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It was SIU without a doubt. They won more regular season championships than Creighton. CU finished 1st or tied for 1st 3 times, while SIU finished 1st or tied for 1st 5 times. To me winning the regular season is more impressive. So with that, most of SIU's NCAA tourney invites were at-large invites.

SIU went to the NCAA tourney 6 times (3 times advancing past the 1st round and 2 of those were Sweet 16). CU went to the NCAA tourney 5 times (Only advancing past the 1st round 1 time)

I think its gotta be SIU at the top. 6 NCAA's with 2 sweet 16's. Multiple MVC titles.

I'd put UNI 2nd. 5 NCAA's, and 1 sweet 16. Multiple MVC titles.

CU third. with 5 NCAA's and 1 2nd round appearance. Multiple MVC titles.

I agree with Valleychamp.

I posted a list of league finish matrices last year at PJStarforums.com from 2001-09, but here is the updated adding last year:

Matrices
BU: 2,8,5,6,8,5,4,5,4,5
CU: 1,1,2,2,3,2,2,4,1,4
DU: 7,5,8,6,7,7,7,1,8,8
UE: 6,9,5,8,9,7,7,10,5,10
IlSU: 2,3,8,10,6,9,7,2,3,3
InSU: 4,9,10,8,9,9,10,7,8,6
MSU: 7,4,3,5,5,2,3,7,10,7
UNI: 10,7,7,2,3,5,5,5,1,1
SIU: 4,1,1,1,1,2,1,3,5,9
WSU: 9,5,3,2,2,1,6,9,5,2

Table
2.2 CU
2.8 SIU
4.4 WSU
4.6 UNI
5.2 BU
5.3 IlSU, MSU
6.4 DU
7.6 UE
8.0 InSU

To add to squirrel's post, here are the tournament champs:

'01-Indiana St
'02- Creighton
'03- Creighton
'04- Northern Iowa
'05- Creighton
'06- Southern Ill
'07- Creighton (4)
'08- Drake
'09- Northern Iowa
'10- Northern Iowa (3)

That leaves Creighton with 7 total MVC titles in this time period. 5 NCAA's. 1 total NCAA win.

SIU with 6 total MVC titles during this time period. 6 NCAA's. 5 total NCAA wins.

UNI with 5 total MVC titles during this time period. 5 NCAA's. 2 total NCAA wins.

For the slack WSU seems to get sometimes, averaging out to a Top 3 finish in the last decade isn't too shabby. I bet a few were surprised by that output. Granted, our NCAA stature hasn't been nearly as strong in the time period, but if you're talking about Valley-only criteria, we've weathered well. I guess it depends on your definition of "MVC Program of the Decade".

Thanks for the stats squirrel.

I voted for Southern Illinois.. for obvious reasons already mentioned.

Good stuff. UNI was the only team to finish both last and first during the decade.