WHAT WAS I SAYING ABOUT THAT VALUE PROPOSITION?

The academic performance information is in and once again the Northern Illinois women's basketball team places seven players on the conference version of the dean's list.  "This is the fourth consecutive year that NIU has had at least six student-athletes selected to the Academic All-MAC Women's Basketball Team."  Two of the players also earned on-the court honors, one of them going from two years in rehab to Sixth Player.  The nationwide version of the dean's list will be released by the coaches' association sometime this summer.

Look, if your honor students are good enough to on occasion beat up the presumptive conference champions, and on occasion the conference participants (plural deliberate) in the association tournament show themselves well, am I really out of place suggesting the Mid-American teams offer a value proposition involving good academics and visible basketball?