Game! Of! The! Night! Mar 05: Bradley vs. Southern Illinois

By Kyle Whelliston on March 5, 2006 3:05 AM |

What a fine mess the MVC tourney has become. Gone are the top seeds, and all the talking heads are having told-you-so field days with all the El Foldos going on. The Missouri Valley Conference is a bubble-busting bust, they say. Teams like Northern Iowa, despite their 23 wins, will have to sweat it out: even power-conference teams that lose six of eight rarely make it in. Well, it was a nice story for a month or so, right?

OK, enough with the traditional wisdom, backwards-ass punditry and ridiculous nonsense. What will be lost in all the Multi-Bid Madness that has enveloped the MVC this year are these simple facts: this is a murderous league from one-through-six; and these two teams, the Braves and Salukis, got hot at the right time and overcame a lot of late-season adversity to get to this game. The team that wins will be the champions of the toughest mid-major league in Hoops Nation; no matter what happens on Selection Sunday or in the NCAA's, you can bet that on this site - for the next 12 months - they will be afforded all the respect a National Champion deserves.

What We Do
Having recently completed its fourth season, The Mid-Majority is a blog about the 22 smaller Division I college basketball conferences (and independents) by me, Kyle Whelliston. I write for ESPN.com and Basketball Times, and maintain the Basketball State statistics website as well.

Here's a brief note on who we talk about, and why.

If you need to contact me for any reason, you can do so with this form. If you're looking for the stats, maps or budget data, it's all over here now.
Categories Season 2 (2005-06)
Tags



Search
Find Your Team
Yes, I've written about it.
Upset Club
Enter your e-mail address here and get instant notifications of mid-major upsets in your e-mail. More info here.

About This Entry

This page contains a single entry by Kyle Whelliston published on March 5, 2006 3:05 AM.

Game! Of! The! Night! Mar 04: Coastal Carolina at Winthrop was the previous entry in this blog.

MMBOD Mar 05: Randal Falker - Southern Illinois is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Kyle Whelliston Elsewhere
Linkroll
Feed
Subscribe to feed RSS

Powered by Movable Type 4.0