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Drake tied the game at 51 with 9:19 remaining. Loyola ends the game on a 29-6 run to beat Drake on the road and take over sole possession of 1st place

Final Score from Valparaiso:
Evansville - 75
Valpo - 65

SIU with a less than impressive home win. Thought several calls took ISUB key players out of the game. Should be a great race from 3-7 this year

jackwagon wrote:SIU with a less than impressive home win. Thought several calls took ISUB key players out of the game. Should be a great race from 3-7 this year

I think it will be up for grabs from 2-10....Loyola will be #1

2-9 maybe. #10 is spoken for. #WeAreBad #TrustTheProcess?

Valpo and Evansville are playing in. Loyola looks like the champs (but beatable)

2-8 are wide open!!

bufan42 wrote:Valpo and Evansville are playing in. Loyola looks like the champs (but beatable)

2-8 are wide open!!

We are about to find out how good a coach Dirty Dan really is, because it isn't looking too good in Normal right now. Love Dan as a player and the guy can recruit, but some of these games this year have been head scratching. The have been blown out way too many times. This ISU team has been one of the most frustrating teams to watch in years, and that's including the teams in the mid-2000s that underachieved. The Birds are starting to feel like the 7 seed more and more each day....it's a good time for Valpo to come into RBA.

bufan42 wrote:Valpo and Evansville are playing in. Loyola looks like the champs (but beatable)

2-8 are wide open!!

I think the other two Thursday teams will end up being UNI and Indiana St. I just don't have enough faith in ISUb to win all the games thay they should.

SalukiHoops wrote:

bufan42 wrote:Valpo and Evansville are playing in. Loyola looks like the champs (but beatable)

2-8 are wide open!!

I think the other two Thursday teams will end up being UNI and Indiana St. I just don't have enough faith in ISUb to win all the games thay they should.

Don't undersell the ability of Lusk to rally the Bears to 7th or 8th place. We've reached that point in the season most Bears knew we would where strange things are starting to happen to give Lusk excuses for losing. We are now in that terrible spot if you truly love your program where you wonder if it's in your best interest to pray for losses. I know some of you just didn't understand going into this year how absolutely terrible this guy was, but now your seeing first hand what we've known for 7 long, agonizing, years.

Man it's tough right now. I'd say the only for sure things right now are that Valpo and Evansville are going to play Thursday night. Loyola is the only team that I think we can safely say won't play Thursday night, even though I'm not sure they win the league because Porter is still on that bench.

I think you could put the other 7 teams in a hat, draw it out, and not be shocked by any result you get.

Bradley has to show they can win on the road. Indiana State has to find a 3rd scorer. Do SIUs legs last playing so few guys? Illinois State appears to have some real chemistry issues, can they fix them? Is UNI the UNI from November and Early December or the UNI from the first weeks of January? Drake's regression to what we thought they were may have started in the last week with how they looked against UNI and Loyola. Missouri State still employs Paul Lusk.

This is fun, its going to be a wild last 5 weeks.