All Valpo Opponents... and their Opponents coming up... how many wins?

[bbtds]

Very surprising that UCR beat Air Force.

Surprising that Air Force is flying so low this season.

Lost to Indiana State and ACU (Abilene Christian).

[talksalot]

here are the Sunday games... which barring an upset, our opponents should sweep...

Sunday, December 10, 2017   South Alabama 75  SIU-Edwardsville 76  - WIN
Sunday, December 10, 2017   Missouri State 66   Oral Roberts 73 - LOSS

Sunday, December 10, 2017   Dubuque   Northern Iowa   4pm UNI up 28 at the half...

Sunday, December 10, 2017   IUPUI   Purdue   7pm
  except that I missed one...  UNC Wilmington at LSU   Tigers up 16 at the hald  m
  except that the Bears are playing at the Maybe Center, on Friday night, ORU lost to D2 Missouri Baptist.
 
RPI has climbed back up to 68, but the SOS has fallen back to 208... NCW losing and Purdue playing EwwyPewwy won't help.

[talksalot]

oh. looking back at yesterdays troubles... one of the upsets was Santa Clara losing... again..

Portland State hits final 16 FGs, beats Santa Clara 87-84

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- Deontae North scored 25 of his career-high-tying 30 points in the second half and Portland State ended the game with 16 consecutive field goals to rally past Santa Clara 87-84 on Saturday night.

[valpotx]

Wow, I had stopped following the Santa Clara game when they looked to be running away with it.  That is impressive to hit that many FGs in a row.

[talksalot]

Dubuque 47   Northern Iowa 80   WIN
IUPUI 61   Purdue 86   WIN
Missouri State 66   Oral Roberts 73   LOSS
South Alabama 75   SIU-Edwardsville 76   WIN
UNC-Wilmington 73   LSU 89   LOSS

We end the weekend with a 3-2 record, 94-68 overall

With these games coming up...

Looks like a 1-1 Monday
Monday, December 11, 2017   Chicago State   Northwestern   6
Monday, December 11, 2017   Drake   Minnesota   7

and a 1-1 Tuesday
Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Green Bay   Indiana State   7
Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Central Florida   6

and UNCW would need to pull the upset for this to be a sweep.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   Jackson State   Southern Illinois   7
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   Little Rock      Bradley   7
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   UNC-Wilmington   UNC-Greensboro   7

[talksalot]

94-68 starting the day... and as predicted, 1-1 on the day... but what a 1 and 1

Chicago State...one of the better D3 teams in Cook County, was behind 55-8 at the half and lost 96-31 to Northwestern - WIN
Drake had to go to Minnesota... gophers favored by 20.5... and Drake lost 68-67... - LOSS

so 95-69...

[VULB#62]

Way to play, Drake!  We know what it feels like 😤

[valpo84]

I'm shocked and dismayed how could UNI play a D3 school.  Oh the schedule calamity .... (SI)

[UNIFTW]

I'm shocked and dismayed how could UNI play a D3 school.  Oh the schedule calamity .... (SI)

Our worst win is your best win.

I've done no looking to back that up, but given our SOS is like 12 and yours is well into the 200s....


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[talksalot]

boys boys boys... let's be nice... UNI has played a wonderful schedule... and played very well... I'm shaking in my boots having to go to Cedar Falls...they've only played 2 teams with losing records, Valpo has only played 2 teams with winning records... and lost to both.

anyway... back to the topic of this thread....starting Tuesday 95-69 for the opponents

Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Green Bay   Indiana State -- Sycamores favored by 11.5 or 7 depending on the source

Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Central Florida - Knights favored by 22 or 10 depending on the source

[vu72]

boys boys boys... let's be nice... UNI has played a wonderful schedule... and played very well... I'm shaking in my boots having to go to Cedar Falls...they've only played 2 teams with losing records, Valpo has only played 2 teams with winning records... and lost to both.

anyway... back to the topic of this thread....starting Tuesday 95-69 for the opponents

Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Green Bay   Indiana State -- Sycamores favored by 11.5 or 7 depending on the source

Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Central Florida - Knights favored by 22 or 10 depending on the source

SE Louisiana up 5 with 14 to go!  They are going up against a guy named Taco Fall, at 7'6"!!

[FieldGoodie05]

I'm shocked and dismayed how could UNI play a D3 school.  Oh the schedule calamity .... (SI)

Our worst win is your best win.

I've done no looking to back that up, but given our SOS is like 12 and yours is well into the 200s....


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The sane contingent of Valpo fans know that we are likely to go .500 in the new league.  I wouldn't recommend reading too much into the excitement some have over our 8-0 start.

