One bid league?

[shocktheheart]

I read it this morning and it wasn't that over the top. The story mostly focuses on UNI and WSU being consistently good the past 13 years. It said WSU has a "tiebreaker" with it's run to the final four. Hard to argue with that.

Not saying it is over the top, but saying the teams are on par with each other is pretty misleading. WSU the last four years have won the regular season title three out of four years, final four, undefeated regular season, and sweet sixteen, and is still in discussion for a bid this year. UNI can't compare with that in their history of Division One basketball. The best run in a row for UNI in the tourney is three years in a row in which they lost the first game each year(04-06).

[unipanther99]

Where are you even seeing the "on par with WSU" stuff? The headline on the DMR website is "Wes Washpun, UNI earn spotlight with tournament return."

Another quote from the article:

It’s a sweet situation for the Panthers, who have been overshadowed by the Shockers for much of the past five seasons.

“They deserved that,” Washpun said of the attention given to Wichita State. “They put in the time and they’re a very talented basketball team. “It’s hard to get recognition as a mid-major, but we do our darnedest to try and let people know we’re a pretty good basketball team as well.”

[shocktheheart]

Where are you even seeing the "on par with WSU" stuff? The headline on the DMR website is "Wes Washpun, UNI earn spotlight with tournament return."

Another quote from the article:

It’s a sweet situation for the Panthers, who have been overshadowed by the Shockers for much of the past five seasons.

“They deserved that,” Washpun said of the attention given to Wichita State. “They put in the time and they’re a very talented basketball team. “It’s hard to get recognition as a mid-major, but we do our darnedest to try and let people know we’re a pretty good basketball team as well.”

The tweet that was sent out with the story

[uniftw]

Where are you even seeing the "on par with WSU" stuff? The headline on the DMR website is "Wes Washpun, UNI earn spotlight with tournament return."

Another quote from the article:

It’s a sweet situation for the Panthers, who have been overshadowed by the Shockers for much of the past five seasons.

“They deserved that,” Washpun said of the attention given to Wichita State. “They put in the time and they’re a very talented basketball team. “It’s hard to get recognition as a mid-major, but we do our darnedest to try and let people know we’re a pretty good basketball team as well.”

The tweet that was sent out with the story

Man, you're uptight.

Do you buy into the Casey's General Store conspiracy as well?

[BirdsEyeView]

Read WSU's Shockernet board....everyone is uptight and placing blame on anybody but their own players/coaches for sucking every year in Arch Madness.

King FVV - the almighty had a terrible Arch Madness....but that has to stay on the hush hush.

The dominant WSU team fell once again. They must defend their kingdom.

[BirdsEyeView]

Not sure where else to mention this, but with tonight's game....

11 - #1 seeds have lost their conference tournaments so far!!

That's 11 teams guaranteed a spot in the NIT (if they don't make the NCAAs). I would say Evansville is squarely on the bubble of the NIT at this point too.

[PantherSigEp]

Logue isn't really our beat writer, simply the only pro-UNI guy for the Des Moines Register (which has done a consistently pathetic job of covering UNI recently). Not sure how many beat writers work 2 hrs away from campus. I don't even think he was at Arch Madness, the Register used a story from an SIU student reporter for one of the games summaries.

[DUBulldog]

Logue isn't really our beat writer, simply the only pro-UNI guy for the Des Moines Register (which has done a consistently pathetic job of covering UNI recently). Not sure how many beat writers work 2 hrs away from campus. I don't even think he was at Arch Madness, the Register used a story from an SIU student reporter for one of the games summaries.

That is correct...the Register didn't send anybody to Arch Madness, and had Logue covering both Drake and UNI throughout the season.

[Mike]

MVC was one of only nine (9) leagues that got more than one bid to the NCAA:

Big XII 7 of 10 (70.0%)
Pac 12 7 of 12 (58.33%)
Big East 5 of 10 (50.0%)
Big 10 7 of 14 (50.0%)
Atlantic Coast 7 of 15 (46.66%)
American Athletic 4 of 11 (36.36%)
Southeastern

[Mike]

Part of prior post was missing:

Big XII 7 of 10 member schools (70.00%)
Pac 12 7 of 12 (58.33%)
Big East 5 of 10 (50.00%)
Big Ten 7 of 14 (50.00%)
Atlantic Coast 7 of 15 (46.66%)
American Athletic 4 of 11 (36.36%)
Southeastern 3 of 14 (21.43%)
Atlantic 10 3 of 14 (21.43%)
Missouri Valley 2 of 10 (20.00%)