MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby Bulldog4life24 » November 21st, 2023, 6:20 pm

FunchessonPopcorn wrote:
Drakey wrote:
tribecalledquest wrote:If Bradley is indeed the third best team in the league as the preseason poll suggests then this is the best the league has been in some time.


Unfortunately that is not the case. Bradley appears to be miles ahead of everybody else, with the possible exception of Missouri State. Everybody else does look to be middle of the pack though with the exception of Valpo.


Looks like you are beating Akron like a drum, so that’s a good response to a tough result. What’s going on with Ethan Roberts? He looked to be a good transfer recruit profile to get but see he hasn’t played yet. Is he hurt?


I’m not nearly as pessimistic as Drakey (also have you watched ISUb play?), but yeah Drake had a good bounce back. We still have our issues to figure out, but it was a get right game for a lot of folks, Tucker included.

No clue on Roberts. Suspicion is he’s hurt. Our best reporter with the Register continues to not ask (her last excuse was “I forgot”). He did post a cryptic IG the other day leading some to believe he’s returning soon. Really don’t have a good idea one way or another on timeline.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby SalukiWorld » November 21st, 2023, 6:41 pm

SIU hanging with #22 James Madison after an awful start. I can't believe what they're getting out of Xavier Johnson so far this year. He has 24 points with 12:00 left.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby sivert » November 21st, 2023, 7:26 pm

Indiana State’s score looks like a NBA score.

Nice job!

And Drake did great.

Ill State and SIU nearly pulled off wins.


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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby bluestreak » November 21st, 2023, 7:27 pm

The Trees destroyed Rice scoring 103 to 88. Wasn't that close.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby SalukiWorld » November 21st, 2023, 7:29 pm

Xavier Johnson finishes with 38 points but James Madison wins by 5
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Postby sivert » November 21st, 2023, 9:11 pm

Good job, Valpo. Pretty good day.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby Majik45 » November 22nd, 2023, 8:17 am

A couple of nice wins today for ISUb and Drake. As bad as Drake looked yesterday, they will always be dangerous with Tucker as any given night he can go off like he did yesterday.

Too bad we couldn't get an SIU or ISUr win to top it off. And any win by Valpo this year is just a bonus.

Just noticed as well that after Stephen F Austin was on fire against Drake the previous day, they cooled off from 3 in their next game, as they went 3-17 against Utah State and lost by 30.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby DUBulldog » November 22nd, 2023, 8:22 am

Majik45 wrote:A couple of nice wins today for ISUb and Drake. As bad as Drake looked yesterday, they will always be dangerous with Tucker as any given night he can go off like he did yesterday.

Too bad we couldn't get an SIU or ISUr win to top it off. And any win by Valpo this year is just a bonus.

Just noticed as well that after Stephen F Austin was on fire against Drake the previous day, they cooled off from 3 in their next game, as they went 3-17 against Utah State and lost by 30.


It kind of shows how you can't judge anything based on a couple of games.

SFA beats Drake by 24 (although the game was actually much closer than the score would indicate)
USU beats Akron by 3
Drake beats Akron by 20

Based on those scores, you wouldn't expect USU to beat SFA by 30, but that's what happened.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby squirrel » November 22nd, 2023, 8:39 am

Bradley hadn't won a holiday tournament that it didn't host for 50 years, between the 1969 Sun Bowl tournament and Cancun in 2019. A win tonight gives them their 3rd since 2019, along with the 2022 Sun Bowl tournament.

Would love to see the Braves bag this one and Vermont on Saturday to enter league play unbeaten.

Still have 2 trips to Akron for the non-con: @ Akron and vs. Duquesne at LeBron's HS gym (Dukes coach Keith Dambrot was LeBron's HS coach). Home games for non-con remaining are: Cleveland St, SIUE, and non-DI Truman St.

Going unbeaten will be incredibly tough with the 2 games in Akron, and Cleveland State and SIUE are probably going to be competitive - but not out of the realm of possibility.
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Re: MVC Games Week 3 2023-24

Postby squirrel » November 22nd, 2023, 8:41 am

DUBulldog wrote:
Majik45 wrote:A couple of nice wins today for ISUb and Drake. As bad as Drake looked yesterday, they will always be dangerous with Tucker as any given night he can go off like he did yesterday.

Too bad we couldn't get an SIU or ISUr win to top it off. And any win by Valpo this year is just a bonus.

Just noticed as well that after Stephen F Austin was on fire against Drake the previous day, they cooled off from 3 in their next game, as they went 3-17 against Utah State and lost by 30.


It kind of shows how you can't judge anything based on a couple of games.

SFA beats Drake by 24 (although the game was actually much closer than the score would indicate)
USU beats Akron by 3
Drake beats Akron by 20

Based on those scores, you wouldn't expect USU to beat SFA by 30, but that's what happened.


Yeah, turkey tourneys are weird and wild.
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