Andrew Warren is MVC PLayer of the Week AGAIN!

[tornado]

Nice job Drew!!
Congrats..

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=205105735

AW's 33 points Saturday night were the most scored by any D-I player on his senior night,
and he is the ONLY player in the entire nation to have a game of 30 points, 10 rebs, 5 assists, and 4 steals
(30/10/5/4)

If there ever was a player from a 9th place team who deserved the Player of the Year Award in the MVC it IS Andrew Warren!!!
Also -- one more accolade -- Andrew Warren is ONLY the third player in all of MVC history (one of the others was Hersey Hawkins) to lead the Valley in BOTH free throws made and 3 pointers made.

Odum was NOW

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

One other trivia question...
Doug McDermott currently has 443 points.....who is the ONLY freshman in the past 50 years in the MVC to score more than 520 points in his freshman year? (not Hersey -- he had 439)

[LittleBrave]

Nice job Drew!!
Congrats..
http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArt...CLID=205105735

Ya' beat me 2 it, T!

I like how they gave his avg. points for the week (21.5). For those who read the article who are not mathematically inclined (NOT bradleyfans!), his 10-pt. performance is not easily deduced. (though it mentions he scored 33 on Sat.)

Though I didn't see Saturday's drubbing of Drake, I would venture to say that Drew followed up his worst performance of the season (vs. ISU-red) with his best!!!

Hopefully more to come from A-Dubb!
Drew will carry us through in St. Lou!

[Big Mike]

Congrats to AW......You are the MVP of the league to me!

[jenny71]

Congrats to Andrew way to go.

[Braves4Life]

One other trivia question...
Doug McDermott currently has 443 points.....who is the ONLY freshman in the past 50 years in the MVC to score more than 520 points in his freshman year? (not Hersey -- he had 439)

I'm guessing AW.

[ph]

I think AW only had 143 points his frosh year.(Based on the totals thread)

Frosh year stats are misleading because it used to be no frosh played.

Did Bird play as a Frosh?

[Missouri Brave]

As for a Valley freshman scoring more than 520 points, it's gotta be JJ Anderson, right? He averaged about 20 points in his freshman year as I recall, which I believe was 78-79. Think we only won nine games that year but JJ was a stud and you could tell there were big things to come...

JJ remains the only Brave to lead the team in scoring for four straight years, doesn't he? And if I remember right, he lead the team in rebounding all four years as well. What a beautiful player he was to watch.

He actually had a decent little start to an NBA career with Utah but then opted for the financial comfort of being a star in Italy. He was the top player in the Italian league for years when it was the best league in Europe.

[Da Coach]

I think AW only had 143 points his frosh year.(Based on the totals thread)

Frosh year stats are misleading because it used to be no frosh played.

Did Bird play as a Frosh?

The NCAA ruled that freshmen were eligible to play in 1972. And yes, Larry Bird played his first year at Indana State. He played 3 years, and left before his final year of eligibility. The NCAA allowed players to enter the draft the year their class would have graduated, which means that because he sat out a year when he transferred from Indiana, he was eligible to be drafted after his 3rd year at Indiana State.

[Missouri Brave]

PH, Bird did NOT play at Indiana State as a freshman. He played for three years - as a sophomore, junior and senior. He went to Indiana in 1974, got homesick, went to a small school to earn some credits and then wound up in Terre Haute in time for the 1976-77 season. Averaged about 30 points each of those three years at InSU.

[Missouri Brave]

Just looked it up. Yep, Bird definitely DID NOT play as a freshman at InSU -- his three years were his sophomore, junior and senior years. Bird couldn't have returned for a fourth season at InSU as he had fully exhausted his eligibility.

After his junior year, he was drafted by the Celtics and Red Auerbach, who did so knowing that Bird would finish out his career with the Sycamores. At the time, I believe Auerbach said he was "willing to wait 365 days for a great player," or something like that.

[Braves4Life]

As for a Valley freshman scoring more than 520 points, it's gotta be JJ Anderson, right?

Oops. I forgot about JJ. You are correct Missouri Brave.

http://www.databasebasketball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ANDERMI01

[Missouri Brave]

As an eight-year-old kid, that whole BU team from JJ's era was my first group of heroes. JJ, Thirdkill, the Roadrunner, Donald Reese, etc. Loved 'em all. JJ is as good a player as I've ever seen at BU and, if he hadn't injured his back during his junior year, his numbers would've been much, much more impressive...

[tornado]

I'm guessing AW.

no -- AW had a pretty humble freshman year, it was Mitchell JJ Anderson --

JJ -- surprisingly was NOT voted onto the 1st Team All Conference his freshman season, by a bunch of voters who really showed how biased they were with that vote...


and you can call Bird's first year at Indiana State his sophomore year or you could call it his redshirt freshman year -- semantics..

[Missouri Brave]

You couldn't call Bird's first year at InSU his redshirt freshman year because redshirt freshman have four years of eligibility...Bird only had three and was out of eligibility after the Sycs lost to Michigan State in the '79 final....

[Da Coach]

You couldn't call Bird's first year at InSU his redshirt freshman year because redshirt freshman have four years of eligibility...Bird only had three and was out of eligibility after the Sycs lost to Michigan State in the '79 final....

Not true. Bird had 1 more year of eligibility, but decided to leave early and join the Celtics, who had drafted him after the 77-78 season.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...eltics&ct=clnk

Before the draft, Larry Bird had just finished his junior year at Indiana State. However, he was eligible to be drafted without applying for "hardship" because his original college class at the Indiana University had graduated.[9][14] He initially enrolled at Indiana in 1974 but dropped out before the season began. After sitting out a year, he enrolled at Indiana State.[15] Despite being eligible for the draft, he stated that he would return to college for his senior season. His hometown team, the Indiana Pacers, initially held the first overall pick. However, when they failed to persuade him to leave college early, they traded the first pick to the Blazers, who also failed to convince him into signing.[16][17] Five teams, including the Pacers who held the third pick, passed on Bird until the Celtics used the sixth pick to draft him. They drafted him even though they knew that they might lose the exclusive rights to him if he didn't sign before the next draft. He could reenter the draft in 1979 and signed with the other team that drafted him. Nevertheless, on April 1979, he signed a five-year, US$3.25-million contract with the Celtics, which made him the highest-paid rookie in the history of team sport at that time.[18]