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Daily Conference Poll: Who Will Win the Summit?
October 4th, 2007
by Shawn Siegel
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Mid-Con Becomes Summit League
May 15th, 2007
by Shawn Siegel
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Beginning June 1st, the Mid-Continent Conference will be known as the Summit League. The name change is part of the "Summit Plan" to try and turn the league into a premier academic and athletic mid-major conference. The Mid-Con has struggled in recent years to find an identity, as its schools are scattered throughout the country, and it has experienced turnover in member teams. Going forward, the league will consist of: Centenary College, IPFW, IUPUI, UMKC, North Dakota State, Oakland, Oral Roberts, South Dakota State, Southern Utah and Western Illinois. The new logo and name "summit" are meant to suggest the peak of excellence, and not have any association with being located around a mountainous region.
Mid-Con Conference Preview
November 3rd, 2006
by CHN
Favorite: IUPUI. Player of the Year: Caleb Green. Conference Rank: 25th
Mid-Con Preseason Poll & All-Conference
October 19th, 2006
by Press Release
Mid-Con coaches pick Oral Roberts as their favorite.
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Ghost of Mid-Con Past: Best Valpo Moments
September 15th, 2006
by Dan Vance
Sure the 2006-2007 college basketball season has yet to begin. But, some things are already a given for when it ends come March, or if your lucky even April. And one of those things is that the Mid-Continent Conference is about to look a whole lot different.
And no, it is not just because IPFW, North Dakota State and South Dakota State have already packed their bags in anticipation of moving in on July 1st of next year. It is instead because one of the long time tenants of the Mid-Con hotel is saying bye bye.
So the Valparaiso Crusaders prepare to ride off into the sunset, away from the Mid-Continent Conference and into the open hands of their Midwestern rivals of the Horizon League. Let us take this time to pause and look back at the five biggest moments for Valpo since they became a founding member of the Mid-Con in 1982.
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IPFW to Join Mid-Continent Conference
August 31st, 2006
by Dan Vance
IPFW athletic department officials held a 3 p.m. news conference yesterday to announce that the school has been officially offered a spot in the Mid-Continent Conference effective for the 2007-2008 school year and athletic season. Mid-Con commissioner Tom Douple made the announcement in the packed ballroom of the Walb Student Union on the school’s Fort Wayne, Indiana campus.
“We had put so much effort into this and we had worked so hard to get it done this time that it was so great to hear those words you’re in,” said Mark Pope, the school’s Athletic Director.
Pope was given the news by Chancellor Michael Wartell in the morning and had to prepare for the news conference later in the day.