(11-08-2019 10:47 PM)stever20 Wrote: Utah 143
Miss Valley St 49
Final
biggest D1 over D1 MOV ever.
1. Mississippi Valley State lost by 94 while scoring more than Virginia, who won.
2. Last season's largest margin of victory over a Division I team was 69 in Nebraska's 106-37 win over Mississippi Valley State. The last three complete seasons all had their largest margin of victory over a Division I team be exactly 69.
3. The previous win over a Division I team by at least 75 was Tennessee's 124-49 win over UNC Asheville on November 17, 2009.
4. Including Grambling's non-Division I win, the SWAC had a 95 point win and 94 point loss in one day.
(11-09-2019 09:12 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (11-09-2019 12:22 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: Delta Devils used to have a proud program. Just checked basketball reference and they haven’t hit 10 wins since 2012.
I watched the highlight reel on YouTube ... MVSU looked disinterested from the jump. They're worse than Utah but they're not THAT worse than Utah. That's what it looks like when one team doesn't even really try.
Some teams, and especially HBCUs, play almost all of their nonconference games away including long trips to teams in top conferences. It must not be fun for the players, and it's not their fault. A lot of the nonconference home games these teams get are non-Division. Mississippi Valley State plays all 12 nonconference games away, and the third shortest trip if done by land is 6:46 to Missouri State. Their losses to Iowa State and Utah are their only games against the P5, but six of their remaining ten are against teams from conferences whose top team is sometimes a bubble team or better. They play three vs. the MAC and one vs. the MVC, WCC, and CUSA. They opened on November 5, and have their home opener on January 4. Another SWAC team is Arkansas-Pine Bluff. They play one non-Division I home game and 12 nonconference away games. They play four at P5s, two at the AAC, Gonzaga, New Mexico State (Top 50 in the NET last season), and Grand Canyon (Top 100 in the NET last season).
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket...id=3221302 is from February 14, 2008 and tells how poor SWAC school Alcorn State is. I'm not saying this should happen, but the only way to avoid blowouts is a spending limit or revenue sharing like pro leagues have.