[talksalot]

Starting Tuesday 95-69... and no surprises

Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Green Bay   Indiana State -- Sycamores favored by 11.5 or 7 depending on the source... and the spread was 8 - WIN

Tuesday, December 12, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Central Florida - Knights favored by 22 or 10 depending on the source... and the spread was 22 - LOSS

going into Wednesday 96-70

Wednesday, December 13, 2017   Jackson State   Southern Illinois   7pm
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   Little Rock      Bradley   7pm
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   UNC-Wilmington   UNC-Greensboro   7pm

[talksalot]

and as predicted...

going into Wednesday 96-70

Jackson State 51   Southern Illinois 69   WIN
Little Rock 46   Bradley 86      WIN
UNC-Wilmington 58   UNC-Greensboro 71   LOSS
results in 98-71 for the season-to-date

looking to the OTHER games on Thursday...and may as well add the one Friday game here as well

Sure looks like a 1-1 Thursday and a one-win Friday.

Thursday, December 14, 2017   Santa Clara   USC
Thursday, December 14, 2017   Southern-New Orleans   Southeastern Louisiana
Friday, December 15, 2017      Thomas Univ   Samford

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so... here's the veritable plethora of games on Saturday... could be some interesting RPI events...Computers say our opponents go 8-3...sure looks like a 6-5 kinda day to me

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Austin Peay   Evansville - Aces favored by 13

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Bradley   Chicago State - braves favored by 24

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Butler   Purdue  Boilers favored by 12

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Grambling   Southeastern Louisiana - SELA favored by 2

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Illinois State   Ole Miss - Rebs favored by 9

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Indiana State   Western Kentucky... just watched the hilltoppers scare the crap out of Wisconsin at the Kohl center...this would be a really nice pickup, WKY favored by 11

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Iowa   Drake  Seriously, Drake is favored by 1 by the computers

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Iowa State   Northern Iowa  Seriously 2, UNI favored by 1

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Life Pacific   Utah State - No Line, Aggies by whatever they want it to be.

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Loyola   Milwaukee - Ramblers favored by 7

Saturday, December 16, 2017   Northwestern   DePaul - Blue Demons favored by 1...



Wednesday, December 13, 2017   Jackson State   Southern Illinois   7pm
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   Little Rock      Bradley   7pm
Wednesday, December 13, 2017   UNC-Wilmington   UNC-Greensboro   7pm

[VULB#62]

Midmajor OOC teams I would like to see on our schedule consistently:

UIC
UWM
Oakland

P5 OOC teams:

NU
U of I
UND (not North Dakota)

BE teams:

DePaul



and.......



Butler

[talksalot]

Thursday finals are no surprise.  SELA won 106-77; Santa Clara lost to USC 82-59.
And on Friday night, Samford is up 52-29 at the half on Thomas University

[historyman]

the lines were saying out opponents would be 7-3 on the day.

What are "out opponents?"

[talksalot]

Out Opponents have phat phingers on small devices when trying to do updates sitting at airports.

so anyway... listening to the SC game... here are the updated scores from the past weekend, including the Kent State loss tonight to Northeastern... 

Thomas Univ 51   Samford 98   WIN
Austin Peay 74   Evansville 78   WIN
Bradley 84   Chicago State 58   WIN
Butler 67   Purdue 82   WIN
Grambling 68   Southeastern Louisiana 67   LOSS
Illinois State 101   Ole Miss 97 OT   WIN
Indiana State 65   Western Kentucky 81   LOSS
Iowa 90   Drake 64   LOSS
Iowa State 76   Northern Iowa 65   LOSS
Life Pacific 62   Utah State 96   WIN
Loyola 56   Milwaukee  73   LOSS
Northwestern 62   DePaul 60   WIN
Furman 90   UNC-Wilmington 84   LOSS
Lamar 61   Southern Illinois 71   WIN
Midway 52   Evansville 77   WIN
UC Riverside 61   Montana 77   LOSS
Northeastern 81   Kent State 69   LOSS

The opponents are 110-80 on the season

All kinds of action this week before the holidays...the opponents might go 7-0 on Tuesday night...

Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Chicago State   SIU-Edwardsville
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Drake   South Dakota St
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Lewis   Northwestern
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   NC A&T   Southern Illinois
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   North Florida   Ball State
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   UL-Lafayette
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   UIC   Illinois State
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Wright State   Missouri State

Looks like a 2-1 Wednesday
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Bradley   SEMO
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Evansville   Duke
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Youngstown State   Utah State

and a bunch of close games on Thursday and Friday...
Thursday, December 21, 2017   North Dakota St   UNC-Wilmington
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Oregon State   Kent State
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Samford   Kennesaw State
Thursday, December 21, 2017   San Jose State   Santa Clara
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Notre Dame
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Tennessee State   Purdue
Friday, December 22, 2017   Bradley   Ole Miss
Friday, December 22, 2017   Jackson State   Ball State
Friday, December 22, 2017   Loyola   Missouri State
Friday, December 22, 2017   MD Eastern Shore   Drake
Friday, December 22, 2017   Nevada   Southern Illinois
Friday, December 22, 2017   Oklahoma   Northwestern
Friday, December 22, 2017   SIU-Edwardsville   Central Michigan
Friday, December 22, 2017   UC Merced   UC Riverside
Friday, December 22, 2017   UTEP / Howard   UNC-Wilmington
Friday, December 22, 2017   Xavier   Northern Iowa

[covufan]

Out Opponents have phat phingers on small devices when trying to do updates sitting at airports.

