Avoiding Thursday

[UNIGrainer]

Re: Avoiding Thursday

You are right, but what are the chances of Drake winning AT Wichita?

Not good. But the way things have gone for us as far as getting help from other teams they may well pull it off.

[achrist70]

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You are right, but what are the chances of Drake winning AT Wichita?

As crazy as this has been I wouldn't be shocked.

[9YRPLAN]

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I'm not entire certain, but I do believe if the mini round robin records are all tied, the tiebreaker moves immediately to non-conf SOS.

On MVC fans someone posted the below rules from the MVC website:

that's interesting. usually you apply the rule to eliminate a team and then revert to the previous tiebreaker.

[jnutt]

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As crazy as this has been I wouldn't be shocked.

well played sir...

we gotta win, simple as that

[Panther Cat]

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That was a killer last night. Need to at least get the #7 seed to avoid WSU on Friday.

The good news is that next weeks games are against the 2 worst team and the teams we need to lose have tough games. But we haven't caught many breaks this year either.

Evansville @ Creighton (You would think/hope/pray that CU will win)
Bradley @ UNI (Once again, we SHOULD win.....)
SIU @ Drake (Drake should win, but lets hope SIU helps us out)
WSU @ Illinois St )WSU is better and should win, but at ISUr we will see)
Indiana St @ MSU (MSU should win at home)

Once again, it's the Valley and nothing has worked out well for us. But based on these results here would be the standings headed into the last game:

WSU 15-2
CU 13-4
MSU 10-7
Dake 9-8
ISUr 8-9
Evansville 8-9
UNI 8-9
ISUb 7-10
SIU 5-12
BU 2-15

This would put us in a 3 way tie for 5th. Then you still have Drake @ WSU & MSU @ Evansville.

Here are my predicted standings just for fun:

WSU 16-2
CU 14-4
MSU 11-7
DU 9-9
ISUr 9-9
UNI 9-9
EU 8-10
ISUb 7-11
SIU 5-13
BU 2-16

If we lose one (SIU on the road a strong possibility we'd more than likely be tied with Evansville and they'd hold the tie breaker over us.

Bottom line, if we win both games and we are sitting in decent shape. But that is a big IF the way we play on the road.

[Neighbor]

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demoralizing stat

UNI hasn't won a road game out of the state of Iowa since November.

[Panther Cat]

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demoralizing stat

UNI hasn't won a road game out of the state of Iowa since November.

Take that Old Dominion!!

The games in Texas were on a neutral site so yeah, we aren't a good road team. Hopefully the neutral site in St. Louis will be good to us.........

[Kyle]

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I don't know if this is the best thread for this but I thought it might cheer some people up.

I'd just like to point out two UNI teams in recent history.

UNI 07-08
Record: 18-14 (9-9)
Final RPI: 131
SOS: 117

UNI 08-09
Record: 23-10 (14-4)
Final RPI: 59
SOS: 84


Does anyone see a similarity between this years team and the 07-08 team? It's called rebuilding people. Even the best programs in the country do it.

[06panther10]

Im comfortable with rebuilding and its absolutely what I expected coming into the year. I am not, however, comfortable with playing on Thursday...

[Panther Cat]

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Im comfortable with rebuilding and its absolutely what I expected coming into the year. I am not, however, comfortable with playing on Thursday...

I agree. Not overly disappointed with the whole season. But I thought we would be able to finish around 5th and avoid Thursday (which we still can).

The future looks bright.

[UNIChippewa]

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Im comfortable with rebuilding and its absolutely what I expected coming into the year. I am not, however, comfortable with playing on Thursday...

It's crazy to think about just how many close losses we've had this season in conference play.

Off the top of my head...

@ ISU Red by 4

@ Creighton by 3

Wichita State by 3

@ Evansville last night by 1

We've also had some very close wins as well. MSU by 1 at home and of course the buzzer beater over Creighton by 3.

The only games we've really been blown out in that I can remember are @ Wichita State last week and @ Missouri State.

So close...as it is, we still could finish .500 in the conference.

[jnutt]

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we got smoked by Bradley. Jake said had they broken the press and scored a few points, game would have been entirely different, would have been up 15 instead of them cutting it to single digits

[UNIGrainer]

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I don't know if this is the best thread for this but I thought it might cheer some people up.

I'd just like to point out two UNI teams in recent history.

UNI 07-08
Record: 18-14 (9-9)
Final RPI: 131
SOS: 117

UNI 08-09
Record: 23-10 (14-4)
Final RPI: 59
SOS: 84


Does anyone see a similarity between this years team and the 07-08 team? It's called rebuilding people. Even the best programs in the country do it.

And if I remember correctly, that 07-08 team won its final two games and got some help to sneak into Friday as the 6 seed.

[jnutt]

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somehow Evansville losing hurt us? the probabilities here confound me some.

http://www.mvcfans.com/wp/

[jegbomb52]

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There are I believe 6 teams that can finish 9-9, we want as many teams to finish 9-9 as possible, however the one that we did not was Eville. The 9-9 group will be pooled into a round robin. With Eville in that mix our record amongst those will be .500 or worse, with Evill out our record will be .500 or better (Drake sweep).

Tough to believe but yes, them losing last night actually did hurt us a little bit. We want Illinois State and Drake to finish 9-9 (us too). That puts us in.

We can actually (virtually) lock in a top 6 tonight with a win and a Drake loss, and a Indiana State loss. Drake is not going to win in Wichita on Saturday, if they lose tonight, and we win, we hold tie breaker with the sweep and will be tied in standings for 6/7. I would actually prefer for us to be the 6 rather than 4/5 anyway.