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Subject: MVC Update -- 12/22/92
From: wallingf@nova.cs.uni.edu ( Eugene Wallingford )
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:59:45 -0600
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GAMES LAST WEEK
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Wednesday (12-16)
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 57, St. Louis 44:  Charlie Spoonhour brings his
     recently woeful Billikens into MVC favorite SIU's arena and gives
     the Salukis a challenge.  St. Louis' deliberate offense and defense
     led to nearly identical halves -- 29-22 and 28-22 -- in which SIU
     held a small but distinct advantage.  Most important to the Bills'
     strategy was stopping the SIU inside game.  Ashraf Amaya was held
     to 7 points on 3-8 shooting, and Marcus Timmons netted only 11, on
     4-9 from the field.  Ty Bell led SIU with 18 points, while Claggett
     led USL with 12.  7,225 watched...

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Saturday (12-19)
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St. Bonaventure 74, NORTHERN IOWA 63:  UNI continues to struggle to
     score, and this problem came back to haunt the Panthers against
     the Atlantic-10 Bonnies.  UNI actually started this game with a
     lead, but 14 turnovers kept the game close at the half, 27-25.
     This lead was built in part by holding St. Bonaventure to 29%
     shooting in the first half.  But the Bonnies blitzed UNI with a
     42-21 run early in the second half to take an insurmountable
     67-50 lead. St. Bonaventure outrebounded UNI 37-27 and was
     especially potent off their own glass, grabbing 22 offensive
     rebounds.  Randy Blocker continues to be UNI's main bright
     spot, leading the Panthers with 24 points and 7 rebounds.  Harry
     Moore led St. Bonnie with 28 points, while Nii Nelson-Richards
     added 18 (19 and 13 in the second half, respectively).  3,125
     saw this one from the Reilly Center.
 
BRADLEY 85, Chicago State 61:  Deon Jackson and Marcus Pollard led
     the Braves to a big win over the cold-shooting Cougars.  Bradley
     won all facets of this game, outshooting CSU 66% to 39% in the
     first half to jump out to a 47-31 lead.  The Braves ended up
     outrebounding the Cougars 46-28.  Jackson finished with 21 points,
     Pollard with 19.

DRAKE 95, Lewis College 77:  Drake is now 3-0 in its new arena after
     taking this one from small college Lewis (1-6).  The Bulldogs
     never trailed, but the game was close throughout the first half.
     Drake took a 41-36 halftime lead on center Marvin King's steal
     and coast-to-coast slam dunk just before the buzzer.  Curt Smith
     led the Bulldogs with 18 points, and Jeff Allen and Adrian Thomas
     added 15 and 14 points, respectively.  6,080 attended at the
     Drake Center in Des Moines.

TULSA 74, ILLINOIS STATE 61:  Tulsa opened MVC play with a home win
     over the struggling Redbirds.  The Golden Hurricane saw its 9-
     point halftime lead shrink to two at 57-55 with just under five
     minutes left in the game.  Gary Collier hit some key baskets
     down the stretch, including a three-pointer as part of an 8-0 run
     that put the game away.  Jeff Malham scored 20 for the Hurricane,
     Collier ended up with 17, Jodie Huffman had 13, and Mark Morse
     scored 12.  In the second half, only these four players attempted
     field goals for Tulsa.  Richard Thomas led ISU with 19, while
     Mike VandeGarde was a perfect 7-7 from the field and 2-2 from the
     line in scoring 16.  The Redbirds kept it close in the second
     half with five three-pointers, but costly turnovers in the final
     minutes doomed them to an 0-1 start in the conference. 5,119 were
     in attendance...

Purdue 92, INDIANA STATE 63:  The 16th-ranked Boilermakers rolled to its
     thirteenth straight win over downstate rival Indiana State behind
     16 points each from Glenn Robinson and Matt Painter.  The Sycamores
     haven't beaten Purdue since Larry Bird's senior season.  Purdue,
     now 5-0, held a sixteen points at the half, 42-26, and maintained
     a margin at least that large throughout the rest of the game.
     14,223 watched joyously in Mackey Arena.

WICHITA STATE 75, Texas A&I 64:  This is all I have on this game...

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Sunday (12-20)
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 108, Radford 82:  The Salukis make it to the semi-final
     of the San Juan Shootout with this first-round win.  I do not have
     any further information on this game yet, unfortunately.  SIU will
     play second-seeded Mississippi State, 58-51 winners over Florida
     International.  (The Salukis are the tournament's third seed.)

     In the other bracket, Iowa routed 101-47 over the American University
     (Puerto Rico) and Eastern Michigan topped Illinois- Chicago, 89-81.
     The Hawkeyes led American only 37-24 at the half, but blitzed A.U.
     with a 37-2 run early in the second half.

          The brackets for the Shootout at this point are:

                -- American University               Iowa --
             --|                                            |--
            |   -- Illinois-Chicago      Eastern Michigan --   | 
          --|                                                  |--
            |   -- Radford              Southern Illinois --   |
             --|                                            |--
                -- Florida Int'l        Mississippi State --

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GAMES THIS WEEK
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December 21
     ILLINOIS STATE at CREIGHTON
     San Jose State at DRAKE
     Kansas State at WICHITA STATE
     SOUTHERN ILLINOIS vs Mississippi State (in the San Juan Shootout)

December 22
     Purdue at SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE
     SOUTHERN ILLINOIS vs Iowa or Eastern Michigan (in the San Juan Shootout)

December 23
     BRADLEY at Maine
     CREIGHTON at Siena
     TULSA at Arkansas

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STANDINGS
---------         Overall       MVC       --------  Ratings  --------
Team              W     L     W     L     USA Today/CNN    AP Sagarin
----              --   --     --   --     -------------    -- -------
Tulsa              4    4      1    0
Southern Illinois  5    0      0    0
SW Missouri State  5    0      0    0
Drake              3    1      0    0
Indiana State      4    3      0    0
Bradley            2    2      0    0
Wichita State      2    2      0    0
Northern Iowa      2    4      0    0
Creighton          0    3      0    0
Illinois State     2    3      0    1
                  --   --
Total             29   22

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~~~~ Eugene Wallingford   ~~~~  Dept of Computer Science     ~~~~
~~~~ wallingf@cs.uni.edu  ~~~~  University of Northern Iowa  ~~~~
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