What's Up In The Missouri Valley: What's Up In The Missouri Valley 3/1/2022

Missouri Valley Basketball: 2022 Conference Tournament preview--Busting Brackets
Previewing Friday's Missouri Valley Tournament match-ups--Vidette Online

Roberts Highlights All-Valley Selections; Earns Newcomer of the Year & First-Team Honors--bradleybraves.com

Drake men's basketball guard D.J. Wilkins tears ACL, will miss entire postseason--Des Moines Register

Watch now: Illinois State's Antonio Reeves named to all-MVC second team--The Pantagraph
Sermersheim: Redbirds need to show maturity in order to play past Thursday--Vidette Online

Neese, Henry earn MVC basketball postseason honors--Terre Haute Tribune Star

Bubble Watch: Rejoice in the streets people, because you know what month it is--The Athletic

Others
Work to do: Loyola Chicago, North Texas, Memphis, Davidson, SMU, BYU, VCU
Loyola Chicago (21-7, 13-5; NET: 31, SOS: 115): For another reminder of how hard it can be to pick your way through a mid-major league, check out Loyola, which took its fifth loss in Missouri Valley play Saturday in overtime at Northern Iowa. It’s a testament to the Ramblers’ work in the nonconference (including their hastily arranged neutral-court win over San Francisco, which proved crucial) that they are even still in consideration here; most years, five losses in the Valley would end the discussion. Four of these losses are Quadrant 2 (home versus a good Drake team is the exception), making them at least tenable, but heading in to their Arch Madness fixture against Bradley the Ramblers are a bubble team in a way they simply weren’t a month ago.

Four Ramblers Make Appearance on MVC All-Conference Honors--Loyola Phoenix
Four Ramblers Secure All-MVC Recognition--loyolaramblers.com