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Well, looking back at my predictions, I was pretty close. Creighton and SIU did finish tied for the East lead, Evansville 3rd and Indiana State 4th. In the west, Wichita State got a lucky win here and there to win outright, with NIU and GW 2nd and 3rd.

As the CT opens, SIU, NIU, GW and Creighton all have PT worthy RPIs, so its going to be interesting to see who can improve their position and get into the NT, who follows seeding and stays in the PT, and if anyone loses their opening round games and drops out of the postseason completely (hope not). Potential matchups between GW & Creighton in the second round, and then betwee the winner of that and Wichita State and NIU/SIU in the semi's could be some classic games.

My picks for the conference awards, based solely on performance, not on ratings:

First Team all MVC

PG Daniel Fitting - SIU

SG Roger Merchant - SIU

SF Paul Maxwell - NIU

PF Daniel Raymond - Creighton

C - George Curry - Wichita State

2nd Team

PG James King - GW

SG Xavier Rivera - Drake

SF Terry Clark - SIU

PF Victor Sorrentino - Indiana State

C Gary Locke - Illinois State

3rd Team

PG - Albert Singleton - WKU

SG - Gerald Stewart - Wichita State

SF -Timothy Thompson - Evansville

PF - Brandon Clark - GW

C - Peter Carmona - GW

Player of the Year: Paul Maxwell (NIU)

Def Player of the Year: George Curry (WSU)

Frosh of the Year - Terry Benson(WSU) over Grant Bailey(Missouri State)

Benson 20.7mpg, 49.1%/47.3%/72.7%, 2.2rpg, 2.2apg, 1.2 to, 0.9 stl, 1.7pf, 5.8ppg

Bailey 20.8mpg, 46.6%/39.2%/75.8% 1.3rpg, 1.2apg, 1.6 to, 0.7 stl, 1.4pf, 7.8pts

Benson wins on rebounds, assists, turnovers, steals and shooting %. Bailey's extra 2 ppg don't quite make up for that in my mind, but we'll see. I am surprised by the number of sim players on this list, but they had great stats.

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