Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

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Who will finish in 5th place during the 2017-18 MVC men's basketball season?

Poll ended at October 14th, 2017, 5:05 am

Illinois State
26
39%
Loyola
1
2%
Missouri State
3
5%
Northern Iowa
11
17%
Southern Illinois
25
38%
 
Total votes : 66

Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby MVCfans » October 11th, 2017, 5:05 am

Each week we will open a poll for users to predict the end of season finish for the MVC 2017-18 basketball season. We will work in reverse order, concluding with the predicted MVC champion chosen by our users between the last two teams remaining in week 9.

Valparaiso was recently selected as the likely 6th place finisher (results: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4791 )

Week 6 - Who will finish in 5th place during the 2017-18 MVC mens basketball season?
-You are choosing the team that you believe will finish in 5th place for this regular season. Poll open until Saturday, October 14.


Official MVCfans.com - Predictions:
10th Place - Evansville
9th Place - Drake
8th Place - Indiana State
7th Place - Bradley
6th Place - Valparaiso
5th Place - .....
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby BEARZ77 » October 11th, 2017, 6:52 am

Honestly, here on in for me it's a crap shoot. I went with Illinois State because of the lack of established returning scorers . I think they still have talent, but generally the league rewards rosters with experienced quality over young talent. Muller's done a nice job, but his progress has been tied to the progress of a group of kids who grew up together in his program and have now departed for the most part. Won't surprise me if they do better than this, and suspect they will be playing with any of the other teams by MVC tourney time, but think it may take a bit to get there.
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby BirdsEyeView » October 11th, 2017, 9:14 am

BEARZ77 wrote:Honestly, here on in for me it's a crap shoot. I went with Illinois State because of the lack of established returning scorers . I think they still have talent, but generally the league rewards rosters with experienced quality over young talent. Muller's done a nice job, but his progress has been tied to the progress of a group of kids who grew up together in his program and have now departed for the most part. Won't surprise me if they do better than this, and suspect they will be playing with any of the other teams by MVC tourney time, but think it may take a bit to get there.


I went with Northern Iowa here. Lost their leader in 5 statistical categories and the last time I checked, a coach does not play the games.

If Koch can play more than 20 minutes per game (his average last season) and Carlson can vastly improve from his slump 2016-2017 campaign, then they will finish higher than this, but no Morgan from a rather shi**y team last year, I don't see them getting much better. without Morgan and Ashton.
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby ACECARD » October 11th, 2017, 11:45 am

You could pick any of the five, and say that they could finish higher than that. I took Southern because I can't see NIU finishing fifth because of their defense, and I just think the other three are better.
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby uniftw » October 11th, 2017, 11:53 am

Oh, the Huskies joined the conference?
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby pafan » October 11th, 2017, 1:03 pm

uniftw wrote:Oh, the Huskies joined the conference?


Please, Doug, make this happen.
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby Jsnhbe1Birds » October 11th, 2017, 2:24 pm

pafan wrote:
uniftw wrote:Oh, the Huskies joined the conference?


Please, Doug, make this happen.


Well that's a guaranteed two wins for at least 7 teams in the league.
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby BCPanther » October 11th, 2017, 3:32 pm

I went SIU. I just think they're really going to miss Rodriguez and O'Brien.

Could definitely finish higher if the new guys gel quickly.
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby pafan » October 12th, 2017, 7:21 am

Jsnhbe1Birds wrote:
Well that's a guaranteed two wins for at least 7 teams in the league.


Two wins for Evansville this season would be worth it. Got to offset the trip to Cameron Indoor... :dance:
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Re: Official 2017-18 MVCfans.com Prediction - 5th Place

Postby ACECARD » October 12th, 2017, 10:03 am

pafan wrote:
Jsnhbe1Birds wrote:
Well that's a guaranteed two wins for at least 7 teams in the league.


Two wins for Evansville this season would be worth it. Got to offset the trip to Cameron Indoor... :dance:

Pa, I doubt he was including the Aces in his 7. ;)
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