Valpo Opponents' Schedule & Results 2016-17

[VU2014]

Its been an impressive run the last few years.

https://twitter.com/anthonyf18/status/830171103280640002

[hailcrusaders]

The Tough and Great of Wright State knock off the Rising (Sinking) Phoenix 88-79.

[VU2014]

The Tough and Great of Wright State knock off the Rising (Sinking) Phoenix 88-79.

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[a3uge]

So many touch fouls.

Wish it was at least consistent from week to week. One game looks like hockey, and then the next is called like a parent shaperoning a 7th grade dance.

[talksalot]

Opening Saturday ...#73   0.5619   

Kentucky 67 Alabama 58 - push
Indiana State 84 Drake 60 - Finally... an OOC opponent wins
Utah Valley 87 Chicago State 54
Montana State 83 Southern Utah 78
Coppin State 76 Bethune Cookman 72

HL
Wright Lean Mean Fighting Machine 88 Green Bay Phizzling Phoenix 79
Northern Kentucky 69 Milwaukee 63
Cleveland State 66 UIC no baskets in last 5+ minutes 63 (made a few free throws)

and the RPI keeps on its trend...   #74   0.5619  as of 4:20pm...and as of 10:10pm, #74   0.5608, down another .0011 with the Ducks and the Broncos up big early and BYU just underway.

[talksalot]

and the RPI keeps on its trend...   
#74   0.5619  as of 4:20pm
#74   0.5608  as of 10:10pm
#74   0.5611  as of 10:55pm  BYU and Oregon yet to finish. Santa Clara's win gave us the .0003 points

[talksalot]

Opening Saturday ...#73   0.5619   

Kentucky 67 Alabama 58 - push
Indiana State 84 Drake 60 - Finally... an OOC opponent wins
Utah Valley 87 Chicago State 54
Montana State 83 Southern Utah 78
Coppin State 76 Bethune Cookman 72
Oregon 81 USC 70 - Moving the Duck's RPI to 7
BYU 68 San Francisco 52 - Moving the Cougars RPI to 88
Santa Clara 64 Pacific 47 - Moving the Broncos RPI to 130


HL
Wright Lean Mean Fighting Machine 88 Green Bay Phizzling Phoenix 79
DAYTON, Ohio -- Justin Mitchell had 14 points, 11 rebounds and a career-best 10 assists, and Wright State cruised in the second half for an 88-79 victory over Green Bay on Saturday night.  It was the third triple-double in program history for Wright State (17-9, 8-5 Horizon League).

Northern Kentucky 69 Milwaukee 63
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. -- Lavone Holland II had 21 points, four assists and four steals, and Northern Kentucky used a big second-half run to beat Milwaukee 69-63 on Saturday.  Jeremiah Bell gave Milwaukee a 54-41 lead with 8:30 to go but Northern Kentucky went on a 27-4 run to take a 68-58 lead. Holland scored 14 points during the run in which six different NKU players scored.  Bell had a basket at the six-minute mark and UWM didn't score again until Cody Wichmann's 3 with 23 seconds left.

Cleveland State 66 UIC 63 (Flames had no field goals in last, 5:54  made a few free throws)


and the RPI keeps on its trend...   
#74   0.5619  as of 4:20pm
#74   0.5608  as of 10:10pm
#74   0.5611  as of 10:55pm
#73   0.5617  as of 7:45am

[talksalot]

so we open Sunday #73   0.5617

saved by the west coasters coming through

Sunday's Schedule:
Northern Iowa at Missouri State 4pm on ESPN3

Monday's Schedule:
Delaware State at Coppin State

Tuesday's Schedule:
Tennessee at Kentucky
Ball State at Northern Illinois

Wednesday's Schedule:
Fordham at Rhode Island
Indiana State at Loyola
Alabama at Missouri
Illinois State at Missouri State

Thursday's Schedule:
[North Florida at Lipscomb as Dallas Moore looks add to his career points lead over AP, 6pm ESPN3]
Northern Kentucky at Cleveland State
Wright State at Youngstown State
Utah at Oregon (ESPN)
Pepperdine at Santa Clara
San Diego at BYU  (ESPNU)

Friday's Schedule:
UIC at Detroit
Valpo at Oakland 6pm, ESPN2

[talksalot]

so we open Sunday #73   0.5617

Sunday's Schedule:
Northern Iowa 55 Missouri State 52 Thank you Bears... for nothing.

So we open Monday:   #76 0.5611

Monday's Schedule:
Coppin State 83 Delaware State 75

So we end Monday:  #73   0.5617 Thank you Eagles!

