What's Up In The Missouri Valley 3/27/2020

MVC & OVC – Henson All-Americans--Valley Hoops Insider

MVC Players

Missouri Valley Conference ‘Player of the Year‘ A.J. Green (Northern Iowa), Bradley’s Elijah Childs and Loyola’s Cameron Krutwig were named to the 40-man roster. Green led the Valley in scoring and the Panthers to a league title, while Childs sparked the Braves to an Arch Madness championship. Krutwig and Green were named to the Valley’s all-conference team. Childs was a second-teamer.

Zach Copeland named Illinois State men's basketball Most Valuable Player--The Pantagraph
Men’s Basketball Hosts Season-Ending Awards Banquet--goredbirds.com

Former ISU coach Luke Yaklich named UIC head coach--Vidette Online

NCAA’s storied party crashers includes ‘Dunk City,’ Loyola--Associated Press

2018 LOYOLA-CHICAGO

One of the lasting memories of the tournament was the Ramblers’ telegenic and now-100-year-old team chaplain, Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt. What they did on the court was pretty memorable, too.

Their run to the Final Four as an 11 seed never seemed short of drama. There was Donte Ingram making a 3-pointer with three-tenths of a second left to beat Miami. They got past Tennessee thanks to Clayton Custer’s jumper with 3.6 seconds to play. Marques Townes’ 3 with 7 seconds left held off Nevada’s comeback bid in the regional semifinals.

All that made a 16-point win over Kansas State in the Elite Eight look easy.

The Ramblers’ 14-game win streak finally ended when Michigan erased a 10-point deficit in the second half to beat them 69-57.

Coronavirus: Missouri State athletics will feel impact from NCAA Tournament's cancellation--Springfield News-Leader

Postseason Awards: All Mid-Major Madness Second Team--Mid-Major Madness

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A.J. Green — Northern Iowa

2019-20 stats: 19.7 PPG – 3.0 APG – 92% FT – 39% 3PT

Here’s a shock: Ben Jacobson’s team overachieved this year and was, in fact, really really good. Northern Iowa had the 23rd most efficient offense in college basketball, led by its 6’4 sophomore stud, A.J. Green. This guy was excellent in 2018-19, but made a name for himself this year early when the Panthers knocked off Power 5 opponents South Carolina and Colorado. In those two games, played two weeks apart, he averaged 23 points, shot 7-15 from three, and went 13-15 from the line. It was merely a preview for what was to come.

In MVC play, he averaged 21.8 points per game and received 39 out of 49 first-place votes in league player of the year voting. No team in the conference relied on one player more, as Green played more than 90 percent of his team’s minutes — first in the MVC — and was used on 29.9 percent of possessions, which ranked third.

Bowen Born Named Gatorade Iowa Boys Basketball Player of the Year--unipanthers.com

Salukis' 6-year NCAA Tournament run started with Sweet comeback--The Southern Illinoisan
Marcus Domask named Freshman All-American--siusalukis.com