Bradley vs. SIU Friday, 3/6/09 in St. Louis

[Da Coach]

In the quarterfinal round of the MVC Tournament, Bradley (#4 seed) plays Southern Illinois (#5 seed)- Friday, March 6, 2:35 pm.

Here is the bracket-

http://www.mvc.org/mbb/mbb_bracket.pdf

It is the second game of the afternoon double header at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The early game at 12:05 features Northern Iowa (#1 seed) vs. the winner of the Thursday night play-in game between Drake and Indiana State.

The game will be televised by the MVC-TV Network, and will be on FoxSportsMidwest, Comcast cable channel 57 in Peoria.
It will also be on Comcast Sportsnet Chicago live. the Friday evening games will be tape-delayed because of a Bulls game..

Bradley is 17-13, 10-8 in the MVC. Bradley's RPI is 93 as on this morning (3/1/09).
SIU is 13-17, 8-10. SIU's RPI is 131.
Here are the MVC RPIs-

http://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/rpi/

SIU website-

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/silu-m-baskbl-body.html

roster-

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/silu-m-baskbl-mtt.html

Schedule/results-

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/silu-m-baskbl-sched.html

SIU stats-

http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/siu.htm

BU stats-
http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/bu.htm

SIU fan message board-

http://www.salukitalk.net/st/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=ab94451bddb29e9310f10679dc2f8531

[BuBraves55]

well.....at least we got their number down there.............................

[BradleyBrave]

Time for Les to overcome the Lowery demons. We owe them big-time down there!

[Da Coach]

Chicago fans- if you can't make it to St. Louis, I just noticed that the game between Bradley and SIU is on Comcast Sportsnet live in the Chicago area.

They will broadcast the 2 afternoon quarterfinals live. The night session will be tape-delayed because of a Bulls game at 1 am and 3 am Saturday morning.

[Da Coach]

Bradley Basketball's Arch Madness Game Notes
from BradleyBraves.com-

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=3683096

[peoriakid]

bubraves TV covering this game?

Anyone know if this game will be available on bubraves tv online for us out of towners? The old lady is 8 months pregnant so I cant make the trip from Charleston, SC to St.Louis. I am hoping my local sports bar has access to Fox Sports midwest, but if they dont I need a back-up plan.

I guess my back-up back-up plan is WMBD online, but Id rather WATCH the game if possible.

Ryan

[thefish7]

I don't believe the teams are able to stream the MVC Tourney games unfortunately.

[Da Coach]

No, the tournament games, and all games that are shown on the MVC-TV network, are not available for online streaming anywhere, unless you can find them on a pirate site like Channelsurfing.net or Justin.tv.

[thefish7]

According to a USA-Today MVC tourney preview, Mullins is out. We know if this is confirmed?

[BradleyBrave]

According to a USA-Today MVC tourney preview, Mullins is out. We know if this is confirmed?

I don't think anything will be confirmed until Friday afternoon. Rumor around Carbondale is that he's going to give it a go, but that could just be rhetoric to make us waste time preparing for him. I guess we'll see on Friday. Even if he plays, I can't imagine him being very effective. As a great poster told me yesterday, he's not Willis Reed.

[SaintLouBrave22]

I don't think anything will be confirmed until Friday afternoon. Rumor around Carbondale is that he's going to give it a go, but that could just be rhetoric to make us waste time preparing for him. I guess we'll see on Friday. Even if he plays, I can't imagine him being very effective. As a great poster told me yesterday, he's not Willis Reed.

A reliable source has told me that the boot was off on Senior Night and he has been trying to give it a go and really the SIU staff is being hush hush, BUT he will try to play on Friday if he can. Basically put, if he feels ok we should see him the first 5 min of action. This is their last opportunity to make a run at it and they're gonna try to give it their best shot.

As far as for our Braves, I'm not sure whether to consider that a negative or positive? Maybe someone else can weigh in on that.

[BUBalum05]

As only a casual fan this year, what were the differences in how we played between the home win and the road loss to SIU?

[shaunguth]

As only a casual fan this year, what were the differences in how we played between the home win and the road loss to SIU?

Looking at the stats, here are the things that stand out......

Home
7/13 3-Pt.
28/32 FT
16 assists, 18 turnovers
18 fouls
14 points, Collins/Singh

Away
3/15 3-Pt.
9/19 FT
7 assists, 20 turnovers
28 fouls
6 points, Collins/Singh

[MacabreMob]

It's all about hitting shots.

We can beat SIU with or without Mullins... if we hit our shots.

[leebiddlecome]

Bradley really needs to win this game. The Braves will be favored--Mullins will be hobbled if at all.

I'm with BBrave--Jim Les needs this one. I think the Braves will win by 8-10 points.