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The Boubacar 3/4/2008 Two-Bid Edition

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — M is for March, and madness, and mania, and magic any etymologist knows they all came from the same source, Ma-, a Anglo-Saxon derivative meaning &quotsuper-awesome.&quot M is also for Mid-major. It’s our time, and this is our year. With so many struggling power-conference teams trying to figure out if they want to be on the bubble or not, we might have more 12-over-5 and 13-over-everybody games than you can count. A is for ARRRGH, the feeling you get when your school’s team storms
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Missouri Valley Tournament Preview

The first conference tournament for a league projected to get multiple bids is the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament this weekend in St. Louis, &quotArch Madness&quot. Four teams in the MVC have a shot at an at-large, but only one is a lock, so this tournament could have serious bubble implications. Here’s a look at the contenders and their potential paths, listed by seeding. 1 Drake RPI: 15, SOS: 85 - Their victory at Butler during BracketBusters finalized their berth in the NCAA’s. Playing for
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Kindred: Valley guys who are deserving of name recognition - Bloomington Pantagraph

By Randy Kindred If there was an award for handing out awards, the Missouri Valley Conference would be a lock. Nobody does it better, or at least as often. …
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MVC tourney: Creighton vs. Bradley preview and pick - Covers

They just met Saturday night in the regular season finale in what was the highest scoring game in the Missouri Valley Conference since 1984. …It&39s time for another rally in the Valley Chicago Sun-Times
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Bubble Watch: 3/7

Bubble teams finally decided to start helping themselves this week. St Joe??s, VT, West Virginia, Ohio St and Kentucky are just a few of the many teams on the brink that won crucial games to make that final push into the Big Dance. There are 31 conference winners that receive automatic bids and 34 At-Large berths available. 20 conferences will send one team, while 11 will/could send multiple teams. Here is the breakdown of those conferences: A10 Locks 1: Xavier Bubble 4: UMASS, Dayton, St
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Missouri Valley notes - Kansas City Star

1 seed has not won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament since Illinois State did it in 1998. Only three of the Valley??s last 17 regular-season …Hoping the Pool Doesn&39t Get Deeper Washington Post
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E. Illinois Women Charge Into OVC Tourney - SportingNews.com

Eastern Illinois plays Southeast Missouri at noon, Friday, in the first semifinal of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, in Nashville, Tenn. …
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Drake??s Keno Davis named top Missouri Valley coach Charles City Press

DES MOINES AP ?? First-year Drake basketball coach Keno Davis has been named the Missouri Valley Conference??s Coach of the Year.
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??? MVC honors Emmenecker - MLive.com

Emmenecker, a Drake University senior, on Tuesday was named the winner of the Larry Bird Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year Award. …Keno Captures MVC &39Coach of the Year&39 Honors WHO-TV
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Urban Living :: RE: Missouri Valley Conference Tournament

Author: Little Egyptian Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:19 pm GMT -6 Topic Replies: 64 Shimmy wrote: Blues gotta score. That’s the point of the game, and they haven’t done it. There’s a John Madden answer. But, Salukis have seemed to straighten their ship out at the right time. I’d look for them to make a run again. Don’t look for the Salukis to win this - they are not a consistent enough team to win 3 in a row. I think it will be Creighton. The Salukis and Illinois State are go
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For a change, rest of the Missouri Valley Conference chasing Drake Charles City Press

ST. LOUIS AP ?? The dominant team in the Missouri Valley Conference clinched the title in mid-February and kept building its NCAA tournament resume.
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Urban Living :: RE: Missouri Valley Conference Tournament

Author: Shimmy Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:48 pm GMT -6 Topic Replies: 65 A-10 is not bad at all. You’ve got Dayton at 19-9, Rhode Island at 21-9, UMass at 20-9, and while watching the Illini lose once again on ESPN2 , I would flip over to ESPN and watch St. Joe’s beat Xavier. Analysists are saying St. Joe’s should be in. The way I see it the A-10 tourney is similar to your Valley tourney, LE. I don’t know if St. Joe’s and Xavier are on the same side of the bracket, but if they’re not and
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Wichita State loses to Indiana State at Missouri Valley Conference tournament The Kansas City Star

ST. LOUIS Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall can chalk up his first Missouri Valley Conference tournament game to a technical knockout. Two technicals, actually.
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Drake men??s basketball: Bulldogs, Davis storm into Valley The Des Moines Register

