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1st time attending Arch Madness, Fri - Sun. Glad to attend with a few seasoned Arch pros. No doubt we'll have to earn our way to Sunday, but hoping Drake/Bradley wear each other out, and we mop up in the Championship. All eyes on Drake for tomorrow's game.
 

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Sadly we are tasked with watching the grandkid while step-son works out of town that weekend...might see if I can sneak over on Sunday for the championship should we (and we should)represent!
 
I'll be there with the wife and baby. At the team hotel and I'm sure you'll see me at the lobby bar having a drink at some point or another.
 
treeman said:
Got some arch madness questions for people that have gone a lot. I've personally gone a handful of times and it's just worked out nicely to where I didn't have to stay in a hotel because I knew people on the area. I don't have that anymore. My wife and I plan to go Saturday (after a Friday win) and then spend the night Saturday night. My question is, is there a possibility to get last second hotel rooms due to other team losing and leaving? Or has anyone done anything like that in the past; essential get tickets or hotel rooms from an opposing fan?
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Tickets are easy enough to get either from losing teams fans, scalpers, or just at the door.


Hotels will be tricky. There's a big convention in town that weekend on top of Arch Madness so rooms will be pretty hard to get. Honestly the casino hotel may be the best bet for available rooms. You may have some luck with teams that lose on Thursday, checking which hotels those teams were assigned to, and then try calling the hotel Friday morning to see if anything opened up.
 

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Does anyone know what Joe Lunardi said about our at-large chances on the ESPN2 broadcast last night? On MVCfans there's a post that says "The Lunardi comments about Indiana St were not encouraging". A later post suggests that he claimed we'd have to win our last 8 games by 20+ points each to have a chance.
 
Sycamorefan96 said:
Does anyone know what Joe Lunardi said about our at-large chances on the ESPN2 broadcast last night? On MVCfans there's a post that says "The Lunardi comments about Indiana St were not encouraging". A later post suggests that he claimed we'd have to win our last 8 games by 20+ points each to have a chance.
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it was ridiculous. Basically said "Indiana State would have to win every remaining game on their schedule by 20+ and then lose in 4 OTs in the Arch Madness final, and then they MIGHT get an at-large." Just complete bullshit.
 

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Sycamorefan96 said:
Does anyone know what Joe Lunardi said about our at-large chances on the ESPN2 broadcast last night? On MVCfans there's a post that says "The Lunardi comments about Indiana St were not encouraging". A later post suggests that he claimed we'd have to win our last 8 games by 20+ points each to have a chance.
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It was a pretty patronizing and shitty interview. I don’t know if he was ticked that he got pulled away from the Duke/UNC game, but he wasn’t kind with his comments.

He basically said the only game we can lose from this point forward would be the championship in St. Louis, and we’d have to lose by 1 in 4OT. Only then would the Valley be a 2-bid league…and that was a big maybe in his mind.
 
BrokerZ said:
It was a pretty patronizing and shitty interview. I don’t know if he was ticked that he got pulled away from the Duke/UNC game, but he wasn’t kind with his comments.

He basically said the only game we can lose from this point forward would be the championship in St. Louis, and we’d have to lose by 1 in 4OT. Only then would the Valley be a 2-bid league…and that was a big maybe in his mind.
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I hope he realizes how much of a moron he sounds. On verge of being ranked, all stats/media in our favor, and still pushes this have to blow everyone out and barely lose to make it in. For being an “expert” in his field, that is a poor take
 
Looking well ahead but final MVC game day before Arch Madness could be madness. Lots of match-ups between teams close in conference including BU at Drake. And of course we need to hold home court against Murray for our seniors/momentum
 
Sycamorefan96 said:
Does anyone know what Joe Lunardi said about our at-large chances on the ESPN2 broadcast last night? On MVCfans there's a post that says "The Lunardi comments about Indiana St were not encouraging". A later post suggests that he claimed we'd have to win our last 8 games by 20+ points each to have a chance.
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Don't worry about what Lunardi says. He's a bottom half bracketologist out of a LONG list of them. You can see his past performance on the Bracket Matrix website and it isn't good.
 

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I've been looking and couldn't find it anywhere. But does anyone know where we could Strength of Schedule so far for just Valley games. We've had to have played by far the toughest schedule out of everyone. Which says a lot because WE are the toughest game on everyone's schedule
 
treeman said:
I've been looking and couldn't find it anywhere. But does anyone know where we could Strength of Schedule so far for just Valley games. We've had to have played by far the toughest schedule out of everyone. Which says a lot because WE are the toughest game on everyone's schedule
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Isu does have highest conference sos, up to this point, per kenpom
 

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