MVC Off Season News

[clenz]

Tremell Murphy was arrested for making a false report after he accidentally shot someone in the head and said they fell. Would be a huge loss if they lost him for an extended period of time because of it

Read what he's charged with

He's not playing for anyone this year unless Darian is super desparate and takes the ISUr route

[CyCarp]

Tremell Murphy was arrested for making a false report after he accidentally shot someone in the head and said they fell. Would be a huge loss if they lost him for an extended period of time because of it

I'm curious how one "accidentally" shoots somebody in the head...

[Wxcpanther]

Tremell Murphy was arrested for making a false report after he accidentally shot someone in the head and said they fell. Would be a huge loss if they lost him for an extended period of time because of it

[clenz]

Can't get fired if you quit first....

From sources I have...

Can confirm.

[BCPanther]

That's an...interesting move to make, even if the MVC is a better conference than the Big Sky.

I wonder how much of a pay upgrade is involved?

Can't get fired if you quit first....

[BCPanther]

Dana doing whatever he can possibly do to not be in Springfield in 2020-21.

[CyCarp]

Interesting news for Missouri St, their 4 star commit will be there a year early...

Four-star Missouri State commit Ford Cooper will reclassify from the 2020 class to 2019. High IQ point guard that can really pass.

[vbfan19]

That's an...interesting move to make, even if the MVC is a better conference than the Big Sky.

UND left the Big Sky and joined the Summit League

[Wxcpanther]

That's an...interesting move to make, even if the MVC is a better conference than the Big Sky.

I wonder how much of a pay upgrade is involved?

Not pay related, wanted to be able to be home more for his kids, said in the article when it was announced this new position would allow him to do that.

[UNIChippewa]

Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere but Brian Jones left North Dakota and took the Associate head coach position at Illinois St.

That's an...interesting move to make, even if the MVC is a better conference than the Big Sky.

I wonder how much of a pay upgrade is involved?

[domedays]

Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere but Brian Jones left North Dakota and took the Associate head coach position at Illinois St.

[UNIdad]

I heard someone close to Bo Ryan at Wisconsin say that he would explain that he didn't have to have a great team to make the Final Four. He just needed a team that could consistently get to the NCAA Tournament. From there, its just a matter of winning 4 games in a row. Loyola did just that last year. And Virginia this year.

[sivert]

The way I see it, Loyola was genuinely a good team in the 2018 NCAA tournament. Probably about a 6 or 8 seed. in order to get to the final four, they were VERY lucky.
First, the top 1,2,4 seeds lost. Very fortunate.
Second, when they played the 6, 3, 7, and 9 seeds, three of those games they won by 1 or 2 points. All down to the wire and really 50/50 games. The last (9 seed Kstate) they took over and won by 16. That game could have been against Virginia, Arizona, or maybe Kentucky.

They pulled out 3 50/50 games. Then they got a win that based on their dominance let’s give them a 75% chance of winning. But that win was made possible by super unlikely losses. Let’s say only a 20% chance of the top four seeds losing in the first two rounds of a region.
Just looking at what happened in the dance, their chances of doing that were probably about 2%.

Then add that to get in, they beat a 16-16 UNI team by 4 points in the MVC that year. They got VERY LUCKY in 2018 and I was and am SUPER HAPPY for them.

[UNIChippewa]

I honestly feel the people hating on Loyola for being "lucky" to make it to Final Four by winning some close games along the way (maybe victories should only count if they are by double digits?) are probably upset and jealous that they made it before we did coming out of the same conference. Human nature, more to the point, fan nature, I suppose.

[CyCarp]

Yea, I get kinda annoyed by when people talk the luck of Loyola to get to a FF. Of course they got lucky, look at every team along the way, it's part off the game to an extent. Heck Virginia coulda easily lost 3 games in the tourney, but they're the National Champs. Just because they got lucky to win those games doesn't mean they didn't deserve it. They put themselves in positions to be successful and took advantage of the opportunities they had. Same can be said for the vast majority of teams when they have a "lucky" win.