MVC revisited

I've heard Clark Kellogg rave and seen some highlights. I think it will be interesting to see how they do, but I'm still no impressed with your arguments of "quality wins".

Creighton: George Mason ; unranked, leads CAA
Xavier???? unranked about .500 in A-10
Nebraska unranked 7-8 in conference

Wichita St: Providence unranked, 13th in Big East; may not make conference tourney
played ranked Illinois and lost

N. Iowa: two great wins against Iowa and LSU, but again has lost 5 of last 8

Mo. St: one out of conference quality opponent all year long & lost (Arkansas)

Indiana St: you must be joking! Indiana is in shambles, Ball St is 5-12 in their conference, Butler is okay.

Meanwhile Maryland has only 17 wins, but they've played Gonzaga, Geo Wash, Duke twice, UNC twice, BC and State. 8 of their 11 losses are against top 20 teams! 3 of 11 losses are against unranked opponents. MEANWHILE! All 10 of So. Illinois losses are to UNRANKED opponents. While the ACC is weaker this year, I hardly think it warrants the MVC getting the same number of bids. I don't believe any projections of where Maryland or whoever would finish if they were in that conference. That's like saying Vince Young will be a terrible QB bc he did bad on the pen and paper test at the combine. Did no one see that title game???

We'll see how it plays out in March. Maybe the MVC will make a believer out of me, but I wouldn't put any of those teams in the elite eight. JC

Also, hilarity last night! Interviewer asks Coach K: Why does everyone hate JJ Redick? Coach K was stunned: "I think everyone respects JJ Redick," he said. Ha!