Valley Conference Predictions

[uniftw]

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Yeah...let's ignore the women's game that tips at 11:00 AM that morning.

Let's ignore that UNI women and Evansville women will be in the building starting about 9 or so to prep for their game.....


Kudos on the conspiracy theory that probably has complete traction on ShockerNet and has people up in arms.

Poor scheduling on UNIs part. Unless UNI is giving up their shoot around to provide WSU with time it's a bad move by UNI. Poor administration shouldn't punish the road team

Games over by 1 and 30 min to clear. Not sure where that hour between games went... Oh that's right, probably to UNI

Um...the conference sets the schedule and ESPN dictates time of the game as they picked it up for TV.

Also had the womens game time wrong. It's 11:30.

Game over at 1:30. Still need to clear the arena. It won't be clear until 1:45 or 2. Which goes right into warm ups.

[chitown fanatic]

yes, it takes a long time to clear out the 12 people attending the women's game.

[uniftw]

yes, it takes a long time to clear out the 12 people attending the women's game.

UNI is averaging 1,000 and your ticket to the WSU game gets you into the womens game free (just as the football tickets did with volleyball on days both happen at home). That won't draw a ton of extra people but maybe a couple hundred.

It's not unreasonable to think it could take 15 minutes to clear roughly 1,500 people from an arena.

[Rollbird5]

WSU
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ISUr
MSU
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ISUb
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Loyola
Evansville
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UNI
SIU
Bradley
Drake (this is a wildcard due to recent games)

If Wichita is this far above UNI then a shootaround early in the morning shouldn't stop them from winning.

[UEACES80]

Another issue that won't be noticed by most is Wyatt Lohaus has been out with an ankle injury. He's a JR that would start and bring a ton of confidence, experience and "calmness" to the floor.

Not a lot of sympathy from this Aces fan as UE only played 7 players due to Redshirts and injuries. UNI was on equal terms with an Aces squad with a very short bench.

[Ace75]

When you have an offense that consists of jacking up missed three point shots you are not going to look very good, or win, many games. They will have games when they hit those three's, and you hope they are not playing your team.

The issue is lack on consistency from anyone not named Jeremy. UNI has started 3 freshman this year and it looks like it.

Another issue that won't be noticed by most is Wyatt Lohaus has been out with an ankle injury. He's a JR that would start and bring a ton of confidence, experience and "calmness" to the floor. He's already missed 8 games and would qualify for a medical. Jake confirmed yesterday that the idea of taking a medical scholarship is being heavily discussed for Wyatt. That means he would be on the roster through 18/19.

The defense hasn't been bad but not good enough to overcome the shooting issues

Morgan is the only one Sunday that looked comfortable on the court. Your guards will be fine they are just young. What has happened to Carlson? He gave us fits in all three games last year and didn't look like the same player.

[Stickboy46]

WSU
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ISUr
MSU
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ISUb
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Loyola
Evansville
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UNI
SIU
Bradley
Drake (this is a wildcard due to recent games)

If Wichita is this far above UNI then a shootaround early in the morning shouldn't stop them from winning.

So one team should get an unfair advantage just because they aren't as good? Are we going to start spotting a team points to start the game too?

[Rollbird5]

WSU
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ISUr
MSU
.
.
ISUb
.
Loyola
Evansville
.
.
UNI
SIU
Bradley
Drake (this is a wildcard due to recent games)

If Wichita is this far above UNI then a shootaround early in the morning shouldn't stop them from winning.

So one team should get an unfair advantage just because they aren't as good? Are we going to start spotting a team points to start the game too?

It would be unfair if you got no shootaround and UNI got one. Players get an hour or a little more to shootaround/warmup before the game also to get accustomed to the surroundings. I agree with most things you say on here but this is something pretty petty to get all worked up about. If Wsu were to lose I don't think having a shootaround at 7:30am instead of like 12 or 1pm would be the reason.

[COUTEAU]

For Christ's sake.
It's a Sunday afternoon game.
Perhaps SHOX has arena time on Saturday, before the team meal and movie?

[BCPanther]

UNI isn't having a shootaround in the arena. They are using the practice courts in the connected Wellness Center.

I have no idea why you are so worked up about this. Be pissed at the league for only being able to get on to ESPNU in the middle of Sunday afternoon. The women's game has to be played at some point...