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In response to "All true. Their strongest opponents were early in the season when, unfortunately, Van Vleet was out. -- nm" by Cadbarony Creme Egg

I don't know what happened but they didn't schedule many top 50 or 100 teams. I don't know if they couldn't get those schools to play them

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Mar 14 '16, 06:52

or they chose to go with an easier schedule but in the end it seems to have hurt them in seeding this year.

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None of those schools ever want to play the Missouri Valley. It's always been an issue. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 14, 06:58 5
- It's infuriating really. The big conference teams are scared of the very real possibility of losing to an MVC team, so they won't schedule them... - Jim Mar 14, 07:03
- I would love to see the NCAA set up some sort of rotation where the major conference schools have to play a mid-major from each conference but there's - Krusty Mar 14, 07:02 3
  - That would bump some of the NAIA and D-II teams they play early on though! - spamlet Mar 14, 07:23 1
    - Haha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 07:25
  - How about instead of the Big 10/ACC matchup or the Big 12/SEC challenge they can do it with mid-major conferences. -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 07:11

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