Valpo Opponents' Schedule & Results 2016-17

[valpotx]

Man, Indiana State has just tanked since that Butler win.

[talksalot]

and after the west coast games finish up...

we are Starting Thursday at #79  .5564

On Wednesday, we gained 5/10,000ths of a point... and dropped 1 spot.


Thursday games and the Nolan Line and Probability:
Cleveland State favored by 1 over Visiting UIC 54%
Valpo favored by 2 over Host Youngstown State 58%
Rhode Island favored by 18 over Visiting LaSalle 92%
Green Bay favored by 6 over Visiting Wright State 70%
San Diego favored by 3 over Visiting Santa Clara 61%
Northern Kentucky favored by 2 over Host Milwaukee 58%
Utah Valley favored by 22 over visiting Chicago State 95%

[talksalot]

Thursday games and the Nolan Line and Probability: (Not a good night for the Nolan Algorithm!)

Cleveland State favored by 1 over Visiting UIC 54%   UIC 59 ClevSt 54

Valpo favored by 2 over Host Youngstown State 58%  Valpo 78 Young 62

Rhode Island favored by 18 over Visiting LaSalle 92%   LaSalle 87 Rhode Island 75

Green Bay favored by 6 over Visiting Wright State 70%  GreenB 78 Wright State 61

San Diego favored by 3 over Visiting Santa Clara 61%     Clara up 8 approaching halftime

Northern Kentucky favored by 2 over Host Milwaukee 58%  Milwaukee 68 NoKy 58

Utah Valley favored by 22 over visiting Chicago State 95%  Cougars UP 6 with 8:30 to play

Southern Utah favored by 10 over visiting Sacramento State 80%   SacSt 88 SUU 83

BYU Favored by 13 over visiting San Francisco 86% surety  Cougars up 7 with 6 to play


Valpo's RPI data:   #74  .5591  9:45pm

[talksalot]

Thursday games and the Nolan Line and Probability: (Not a good night for the Nolan Algorithm!)

Cleveland State favored by 1 over Visiting UIC 54%   UIC 59 ClevSt 54

Valpo favored by 2 over Host Youngstown State 58%  Valpo 78 Young 62

Rhode Island favored by 18 over Visiting LaSalle 92%   LaSalle 87 Rhode Island 75

Green Bay favored by 6 over Visiting Wright State 70%  GreenB 78 Wright State 61

San Diego favored by 3 over Visiting Santa Clara 61%     Clara up 8 approaching halftime

Northern Kentucky favored by 2 over Host Milwaukee 58%  Milwaukee 68 NoKy 58

Utah Valley favored by 22 over visiting Chicago State 95%  Chicago State 70 Utah Valley 61 (The team that beat BYU)

Southern Utah favored by 10 over visiting Sacramento State 80%   SacSt 88 SUU 83

BYU Favored by 13 over visiting San Francisco 86% surety  BYU 85 San Francisco 75


Valpo's RPI data:   #74  .5591  9:45pm
Valpo's RPI data:   #68  .5622  4:45pm Friday

Tonights' game, only 1 involving our opponents:

Oakland is 17.5 point favorite against visiting UDM

[bbtds]

Oakland is 17.5 point favorite against visiting UDM

Tied with about 3 minutes to go on ESPNU

FINAL:  Detroit-Mercy 93 Oakland 88

[jloose128]

93-88 Detroit over Oakland.

Huh.

[frontrowfan]

At Oakland no less.  Tight game to the end

[justducky]

I haven't backed Mercy in years but I really enjoyed watching their "chaos" defense come together.

The good news is that Detroit is back and have finally figured out how to win. The bad news is that their OOC play was awful so each of their future wins will drag down the rest of the HL.   

[justducky]

The good news is that Detroit is back and have finally figured out how to win. The bad news is that their OOC play was awful so each of their future wins will drag down the rest of the HL.   

Oakland drops from 64 to 104. Detroit rises from 309 to 259.

How many HL games can Mercy win playing like that? Almost all of them, but 6 now looks like a minimum.

[talksalot]

From the ESPN Statline twitter acct:

Jaleel Hogan of Detroit scored a career-high 39 points, the most by a Titans men's basketball player since Willie Green scored 41 against Wright State on Feb. 13, 2003.

Titans first ever win at the ORena. (0-4 going into tonights game)

[oklahomamick]

That was a very entertaining game.  Brock is a good player and will be scary as a 26 year old senior. 

Oakland is 1 point away from having two losses in the HL.

[sliman]

And Cleveland State is 15 points away from being 5-0.

[talksalot]

Good Day for the Valpo RPI today...6pm:  #67   .5659 ranking

Indiana State 81 Bradley 71
Ball State 92 Buffalo 77
BBN 92 Auburn 72
Coppin State 75 NC A&T 73

Tonight
Santa Clara at Pepperdine
Portland State at SUU
BYU at San Diego
Chicago State at Seattle
Oregon State at Oregon

Wright State beat Milwaukee 70-67

Big Game tonight:  Gaels in Spokane, ESPN2 (they are a combined 31-1)

[talksalot]

Santa Clara 75-61
Portland state over SUU 88-77
San Diego over BYU 88-75
Seattle over Chicago state 65-50
Oregon over Oregon state 85-43

The opposition goes 6-3 Saturday, valpo RPI falls to 72, raw number,5650

[talksalot]

On Sunday, the opposition went 1-1

URI held on to beat UMass 79-77 after nearly blowing a nice lead at home
MoState didn't hold on to their 11-point lead and lost at the Gentile Center 77-71 to the Ramblers.

