4 MVC games Wednesday 12/7

[Da Coach]

4 games tonight, Wed. 12/7 involving MVC teams-

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/scoreboard?d=2011-12-07&c=mvc&refresh=60

Illinois State at Morehead State at 6:00 PM CST
Wichita State at Tulsa at 7:00 PM CST
Western Kentucky at SIU at 7:05 PM CST
Oklahoma State at Missouri State at 8:00 PM CST

[Da Coach]

MVC stats updated to include last night's games-

http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/CONFLDRS.HTM

[tornado]

5 things kinda surprised me...

-we are not last in FT shooting..and both Creighton & Wichita are right there with us in the bottom half of the FT shooting stats well behind the leaders

-Taylor Brown is Top-5 in both scoring & rebounding and the only other player who's there in both categories is Doug McDermott.

-half of all the top 3-pt shooters are forwards

-Anthony Thompson LEADS the entire MVC in BLOCKED SHOTS at 13 - and I think he's been robbed of a few that were missed in the stats

-SIU has still played only four games...

[Da Coach]

Here is a sortable listing of the MVC stats-

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/stats/bycategory?cat=Fielding&conference_id=21

Some interesting findings. Preseason POY Kyle Weems is getting his scoring average up, but still does not rank in the top 10 at 12.5 ppg.
He is shooting only 30% from the floor so far, and only 21.6% from three- we can only hope he maintains that when he plays against Bradley, but somehow I don't think it'll work that way.
Weems is second only to Mamadou Seck in fouls per game, which is also a surprise.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/stats/bycategory?cat=Fielding&sort=38&conference_id=21

[tornado]

If anyone watched the Illinois game - they didn't play well and Sammy's stat line was not impressive - but...Illini win in part due to Sammy..

Every time he left the floor - Illinois went into a scoreless funk and then seemed to bounce back out of it a bit when he came back on the floor.
He is a great team leader - and helps his team win whatever it takes.

[DoubleJayAlum]

If anyone watched the Illinois game - they didn't play well and Sammy's stat line was not impressive - but...Illini win in part due to Sammy..

Every time he left the floor - Illinois went into a scoreless funk and then seemed to bounce back out of it a bit when he came back on the floor.
He is a great team leader - and helps his team win whatever it takes.

Unless, of course, it takes staying with his team.

[New Guy]

Unless, of course, it takes staying with his team.

That hurt

[tornado]

DJA - wrong - he stayed 4 years 'til he graduated then moved on to the next level like POB, Kyle Korver, etc...
- and he DID graduate before he moved on - same as most of the Creighton players

[DoubleJayAlum]

DJA - wrong - he stayed 4 years 'til he graduated then to moved on the next level like POB, Kyle Korver, etc...
- and he DID graduate before he moved on - same as most of the Creighton players

Wow! The University of Illinois is the "next level" from Bradley?

[Future Walk-On]

wow! The university of illinois is the "next level" from bradley?

yes ....and from CU too

[tornado]

next level = graduate school or his choice

[New Guy]

next level = graduate school or his choice

So you are saying POB leaving after soph year= Sammy going to Illini and KKorver using up his eligibility and going to NBA=Sammy going to Illini. That's a big stretch.

I don't mind that Sam made a personal dicision to leave it is his right, but selling it as an act of a team player just doesn't make sense.

[tornado]

there's never been player (besides Sam Singh) who stayed at BU forever - they all finished one way or another and moved to the next level..so did Sam
I see that as no stretch..

[jasonpeoria911]

No reason to argue over this, only reason Sam left is because Les was fired. If Les was still here, Sam would still be here. Sam wasn't happy about it all and left. He knew he would be in a much better situation at Illinois and probably wanted to play there all along but just didn't get the recruit attention.

Sam is still friends with a lot of the Bradley players and the announcers said he was at a game or 2 at the Chicago tournament.

Jason