Jan 2, 2020 at 5:48 PM
PEORIA — Without a doubt, the Missouri Valley Conference has shown much improvement as a men’s basketball league from a decidedly down year in 2018-19.
With its nonconference season complete, the MVC is ranked as the 11th best league by KenPom.com among the 32 Division I conferences. Since they’ll just be playing themselves until postseason, 11th is likely where the Valley will end up. The No. 10 league, the Mountain West Conference, has a large numerical power rating edge on the MVC and the No. 12 conference, the Mid-American, is well behind the MVC.