UNI in first place ALONE

[UNI MadCat]

SIU beats Creighton in Omaha.

UNI only team with 2 losses.

Anyone still think the conference champ will have less than 4 losses???

[igo4uni]

Woo Hoo!! I love it!!

[jman2004]

Yes MadCat,

We will.

(says jman optimistically in the first person)

[Coachdags]

13-5 wins mvc

[JCPanthers]

6,900+ in the MAC tonight...another attendance record.

[igo4uni]

6,900+ in the MAC tonight...another attendance record.

I couldn't make it, but was super glad to hear of the great c rowd.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Well, it was definitely a large crowd...but not super active (at least the first 35 minutes). The flow of the game was definitely not the greatest, but I think we saw at the end of the game how much the crowd can impact the team on defense...I would like to see that enthusiasm earlier in the game. Great crowd numbers though.

[UNI05Alum]

13-5 wins mvc

We win at CU and I like our chances for top seed in St. Louis at this point! We need to win 2 of the next 3 as well. Two big road games and then the Shockers come to town.

[UNI05Alum]

Knock on wood, but I figure that 7-4 to finish the season is hopefully as poorly as we will do. That puts us at 12-6 in the MVC and 22-8 heading into the MVC tournament. I say that gets us IN the tournament. A win or two in St. Louis seals the deal.

If you put up those numbers in ANY other "major" conference, and you're a top 5 seed! Being in the MVC and you're "lucky" to get in. A sad scenario indeed.

[UNI MadCat]

Did anyone watch Doug Gottlieb tonight on ESPN??? Ok I was at the bar and so I couldnt hear it but was reading the subtitles. One of the guys either Gottlieb or his partner called last year an abberation for the MVC and the other guy was basically like, "why you hatin' on the mid-majors."

I don't know for sure it but appeared that DG was doing the "hatin".

Anyone else see/hear this to confirm??

[panther2317]

Great to be in 1st place on January 21st...but we have 2 road games this week and the first one on Tuesday is for first place with SIU and the 2nd is with a team who plays UNI tough no matter how good they are and they have more ability this year than they have in the recent past.

Enjoy the win today...but there's a ton of work to do this week. GO PANTHERS!!!

[CIPanther]

Did I read the SIU schedule correctly? Do they have three games in four days?

[jman2004]

I think you read it incorrectly.

We're they're next game (on Tuesday) and they don't play again until next Saturday, when we're at Drake.

[UNIChippewa]

Gottleib can be a bit obnoxious at times, but he does seem to enjoy our team and had nice things to say about us during the Bradley game on ESPN2. I didn't see the ESPN segment that you are writing about MadCat, but I wonder if indeed the MVC's season last year was called an abberation if that is because last season there was a clear difference between the top teams and the bottom teams, and as a result that might mean we get 3 teams instead of 4 teams again.

A few years ago, when the MAC was the "darling" of the mid-major conferences, there was always talk among the pundits of the MAC's parity hurting the league in terms of at-large bids. I wonder if that is what is happening this year to the MVC.

[CIPanther]

I think you read it incorrectly.

We're they're next game (on Tuesday) and they don't play again until next Saturday, when we're at Drake.

Thanks Jman. Darn. I guess that's just another typo from the Register.