MVC Games Week 10

[SalukiWorld]

All times Central

Tuesday, January 10th:
Belmont @ Valparaiso 6:00 PM ESPN+
Drake @ UIC 7:00 PM ESPN+
Murray State @ Northern Iowa 7:00 PM ESPN+

Wednesday, January 11th:
Southern Illinois @ Indiana State 6:00 PM ESPN+
Missouri State @ Illinois State 7:00 PM ESPN+
Evansville @ Bradley 7:00 PM ESPN+

Saturday, January 14th:
Valparaiso @ Evansville 3:00 PM ESPN3
UIC @ Murray State 3:00 PM ESPN3
Northern Iowa @ Belmont 4:00 PM ESPN3
Bradley @ Drake 7:00 PM ESPNU
Illinois State @ Southern Illinois 7:00 PM ESPN3

Sunday, January 15th:
Indiana State @ Missouri State 2:00 PM ESPN+

[hot nuts]

I can see an upset in any of these games but Evansville at Bradley and Il State at SIU.

[Kyle_Saluki_17]

Tough stretch for Indiana State starting Wednesday. I’m really curious where they are at in 6 games.

[Saluki44]

As an SIU fan, not looking forward to Wednesday night.

[squirrel]

It gets a lot harder to catch the Trees if they hold serve at home against SIU and Bradley.

[30ASaluki]

SIU in the upset. It’s the Valley.

[BCPanther]

It gets a lot harder to catch the Trees if they hold serve at home against SIU and Bradley.

Nah. You expect them to win home games. It's when they start beating the upper half on the road that you start to lose the math game. Though only playing Bradley once, and having it at home, is a massive advantage.

That said, I think they go 0-2 this week and we have just an absolute jumbled mess for the rest of the league schedule.

[SalukiWorld]

Bowen Born might be the best player in the MVC

[BruinGrad]

Early in the Valpo game, Belmont looked sluggish and it looked like it would be a long night. Early in the first half, Coach Alexander pulled all the starters and put in the bench. They got the fire up and stretched out a lead. The bench ended up scoring 33 points and played significant minutes.

With the bench supplying the energy, the starters played better and we took the win. I'm glad Alexander is not afraid to use the bench to give notice to the starters.

[racernation]

Congrats to UNI on a hard-fought, entertaining game - at least in the second half.

Alarms are starting to go off in Murray, Ky. Yes, MVC > OVC - but computer rankings don't care about that and the Racers are at Kenpom 180 after last night. This isn't far from unchartered waters for the program.