Feb 27, 2020 at 4:35 PM
PEORIA — Here we are again with one game remaining in the Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball regular season. And, as always, my eyes glaze over and my brain locks when trying to calculate the potential seedings and all the possible tiebreakers that go with it for next week’s MVC tournament.
Thank goodness for Matt Hackman. The analyst for a Des Moines, Iowa, insurance company has the unique hobby of figuring out the odds of where all 10 teams will land heading into Arch Madness.
He started doing it by hand years ago for personal reasons to determine whether he needed to reserve a hotel for Thursday night in St.