What's it going to take to win the MVC?

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How many wins does it take to win the MVC?

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In my defense, we did have a banner that identified us (women's basketball, I believe) as "Co-Champions" for many years in HC. I never understood that... :ROFLMAO:

Why is that a "difficult" concept to grasp - The banner itself or including "co-"?
 

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One thing that would help our cause would be if UNI could get hot for the last three games and rattle off three wins. They have MO ST (Away), SIU (Away), and Belmont (Home) the last three games. Each of of those three picking up a big L wouldn't hurt my feelings.
 
Gotta love all this calculating and analysis going on across all the threads of Sycamore Pride. I know these types of things are the latest rage in all sports. Great effort and many of these can be enlightening. But I still think the "eye test" reigns supreme. Watch the game, pay attention, and you'll probably be able to spot whose playing well -- not just scoring wise.
Kinda the same thing here with trying to figure out how all the standings will work out. When you're just looking at a couple teams in the final games of a season such discussion can be meaningful. But with 4 different teams, each with 4 games left, virtual identical records, and many factors from much earlier in the season at play ---- well don't really see the point in a "what do we have to do" discussion.
Real simple answer is for ISU to win its last four games. Its obvious we are as good as anybody in the league (Belmont's not shown to tower above anyone). Just win the remaining games, can't do anything else anyway.
Just win Baby !!!
If we weren't in the race for a championship nobody would be bringing it up. If you don't see the point then don't participate in this particular discussion. We can comment on each game thread and just say go Sycamores and leave it at that.
 

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The MVC might be the only conference this year with 5 or more regular season 20+ game winners that only gets one NCAA bid. (Assuming Belmont finds one more win)
 
The MVC might be the only conference this year with 5 or more regular season 20+ game winners that only gets one NCAA bid. (Assuming Belmont finds one more win)
Yup, unfortunately every team blew their load a time or two during the non-con and nobody got a real quality win. In the MVC's defense there wasn't too many opportunities to get quality wins either. I was just looking at Lansing's early years and our non-con, we wouldn't be able to get anything close to that this day and age; oh how the times have changed...
 
The MVC might be the only conference this year with 5 or more regular season 20+ game winners that only gets one NCAA bid. (Assuming Belmont finds one more win)

It’s not every year when you have 3 or 4 teams in the league that are almost guaranteed road wins either. Like that has a lot to do with it. I’m not trying to diminish what we’ve accomplished but perspective is important. I also think that the top 4 teams are pretty beatable on a given night so you don’t have anyone on the schedule that you can’t beat.
 
Yup, unfortunately every team blew their load a time or two during the non-con and nobody got a real quality win. In the MVC's defense there wasn't too many opportunities to get quality wins either. I was just looking at Lansing's early years and our non-con, we wouldn't be able to get anything close to that this day and age; oh how the times have changed...

Just the culmination of several rounds of conference expansion/contraction (for football) - just consolidating more power in the "P5"

The NIL landscape will just further enrich the rich
 

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Obviously wee need to win the last two games but we will need some help to win a share of the regular season title. We need Drake or Bradley (or both) to lose Wednesday. Then if only one of them lose then we need the one who loses to beat the other Sunday. Now if they were both to lose Wednesday we for sure control our own destiny.
 
Obviously wee need to win the last two games but we will need some help to win a share of the regular season title. We need Drake or Bradley (or both) to lose Wednesday. Then if only one of them lose then we need the one who loses to beat the other Sunday. Now if they were both to lose Wednesday we for sure control our own destiny.
 
The NCAA Tournament committee needs new rules. If you go under .500 in your conference, you should not be at-large eligible especially since they don't have to schedule or play OoC road games.
Would be nice. Never gonna happen. Gonna get worse when they expand to 96 teams.
 

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The NCAA Tournament committee needs new rules. If you go under .500 in your conference, you should not be at-large eligible especially since they don't have to schedule or play OoC road games.
I've been advocating for years (not that I talk to anyone other than friends about college bball) that this is the rule that needs to be implemented to get the tourney to the way it was back in the 80s, 90s, 00s. If you can't go .500 in conference you don't deserve the opportunity to play for a national title. period. It will never happen because it is a direct attack on P5 schools.
 
The whole season is based on a subjective and biased evaluation on a small, conveniently sampled population. We rank teams at the start of the year based on what we think they are supposed to do.
I'd love to have mid major leap years. On those years all voting comes from mid and low major press and coaches. We will be openly biased and force all high majors to prove their worth, and then still shut them out of the field...or make em all play in the middle finger play in game sponsored by Wawa.
 
My personal qualifications for teams to make / be considered for the NCAA Tournament.

1) Automatic Bid (obviously)
2) Give an automatic bid to any team that goes undefeated during conference play, but fails to win conference tournament.
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3) 20 D1 Wins
4) Winning Regular Season Conference Record
5) Winning Road (and Home) Record
 
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