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Just a few ramblings while I try to let the excitement die down.
Bradley played a near perfect team. Rutgers is not going to compete for the Big East title this year, but they are not a team without talent. They returned 4 starters from last year's team. They were big and physical, and will win some games this year in the Big East. But Bradley took them out of their game and forced them to defend the perimeter, then consistently broke that down with quick, precise passing and cutting.
Again, Bradley put on a clinic. Other coaches would be smart to use a tape of this game as an educational tool to show how to pass and run an uptempo offense.
Bradley had a measley 11 turnovers despite their best ball handler recovering from injury and limited to 19 minutes.
Every player played and shot well. No matter who they left open, they made Rutgers pay for it. Every BU player played superb, in-your-face defense. The Rutgers players did not know defense could be played that well! They had to think there were 6 or 7 defenders on the floor! The BU players were better conditioned, and the Rutgers guys had to be substituted often because they were exhausted.
BUBraves.com story--
Box score--
Matt Salley was a little soft in this game. 1 rebound indicates a poor effort by Matt. He needs to do better rebounding the ball.
The biggest lead was 39 points at 73-34. After that point, Bradley coasted, resting the regulars most of the rest of the game.
Here is the Illinois box score--
Yahoo Sports-
Illinois website-
Maybe this will be corrected, but the boxscore shows Brian Randle played 6 minutes, but he was not even in uniform! And it also shows Richard Semrau played 29 minutes and scored 12 and had a team-leading 10 rebounds! But I don't remember ever seeing him in the game. Am I missing something?
Marcus Arnold did get in the game a bit, but he doesn't show up in the box score. Something's screwy!
Now about Illinois- They will be beatable. The big men shoot poorly, so if Bradley can defend their guards, they will have trouble scoring. That is the story with the Miami game. They played defense like an MVC team. If they just had one outside shooter, they would have won easily. However, Miami had nobody who could make an outside shot. They made exactly 1 three pointer all game (they only tried 8 ). When they needed to score down the stretch, they did not make a single basket from 10:10 left in the game, until their last basket with 43 sec. left. That stretch of almost 10 minutes without a basket cost them the game.
Bradley played a near perfect team. Rutgers is not going to compete for the Big East title this year, but they are not a team without talent. They returned 4 starters from last year's team. They were big and physical, and will win some games this year in the Big East. But Bradley took them out of their game and forced them to defend the perimeter, then consistently broke that down with quick, precise passing and cutting.
Again, Bradley put on a clinic. Other coaches would be smart to use a tape of this game as an educational tool to show how to pass and run an uptempo offense.
Bradley had a measley 11 turnovers despite their best ball handler recovering from injury and limited to 19 minutes.
Every player played and shot well. No matter who they left open, they made Rutgers pay for it. Every BU player played superb, in-your-face defense. The Rutgers players did not know defense could be played that well! They had to think there were 6 or 7 defenders on the floor! The BU players were better conditioned, and the Rutgers guys had to be substituted often because they were exhausted.
BUBraves.com story--
Box score--
Matt Salley was a little soft in this game. 1 rebound indicates a poor effort by Matt. He needs to do better rebounding the ball.
The biggest lead was 39 points at 73-34. After that point, Bradley coasted, resting the regulars most of the rest of the game.
Here is the Illinois box score--
Yahoo Sports-
Illinois website-
Maybe this will be corrected, but the boxscore shows Brian Randle played 6 minutes, but he was not even in uniform! And it also shows Richard Semrau played 29 minutes and scored 12 and had a team-leading 10 rebounds! But I don't remember ever seeing him in the game. Am I missing something?
Marcus Arnold did get in the game a bit, but he doesn't show up in the box score. Something's screwy!
Now about Illinois- They will be beatable. The big men shoot poorly, so if Bradley can defend their guards, they will have trouble scoring. That is the story with the Miami game. They played defense like an MVC team. If they just had one outside shooter, they would have won easily. However, Miami had nobody who could make an outside shot. They made exactly 1 three pointer all game (they only tried 8 ). When they needed to score down the stretch, they did not make a single basket from 10:10 left in the game, until their last basket with 43 sec. left. That stretch of almost 10 minutes without a basket cost them the game.
Here's hoping he keeps it up all year!
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