[talksalot]

BUT you didn't catch that I predicted 7-0 for the Tuesday games... there are 8 of them...the computers say 6-2...

Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Chicago State   SIU-Edwardsville - SIUE favored by 14 or 17
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Drake   South Dakota St - SDSU (RPI 96 lost to MoSt by 20 two weeks ago),  favored by 11 or 20
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Lewis   Northwestern - No Line, although Lewis is favored to come out of the locker room at the half.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   NC A&T   Southern Illinois - Salukis favored by 7 or 23 (some spread?)
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   North Florida   Ball State - Cardinals favored by 13 or 16
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   UL-Lafayette - ULL favored by 17 or 19
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   UIC   Illinois State - Redbirds favored by 7 or 18
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Wright State   Missouri State - Bears favored by 8 or 4

[talksalot]

sometimes the computer is right... although almost had a flame-out on one of the games... Phew...

Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Chicago State 76   SIU-Edwardsville 88   WIN
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Drake 74   South Dakota St 87   LOSS
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Lewis 48   Northwestern  85   WIN
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   NC A&T 64   Southern Illinois 102   WIN
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   North Florida 65   Ball State 79   WIN
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana 74   UL-Lafayette 82   LOSS
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   UIC 70   Illinois State 71   WIN
Tuesday, December 19, 2017   Wright State 50   Missouri State 66   WIN

116 and 82 on the season so far...

just three games on Wednesday... plus the important one...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Bradley   SEMO
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Evansville   Duke
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Youngstown State   Utah State

[talksalot]

today's games:

Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Bradley   SEMO - EARLY GAME - BRAVES WON 75-67.  Line was either 6 or 8
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Evansville at Duke - Blue Devils favored by 16 or 24... hey, if Boston College can do it...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017   Youngstown State (0-9) at Utah State - Aggies favored by 20 or 23

and For those following Bruce and Scooter...
Vandy (3-7) is only favored by 10 at home over (1-8) Houston Baptist...
Baylor (8-2) is favored by 32 at home over (2-8) Southern Univ

[talksalot]

Bradley 75   SEMO 67   WIN
Evansville 40   Duke 104   LOSS
Youngstown State 74   Utah State 91   WIN

118-83 Through Wednesday

Bruce and Scotty both won big...

[talksalot]

118-83 coming into action - could be some exciting games on tap for the opposition....

Thursday, December 21, 2017   UNC-Wilmington  North Dakota St     (4-6) Bisons are favored by 3 OR a pure pickem game with UNCW (1-7)
Game is part of the Sun Bowl Classic in El Paso Texas.  The other game here is winless (0-11) Howard at (3-6) UTEP...

Thursday, December 21, 2017   Oregon State   Kent State         Beavers are favored by 2 OR, it's a pure-pickem game being played in Ohio.
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Samford   Kennesaw State       (1-9) KState Owls favored by 2 OR, (2-8) Bulldogs favored by 1
Thursday, December 21, 2017   San Jose State   Santa Clara   Broncos favored by 9 or 12 over #321 (1-8) Spartans
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Notre Dame   Irish favored by 20 to 32
Thursday, December 21, 2017   Tennessee State   Purdue   Purdue is favored by 26 or 35

[talksalot]

we have 5 games in the books... let's see how the computers are doing...

Thursday, December 21, 2017   UNC-Wilmington  North Dakota St     (4-6) Bisons are favored by 3 OR a pure pickem game with UNCW (1-7)... yeh, the computer was missing a binary digit here... Bisons win in 100-63... a LOSS for the opponent

Thursday, December 21, 2017   Oregon State   Kent State         Beavers are favored by 2 OR, it's a pure-pickem game being played in Ohio.... and KENT STATE WITH A P5 WIN !   79-78... just as close as they expected.

Thursday, December 21, 2017   Samford   Kennesaw State       (1-9) KState Owls favored by 2 OR, (2-8) Bulldogs favored by 1
and the Owls win it 71-66 - that's a LOSS

Thursday, December 21, 2017   Southeastern Louisiana   Notre Dame   Irish favored by 20 to 32... Irish 86-50...close enough to prove their point... and a LOSS for our opponent

Thursday, December 21, 2017   Tennessee State   Purdue   Purdue is favored by 26 or 35... Boilers 97-48... a 49-point spread, again enough to prove their point... and a WIN for our opponent

So our opponents are 2-3 on the night... with this one just underway ...we are at 120-86

Thursday, December 21, 2017   San Jose State   Santa Clara   Broncos favored by 9 or 12 over #321 (1-8) Spartans and... the Spartans scored the first 10 points of the game...and lead it 30-11 with 4:45 to go in the first half...