Even without Wichita State, the Missouri Valley Conference has plenty of schools in it that have proven rather recently very capable of being very, very good. The conference needs some of them to be again.
Tag: Southern Illinois
Hinson in form after Southern Illinois toughs out win over Loyola
Goober. Pentecostal tent revival. Brad Pitt. A coach chest-bumping his players. These are just a few of the terms and topics covered after Barry Hinson’s fourth-seeded Southern Illinois Salukis picked up a hard-earned 55-50 win over No. 5 seed Loyola (Ill.) in the quarterfinals of the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament,
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 4, 2017
One Big 12 team earned a signature win Tuesday night, the kind that may well be a golden ticket right into the NCAA Tournament in March. Another Big 12 team had a chance to do the exact same thing-and missed in excuciating fashion. Texas Tech and Kansas State are two of […]
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Tuesday was one of the busier days of the college basketball season, but certainly its longest one with games filling literally almost every minute of the 24 hours.
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 4, 2016
As we’ve steadfastly pointed out in the past (and probably will again sometime before the season starts), the college basketball season starts too early, and the sport really has a poorly planned way to start the year, opening with a host of guarantee games in what is still the heart […]
2015-16 MVC Post-Mortem
The end of the 2015-16 season marked the end of an era in the Missouri Valley Conference, and that’s saying something in a 109-year old conference where names like Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird, Wes Unseld and Ed McCauley grace the list of former stars.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 10, 2016
In an ultracompetitive league where four teams finished tied for fourth place, third through eighth were separated by three games and no less than six teams had winning streaks of at least five games in conference play, it’s the team that went 0-9 on the road in conference play and finished ninth overall that is the tournament champion.
Despite Arch Madness loss, Southern Illinois “is back” behind always-entertaining Hinson
Southern Illinois coach Barry Hinson: “I don’t mind saying this. I’ll say this proudly. Saluki basketball is back. We’re back. We’re back. Period. And I’m proud to say that.”
Arch Madness-tested Northern Iowa cool, collected in holding off Salukis
Wichita State has earned much of the recognition in the Missouri Valley Conference this year, and deservedly so, but let it not be forgotten that Northern Iowa is the defending champion of Arch Madness. And there are plenty of veterans still around from that team who know how to get the job done again.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 29, 2016
North and south, east and west, there were high-level games and fantastic finishes last night. We’ve still got more than a month yet until we get to March-including a Leap Year day-but it felt like a snapshot from the greatest basketball month of the year.
