MVC MEN’S BASKETBALL MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE UPDATE MVC Contact: Mike Kern, Associate Commissioner Office: 314.444.4326 • Cell: 314.435.4779 • Email: [email protected] 1818 Chouteau Ave. • St. Louis, MO 63103 WWW.MVC-SPORTS.COM 2018-19 Standings (thru Dec. 25) Non-Conf: 69-55 Missouri Valley Overall Records W L Pct. PF PA W L Pct. PF PA H A N L10 t25 Stk. N.E.T. Drake 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 10 2 .833 80.2 72.8 5-0 2-1 3-1 9-1 0-0 W4 100 Indiana State 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 8 4 .667 73.8 72.1 4-1 2-2 2-1 7-3 0-0 L1 112 Bradley 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 8 5 .615 71.2 67.9 5-2 1-3 2-0 5-5 0-0 W1 190 Illinois State 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 7 6 .538 75.5 77.7 5-2 0-3 2-1 5-5 0-0 L1 200 Southern Illinois 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 7 6 .538 70.0 68.6 3-3 3-2 1-1 6-4 0-3 L3 127 Loyola Chicago 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 7 6 .538 67.8 60.7 5-3 1-1 1-2 5-5 0-2 L1 122 Evansville 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 6 6 .500 75.4 74.5 6-1 0-5 0-0 6-4 0-0 W1 173 Valparaiso 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 6 6 .500 72.4 70.6 3-2 2-2 1-2 5-5 0-0 L2 210 Missouri State 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 5 7 .417 75.2 77.1 5-0 0-5 0-2 3-7 0-1 W1 229 Northern Iowa 0 0 .000 0.0 0.0 5 7 .417 66.6 70.4 3-1 0-3 2-3 4-6 0-1 W1 249 MVC Home Games: 0-0 Non-Conf.: 69-55 (H: 44-15; A: 11-27; N: 14-13) vs. Top-25: 0-7 (Non-Conf.) Upcoming Schedule Recent Results Saturday, Dec. 29 Monday, Dec. 17 Purdue Northwest at Valparaiso ESPN3 Valparaiso, Ind. 1:00 p.m. Drake 79, SIU Edwardsville 66 McKendree at Drake ESPN3 Des Moines, Iowa 2:00 p.m. Ball State 77, Valparaiso 61 Stony Brook at UNI ESPN3 Cedar Falls, Iowa 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18 Sunday, Dec. 30 Georgia Southern 79, Bradley 74 (ot) Murray State 66, Evansville 64 Evansville at Miami (Ohio) ESPN+ Oxford, Ohio 12 p.m. Arkansas State 71, Missouri State 63 William Woods at Missouri State ESPN+ Springfield, Mo. 5:00 p.m. Loyola 75, Benedictine 47 Wednesday, Jan. 2 Wednesday, Dec. 19 *Drake at Evansville ESPN+ Evansville, Ind. 6:00 p.m. Drake 76, Rider 58 *UNI at Bradley ESPN+ Peoria, Ill. 7:00 p.m. Grand Canyon 73, UNI 62 *Missouri State at Southern Illinois ESPN+ Carbondale, Ill. 7:00 p.m. Texas A&M 71, Valparaiso 49 *Illinois State at Valparaiso ESPN+ Valparaiso, Ind. 7:00 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21 *Indiana State at Loyola MVC TV / ESPN+ Chicago, Ill. 8:00 p.m. UCF 77, Illinois State 56 Saturday, Jan. 5 Saturday, Dec. 22 *Bradley at Indiana State ESPN3 Terre Haute, Ind. 1:00 p.m. Missouri State 93, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 72 *Valparaiso at Missouri State KOZL TV / ESPN3 Springfield, Mo. 1:00 p.m. UNI 64, North Dakota 62 *Loyola at Drake Mediacom / ESPN+ Des Moines, Iowa 2:00 p.m. Bradley 73, Southeastern Louisiana 60 *Evansville at Illinois State MVC TV / ESPN3 Normal, Ill. 3:00 p.m. Indiana State 72, Colorado 67 *Southern Illinois at UNI PSN / ESPN+ Cedar Falls, Iowa 7:00 p.m. Winthrop 79, Southern Illinois 71 Evansville 80, Green Bay 75 Tuesday, Jan. 8 St. Joseph’s 45, Loyola 42 *Missouri State at Indiana State ESPN3 Terre Haute, Ind. 6:00 p.m. Drake 66, New Mexico State 63 *UNI at Illinois State NBCSN / ESPN+ Normal, Ill. 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23 *Loyola at Evansville CBS Sports Network Evansville, Ind. 7:00 p.m. Indiana State 84, UNLV 79 *Southern Illinois at Drake Mediacom / ESPN+ Des Moines, Iowa 7:00 p.m. Drake 110, San Diego 103 (2ot) *Bradley at Valparaiso ESPN+ Valparaiso, Ind. 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 25 *denotes MVC game; times are Central TCU 83, Indiana State 69 MVC BASKETBALL DECEMBER 26, 2018 PAGE 2 Tough Schedules Non-League Slate Closing MVC Player of the Week In 2018-19, MVC men’s basketball By Sunday, Dec. 30, the league will Jordan Barnes had 20 games against Power opponents have closed out its non-conference reg- (the five FBS leagues and the Big East). ular-season slate. There are five games Indiana State The league also plays 49 games against remaining vs. non-league teams, and the 5-11, 152, Jr., Gd. top opponents from non-Power leagues MVC is currently 14 games over .500. St. Louis (Mo.) (teams picked 1-4 in their conference’s MVC schools, collectively, have a favor- Christian Brothers pre-season rankings). able