Some tidbits on Linn-Mar's attempt at a perfect MVC season

It's not perfect, yet. The Class 4A second-ranked Lions (19-1) have one more Mississippi Valley Conference game remaining, Thursday night at home against Cedar Falls.

The Tigers are 15-4 and ranked 10th in 4A, so this will be a tough, tough game.

The last team to go through the MVC unbeaten was Iowa City West in 2001-02. That team lost to Waterloo East by a point in the state tournament semifinals and went on to get third place.

Linn-Mar joined the Mississippi Valley Conference in the 1986-87 school year, by the way. In talking to Linn-Mar assistant coach Troy Hansen on Tuesday night, the belief is the Lions' previous undefeated conference season was back in the early 1980s, when the school was in the old East Central Iowa Conference.

You remember teams, right? Todd Lumsden, Scott and John Anderson, head coach Bob Landis.