Valley Media Day and Fall Signing period coming up

Media Day -- here's the full MVC release of the polling for conference finish and preseason All Conference teams...
http://www.mvc-sports.com//pdf8/718978.pdf

Here's how the MVC finish is predicted......
MVC Men’s Basketball
Preseason Poll
School (First-Place Votes) Total
1. Wichita State (33)........382
2. Missouri State (1)........313
3. UNI (3)...................289
4. Creighton ................282
5. Bradley (2)...............264
6. Illinois State............165
7. Indiana State.............136
8. Drake.....................121
9. Southern Illinois.........120
10. Evansville................73


I find it quite interesting that Bradley still got two 1st place votes, and if we ended up in 5th place overall in the vote tally, that surely means then that some voters must have even picked BU lower than 5th -- so no team seems to be all over as much as Bradley in the eyes of those who voted (which include the head coach, Sports Information Director, play-by-play radio guy, and press beat reporter from each Valley team.)
But since only 39 1st place votes are tallied, then obviously one of those 40 potential voters did not submit their ballot.

Whoever wrote the text of the release definitely did not proof read it...as it says right away that "UNI earned 382 out of a possible 390 points", but obviously they mean Wichita State.
Also -- there are quite a few other errors...
"That trio all averaged better than 31 points per game for coach Jim Les and combined
to average 41.0 points"
"Greg Lansing takes over as head coach after spending the last eight seasons as an assistant under Kevin McKenna."



2010-11 MVC Preseason All-Conference Team
Name, School, Pos., Ht., Wt., Year, Hometown, High School
Kwadzo Ahelegbe, UNI, G, 6-2, 213, Sr., Oakdale (Minn.) Tartan High
Kenny Lawson Jr., Creighton, C, 6-9, 250, Sr., Oceanside (Calif.) Vista High
Sam Maniscalco, Bradley, G, 6-0, 175, Sr., Chicago (Ill.) St. Patrick High
Toure’ Murry, Wichita State, G, 6-5, 197, Jr., Houston (Texas) Klein Forest High
Kyle Weems, Missouri State, F, 6-6, 232, Jr., Topeka (Kan.) Highland Park High

Honorable Mention: Taylor Brown, Bradley; J.T. Durley, Wichita State; Adam Leonard, Missouri
State; Colt Ryan, Evansville; Seth VanDeest, Drake; Andrew Warren, Bradley.
Preseason Player of the Year -- Kenny Lawson Jr., Creighton

Here's their track record......
"Pollsters have accurately predicted the league’s regular-season champ only 12 times out of 26 since 1985-86" -- but two of those early years, 1985-86, 1987-88, and 1995-96 were made easy by Jim Les, Hersey Hawkins, AP, and the rest of the Braves!




The fall signing period for schools to obtain signed Letters of Intent begins Wednesday morning, November 10, just two weeks away..

Here's a list of who each Valley school might be expecting letters from...
If I have left anyone off, PM me...

Bradley - Donivine Stewart, Remy Abell, Sean Harris
Creighton - Austin Chatman, Geoffrey Groselle, Avery Dingman, Nevin Johnson
Drake - Jud Welfringer
Evansville - Dutin Clements, Rokas Cesnulevicius, Ryan Sawville
Ill. State - Nic Moore, Johnny Hill, Nick Zeisloft
Ind. State - Devonte Brown, Justin Gant
Missouri State - Andrew Wilson, Christian Kirk, Dorrian Williams
UNI - Matt Bohannon, Marvin Singleton, Seth Tuttle, Jevon Lyle, Deon Mitchell
SIU - Antonio Bryer, Will Whitt, Dantiel Daniels, Trey Setty
Wichita State - Tekele Cotton, Jake White, Evan Wessel



Here's an interview with ex-Bradley assistant coach Tony Barone...not much about college basketball..
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/151466747



Yet another of the almost infinite reports detailing how much most state schools' athletic programs and facilities are being funded by general funds, taxpayer and state funds, and all kinds of other sources, even foundation giving that represents monies people gave in good faith thinking their money was being used for academics and student benefits...
so -- please, let's not use the haggard old lie that athletic departments and facilities are self-supported or paid for by private funds!!
the ISU folks seem to recite this mantra in their sleep and appear to actually believe it!!
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20101024/NEWS01/10240386/Athletics-funding-a-question-of-priorities%3Cbr

This article is just one of at least 20-30 that have shown recently that those claims of self-funding are lies..
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15677
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15815
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11994
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16392
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16341