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2014 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", as part of the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season was played in St. Louis, Missouri March 6–9 at the Scottrade Center. The championship game was televised on CBS on Sunday March 9 at 1:05 pm (central). The tournament's winner received the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA tournament. Tournament bracket Game summaries Tournament notes *Wichita State's championship win made them the first team to enter the NCAA tournament undefeated since UNLV in 1991 Awards The following were honored as the top players of the tournament:http://www.mvc-sports.com/mbasketball/14alltournament/ Men's Basketball - 2014 All-Tournament Team - MVC-Sports.com *Tekele Cotton, Wichita State *Fred VanVleet, Wichita State *Cleanthony Early, Wichita State *Jake Odum, Indiana State *D.J. Balentine, Evansville Tekele Cotton of the Wichita State Shockers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottrade Center
The Enterprise Center is an 18,096-seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Its primary tenant is the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, but it is also used for other functions, such as NCAA basketball, NCAA hockey, concerts, professional wrestling and more. In a typical year, the facility hosts about 175 events. Industry trade publication Pollstar has previously ranked Enterprise Center among the top ten arenas worldwide in tickets sold to non-team events, but the facility has since fallen into the upper sixties, as of 2017. The arena opened in 1994 as the Kiel Center. It was known as the Savvis Center from 2000 to 2006, and Scottrade Center from 2006 to 2018. On May 21, 2018, the St. Louis Blues and representatives of Enterprise Holdings, based in St. Louis, announced that the naming rights had been acquired by Enterprise and that the facility's name, since July 1, 2018, adopted its current name. History The site was home to Charles H. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013–14 Northern Iowa Panthers Men's Basketball Team
The 2013–14 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Northern Iowa during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by eighth year head coach Ben Jacobson, played their home games at McLeod Center and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference. They last played in the Missouri Valley Tournament where they lost to the Southern Illinois Salukis in the quarterfinals Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9 style="background:#660099; color:#FFD700;", Exhibition , - !colspan=9 style="background:#660099; color:#FFD700;", Regular season , - !colspan=9 style="background:#660099; color:#FFD700;", References {{DEFAULTSORT:2013-14 Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball seasons Northern Iowa Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball The Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team represents the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana State Sycamores Men's Basketball
The Indiana State Sycamores basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. They currently compete in the Missouri Valley Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 2011. The Sycamores' first season was 1896, making them the oldest basketball team in the NCAA along with Bucknell, Minnesota, Washington and Yale; however, the records from 1896 to 1899 no longer exist. The Sycamores boast two College Players of the Year, 14 All-Americans, 40 1,000-point scorers, and 1,510+ victories. Their victory count places them in the top 70 of all NCAA Division I programs. In addition, the Sycamores have 26 postseason appearances (7 NCAA, 4 NIT, 1 CBI, 1 CIT, 12 NAIA, and the 1936 Olympic Trials) with five national championship appearances (2 NCAA, 3 NAIA). Seven Sycamores were members of the 1951 Pan-American Games gold medal-winning team. The Sycamores' most memorable season was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita State Shockers Men's Basketball
The Wichita State Shockers men's basketball team is the NCAA Division I college basketball program representing Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The Shockers have made 16 appearances in the NCAA tournament, reaching the Final Four twice, the Elite Eight four times, and the Sweet Sixteen six times. The team plays its home games at Charles Koch Arena, where it averaged 10,391 fans per game in 2012, ranking 38th nationally. The Shockers have made two Final Four appearances, losing both games. They made their first Final Four appearance in 1965 losing to UCLA 89–108. They made their second appearance in 2013, losing to Louisville 68–72. In 2014, Wichita State defeated the Northern Iowa Panthers in the regular season finale for their 9th Missouri Valley conference regular season title, becoming two-time defending MVC champions. The Shockers completed a perfect, undefeated regular season and swept the conference post-season tournament en route to a #1 seed in the NCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Odum
Jacob Andrew "Jake" Odum (born February 11, 1991) is an Assistant basketball coach for Indiana State. He's also a former American professional basketball player who last played for Pistoia Basket 2000 of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He is a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall point guard-shooting guard. Coaching career Odum is an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, Indiana State assuming the position on Sept 3, 2020. He previously served as the Indiana State assistant director of player personnel / assistant strength coach during the 2019-20 season upon retiring from professional basketball after 5 season in European leagues. College career Odum played college basketball at Indiana State University, with the Sycamores, from 2010 to 2014. He led the Sycamores to a 4-yr record of 79–55 (.590), a MVC title and 4 post-season tournament berths (1x NCAA, 2x NIT, 1x CiT). He currently stands 6th in career scoring (1,568 pts), 13th in career rebounds (617), 2nd in as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleanthony Early