finish to the non-league slate with Barnes was named to the Only 10 of the league’s total 55 non- four home games and one road game left. Diamond Head Classic all- Remaining Non-Conf H A N league losses have not been to either tournament team for leading a Power conference team or a team not Drake (1) 1 0 0 the Sycamores to a 2-1 record and a second picked in the top four of their pre-season Evansville (1) 0 1 0 place finish in the event – the program’s best conference polls. The MVC has 22 total Missouri State (1) 1 0 0 finish in a non-conference tournament since wins against that collection of foes. UNI (1) 1 0 0 winning the 1999 Indiana Classic. Barnes Valparaiso (1) 1 0 0 averaged 20.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.7 Team Rank Rec. Bradley (0) -- finished 8-5 non-league assists over the stretch. He hit 51.2 percent Illinois (Big Ten) 0-1 Illinois State (0) -- finished 7-6 non-league of his shots, including a 9-of-18 mark from Kentucky (SEC) 0-1 Indiana State (0) -- finished 8-4 non-league distance. He was a perfect 10-of-10 at the Xavier (Big East) 0-1 Loyola (0) -- finished 7-6 non-league free throw line and has now made 26 consec- Colorado (Pac 12) 0-1 Southern Illinois (0) -- finished 7-6 non-league utive free throws. His best game was against Wake Forest (ACC) 0-1 TOTAL (5) 4 1 0 Las Vegas when he scored 28 points on the Nebraska (Big Ten) 0-1 strength of an 11-of-15 shooting performance Georgia (SEC) 0-1 to go with three rebounds, five assists and USC (Pac-12) 0-1 Spreading the Wealth a steal. He added 19 points in the win over Boston College (ACC) 0-1 Penn State (Big Ten) 1-0 Bradley currently features five players Colorado and tallied a team-high 14 points West Virginia (Big 12) 0-1 averaging at least nine points a game – and six rebounds with three assists against Oregon State (Pac 12) 0-1 Darrell Brown (15.1), Elijah Childs (12.7), Top 50 opponent TCU. Maryland (Big Ten) 0-1 Nate Kennell (9.7), Koch Bar (9.6) and Ole Miss (SEC) 0-1 Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye (9.6). Bradley MVC Newcomer of the Week Iowa State (Big 12) 0-1 has not featured five players averaging at TCU (Big 12) 0-2 Nick Norton Iowa (Big Ten) 0-1 least nine points since 1969-70. Notably, Texas A&M (SEC) 1-1 Southern Illinois is the only league school Drake vs. Power Leagues (TOTAL) 2-18 that has five players with double-figure 5-10, 170, Sr., Gd. Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun) 2nd 1-0 scoring averages, and Valpo joins SIU and Bloomington (Ill.) Ball State (Mid-American) 2nd-W 1-4 Bradley as teams with five players averag- Central Catholic High Furman (SoCon) 4th 0-1 ing nine points or more per game. [UAB] Belmont (OVC) 1st 0-1 No. of Players Scoring 9.0 PPG or more Buffalo (MAC) 1st 0-2 Norton was named the Jacksonville State (OVC) 3rd 1-1 Bradley (5) | Leader: Darrell Brown (15.1) Continental Tire Las Vegas Western Kentucky (C-USA) 1st 2-1 S. Illinois (5) | Leader: Armon Fletcher (13.5) Classic MVP in leading the Bulldogs to the Grambling (SWAC) 1st 1-0 Valpo (5) | Leader: Derrik Smits (12.9) tournament title with a pair of dramatic wins Penn (Ivy) 2nd 0-1 Drake (4) | Leader: Nick McGlynn (16.1) UIC (Horizon) 3rd 1-2 Evansville (4) | Leader: K.J. Riley (13.4) over New Mexico State and San Diego … in Arkansas-Pine Bluff (SWAC) 3rd 1-0 Illinois St. (4) | Leader: Milik Yarbrough (17.3) the title game against San Diego, he scored Texas Southern (SWAC) 2nd 1-0 Loyola (3) | Leader: Clayton Custer (13.8) a career-high 31 points with seven assists, Old Dominion (C-USA) 3rd 1-1 Missouri St. (3) | Leader: Tulio Da Silva (16.8) five three-pointers and a 10-of-10 showing Howard (MEAC) 4th 1-0 Indiana St. (2) | Leader: Jordan Barnes (20.8) from the free-throw line … twenty one of his Boise State (Mountain West) 4th 2-0 UNI (2) | Leader: AJ Green (15.1) 31 points came in the overtime period and Murray State (OVC) 2nd 0-3 14 in the second overtime period alone in Nevada (MW) 1st 0-1 which he scored 14 of the team’s 17 points BYU (West Coast) 3rd 1-0 Drake: Best Start Since 2008 to defeat USD … was 8-of-8 from the free- Wright State (Horizon) 1st 1-0 throw line during that second overtime and San Diego State (Mountain West) 2nd 0-1 Drake’s 10-2 start to the season is the 2-of-3 from the three-point arc … in the earlier New Mexico (Mountain West) 3rd 0-1 program’s best start since the 2007-08 South Dakota State (Summit) 1st 0-1 game against New Mexico State, he had six North Texas (C-USA) 4th 0-1 season, when the team started 22-1.