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It is Creighton (#8 seed) and Southern Illinois (#6 seed) going for the championship tommorow. As we said before the first tournament game, Creighton was wiping the slate clean and flushing a dismal season and was motivated to win the MVC Tournament! From worst to first.

The winner of the tournament going to the NCAA Tournament would be a travesty! That means that Missouri State would be the second team if that travesty happens.

(From Todd Golden) It’s not unprecedented for an MVC regular-season champion to be left out of the NCAA Tournament. Missouri State wasn’t selected in 2009 and co-champion Wichita State wasn’t chosen in 2010.

Either way, ISU's season appears to be over. But, "it's not over until the fat lady sings" at noon on Monday.

Warren Nolan RPI Ratings (as of 5/25 at 8:00 a.m.):

Missouri State #40
Wichita State #43
Indiana State #45
 
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Have seen a lot of potential Derby winners fade down the stretch. Painful for players & fans but you can't rest on your laurels and expect everyone else to roll over and give it to you. No one to blame but themselves if they get left home on Monday.
 
From Baseball America:

Missouri State staved off elimination briefly in the Missouri Valley tournament with an 11-8 win against Bradley, but the Bears were bounced later in the day by Southern Illinois, 3-2. Still, after finishing just a half-game out of first in the regular-season and going 2-2 in the conference tourney, the Bears (No. 40 in the RPI) are in good shape—better shape even than regular-season champ Indiana State, which went 0-2 in the tourney. Given the poor tournament showings of power-conference bubble teams Auburn, Georgia and Texas—all of whom are behind the two MVC teams in the RPI—we'll keep both the Bears and Sycamores in our field of 64, making the Valley a three-bid league. Missouri State should feel fairly comfortable, if not quite "secure." Indiana State remains on the bubble, but on the right side of it.
 
The "right side of the bubble?" Now that's optimism...:sycamores:

I feel this way...if Kentucky can curb a 4-game losing streak going into the SEC Tournament, the Sycamores can also right a sinking ship!
 
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