MVCfans.com

According to MVC site, Shocks and Panthers are preseason favs, followed by Redbirds, Bears, and Salukis. Loyola may be pushing to be in the top tier. No one is some kind of locked-on -for-sure winner.

...and forcing conference runner up Northern Iowa to a fifth set in Cedar Rapids.

yeah, but UNI beat Loyola fairly handily when they played in Champaign

And there is absolutely no way that Wichita State ends up in 7th. Y'all are new to the league, so I'll cut you some slack, but neither UNI nor WSU ever finish the season any lower than 4th in the conference volleyball standings, at least not under their current coaches. (well, WSU did in '00 and '01, but those were Lamb's first two years so he didn't really have his own recruits and the program he inherited wasn't in the best of shape.)