November 5, 2025 — In today’s episode, we catch you up on how Valley teams fared in the first two days of the 2025-26 season.

Topics we discuss:

* Valpo’s men rally past Eastern Illinois, 66-63 (2:20)

* Evansville’s men fall at #1 Purdue (5:45)

* Evansville radio voice Jevin Redman breaks down the Aces’ trip to West Lafayette (8:38)

* Daily KenPom update for Valley teams (21:50)

* SIU’s women win their season-opener (24:45)

* Bradley women rout Judson (25:27)

* DePaul blows out Valpo in Courtney Boyd’s debut with Beacons (26:40)

* Recap of Monday’s men’s action (28:10)

* Recap of Monday’s women’s action (37:33)

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