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Next 3 Road games will be tough.
League Play
SIU 4-4 (lost last 3 after beating Valpo)
Drake 7-1
Ind St. 7-1

Win 3 home games to go 3-4 vs UE, MoSt, and UNI.

It's a Saturday afternoon game, 15 degrees out and the Packers don't play till tonight.  Hope the crowd isn't blah, the band is lively, because I'm saying the Beacons surprise us all and win by 12
Plus a fun halftime dunk show

Hounds loose in overtime by 5!
Beacons finally continuously push the ball fast up the court to stay in this game!
Students back yet???

Ugly...not much positive outside of deaveiro. Both ends of the court were trash tonight. Cooper looked like he was as in space. Senseless turnovers


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....isn't that the truth 219.

This is the only regular season game against the Braves.  I still get fired up every time I see Wardle wobble into the Arc .
I want to be optimistic here and say Valpo wins by 5, but realistically I can see the Beacons loosing by 15.  Interesting enough Valpo plays Bradley better in the ARC (5-3) as to in Peoria (0-7), but the Beacons have lost the last 5 in a row vs the Braves. 
New year, new beginning can Valpo pull this one off? It kind of depends on how Stafford looks.  Will he play big minutes, and if so can he produce or will his injury hinder his production?  Excited to see how it all plays out.

No live internet feed to watch the game?

Pay wall.

Probably a good thing because this game started poor for the Beacons down 15 halfway through the first.
Tons of missed shots by Valpo.

No live internet feed to watch the game?

History my man I'm gonna say it will be a close one and Valpo pulls a 3 point win out of nowhere 
-Why not!
Let's see how this new team/coaching staff responds after letting the Cougar game get away from them.

over under 1,200 in attendance tonight.? RIP in Jim Kerwin. Great rivalry for 5 years. Garrick Vicks, Janthony Joseph, Milsap, Orlando Patrick Three Mid Con Title Matches. Two were down to the wire. The triple overtime thriller and the lesser talked about one. The title match in the Quad Cities, they had us on the ropes until the final minute!

My 
Attendance under 1,200.
Beacons light'em up 82-63

Am I seeing this right?
Stafford with 23 points at the half and the rest of the team total 22 points?
 
This will be an interesting 2nd half, hope the Beacons can continue to light em up!

My 
69-61
Beacons
Attendance just under 3,200
(would love to be proven wrong on this one)
But as others have said you gotta win to get butts in the seats.
Over 8 (3pters)
Band members (Over) 20.
Light Em Up Beacons!!!!!!

Excellent PO Victory Bell interview with Coach Powell. Roger discussed his early impressions about every player on the roster, his hopes for the season, etc. Highly inspiring.

Totally agree wh, it was a good one.  I hope PO's next interview will be about the teams non conference/conference schedule, potential future rivalries, and takes on bringing the band and students back to the ARC again.  The past interviews with Luke Gore were always fun to listen to.  Excited to hear how this new chapter in Valpo Basketball will be revealed.

A point that has not been discussed lately is will Valpo ever have a non conference rivalry?
With new leadership in place will a future non conference schedule introduce a new rivalry game or games for the Beacons?  Will we see Ball St. back on the the schedule?  Who wouldn't love Butler, Loyola even Oakland back on the non conference schedule.  Could Western Michigan *under 2 hrs drive be considered the start of a new rivalry (battle between the brown and gold).  I feel the program is missing a good consistent rivalry game that gets fans excited when scheduled.

[WIN]

In regards to the non conference schedule I feel that Valpo is playing the type of teams they should be at this point in time.  New coach, new players, all needs to jell before they take on some major talent.
Valpo finished bottom 3 of the MVC last season.  They are playing the bottom 2 teams in the Horizon League, bottom of the MAC, and Chicago St this season. Simply put, WIN and dominate these games, and I feel the non conference schedule should improve.  WIN more conference games and this non conference schedule should improve.

