pafan wrote:The MVC is worse off today than it was in 2010, because of Creighton disappearing.
Someone has to fill the role they left, a name you can associate with good basketball in the MVC.
Northern Iowa seems like the most likely candidate, but they'll have to start earning NIT appearances, at least, to get their mojo going again.
Interesting thing about CU. They had a knack for winning the MoVal tournament and then doing NOTHING in the NCAA tournament. By winning the MoVal tournament, they often hurt the MoVal by keeping a better team from reaching the NCAA tournament which thus resulted in less overall recognition.
CU's recognition often came from the attendance figures which many seats were cheap or given away to corporate sponsors. In fact their revenue from seats were less than Wichita State whose arena holds 7,000 less.
Besides WSU, the MoVal needs BU to step up. Having a lot of success from LUC would help too ( media market, former natl champ, etc... )