Drake Leads Missouri Valley Conference as Top Contender

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00:001 p.m. Eastern Time our first men's game of the day Southern Illinois a slight

00:06favorite in St. Louis against Indiana State not quite the Indiana State team

00:11of a year ago of Robbie Avila and what they had but those guys are in St. Louis

00:17now not truly like currently in the state of in the city of St. Louis like

00:22Indiana State the Sycamores those guys Josh shirts and Robbie Avila went to

00:26St. Louis University I'll stop talking so let's get to the actual odds that we

00:31see for the conference tournament Drake 27 and 3 first year under Ben McCollum

00:38they have the best record in the league a program record 27 wins in the regular

00:44season 17 in terms of their conference outlook the most they have ever seen in

00:49the Bulldogs booked as the favorites the RS to win arch madness there is some

00:55conversation if Drake comes up short because there's a really good Bradley

01:00team right behind him and they released out northern Iowa team that if Drake

01:04does not win the automatic bid out of the Missouri Valley can they be an at

01:08large team my hope would be yes but we shall see these are the stakes that we

01:14have now even deeper in a conference tournament week yeah it's fun to watch

01:18it play out and again these two teams are two teams that play each and every

01:21game obviously they're playing on a neutral court site the one thing that

01:24you like about Drake is they're really good and they're really efficient but

01:27also been extremely slow like glacier paste snails play slow which limits the

01:34possessions in games so if you can get them out of the rhythm that could help

01:37but there's one thing that usually happens when you run at that slow pace

01:40you need to be ultra efficient and they are the best basketball team on offense

01:44in that conference and also how about this they get to the free throw line

01:47more than anybody else so you're slow if you overcompensate on defense you get

01:51bored you foul that just feeds right into it I'll tell you one team that's a

01:54lot of fun that you might want to see even betting against or betting for its

01:57Illinois State extremely good on offense but horrendous on defense here which is

02:03a great matchup which you choose we like to bet on overs or props or totals to

02:07get involved a team that can get after it one way and not stop anybody on the

02:10other but it is clear Drake is the best team in this conference but again that

02:14Virginia style slow pace here you usually play in some tough games that

02:19could cost you in the end of it not saying it will but it might