Valpo Opponents' Schedule & Results 2016-17

[talksalot]

Valpo's OOC RPIs this morning...

Southern Utah - 348
Coppin State  - 321
Oregon - 21
Alabama - 114
BYU - 150
Ball State - 267
Rhode Island - 44
Kentucky - 9
Missouri State - 194
Indiana State -  124
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Santa Clara - 322
Chicago State - 260
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and the Horizon League
Wright State 134
Northern Kentucky 136
Green Bay 157
Cleveland State 200
Oakland 221
Youngstown State 238
UIC 253
Milwaukee 279
Detroit 312

If you missed it, Grizz lost to Sparty 77-65; and now await Georgia on Friday Night at the ORena.

[SanityLost17]

If you missed it, Grizz lost to Sparty 77-65; and now await Georgia on Friday Night at the ORena.

I watched the 2nd half of Oakland's last 2 games.   They are talented, for sure.  However, I don't think I have ever seen a team with worse shot selection.  If they had some discipline they could have won both of their last two games.  Against Northeastern they shot so many 3's from 5 feet behind the line or on the move without their feet set.  It was crazy. 

[M]

How about Oregon?!

[ValpoDad89]

while UCLA losing to Oregon hurts KY's rating a little, I think it helps us more in that we played at Oregon.

In other news, DePaul lost by 3 to Nova. Why should we care? DePaul played UIC...and
Lost...DePaul blew out Chicago State...and beat Mo. state at home barely and then lost to them on. A neutral court by a bunch. So a split. A gsme like this helps their RPI which helps their opponents as well.

[bbtds]

Chicago State lost by only 4 to Northwestern. Try to figure that one out.

[ValpoDad89]

And speaking of MO State, they beat UNI in Waterloo 68-64 tonight. Nice con Road win!!! This stuff isn't going to improve us dramatically but helps at the end of the day. Without hope what the hell do we have???

[talksalot]

and our RPI fell only 12 points.  Playing #252 Chi-State; and we have #254 UIC on Friday.  ..

Other OOC games:

Oregon 89 UCLA 87
Wichita State 80 Indiana State 72
Missouri State 68 Northern Iowa 64

(Nebraska beat IU)...

[talksalot]

If you need something else to fee! Better about, Oregon 84 undefeated Southern Cal 61... that's 23 points... they beat us by 22.  just sayin'

Ducks first team since 2004 to beat back-to-back teams that were 10-0 or better.   (they beat UCLA on Wednesday)...

Duck RPI jumped to #11.

BTW, did you notice that BYU beat Santa Clara by 30 on the 29th?

[vu72]

Just watched Rhode Island drill St. Joes by 30.  The very knowledgeable announcer, in talking about Rhodys early season tough losses, said that very few understand how difficult it is to win on the road at ValparIso!!   

[talksalot]

and that Rhody game was slightly off-set by the 100-90 loss Ball State suffered at Kent State....  but out RPI did climb from 58 to 57 when that was posted.

Be a nice win if Bama can hold their 12-point half-time lead at Mississippi State (9-3).  Not holding my breath.
and BBN is playing their first home game since Valpo... and is dismantling Texas A&M 28-8 at the under 8 media time out.


Wednesday action:

South Carolina State at Coppin State - Eagles Giving 1
Indiana State at Southern Illinois - Salukis giving 1
Oregon at Washington - Ducks Giving 8
Missouri State at Illinois State - Redbirds giving 9 (seems like a lot to me)

and fun ones to watch...
Nova at Hinkle... cats are 1.5 point favorites... on FoxSports1 5:30pm CT
Auburn at Vandy...'commodores are 5-pt favs....on SEC Network at 6pm CT
Iowa State at Baylor...Bears at 7.5 pt favs... on ESPNNews at 7pm CT

[talksalot]

and it took 'bama 8:15 to lose the 12-point half-time lead... tied at 42. 

[vu72]

Bama wins by 10 on the road and Kentucky?  Currently beating Texas A & M by nearly 40.  A & M is no slough, with have a half dozen top 100 players and the Texas Mr. Basketball on the squad. I think our loss will not be a big detriment by the end of the season.

[justducky]

With their 42 point loss at Kentucky, Texas A & M has its RPI drop from 108 to 95.  Nothing succeeds like failure. 

I was beginning to wonder if BYU and Alabama were ever going to raise their RPIs to respectable levels. Finally! BYU 111 and Alabama at 88. Both should show some additional improvements.

[talksalot]

and with those two wins (bama and bbn); valpo's RPI goes from 56 to 55 (raw number .5822 to .5843)... a couple of road wins tonight in the MVC would also be nice for our number.