Three open slots to fill!!!
Only speculating here, but I could see a non D-1 game, a Chicago State kind of game, and perhaps a home and home round out the schedule.   I would have thought the Virginia Tech and Elon games would have been played on one road trip together, but we see that did not work out. Perhaps an away game may still be in the cards that can piggy back one of these road games down south?  Or will Powell bring in 3 more teams to the ARC to have 8 home games his first season coaching? Excited to see how it all pans out.
Right now we are hearing that Valpo has 5 home games scheduled and 3 on the road.

https://twitter.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1694346722967728583

To me the non- D1 games take away from a potential competitive D-1 game.  Give Valpo Chicago St. (which is not a given W anymore), IUPUI, PFW, Southern Indiana over a non-D1.  I feel Ball State and Northern Illinois should be on the schedule every year over Trinity Christian and North Park.
Over the last 15 years Valpo played 10 seasons against (2) non D-1 schools.  In 14-15 it was 3.  Valpo has played at least 1 non-D1 every year since 2004-2005. 

Samford to the ARC!!!
Return of last year's H/H!

5 Home games on the schedule so far.
Western Illinois.
Southern.
Green Bay.
IUPUI.
Samford.

https://twitter.com/TVBOren/status/1686651579493998592

Hosting second Horizon League team vs IUPUI @ THE ARC!!!
https://twitter.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1682100955431706625

[Thinking @P5, H/H, H/H, Buy]

Seems like at this point we have 7 games set. Looking for 4 more.
Thinking @P5, H/H, H/H, Buy

No Non D1? - bold thinking 🤔
With Illinois and Virginia Tech on the schedule I would lean more towards a H/H, Chicago St type game, Non -D1 and per perhaps a MAC team.

[The game will be a one-off guarantee game instead of the start of a home-and-home series, a potentially winnable contest but certainly a nice chunk of change for the Phoenix regardless]

Almost certain GB will be at the ARC this year in a game that was already finalized before Preston exit/Powell entrance.

The following was added yesterday online at Phear the Phoenix. Wouldn't it be great if Valpo could get Rowdy Broekhoff to visit for the game?

On Wednesday, November 15th, Green Bay will face the Valparaiso Beacons for the first time since they left the Horizon League for the Missouri Valley Conference in 2017.

Like GB, Valpo is also a program in transition after firing their head coach after last season.  Since moving to the MVC the Beacons (formerly Crusaders) have struggled to reach the winning ways they had become accustomed to in their previous conferences and will look to rebuild under first-time head coach Roger Powell.

The game will be a one-off guarantee game instead of the start of a home-and-home series, a potentially winnable contest but certainly a nice chunk of change for the Phoenix regardless.[/i]

Whoa.  We are doing a buy with UWGB?  That's creative.  To make this work, there's gotta be a heckuva lot of promotion to get at least 3,000+ butts in the ARC seats to pay for it. I like the go-for-it approach. So many things are changing around this program in so short a timeframe.

Like this game or not I think credit goes to the old regime for this scheduled game.  Despite the Phoenix 3-29 record last year I like this game, early in the season game vs. an old Horizon foe back at the ARC.

Just a guess but playing the Hokies may be part of the East Coast trip to complete the Home and Home with Elon which is just about a 3 hour drive south of Blacksburg.  Either way Valpo gets paid to play an ACC school....I like it!

[I want to say they left "Home of the Valparaiso University Crusaders" as part of our campus history.]

I want to say they left "Home of the Valparaiso University Crusaders" as part of our campus history. For the most part, Hilltop is strictly used to basketball practices, maybe even some baseball/softball work, but not sure that intramurals uses it. All the same, it's part of the University/Campus history, nothing to do with wars or fighting.

Agreed!!!!
The walls and halls are full of history at Hilltop. No one should take that away.  I love how the University embraces it at Hilltop Gym.

Never understood the Bud Light hate. It's the perfect drink to pair with anything at Cracker Barrel after a long day shopping at Target.

"Modelo Especial, the Mexican lager brewed near Mexico City by Constellation Brands, became the top-selling beer in May, overthrowing Bud Light from the top spot it has held for more than two decades."

A better beer IMHO and a better choice to support President Padilla's initiative to engage the Hispanic community.

They could be selling Old Style and I'd be thrilled.
I'm just happy they sell BEER!!!!!

[Illinois]

https://twitter.com/TVBOren/status/1666551479371481088

So.....
@ Illinois, what a great opportunity for a first year head coach to compete against his alma mater!
Home against Western Illinois University who now competes in the Ohio Valley.
Home vs Southern who finished at the top half of their conference.
Possibly home vs Samford
and @ Elon 2 return games of a H/H
I have to say this is starting to look like a fun schedule!
Now go get Ball State and I will be elated