The URI win, put them at RPI #49; so we are now 1-2 against Top 50.   Bama #75 and BYU #92 have a ways to go to break into that level.

Valpo's RPI is #72   .5645 numerically.

Monday's games:

Coppin State at Howard

HL:
Cleveland State loses at Oakland
Youngstown @ Detroit

[talksalot]

Valpo's RPI is #72   .5645 numerically.

and thanks to the eary games today, the RPI is now #71  but the .5645 is still the numerical ranking.

[hailcrusaders]

Cleveland State stuns Oakland at the Orena, 76-65.

Grizzlies shot about 1-20 from three. They really haven't been playing well since they beat us.

[StlVUFan]

Cleveland State stuns Oakland at the Orena, 76-65.

Grizzlies shot about 1-20 from three. They really haven't been playing well since they beat us.

Nobody does.  Been like that for a couple of years now.  The vaunted "Valpo hangover".

[wh]

Cleveland State stuns Oakland at the Orena, 76-65.

Grizzlies shot about 1-20 from three. They really haven't been playing well since they beat us.

How in the world do you lose by 11 at home to a team with an 0-9 road record?

[oklahomamick]

They also lost to t a team at home with one D1 win.  Don't forget the bizarre UIC ending.  They could easily be 0-3 since playing us.  Valpo curse? 


I think the question is not "how did they lose to 0-9 CSU" but rather "how did they lose twice when they are much much more talented than both those teams."

[talksalot]

and their RPI goes from 65 after beating us to 92 after the first loss... to 137 after last nights debacle.

Current HL RPIs

Valpo 66
GBay 124
Oakla 137
Wrigh 153
NorKy 172
Cleve 208
UIC  237
DetMer 258
Young 266
Milwa 280

[VU2014]

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2017/1/17/14296328/my-big-weekend-wrapup-maction-mid-major-madness-jinx-gonzaga-saint-marys

My big weekend wrapup: #MACtion and the Mid-Major Madness Jinx
We recap that last three days and set the table for what's to come.
by Russell Steinberg@Russ_Steinberg  Jan 17, 2017, 7:57am PST

Stock Falling:

"Oakland: We jumped to the front of the Oakland bandwagon when the Golden Grizzlies beat Valparaiso last week. Since then, they squeaked by a bad Illinois Chicago team by one, then lost a pair of home games to even-worse Detroit and Cleveland State. What's going on in Oakland?"

[hailcrusaders]

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2017/1/17/14296328/my-big-weekend-wrapup-maction-mid-major-madness-jinx-gonzaga-saint-marys My big weekend wrapup: #MACtion and the Mid-Major Madness Jinx We recap that last three days and set the table for what's to come. by Russell Steinberg@Russ_Steinberg  Jan 17, 2017, 7:57am PST Stock Falling: "Oakland: We jumped to the front of the Oakland bandwagon when the Golden Grizzlies beat Valparaiso last week. Since then, they squeaked by a bad Illinois Chicago team by one, then lost a pair of home games to even-worse Detroit and Cleveland State. What's going on in Oakland?"

Don't tell the UIC fans that someone referred to them as "Illinois Chicago".

[StlVUFan]

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2017/1/17/14296328/my-big-weekend-wrapup-maction-mid-major-madness-jinx-gonzaga-saint-marys My big weekend wrapup: #MACtion and the Mid-Major Madness Jinx We recap that last three days and set the table for what's to come. by Russell Steinberg@Russ_Steinberg  Jan 17, 2017, 7:57am PST Stock Falling: "Oakland: We jumped to the front of the Oakland bandwagon when the Golden Grizzlies beat Valparaiso last week. Since then, they squeaked by a bad Illinois Chicago team by one, then lost a pair of home games to even-worse Detroit and Cleveland State. What's going on in Oakland?"

Don't tell the UIC fans that someone referred to them as "Illinois Chicago".

I'm with UIC fans on that one.

[Kyle321n]

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2017/1/17/14296328/my-big-weekend-wrapup-maction-mid-major-madness-jinx-gonzaga-saint-marys My big weekend wrapup: #MACtion and the Mid-Major Madness Jinx We recap that last three days and set the table for what's to come. by Russell Steinberg@Russ_Steinberg  Jan 17, 2017, 7:57am PST Stock Falling: "Oakland: We jumped to the front of the Oakland bandwagon when the Golden Grizzlies beat Valparaiso last week. Since then, they squeaked by a bad Illinois Chicago team by one, then lost a pair of home games to even-worse Detroit and Cleveland State. What's going on in Oakland?"

Don't tell the UIC fans that someone referred to them as "Illinois Chicago".

I'm with UIC fans on that one.

They should really complain to the NCAA website. They are listed at "Ill.-Chicago". And that annoys me when I'm trying to compile RPI stats and figure out who is in my NCAA bracket