The Missouri Valley Conference is no longer top heavy in men’s basketball.
That is good and bad and it is up to the nine schools that remain and addition Valparaiso to determine which wins out. In March, the nation will either view the MVC as an underdog story that surprised critics or a conference fading from the national scene.
“We have to make basketball more important on each campus,” Indiana State coach Greg Lansing said on a conference call Tuesday. “Each program in the league has to do that, if they want to fight for some NCAA berths and some championships … we have to go out of our element and not go with the status quo.