In MVC play this year LU is undefeated at home. All 4 of our MVC road losses are to the MVC teams with the 5 best records (the 5th team is Bradley who we will play on the road the last regular season of the year).
One factor for these losses is that of the 9 LU players who have played the most minutes for LU this season, 6 had never played a MVC road game & don’t know the opponents' gyms.
Another factor is that our only point guard (Keith Clemons), missed the 1st 10 games (counting the 2 exhibition games against St. Louis & Indianapolis) of the non-conference schedule when we went 4-6. But since he has been back, with time, it has helped the team chemistry a lot, & we have gone 14-5.
Early in MVC play I thought LU would go 12-6 and maybe 13-5. I still feel the same way. But nothing is a sure thing until we play the games.
Go Ramblers!
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