Braves Meet Evansville on Wednesday--bradleybraves.com
Bennie Seltzer previews Bradley game--Evansville Courier & Press
Arch Madness Simulator: Week 10--Eville-Ways
West Side Night set for Wednesday when UE plays Bradley--gopurpleaces.com
MVC basketball notebook: Another season with teams bunched up might be forthcoming--The Pantagraph
Root's (Power) Rankings: 2020 Week 1--Three Man Weave
Mid-Major Five
4. Northern Iowa
The Purple Panthers nearly went 0-2 this week, dropping a surprising game at Illinois State and then nearly falling victim at home to the shocking early return of Elijah Childs for a game Bradley squad. Thankfully, A.J. Green poured in 35 points by himself, allowing UNI to squeak by with a 5-point victory
The Other Top 25: A-10 teams rise, Furman cracks the top 10 and more changes from conference play--Mid-Major MadnessThe offense aside from Green was…not good, though. Senior shooter Spencer Haldeman missed the game with injury, and while he’s been bricky all year, the team missed him as a threat to space the floor, at the very least. The futility is probably best summed up like this: Green went 7/13 from deep, while everybody else on the roster went 1/13. UNI did separate itself from the Missouri Valley pack somewhat in non-conference play, but that may end up just painting a larger target on the Panthers’ back, as every Valley opponent will be bringing its best punches to the ring against them now.
The Other Top 25
| Rank | School | Record | Change | Our reasoning | This week's games |
|---|
| 9 | Northern Iowa | 12-2 | -1 | The Panthers narrowly averted disaster this week by ekeing by Bradley at home following a loss at Illinois State. | vs. Indiana State (1/7), @ Missouri State (1/11) |
| Bubble Watch: We’re back, and we’re going to need a bigger boat--The Athletic |
UNI men's basketball takeaways: Defensive effort needs to improve--The GazetteOther at-large contenders
Northern Iowa (10-2, 1-1; NET: 61, SOS: 114): The Panthers nearly took a massive victory against West Virginia on Nov. 26, before falling, 60-55. Had they managed it, they would have been set up nicely for what will be a challenging run through the Missouri Valley, the kind of league where top teams with ostensible at-large chances have to avoid losses at every turn. Instead, beating Colorado in the nonconference is probably not enough to make surviving losses to, say, Illinois State, where the Panthers fell last week, workable in the long term.
UNI men's basketball: Jacobson seeks defensive intensity--Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
SIU Men's Basketball | Salukis, Crusaders both rebuilding under young head coaches--The Southern Illinoisan
MVC Women's Basketball Notebook - Jan. 7--The Missouri Valley
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