St. Louis, Mo. ?? The winner of this week??s Missouri Valley Conference men??s basketball tournament will inherit a little historical baggage.
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Missouri City to make offer for country club - Houston ChronicleHouston ChronicleMissouri City to make offer for country clubHouston Chronicle, United States - 10 hours agoBy ERIC HANSON MISSOURI CITY The Missouri City Council authorized city officials to make a formal offer to buy the Quail Valley Country Club, …Source: news.google.comGM Idles Missouri Plant - Houston ChronicleGM Idles Missouri PlantHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour agoBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Auto Writer 2008 AP DETR
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Drake&39s Keno Davis Named Top Missouri Valley Coach - KCRG

By Becky Ogann DES MOINES AP - First-year Drake basketball coach Keno Davis has been named the Missouri Valley Conference&39s Coach of the Year. …Drake men&39s basketball: Davis Valley&39s coach of the year DesMoinesRegister.com
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Falker, Mullins named to All-Conference teams

Falker, Mullins named to All-Conference teams In a season that had its share of ups and downs, two Salukis were honored for their performances from the Missouri Valley Conference on Tuesday. Senior forward Randal Falker was named first team and defensive team all-Missouri Valley Conference while junior guard Bryan Mullins was named MVC Defensive Player of the Year along with being voted all-defensive team.
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Arch Madness: Missouri Valley tourney breakdown Covers.com

So, why should you care about the Missouri Valley Conference? ? Because in recent years, this has become the mid-major conference to which all?others strive to mimmick. Since 1998, the MVC and SEC are the only two conferences in the …
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Missouri Valley Conference coaches hope 1 not enough in NCAA Chicago Tribune

The college basketball calendar is at the point where coaches will come as close as ever to admitting they are not “taking ‘em one at a time.” Specifically, going into this weekend’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament, how many wins will it take to ensure an NCAA tournament bid?
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Urban Living :: RE: Missouri Valley Conference Tournament

Author: Little Egyptian Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:30 pm GMT -6 Topic Replies: 64 By the way, in Joe Lunardi’s latest bracketology the A-10 is a one bid league Xavier, with the Missouri Valley as a 2 bid league Drake, Illinois State. Sort of funny after all the talk this year about how the A-10 is up and the Valley is down. _________________ From the other side.
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SIU golf has championship aspirations - SIU - Daily Egyptian

The Saluki women go from the hunter to the hunted as they attempt to defend their 2007 Missouri Valley Conference championship. SIU travels to Phoenix to …
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The Boubacar 3/6/2008 Dromedary Edition

NASHVILLE — There’s a little Fighting Camel in all of us — that piece of our soul that’s tragically misunderstood, a little out of place. It’s the part of you that’s told you’ll never make it, never achieve your dreams. Silly camel, you aren’t supposed to fight for or win anything… you’re supposed to live your preassigned role of giving dudes rides across the desert, and you’re going to like it. And too bad if you want a drink, you’re not getting one. Last night, that children’s storybook
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Purple Aces-Bears: Missouri Valley Warm-Up?

The Bears 16-15, 8-10 have drawn a virtual warm-up as they face the Evansville Purple Aces that??s right, Purple Aces??I have no idea either in tonight??s first round game of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The two teams split the season series with both winning on their home court. The key to tonight??s game is the Bears defense. Can they keep Holsinger from sinking the threes that led to Evansville beating the injured Bears by 19 points in their first meeting? In the second mat
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Missouri Valley Conference Award Ceremony

Player of the Year: Adam Emmenecker, Drake. The spunky guard floats around the floor not with boundless athleticism, but with the clearest understanding of prudent play. Rarely shooting more than eight times a game, Emmenecker led the conference in assists 6.7 per game. During conference play he dished out over 30 more than anyone else in the league. Emmenecker managed the most assists per game since Jeremy Stanton Evansville in 2001. The rebounding Emmenecker offers boggles the mind. No
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Men’s team ready for MVC

Men’s team ready for MVC by Todd Froemling, Daily Vidette Sports Editor in Sports The ISU men’s basketball team traveled to St. Louis yesterday to begin preparation for this weekend’s Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Now they just have to figure out who their opponent will be. Since the Redbirds finished the regular season in second place, they will face either Missouri State or Evansville on Friday at 6:05 p. Issue Summary
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Missouri Valley expects to get more than one team into Big Dance The Kansas City Star

ST. LOUIS Just about everyone in the Missouri Valley Conference will be rooting against Drake this weekend.
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Tourney Central 3/7/2008 Day 4

