OVC

In recent weeks, the Rise & Fall series has chronicled the progress (or regress) of college basketball's major conference teams. But if I equated each team to a civilization, I was mistaken. It is really the NCAA conference that equates to a burgeoning civilization or nation, each with its sometimes stable and sometimes rotating member states. Like civilizations, the prestige and power of conferences wax and wane..

 

Atlantic Sun

MEAC

Ohio Valley

SWAC

Other (AE, Big Sky, Ivy, Summit)

Austin Peay (21-12, 16-4)

Eastern Kentucky (21-12, 13-7)

Murray State (16-14, 13-7)

SE Missouri (11-20, 9-11)

Tennessee Tech (19-13, 13-7)

Other (Eastern Illinois, Tennessee State, etc)

Favorite: Murray St. Player of the Year: Shawn Witherspoon. Conference Rank: 27th.