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Ah for some reason I had that mixed in my brain.

UWM has attendance issues in their own stadium and their games have been televised locally for many years before HL net was around. So there goes that theory.

That's BS.  They don't televise their entire season's worth of home games.  They only televised a handful of them.  That is actually a good business practice.  Give potential fans a taste of your product hoping to turn them into future paying customers.  It's a model that has made Netflix billions.  They give you a month free to try their service before they start to charge you.  It's a sound business practice taught to any first year business student.  It's a shame the idiots that run the HL think that giving away the entire product is going to somehow do the same thing.

I've lived in Milwaukee for over 20 years. I can promise you, people that aren't going to UWM games aren't watching the games on their laptop. UWM is completely irrelevant in Milwaukee and most of their students don't even know they have a D1 team. Saying the attendance at UWM is low because of laptop streaming has no basis in reality.

They also played off campus for a long time.  They are now going back to their on campus stadium and should see an increase in their attendance.

I did this last year and I did it again.  If you want to add this to your calendar (Google, Iphonething and Outlook calendars) I have the Valpo schedule here: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/tcsv0ao2lh890uf6j2u3oqako4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

This will download a file onto your computer. If you don't want to do that here's a couple how-to's

Google Calendar: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/30834/add-an-ical-or-.ics-calendar-to-google-calendar/
Outlook Calendar: http://offices.depaul.edu/oaa/academic-calendar/Pages/how-to-add-ical-file-to-your-outlook.aspx

I just realized something... The conference opener is the same day as my 1 year wedding anniversary. Uh oh.

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This sucks, but I wouldn't mind getting an extra year of Lexus if he redshirts.

Also just as an FYI only UIC and Detroit have anything "official" for their non-con.

Here's the conference schedule

Any word on our buddy Jimmy's reaction to this news? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ironically 24 hours prior to the announcement he sent a Tweet to someone that knocked Julius Randle for not knowing what the word "attainment" was. Given 10 chances, Jordan Aaron could probably come up with 3.1 correctish definitions.

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Why didn't we get an email 3 days in advance that there would be an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT?

ARCInsider...what was your gif?  dying to know.

It's from Arrested Development

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/butler/2014/03/24/nolan-berry-transfer-butler/6840167/ Perhaps this is an option...

If only I had heard of that name before.....

6-10 Butler freshman Nolan Berry has announced that he will be transferring. Despite not playing much this year, IMO he has definite potential. I think he's the 5th Butler player to quit the team since the beginning of this season.

This is more for arguments sake, but what if Valpo had been able to help charter the MCC in the late 70's with Butler, Loyola, and Evansville instead of the Mid-Con in 1982?

Agreed but at the time we were a wreck still playing in Hilltop Gym in believe.  Some theorize that the original name Midwestern Cities Conference was chosen to make sure we were kept out.

Let me see if I can address your question, at least indirectly.  It's common knowledge (confirmed by BigD WSU) that Valpo declined an invitation to join the HL in 2001, after which the league invited YSU.

Well, if a guy from Wright State said it then it must be gospel. I am not sure it is common knowledge, not even sure it is true.

I refuse to believe a word of this until it's confirmed by a reputable source like Jimmy from PantherU.


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oh, excellent!  That's very helpful. Obviously, post-points are not our fault, because we schedule the teams for future games, not past, but it's helpful and interesting to see where it all ended up.

The A-10 knocks you if your schedule fell below the 1.8 threshold through the season, but probably less than they would if you start with a sub 1.8 schedule.

Valpo is not Missouri Synod anymore, if my memory serves me correct

Talks are ongoing for Valpo to move to the Missouri Synod and from what I hear, this is a done deal.

Wait...  I never said that! And how did you find my Halloween pictures?

Did I win?

I think I did. 

The BROWN award for LAST PLACE goes to Kyle321n, but don't worry, man, we won't tell the people at the mid-majority blog-type thing about this.  Probably.

My NCAA Bracket skills (Started off hitting on 26/32, have since lost 6/8 elite eight and 3/4 final four teams and my national championship), my prediction of these over-unders, my selection of KP3 as Preseason PotY and Green Bay to win the conference tourney (not only preseason, but also before the tourney)... I think I'm should stop making predictions.

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what's pre- and post-pts?

Based on the A10's scoring of out of conference schedule based on the RPI.  Each game gets a point and then you average your points.

8.04 The following requirements must be met by all Atlantic 10 men's basketball teams. The penalty for non-compliance is outlined in the Conference Constitution and Bylaws.