(Baylor goes down by 6 at Texas Tech)
(Kansas comes from 14 down with 2:45 to play to beat Huggy in OT)

[talksalot]

We open Tuesday:  #73   0.5617

Tuesday's Schedule:
Kentucky 83 Tennessee 58 sweet revenge
Ball State 81 Northern Illinois 72

making for a nice jump:  #69 0.5620 yet only a gain of .0003

OOC OPP helped us here... and the chance at a 4-game sweep on Wednesday would be nice.

[talksalot]

making for a nice jump:  #69 0.5620 yet only a gain of .0003

OOC OPP helped us here... and the chance at a 4-game sweep on Wednesday would be nice.

Well, it's amazing what can happen when I actually think a 4-game sweep is possible...This is why I don't go to casinos.


Wednesday's Schedule:
Fordham at Rhode Island - Rhody scores 21 in the first half and 22 in the second half...Jovantae Hawkins scored 20 points and added nine rebounds and Fordham earned a 53-43 win

Indiana State at Loyola - Syc's score 20 in the first half and 26 in the second half...Leading 24-20 at the half, the Ramblers made 6 of 10 3-pointers and shot 56 percent (14 of 25) in the second half.

Alabama at Missouri - Tide STOLE this one...With just under five minutes remaining, the ball appeared to go out of bounds off Ingram, but was ruled last touched by Missouri, inciting boos from the home crowd. Following that call, Alabama hit back-to-back 3-pointers on the ensuing possessions and never surrendered the lead.  Ref BLEW that call big time.  57-54 Tide.

Illinois State at Missouri State - Bears hold Illinois state scoreless over the last 1:50 of the game, but could only score 4 themselves, losing 67-66

so... the OOC OPP go 1-3, and got lucky to get that 1...

Valpo Opens play on Thursday:   #70   0.5610... dropping .0010 and one place in the rankings.


Thursday Action:... be fun if all of the Home Teams won.

Northern Kentucky at Cleveland State 6:45pm - Nolan line has the Vikings favored by 1
Wright State at Youngstown State 6:45pm - Nolan line has the Raiders favored by 5
Utah at Oregon 8pm ESPN - Nolan line has the Ducks favored by 9.5
Pepperdine at Santa Clara 9pm - Nolan line has the Broncos favored by 9
San Diego at BYU 10pm ESPNU - Nolan line has the Cougars favored by 16.5

and you can track the Dallas Moore point total ... going into the weekend, Moore is 1 point ahead of Alec for the career total points lead...

North Florida Ospreys at Lipscomb at 6:30 on E3

[talksalot]

Moore had 39 tonight for North Florida.  Saw a note that last month he scored 23 points in 4:14 !   He's now ahead of AP by 40 for career points.

[talksalot]

Valpo Opened play on Thursday:   #70   0.5610. so the first two games, went to the visitors... (Nice trend in the HL)

Northern Kentucky at Cleveland State - Nolan line has the Vikings favored by 1 - Drew McDonald scored Northern Kentucky's final 11 points and finished with 13 points and 13 rebounds in a 62-60 win over Cleveland State on Thursday night.

Wright State at Youngstown State 6:45pm - Nolan line has the Raiders favored by 5 -  Mark Alstork scored 33 points, including two pivotal free throws in the final 30 seconds, and
Wright State held off Youngstown State 84-81 on Thursday night.

and the home teams help us out on the coast Thursday night

Utah at Oregon 8pm ESPN - Nolan line has the Ducks favored by 9.5 - Dillon Brooks scored 20 points and No. 7 Oregon defeated shorthanded Utah 79-61 on Thursday night to extend the Ducks' home winning streak to 41 games.

Pepperdine at Santa Clara 9pm - Nolan line has the Broncos favored by 9...Nate Kratch had a career-high 32 points on 13-of-16 shooting and Santa Clara set a school record with 22 3-pointers to beat Pepperdine 106-55 on Thursday night.

San Diego at BYU 10pm ESPNU - Nolan line has the Cougars favored by 16.5 -  Nick Emery scored 26 points, four other players scored in double figures and BYU defeated San Diego 82-70 on Thursday night.

the RPI winds up Thursday night #72   0.5612... dropping two places in the rankings and dropping 2/10,000ths of a point

Friday Games:

UIC at Detroit, 6pm on E3, a Pick-em game with a very high over/under at 169
Valpo at Oakland, 6pm on E2, Vegas has the Grizz favored by 1.5 (up from 1 earlier this morning) with an OU of 147

no OOC OPP playing tonight...

[talksalot]

What's our worst loss?

Oakland 140
Green Bay 137
Santa Clara 131
Kentucky 10
Oregon 6

What's our best win?

Rhode Island 61
Alabama 69
BYU 88
Wright State 119
Northern Kentucky 124

we have jumped up to being 14-0 against 200-and-worse ranked teams; with two more to play.

