Primarily a collection of news links about all 12 Missouri Valley League teams on a daily basis, culled from online newspapers, school athletic websites, the conference website, and school newspapers, plus some other content from time to time.
In the world of mid-major basketball, one star is great — but two is
better. We’ll start, then, with a few of the top pairings outside of the
high-major conferences.
You're looking at a pretty incredible run for the trio of Brice Calip, Jasmine Franklin and Abby Hipp.
The three have been starters on three NCAA-worthy teams. Have a chance to be on a fourth.
With all due respect to the stellar career of Abby Hipp, the largest share of the Bears’ recent run of success can be attributed to Brice Calip and Jasmine Franklin.
Both will return in 2021-22 as Missouri State eyes a return to the Big
Dance after earning their own No. 5 seed. Unlike Gonzaga, the Bears made
it to the second round, where they were trounced by eventual national
champion Stanford. Calip (13.6 ppg, 4.1 apg, 2.1 spg) is the reigning
MVC Player of the Year and is coming back for a super senior year. In
fact, this will be the sixth season that Calip has played for MSU,
having taken a redshirt after six appearances in 2016-17. Making up the
other half of this dynamic pairing is Franklin (12.0 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 2.3
spg), who was an All-MVC First Teamer in her own right. She will look to
repeat that achievement as she enters her senior season in Springfield.
The long tradition of Missouri State women’s hoops remains in great
hands thanks to this group.
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