A. Each men's team must maintain a 1.8 average for all non-conference games schedules. The RPI at the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament of the preceding season will be used for the pre-season analysis and the current season's pre-NCAA tournament RPI will be used for post-season analysis. The point values are as follows:
Ranked 1-50 in the RPI: 4 points
Ranked 51-100 in the RPI: 3 points
Ranked 101-125 in the RPI: 2.5 points
Ranked 126-150 in the RPI: 2 points
Ranked 151-175 in the RPI: 1 point
Ranked 176-200 in the RPI: 0.5 point
Ranked 201+ in the RPI: 0 points

B. Any Atlantic 10 institution playing a non-conference game against an opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC PAC-10 or Big East will receive no less than 2 points, regardless of the team's RPI.

C. Any Atlantic 10 institution playing a non-conference game against an opponent from Conference USA or Mountain West will receive no less than 1 point, regardless of the team's RPI.


8.05 An institution is permitted to fall short of the 2.0 requirement for women and a 1.8 for men twice in a 3-year period without being subject to the financial penalty. This exception is contingent on the overall conference scheduling average to being above a 2.3. The conference average will be determined entering the start of the season. If, at that time, it falls below a 2.3, the average will be calculated once more at the end of the season. When the final average is calculated, it shall then be determined if institutions which fell below a 2.0 /1.8 are subject to the financial penalties. Effective with the 2003-04 season.

As you can see in our conference, we had 4 teams over the 1.8 threshold.  Valpo was able to start over 1.8, but fell short due to underachievement of our schedule.

Did I win?

I think I did. 

I'd like to petition to have the David Chadwick:  35% 3FG% thrown out since 2 for 5 isn't exactly telling

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Since SoS came up I figured I'd accumulate the post season OOC SoS's for the conference and run it through the A10's style of scoring the schedule.  I hope you guys enjoy the comparing of what the preseason (RPI was based off the 2013 RPI) led to vs. the post season actually ended up.

Team	Pre-RPI	Pre-Pts	Post-RPI	Post-Pts
Oakland	79.2	2.8	68.1	3.2
Green Bay	192.4	0.8	139.1	1.9
Cleveland State	164.0	1.4	142.5	1.9
Detroit	158.3	1.3	168.1	1.8
Valparaiso	132.3	2.0	166.2	1.4
Youngstown State	174.5	1.7	187.1	1.4
Illinois-Chicago	180.3	1.2	199.7	1.0
Wright State	232.0	0.5	227.3	0.7
Milwaukee	198.7	1.0	208.5	0.7

Morale of the story: Schedule a really tough schedule and you'll probably get a tough end of the season schedule.  Schedule a super easy schedule and you'll win the league.

I want the team to be successful and in a successful conference.  What determines succesfful conference?  1-2 bids where the conference winner doesn't always receive a 15-16.  A win in a the NCAA tournament from time to time. 

I also want the conference to have mostly private schools, good fan base, higher academic repuatation, and larger endowments. 

I don't like playing schools with state money, huge student population where most don't live on campus, lower academic rankings and small endowments. 

Besides location, what do we have in common with our conference foes? 

What's the alternative? This conference you describe doesn't exist.

He just described the Ivies to a T.  Well minus the multiple bids and tourney wins.

I didn't bet with my bracket for some reason and I'm perfect so far.  Get ready Warren!

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Place to discuss the NCAA Tournament.

This year I loaded up my Bovada account with $20 (plus the $7 I had leftover from the Super Bowl and random NCAA Bets). I'm going to put $1 on every game until my money runs out or the tournament is over.  Let's see how long it lasts! I'll try to update the OP as frequently as I bet. I put $1 on Wichita St. (10/1) and Oklahoma State (40/1) to win it all.  Now I have $25 to play the tournament.

First round bets + $3.67
Pittsburgh -7 (-105)
Ohio State -6 (-115)
Syracuse -13 (-110)
Harvard +3½  (-110)
Wisconsin -14½ (-105)
Oregon -6 (-105)
Florida -21½ (-110)
Mich St. -14½ (-110)
St Louis -3 (-115)
Oklahoma -3½ (-115)
Michigan -15½ (-105)
St. Joseph's +5 (-105)

some HL coaches are pushing this

well, admittedly, if i were coaching any one of a few of these teams, i'd know i was never going to host in my lifetime, and so rather than spend 3-4 out of every 5 years in valparaiso indiana...sure, i might look to get out of that.

You say that like UIC will make it past Tuesday.

While not sexy, I wouldn't mind Northern Kentucky.

Do we have to wait until Selection Sunday to find out when we play? It's certainly not helping ticket sales to not be able to sell tickets until we find out when we're playing. C'mon CIT, tell us at least when we play.