[talksalot]

so, I've been off-line since Friday... The "Lines" listed below are from the Warren Nolan site...

Sunday Scores:

Grizzzzzz  87 UIC 75
SIU 74  Indiana State 68

Leaving Valpo with the RPI of #72 ~~ 0.5599

Monday's Games:
Savannah State favored at home by 13 over Coppin State

Tuesday's Games:
LaSalle favored at home by 1 over Rhode Island
Ball State favored at home by 7 over Eastern Michigan
Detroit-Mercy favored at home by 4 over Cleveland State
Northern Kentucky favored at home by 9 over Wright State
Oakland favored at home by 21 over Youngstown State
UIC Favored at home by 5 over Green Bay (Really?)
[Valpo favored by 21 over UWM)
Kentucky favored by 12 at Missouri

Wednesday's games
Indiana State favored at home by 7 over Northern Iowa
Missouri State favored on the road by 1 over Bradley
California is favored at home by 1 over Oregon

Thursday
Alabama favored by 8 at home over Georgia
Portland State favored by 19 at home over Southern Utah
Grand Canyon favored by 26 at home over Chicago State
BYU favored by 11.5 at home over Portland
Santa Clara favored by 15 at home over Pacific
(North Florida favored by 5 at home over Jacksonville - Dallas Moore's last reg-season game)

Friday
Green Bay favored by 3 at home over Oakland
Northern Kentucky favored by 12 at home over UIC
Wright State favored by 3 at home over Valpo
Milwaukee favored by 2 at home over Detroit-Mercy

[talksalot]

What's our worst loss? - Updated

Santa Clara 149
Green Bay 133
Oakland 121
Kentucky 9
Oregon 7

What's our best win?

Rhode Island 51
Alabama 74
BYU 94
Wright State 117
Northern Kentucky 129

we have jumped up to being 14-0 against 200-and-worse ranked teams; with two more to play.... we stayed there after beating UDM, because Ball State climbed to #194

[talksalot]

Opening Monday,  the RPI  #72 ~~ 0.5599

Monday's Games:
Savannah State favored at home by 13 over Coppin State - Not so much.  In OT, Coppin State 84-83.

Causing the RPI to climb to #71  ~~0.5605

[talksalot]

Opening Tuesday at #71  ~~0.5605

Tuesday's Games:
Rhode Island 67 LaSalle 56  (upset)
Ball State 79 Eastern Michigan 72 (right on the spreadline)
Detroit-Mercy 91 Cleveland State 83
Northern Kentucky 83  Wright State 76
Oakland 101 Youngstown State 72
Green Bay 87 UIC 79 
Kentucky 72 Missouri 62

so... all of the OOC OPP came out with a win.. Valpo won, taking the home winning streak to 8.  We've played all of the HL teams twice except the two teams playing each other tonight, WSU / NKY

and the RPI ...FALLS... Nothing like playing a team ranked #269 to make that happen.

#72  ~~ 0.5590  down .0015

[talksalot]

Opening Wednesday...#72  ~~ 0.5590

Wednesday's games
Indiana State 69 Northern Iowa 59
Bradley 77 Missouri State 68
Oregon 68 Brooks for 3! California 65

the OOC OPP go 2-1 on the evening... and it looks like the four games for the OOC OPP on Thursday will result in a 3-2 split...

the Ending Wednesday night..  #72   0.5592; up a whopping .0002

[talksalot]

Thursday opening:   #72   0.5592

Georgia 60 Alabama 55
Portland State 93 Southern Utah 86
Grand Canyon 82 Chicago State 59
BYU 97 Portland 78
Santa Clara 69 Pacific 68

so, the OOC OPP go 2-3 on the night with Oakland's-Mediocre-SEC team beating our-Mediocre-SEC team for a nice road win.

when it's all done... Valpo's Thursday closing RPI... #71  ~~0.5590... down .0002 but up one ranking level.

No OOC OPP games on Friday...

[VUOR63]

BYU-Zags is a good game right now.  Under 8, BYU up 1.

[VUOR63]

Gonzaga fans chanting NIT as BYU celebrates the big win.  Lol.  Not sure how RPIs work but I have to think this can't hurt Valpo's.

[oklahomamick]

so this makes us #1 since we beat byu. 

Don't forget that rhode island beat Vcu.  That should help as well.

[VU2014]

Holy cow. Wright State ran UIC out of the building 87-49. jeez have some pride. Leaving Dayton with their tail between their legs.

UIC has a had tough season losing Dixson but any other coach with that amount of talent on that roster would be having much more success if they weren't coached by McClain. He's a prolific recruiter but not a great coach.

[VULB#62]

Makes what we did w/o AP that much sweeter.