Bradley vs drake mvc championship

St. Louis, MO - With an attendance of 7,952 packing the Enterprise Center the Missouri Valley Conference Championship came down to 2 teams. The #1 seed Drake University and the #2 seed Bradley University. These teams split their regular season matchups. The first half was what was to expected from these 2 teams with 6 ties and multiple lead changes. Drake went in at halftime up 31-27. With starting forward Ahmet Jonovic seemingly limited on minutes Bradley relied on their bench to make up for the missed 7’1 Serbian Center. Bradley ended the first half on a 4 minute scoreless steak, which led into the 2nd half that started with another 4 minute scoreless streak. Drake being led by Junior Guard Bennet Stirtz, who was also the Larry Bird Missouri Conference Player of the Year, put up 24 points. Stirtz went 5-7 from the 3 point line and played all but the last 30 seconds of the game once it was well in hand. Drake carried the momentum most of the 2nd half. Bradley made a great effort late, but an interesting situation where both teams ended up on the free throw line and a long review ended their momentum run.

Drake would go on to win their 3rd straight Missouri Valley Conference title. Coach Ben McCollum is the 9th first year coach to win the MVC in their first year. Drake will now wait patiently for Selection Sunday to find out their fate in the NCAA tournament.

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Robert morris vs lindenwood womens hockey

Coming off a hard fought 3-3 tie with a shoutout loss the (3-16-2) Lindenwood Lions hosted the (6-14-3) Robert Morris University. The first period started off business as usual with a 0-0 tie. Robert Morris Redshirt Sophomore Goaltender Maggie Hatch faced 5 shots in the first period, and Lindenwood Freshman Goaltender Catherine Hodgins stopped 6 shots of her own. The second period started with penalty kill from Lindenwood where they racked up 5 blocked shots. Graduate Student Chloe Corbin unselfishly blocked 2 shots on this powerplay, and led the team with 4 blocked shots for the game. Sophomore Forward Alyssa Rasmuson scored her first goal of her career with Robert Morris at 8:58 into the second period. She was assisted by Sophomore Forward Catriona Crarer and team captain Graduate Student Allyson Hebert. Lindenwood was able to kill part of a 5 on 3 powerplay before Robert Morris Junior Forward Morgan Giannone went short side from the faceoff dot to make it 2-0 Robert Morris heading into the third. Lindenwood came out in the third knowing they a tough road ahead to get back into the game. They peppered Hatch with 18 shots in the third period. With about 5 minutes to play Lindenwood pulled Hodgins for the extra attacker. With 2:39 left on the clock Sophomore Defender Thalia D’Elia found the back of the net from the neutral zone sealing the game for Robert Morris. This was Hatch’s second shutout of the season.

music city bowl iowa vs mizzou

With an attendance of 43,375, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville Tennessee, the (9-3) Missouri Tigers hosted the (8-4) Iowa Hawkeyes in the 2024 Music City Bowl. Junior Brendan Sullivan led the Hawkeyes to a opening drive touchdown with a 6 yard pass to Terrell Washington Jr. after the Hawkeyes defense stopped the Missouri offense on their first drive. Missouri was quick to answer scoring on their next drive with an 8 yard touchdown pass from Graduate Brady Cook to Theo Wease. The Missouri sideline barely had any time to celebrate as Redshirt Freshman Blake Craig’s ensuing kickoff was returned 100 yards by Iowa Senior Kaden Wetjen. Brady Cook again took the Tigers 75 yards down the field to tie the game at 14 with a 2 yard pass to Sophomore Marquis Johnson. Iowa seemed to move the ball freely with great rushing performances by Redshirt Freshman Kamari Moulton who ended up with 96 yards on 14 carries and Sophomore Jaziun Patterson who had 74 yards on just 9 carries. Moulton scored late in the 2nd quarter and Iowa took a 21-14 lead into halftime.

Iowa came out in the second half and added 3 points thanks to Junior Kicker Drew Stevens to take a lead of 24-14 midway through the third. From then on Missouri’s defense had seen enough. Missouri cut it to 24-21 with a Sophomore Joshua Manning rushing touchdown on a reverse after a rushing touchdown by Cook was called back due to an illegal motion penalty. This led us to the fourth quarter. Missouri’s first drive in the fourth quarter was capped off with a 51 yard field goal by Craig tying the game at 24-24. Iowa needed an answer but after just 3 plays they were forced to punt the ball back to Missouri who was now in control of the game. “I’ll be honest, I blackout when I go out for kicks,” Craig mentioned postgame after he stepped up for a 56 yard field goal to take the lead 27-24. Missouri’s defense would hold and Missouri would go on to win the 2024 Music City Bowl 27-24 giving them double digits wins in back to back seasons.