The 2017-18 Missouri Valley Conference is unfolding as one of its strangest in recent history. The conference’s two pre-season favorites are now the two worst and the pre-seasons predicted last place team is now one of the three best.
Before the season began, one could’ve thrown each team in a lottery wheel, spun it and picked out teams one by one, from 1st to 10th, and been better off predicting where the teams would finish in the season to come.
The fluctuation and rise of overpreforming teams odes to the Valley’s high competition — there is no outlier.