Next game- Oakland at Bradley- Monday, March 23 7:05 pm

[SaintLouBrave22]

If BU wins by less than 10 I will be disappointed. This should be a 20+ point victory at home.

(Glad to see ya back MacabreMob )

I can't agree w/ this....Oakland is a good team, shoots the 3 plenty, rebounds well, and moves the ball well....all of which tend to give us problems at times...

The only positive is that it looks as though Kent State would have won if they had made their free throws....


I myself am just simply excited to see another higher scoring game and possibly another group of decent officials...

I don't know if this has been mentioned much as of late but the officials in our conference really s*ck!

[MacabreMob]

If BU wins by less than 10 I will be disappointed. This should be a 20+ point victory at home.

(Glad to see ya back MacabreMob )

Sam's sore knee worries me a little.
Dodie's hand doesn't seem to be much better.

I think a key game plan for Bradley would be to establish the penetration to get fouled and get to the line early and often... and MAKE FREE THROWS.

(btw - tks, was a rough start to the week)

[real fan]

All the games will be tough to win as most of the teams in this tour. are above ave. teams that are trying to keep their season from ending. We need to play like it is our last game of the year as it will be if we don"t win.

[Tulsa Brave]

If BU wins by less than 10 I will be disappointed. This should be a 20+ point victory at home.

(Glad to see ya back MacabreMob )

You must be devastated then that we only beat Austin Peay by 7 at home, because Oakland is a far superior team to Austin Peay.

[Braves4Life]

You must be devastated then that we only beat Austin Peay by 7 at home, because Oakland is a far superior team to Austin Peay.

I was VERY disappointed; you've not heard me say one good word about last night's game. It was obvious to me that we outclassed that APU team in every way. To me, they looked like an inferior team from an inferior conference playing a low-major level of ball. If not for our "out of the ordinary" outside shooting we would have lost. We looked flat, rusty, out-of-sync, and played terrible defense with questionable lineups at times.

I still hold to my statement that we will outclass Oakland as well and SHOULD win easily at home. I think now that we've knocked the rust off we will win by 20+! Time will tell if I'm right..... or if I have an over-inflated opinion of our boys.

[Braves4Life]

we played a substantial part of the game with 3 freshmen on the floor at a time....the Coach is using this time not just to win ball games but to prep the kids for next year, too.
I was there and saw the entire game and never for even a second did I feel the game was close to being lost.

I can agree with everything you say here tornado, However, I still was disappointed in the margin of victory and flow of the game. I'd like to see our team RIP through the competition in this tournament much like Versace's team dominated the NIT. I think it helps to put Bradley on the map by dominating the obviously inferior competition in this CIT.

I like that Les plays the young guys but they've got all summer to play with each other. We'll still have to re-learn to play together when the new guys come in next year. I'd rather we crush the competition first with our regulars. Then work in the new guys after we're up by 20.

[Chucky T's]

I still hold to my statement that we will outclass Oakland as well and SHOULD win easily at home. I think now that we've knocked the rust off we will win by 20+! Time will tell if I'm right..... or if I have an over-inflated opinion of our boys.

I hope you are right B4L....but considering that BU's largest margin of victory this year was 16 points (79-63 vs. SIU on Dec. 28th) you may want to tone down your expectations just a hair.

[braveatheart]

Oakland is no joke. Sagarin and Pomeroy rate them better than Bradley. Guessing the betting line will favor BU by only 1 or 2 points.

These guys wont be intimidated as here is who they played this year.
Cleveland St, Syracuse, Iowa, Kansas St.,Michigan, Michigan St. They lost all those games but still they won't be intimidated. Oh, they did beat UMKC on the road.

They have a very efficient offense but don't play much defense. Pomeroy lists them as a young team but a very tall team.

We have our hands full.

[Chuck885]

Oakland University

Oakland is for Oakland County. They won their conference tourney a few years ago and played in the NCAA with a below .500 record. They won the play in game and got beat pretty badly by one of the #1 seeds. Bradley should easily beat this team at home. I live up here now but have never been by the school. I think it's mostly a commuter school. They converted to division 1 not too long ago. Within the past 10 years.

[lake Camelot]

Beep Beep

I'm pretty sure Willie Scott transfered to Bradley from Oakland.

[2bradleyfans]

Bradley should beat OU but OU is no pushover.

OU should be playing Kansas tomorrow were it not for last second heroics on the part of NDSU.

Apparently some people did not appreciate my candor on a previous post so I will comply and drink the koolaide.

[Big Mike]

PJS Dave Reynolds.....

http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x1331536209/Bradley-Braves-hope-to-seize-the-CIT-moment

[pfunk880]

we played a substantial part of the game with 3 freshmen on the floor at a time....the Coach is using this time not just to win ball games but to prep the kids for next year, too.
I was there and saw the entire game and never for even a second did I feel the game was close to being lost.

I wish we'd see some minutes for AT, too, if that's the case. (I know I'm beating a dead horse, though.)

[SFP]

You would think that we would have seen AT when SS went down...we did not and I do not expect to see him unless there is a blowout!

BTW...Anything new on SS?

[SaintLouBrave22]

we played a substantial part of the game with 3 freshmen on the floor at a time....the Coach is using this time not just to win ball games but to prep the kids for next year, too.
I was there and saw the entire game and never for even a second did I feel the game was close to being lost.

Not to make your point sound less relevant, but only to really comment on what was said by B4L and adding to yours, we actually played the best all night w/ the 3 Freshmen on the floor along w/ C-Rob and Sam Singh...

Theron played ok but committed way too many turnovers, Sam never really got into much of a flow offensively, Dodie is still hurt, and David was..well....David....

Have I said lately how much Sam Singh deserves and has EARNED a start?!


Also, not many have stated as much, but Edge was our best player on both ends on the floor...I hope he builds on that and it continues into Monday as BU has a tough assignment.