Cleanthony Early (born April 17, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Dynamo Lebanon of the Lebanese Basketball League. He was an All-American college player at Wichita State University after a stint at Sullivan County Community College. Early life and high school career Early was born in The Bronx. After Early's cousin was murdered, his mother decided to leave the city and relocate to suburban Middletown, New York when he was 14. Early attended Pine Bush High School in Pine Bush, New York before transferring to Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina. Tragedy affected Early once again after his brother drowned in Schoharie Creek at age 32. This led to Early wanting to be closer to his family and attending Sullivan County Community College. As a high school junior, Early told the ''Times Herald-Record'' that he was only tall despite being listed at . Considered a two-star recruit by ESPN.com, Early was listed as the No. 102 small forward i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred VanVleet
Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr. (born February 25, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, VanVleet played college basketball for Wichita State University before beginning his NBA career. He contributed to a resurgence of Wichita State Shockers basketball that included a Final Four run by the 2012–13 Shockers team and an undefeated regular season by the 2013–14 team. VanVleet was named as a 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American by a variety of media outlets. As a junior for the 2014–15 Shockers, he was an All-Missouri Valley Conference first team selection and received All-American honorable mention recognition from the Associated Press. VanVleet is the Wichita State career assists leader and was named Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year as both a sophomore and a senior. After going undrafted in the 2016 NBA Draft, VanVleet signed with the To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990–91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels Basketball Team
The 1990–91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in NCAA Division I men's competition in the 1990–91 season. The Runnin' Rebels, coached by Jerry Tarkanian, entered the season as defending national champions and entered the 1991 NCAA tournament unbeaten, but lost in the national semifinal to eventual champions Duke when Anderson Hunt's desperation three in the final seconds bounced off the backboard and into the hands of a Duke player, Bobby Hurley, ending a 45-game winning streak that dated back to the previous season. They had been the last team to finish the regular season unbeaten before St. Joseph's did it in 2004. They were the last team to enter the NCAA tournament unbeaten until Wichita State did it in 2014, Kentucky in 2015, and Gonzaga in 2021. The team played its home games in the Thomas & Mack Center, and was a member of the Big West Conference; it would join the Western Athletic Conference in 1996 and become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNLV Runnin' Rebels Basketball
The UNLV Runnin' Rebels are the men's basketball team that represent the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the Mountain West Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); it plays at the Thomas & Mack Center on campus. As of 2009, UNLV had the fourth-highest winning percentage (.712) in Division I history, ranking behind Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas, but ahead of UCLA and Duke. UNLV is 33–19 all-time in the NCAA tournament with a 63.5 winning percentage. In July 2008, ESPNU named the program the eighth most prestigious collegiate basketball program in the nation since the 1984–85 season. History The glory years In 1977, just seven years after joining Division I, The Rebels made the Final Four in a squad today known as the "Hardway Eight". Ten years later, the team made the Final Four with one loss. In 1990, UNLV won the NCAA Championship by beating Duke by a record-setting margin of 103–73, becoming the first team and only team to score ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship. The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State coach Harold Olsen. Played mostly during March, it has become one of the biggest annual sporting events in the United States. It has become extremely common in popular culture to predict the outcomes of each game, even among non-sports fans; it is estimated that tens of millions of Americans participate in a bracket pool contest every year. Mainstream media outlets such as ESPN, CBS Sports and Fox Sports host tournaments online where contestants can enter for free. Employers have also noticed a change in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita State
Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in six colleges. The university's graduate school offers 44 master's degrees in more than 100 areas and a specialist in education degree. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Wichita State University also hosts classes at four satellite locations: WSU West in Maize, WSU South in Derby, and the WSU Downtown Center that houses the university's Center for Community Support & Research, the Department of Physician Assistant, and the Department of Physical Therapy. A quarter-mile northeast of campus, the Advanced Education in General Dentistry building, built in 2011, houses classrooms and a dental clinic. It is adjacent to the university's Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, where many of WSU noncredi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013–14 Southern Illinois Salukis Men's Basketball Team
The 2013–14 Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team represented Southern Illinois University Carbondale during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Salukis, led by second year head coach Barry Hinson, played their home games at the SIU Arena and were members of the Missouri Valley Conference. They finished the season 14–19, 9–9 in MVC play to finish in a three way tie for fourth place. They advanced to the semifinals of the Missouri Valley tournament where they lost to Indiana State. Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9 style="background:#800000; color:#FFFFFF;", Exhibition , - !colspan=9 style="background:#800000; color:#FFFFFF;", Regular season , - !colspan=9 style="background:#800000; color:#FFFFFF;", References {{DEFAULTSORT:2013-14 Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball seasons Southern Illinois Southern Southern Southern may refer to: Busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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