Bullet Points There was an upset in the Atlantic Sun quarters, as No. 6 Gardner-Webb routed No. 3 Stetson. The Big South final is set: UNC Asheville and Winthrop, the league’s top two seeds. The game will be played Saturday. In the MVC first round, No. 8 Indiana State and No. 7 Missouri State advanced to play top seeds Drake and Illinois State, respectively. The Northeast Conference quarters went as planned all four top seeds advanced. It’s First Round Friday — or &quotPillowfight Friday,&quot if
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The State Of The Other 22, Week 16

The State of College Basketball is a brand-new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 341 here’s the long-winded version. In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four in a simulation of last season. For our purposes here, it gives the world’s only hype-free, non-voting, computer poll of teams in the lower 22 conferences. This is the full 246-team chart
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College Basketball Schedule - WJZ

Loyola of Chicago, 8 pm Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference= At Albany, NY= First Round= Iona vs. Canisius, 10 pm Missouri Valley Conference= At St. …
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Tourney Central 3/6/2008 Day 3

Bullet Points All four Patriot League quarters were decided by three points or less, and the round featured two upsets as No. 7 Bucknell and No. 5 Army advanced. Bucknell beat No. 2 Navy 87-86 on a John Griffin 40-foot buzzer-beater in triple overtime. In the Sun Belt, the campus-site first round produced a 12-over-5 upset, as Troy won at Louisiana-Lafayette. Atlantic Sun top seeds Belmont and Jacksonville advanced to Friday’s semifinal round. Two tourneys get under way tonight: the Misso
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Keno Davis Missouri Valley Coach of the Year KWWL Iowa

First-year Drake basketball coach Keno Davis has been named the Missouri Valley Conference’s Coach of the Year. Davis received 38 of a possible 40 first-place votes to finish ahead of second-place finisher Tim Jankovich of Illinois State. Creighton’s Dana Altman was third.
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Missouri Valley Warm-Up?

The Bears 16-15, 8-10 have drawn a virtual warmup as they face the Evansville Purple Aces that??s right purple aces??. I have no idea either in tonight??s first round game of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The two teams split the season series with both winning at their home court. The key to tonight??s game is the Bears defense?? can they keep Holsinger from sinking the threes that led to Evansville tearing the injured Bears up in the first matchup by 19 points. In the second
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Missouri Valley: Missouri State, Indiana State advance CBS Sportsline

Thursday’s Missouri Valley Tournament roundup: Seventh-seeded Missouri State and No. 8 seed Indiana State advance to the quarterfinals with victories.
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Wichita State loses to Indiana State at Missouri Valley Conference … - Kansas City Star

LOUIS Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall can chalk up his first Missouri Valley Conference tournament game to a technical knockout. …Wichita State vs. Indiana State - Recap - March 06, 2008 ESPN
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Drake Bulldogs

Key Wins: Iowa, Southern Illinois, Bradley, Creighton Key Losses: Saint Mary??s, Southern Illinois, Bradley Key Stat: Rookie Head Coach Keno Davis won 21 straight basketball games following a loss to St. Mary??s November 10th. His father Tom Davis actually won 18 straight in his first year at the Univeristy of Iowa 1986-1987. Biggest Strengths: They like each other. They really like each other. The Bulldogs have a rare closeness off the court, which materializes lyrically on the court.
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Missouri Valley expects to get more than one team into Big Dance - Kansas City Star

LOUIS Just about everyone in the Missouri Valley Conference will be rooting against Drake this weekend. A tournament win by regular-season champion Drake …Valley hears rumblings that it has lost magic touch St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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St. Joes and Conference Tournaments

A couple of games caught my eye yesterday. St. Joes upset of 11 Xavier at home may have saved their season. By beating the Muskateers 71-66, they provided a late season marquee win to their resume. At 18-10 and 9-6 they are in the hunt. A win at Dayton and a couple of conference tournament wins will put them in. But they still have work to do. In the Valley, Wichita State ended a depleted season with Head Coach Greg Marshall being thrown out of the game. Watching it on replay made me even mor
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Missouri Valley notes The Kansas City Star

Maybe this is why they call it Arch Madness. No one can figure out why the No. 1 seed has not won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament since Illinois State did it in 1998.
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Your Daily Bracket! Championship Week Returns…So Does The Jerome

As we stated yesterday, today begins our favorite two month stretch of the year. You’ve got The Masters, the beginning of baseball season, the NCAA Tournament and the most underrated two weeks of sport: Conference Tournaments. Over the next two weeks, teams will see goals realized and dreams dashed as league post-season play begins around the country, starting with Big South, Horizon and Ohio Valley tournament play tonight. And don’t forget, one team already has a NCAA berth wrapped up: The Bi
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