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Missouri Valley Basketball: 5 key questions for opening night of 2021-22 season

By Harry Schroeder

Northern Iowa guard A.J. Green takes the ball up court during a NCAA Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, at the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa.190105 Uni S Illinois 016 Jpg
Northern Iowa guard A.J. Green takes the ball up court during a NCAA Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, at the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa.190105 Uni S Illinois 016 Jpg /
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Opening night games bring important questions for all 10 Missouri Valley Basketball teams. As the curtain goes up on the 2021-22 season Valley fans are brimming with confidence. MVC teams return experienced, high-quality players that are being joined by talented newcomers.

Many Valley-watchers are predicting the conference will repeat last year’s performance of sending two teams to the NCAA Tournament, some are predicting three will be good enough to dance during March Madness.

But opening night will begin to unveil the storylines that will shape the season. In a league that returns eleven of last year’s fifteen all-conference players and the return of two elite-level Valley players that missed last season, the conference boasts of a great deal of talent.

All five players from last year’s all-freshman and all-newcomer teams return. In a transfer portal-driven sport, the Valley’s best players are back for another season that will come to its zenith in St. Louis during ‘Arch Madness’ (the MVC Post Season tournament).

Ten opening games tip on Tuesday and we have five burning questions that will start to be answered in those games. How those questions begin to be answered will go a long way to molding the season ahead.

The NCAA Selection Committee reminds us that all the games ‘weigh the same’ so November ninth is a weighty evening for the Missouri Valley Conference.