until everyone has played 12 games.

I honestly think that UNI and Loyola are both teams that are going to end up in the upper 20s/lower 30s when all is said and done.

I think you can add Wisconsin to UNI OOC Schedule