Saint Louis jumped out to an early lead against KP #28 Memphis and lead throughout the game winning 90-84 and looked good in the process.
Missouri Valley Basketball: Grades for each team 1st week of 2022-23 (bustingbrackets.com)
Saulkis still get an A-, along with Bradley, behind Drake and Indiana State who received A's.
Valley Games Tonight:
Valpo @ Chicago State underway
SEMO @ Evansville about to start on ESPN+ (Evansville favored by 2)
Missouri State @ BYU at 8:00 PM on BYU-TV (BYU favored by 10)
Welp Valpo is down 18 in the first half to Chicago State
Valpo is terrible for this league…
SEMO up 15 on Evansville in the first half. OVC looking to take a 2-1 lead in the Valley Challenge
Chicago State 87
Valpo 74
Final
SEMO beats Evansville 67-61. Really bad night for the Valley.
Missouri State is only down 3 at BYU though early in the 2nd half.
BYU wins with 1 second left over Missouri State
Pretty good showing by the Bears on the road. I think MSU and Indiana State will challenge for the mvc top 5 along with Drake, Southern and Bradley. There may be a significant drop after the top 5 as it looks like Belmont, Murray, UNI and others have rebuilding projects going on.BYU wins with 1 second left over Missouri State
Missouri Valley Games Today:
Murray State vs Texas A&M 3:00 PM ESPN2 in Conway, SC (A&M favored by 12.5)
North Dakota State @ Indiana State 6:00 PM ESPN+ (Indiana State favored by 11.5)
Northwestern State @ Illinois State 7:00 PM ESPN+ (Illinois State favored by 6.5)
Murray State goes to the half up 7 against #24 Texas A&M in their MTE
Murray St. now up 12 with 13 minutes left.
Great win by Murray State. The Valley needed that bad after last night. Murray State might be creeping up in that top tier of teams below Drake.