[talksalot]

and fun ones to watch...
Nova at Hinkle... cats are 1.5 point favorites... on FoxSports1 5:30pm CT   ButFutler beat Nova 66-58
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Andy Katz tweet:   ESPN Senior Writer
Can't say it enough: Big East hit a home run with additions of Butler, Xavier and Creighton. Winners. Atmosphere.
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Auburn at Vandy...'commodores are 5-pt favs....on SEC Network at 6pm CT   Vandy skinned the tigers 80-61
Iowa State at Baylor...Bears at 7.5 pt favs... on ESPNNews at 7pm CT          Bears up 1, just starting second half.


and after the first round of finals... Valpos numerical RPI fell:  .5842 all the way to .5841

[justducky]

Missouri State at Illinois State - Redbirds giving 9 (seems like a lot to me)

Missouri St with a 2 point halftime lead on CSN. As poorly as they played against us, I am having some difficulty understanding their recent success. AND this game is at #39 Redbird Arena.

[talksalot]

Wednesday action:

South Carolina State at Coppin State - Eagles Giving 1 - Break up the Eagles!  75-59 win for Coppin State.
Indiana State at Southern Illinois - Salukis giving 1- Syc's fall apart in OT, lose to SIU 80-74
Oregon at Washington - Ducks Giving 8 - and winning 83-61.  22 point win... sounds familiar
Missouri State at Illinois State - Redbirds giving 9 (seems like a lot to me)...another OT loss... 74-71 Birds, as MiKyle McIntosh scored 21 points, Deontae Hawkins had 20, Paris Lee had a double-double.

and fun ones to watch...
Nova at Hinkle... cats are 1.5 point favorites... how bout them dogs?  66-58... Bears new #1?  (goes to Georgetown on Saturday)
Auburn at Vandy...'commodores are 5-pt favs....Commodores 80-61
Iowa State at Baylor...Bears at 7.5 pt favs... "with the fans chanting #1 #1... 65-63 win for Baylor


Coppin and Oregon wins and the two MVC losses.. and the Valpo RPI stays at 56 with a numerical down to .5840 (from .5842 at the start of last night)

[talksalot]

Thursday games for entertainment purposes only...

Wright State favored by 7.5 over visiting Cleveland State
Northern Kentucky favored by 11.5 over visiting Youngstown State (Vegas says 12 on the line)
UT-Rio Grande Valley at Chicago State - NO LINE
Saint Mary's favored by 9 over visiting BYU.

[talksalot]

Wright State 55 Cleveland State 51
Northern Kentucky 83 Youngstown State 70
St Marys 81 BYU 68  (Cougars RPI is 102)
UT-Rio Grande Valley 83 Chicago State 64 (Cougars RPI is 255)

Southern Utah 78 Northern Colorado 76; nice road win for the t-birds (SUU RPI 326)
Santa Clara 70 Portland 42 as Jared Brownridge surpassed 2,000 points in his career (Broncos RPI 207)

VU numerical RPI .5856; and #55
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Friday Action, only 9 games on the D1 schedule:

Valpo-Oakland is the second game on the ESPN2 double header; lead-in is Rhode Island (10-4) at Dayton (11-3).
UDM @ UIC 7pm
Milw @GBay 7pm


I saw this tweet from ESPN's Jeff Goodman:

Interesting note: Baylor and Gonzaga final two unbeatens. Played each other in secret scrimmage in preseason. Final score: Tie.

and this one a little earlier:
Look at who is here at Gonzaga-San Francisco game. Committee chair Mark Hollis. Grinder. He's heading to BYU-Saint Mary's later tonight. Saturday doubleheader: UC Riverside at Long Beach and Hawaii at Irvine. Sunday doubleheader: Stanford at UCLA and Cal at USC and then home on red-eye. Good thing NCAA is paying him big bucks for this gig.

(OK, now who on this board would not LOVE that weekend schedule?... and VIP treatment at every stop)

[talksalot]

Starting RpI .5570. #78
Bama, BBN and Ball State are playing tonight

[talksalot]

#88 Bama lost to Gators 80-77
#264 Ball State beat Miami (OH) 85-74
#8 Kentucky pulled out an 87-81 win over Vanderbryce.  (Not a good night for Scott, either)

our numerical RPI climbed to .5569 (yup, up .0001)
but the relationship ranking, we climbed from #78 to #76.

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Gonzaga is the only undefeated left...

North Carolina A&T is the only winless team left... they've had some tough games. lost to #271 DelaSt 55-53; to #96 UMass 65-59, to #155 Rider 60-59, ... their next game is at #324 Coppin State.

[VU2014]

Todd and Coach Lottich discuss the last few games and the upcoming games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XgQh4v_6pc

[talksalot]

Starting our Wednesday night .5569 and #76

#204 Evansville @ #174 Missouri State
#165 Indiana State @ #315 Drake

Winnable, but ISU will drop just playing (3-11) Drake...

and the basketball junkies will be watching THEM (14-2) play at Creighton (15-1) ...  dawgs going down. 

[VULB#62]

Todd and Coach Lottich discuss the last few games and the upcoming games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XgQh4v_6pc

Couldn't help sense a sombre demeanor in Matt today.  Not upbeat, serious.  Few smiles.  Expectations getting to him a little?

On the plus side he called today's practice the best in a while.  He cited the rash of turnovers and he's getting the guys' minds straight on that.

I like his candor.

[talksalot]

.5563, Down to#78

Drake pounds Indiana state 87-70
Most beats Evansville 55-51