Bradley=Caretakers

[lefty]

I do not see much chance of a letdown for Bradley. Maybe if it was a tough road game I'd be concerned about that, but it doesn't happen at home often. And with Creighton being one of the MVC's elite over the last several year, Bradley always seems to play one of their better games against them at Carver.

Remember last year- 2/16/08 at Carver-

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19332&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1390935

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19332&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1390934

Bradley demolished Creighton 87-59 in a game that meant a lot toward conference seedings and postseason possibilities.

I wouldn't think we would have a letdown either. Especially playing a team like Creighton.

But....we can have klunker anytime. And if or when we do it won't be the end of the world right now.

[bigdaddystuck]

I have no problem being the caretaker of the valley title....in fact I'll just go out on a limb and say we will take care of it for the rest of the season!

GO BU!!!

[pfunk880]

There are 14 one-loss DI teams. Bradley (ISU) and Creighton (Dayton) are each responsible for their not still being 5 unbeaten teams left.

Not to mention Missouri St. (Arkansas)

We will keep caretaking for them all year if they'd like.

[ER3]

This CU fan calls Bradley "caretakers"- because they are just "a place holder at the top of the league standings" until Creighton takes their rightful place as the Gods of the MVC. Also read the rest of the posts in the thread.

I'm pretty sure there were quite a few people early last year that assumed that Drake was nothing more than "a placeholder at the top of the league standings", too.

How did that turnout?

[ph]

I think it is hard for any opponent fan to understand what we are doing stat wise that makes us sucessful on the court (I'm not sure if I fully understand, either)

I think it is something along the lines of the "toughness" article in today's paper. Our team leaders got tired of playing poorly (I remember how ticked Sam M sounded after the SIUE postgame) and decided to will Bradley to victory, and the rest of the team is forced to go along.

Now we seem to be beating teams by taking on their strengths.
We've out-defended SIU, outrebounded WSU, Shot better than ISU... I guess we'll out-bench CU?

[Stryker]

I think it is hard for any opponent fan to understand what we are doing stat wise that makes us sucessful on the court (I'm not sure if I fully understand, either)

I think it is something along the lines of the "toughness" article in today's paper. Our team leaders got tired of playing poorly (I remember how ticked Sam M sounded after the SIUE postgame) and decided to will Bradley to victory, and the rest of the team is forced to go along.

Now we seem to be beating teams by taking on their strengths.
We've out-defended SIU, outrebounded WSU, Shot better than ISU... I guess we'll out-bench CU?

Yep. Taylor Brown scores 14 pts. in 19 minutes on saturday. That would be out-benching.

[ph]

Yep. Taylor Brown scores 14 pts. in 19 minutes on saturday. That would be out-benching.

I'd love to see more of Taylor, but it's rather maniacal to believe the other team thinks they can relax a little when our best player (TW) takes a rest on the bench, only to face TB!

[Grassman]

Numbers are averages based on the historical season to date.
We are not who we were.!!!

[jasonpeoria911]

Somebody should also tell that goof at CU that BU's D held ISU 25 points under its season average. Also the average points allowed the past 4 games has been going down a few points a game. If that trend continues, CU will only score 50 or less points. So if that goof at CU is going by averages only, maybe he should look a little closer and see what our D has really been doing.

Jason

[pfunk880]

Somebody should also tell that goof at CU that BU's D held ISU 25 points under its season average. Also the average points allowed the past 4 games has been going down a few points a game. If that trend continues, CU will only score 50 or less points. So if that goof at CU is going by averages only, maybe he should look a little closer and see what our D has really been doing.

Jason

And by the end of the season, we will be giving up single digits per game!