{"id":912843,"date":"2026-11-10T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912843\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:00:23","slug":"how-mississippi-valley-state-with-a-schedule-that-went-viral-notched-its-best-loss-in-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912843\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mississippi Valley State, with a schedule that went viral, notched its ‘best loss’ in 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi Valley State is playing one of the toughest nonconference schedules in college basketball<\/p>\n

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Mississippi Valley State<\/a> is in the midst of one of the toughest nonconference and most grueling schedules in college basketball. The Delta Devils don’t have a home game until Jan. 9 and will begin the season by playing 16 consecutive road games with only buy games on the slate.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Mississippi Valley State recorded one of its “best losses” in over a decade during a 77-64 defeat against Washington<\/a>. It marked the first time since 2012 the Delta Devils<\/a> lost a game by less than 15 points against high-major competition. The last time that happened was during the 2012-13 campaign when MVSU lost 86-81 to Northwestern<\/a> on the road. It also snapped a streak of 57 consecutive losses <\/a>to high-major opponents by at least 15 points.<\/p>\n

Mississippi Valley State \u2014 a team coming off a 3-30 season with the lone wins coming against Mississippi U for Women, Texas Southern<\/a> and Arkansas-Pine Bluff<\/a> \u2014 has several high-major games remaining before conference play begins at the turn of the calendar year.<\/p>\n

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Inside the most absurd nonconference schedule: Why Mississippi Valley State has no home games for two months<\/p>\n

\n Isaac Trotter <\/p>\n

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Notable games Mississippi Valley State will play during the next month and a half include matchups against Oregon<\/a>, Oregon State<\/a>, Arkansas<\/a>, Michigan<\/a>, UConn<\/a>, Mississippi State<\/a>, Ohio State<\/a>, Texas Tech<\/a> and Baylor<\/a>. The Delta Devils’ first home game is against Prairie View A&M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mississippi Valley State will earn upward of $100,000 apiece<\/a>\u00a0in those buy games. In total, MVSU has now played 1,457 basketball games since results were tracked in 1978. It has never beaten a high-major opponent. Although the loss against Washington will count the same on the stat sheet, it will go down as MVSU’s most competitive defeat against high-major competition in over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississippi Valley State is playing one of the toughest nonconference schedules in college basketball Nov 10, 2026 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[19503,381427,402,1775,4044,8922,1777,19504,381426,398,400,401,13425,1776,5693,5359,239202,99,326439,13419,3350],"class_list":["post-912843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-arkansas-pine-bluff-golden-lions","tag-basketball","tag-baylor-bears","tag-college-basketball","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-mississippi-valley-state-delta-devils","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-northwestern-wildcats","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-oregon-state-beavers","tag-prairie-view-am-panthers","tag-sports","tag-texas-southern-tigers","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}