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2012-13 Missouri Valley Conference Review

2012-13 Review
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The 2012-13 season was an historic
one for the Missouri Valley Conference.
Wichita State reached the Final
Four, becoming the first Valley team
to do so since 1979. Included in
WSU’s run to Atlanta was a victory
over top-seeded Gonzaga, marking
only the fifth time in NCAA history a
No. 9 seed had defeated a No. 1.
Creighton’s Doug McDermott hovered around the national scoring leaders for much of the season (finishing
second overall at 23.2 ppg) and
became the first player in the MVC to
earn First-Team All-America honors in
back-to-back seasons in more than 25
years. For the second-straight year,
McDermott also won both the Larry
Bird Trophy and the MVC tourney’s
Most Outstanding Player award.
McDermott and Colt Ryan of Evansville both surpassed 2,000 career
points last year and each finished
among the Top 8 all-time in Missouri
Valley Conference scoring history.
Six teams reached post-season
play, and the league ’s 13 total postseason victories set an all-time
record. Notably, the league’s postseason win percentage (.684, 13-6)
was second only to the West Coast
Conference (10-3), and the 13 total
post-season wins were behind only
the Big Ten (19) and Big East (16).
The Valley has had four or more
post-season bids in the same season
19 times, including each of the last 10
seasons. In the past nine years, The
Valley has combined for 63 post-season wins, including last year’s record
win total of 13.
In 2012-13, four teams reached 20
victories, including Wichita State (30),
Creighton (28), UNI (21) and Evansville (21). The league has now had
four or more 20-win teams in each of
the past nine seasons. Meanwhile,
Wichita State and Creighton became
the first pair of MVC teams to reach
28 or more victories in the same year.
In 2012-13, the Missouri Valley
Conference was 94-50 in non-conference play. That included 11 wins
against schools from BCS leagues and
four wins against top-25 schools.
Wichita State (4) and Creighton
(21) were in the season-ending USA
Today Coaches poll. The Valley has
now had two ranked teams in that
poll at the end of the year in three of
the past eight years (2006-12-13).

Back in the Final Four

2012-13 Standings
Creighton
Wichita State
UNI
Evansville
Indiana State
Illinois State
Bradley
Drake
Missouri State
Southern Illinois

13-5
12-6
11-7
10-8
9-9
8-10
7-11
7-11
7-11
6-12

28-8
30-8
21-15
21-15
18-15
18-15
18-17
15-17
11-22
14-17

‘Larry Bird’ Player of the Year:
Doug McDermott, Creighton
Coach of the Year:
Gregg Marshall, Wichita State
Tournament MOP:
Doug McDermott, Creighton
NCAA Tournament Qualifiers:
Creighton, Wichita State
NIT Tournament Qualifier:
Indiana State
CIT Tournament Qualifiers:
Bradley, Evansville, UNI

2 in the NCAAs Again

For the second-straight year, the
MVC had two teams qualify for the
NCAA Tournament as Creighton (AQ)
and Wichita State (at-large) represented the league. Creighton won the
2013 MVC Tournament, and Wichita
State was the 2013 MVC regular-season runner-up and MVC Tournament
runner-up. Notably, the MVC had two
or more NCAA bids in 12 of 14 seasons from 1994-2007 (including ninestraight seasons from 1999-2007).

For the 17th time in conference history, a team from the Missouri Valley
reached the Final Four. Wichita State
lost to eventual national champion
Louisville, 72-68, in the semifinals.
It marked the first Final Four trip for
a Valley team since 1979.

Non-Champs in NCAAs?

New Mexico State (1979), Illinois
State (1985), Wichita State (1988
and 2013), Missouri State (1999),
UNI (2005), Bradley (2006) and UNI
(2006) are the only at-large qualifiers
from The Valley who failed to win the
league regular-season or tourney title
in the year they qualified.

Non-Conference Success

MVC teams combined for a 94-50
non-conference record. That includes
11 wins against schools from BCS
football leagues and four wins vs.
top-25 teams. The 94 non-league
victories are the most all-time in MVC
history in one season.
Year Non-Conf. (No. of MVC teams) | Most
2013 94-50 (10 teams) | Wichita State (16-2)
2007 90-36 (10 teams) | Southern Illinois (12-3)
2010 90-36 (10 teams) | Missouri State (14-1)

Post-Season Success

From 2006-13, The Valley had 63
total post-season wins, including a
league-record 13 in 2012-13.
Most MVC Postseason Wins, Single Season
13 -- 2013 (UNI-3, UE-3, BU-2-CIT) (WSU-4, CU-1-NCAA)
12 -- 2011 (MSU, WSU-5-NIT); (CU-4, UE-CBI) (UNI-CIT)
8 -- 2010 (UNI-2, NCAA); (MSU-4, CU-2, CIT)
8 -- 1981 (Tulsa-5, NIT); (WSU-3, NCAA)

Post-Season Streaks

In 2013, for just the sixth time
in MVC history, six or more teams
reached post-season play. Below are
the six that made post-season in the
Missouri Valley Conference last year,
with prior post-season visit denoted.
Team, Tourney, Post-Season Streak (Previous)
Bradley (CIT)
Creighton (NCAA)
Evansville (CIT)
Indiana State (NIT)
UNI (CIT)
Wichita State (NCAA)

*league record

1
*16
3
4
5
5

CIT (2009)
NCAA (2012)
CBI (2012)
CIT (2012)
NIT (2012)
NCAA (2012)

Evansville’s Colt Ryan and Creighton’s
Doug McDermott surpassed 2,000 career
points in 2012-13, marking just the third
time in history that a pair of MVC players
reached that plateau in the same year.