FINAL- Bradley 63 University of South Florida 82

[Da Coach]

Bradley plays at University of South Florida on Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 6:30 PM, at the newly renovated Sun Dome in Tampa on the campus of USF.
Bradley is 3-0 after their win at IUPUI Saturday.
USF is 2-2, after they lost Sunday afternoon to Western Michigan in the final game of their USF Invitational. They lost their season opening game at home to University of Central Florida, then beat Maryland Eastern Shore and Loyola in the first 2 rounds of the USF Invitational.

USF was 22-14 last season, their best record in decades, and tied for the most wins (they were 22-10 in 1982-83). They were 12-6 in the Big East, the first time they have had a winning record in the Big East Conference. The received an At-Large bid to the NCAA, the first NCAA appearance since 1992 when they were part of the old Metro Conference. They went 2-1 in the NCAA tournament, losing to Ohio University in the round of 32.
They return 4 of their top 5 scorers from last year's team.

USF Schedule-

http://www.gousfbulls.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=7700&SPID=2923&SPSID=36688

USF website-
http://www.gousfbulls.com/SportSelec...23&SPSID=36686

Roster-

http://www.gousfbulls.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=7700&SPID=2923&SPSID=36689

Their leading scorers after 4 games are 6'8" senior forward Toarlyn Fitzgerald at 10.5 ppg and 6'4" senior guard Jawanza Poland with 10.3 ppg
Stats after 3 games-

https://www.nmnathletics.com//pdf8/990585.pdf?ATCLID=205750160&SPSID=36686&SPID=2923&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=7700

USF team guide-

http://www.gousfbulls.com/fls/7700/iguide/2010-11/MBB/01-intro.html?ATCLID=233653&SPSID=36686&SPID=2923&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=7700

Quick facts-

http://www.gousfbulls.com/pdf8/956632.pdf?ATCLID=233653&SPSID=36686&SPID=2923&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=7700

Game notes-

http://www.gousfbulls.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=7700&ATCLID=205733269

[tornado]

Chance to pick up another win over a Big East team

[Da Coach]

USF dropped to 2-2 after losing 58-53 Sunday afternoon at home to Western Michigan in the final game of their USF Invitational.

http://www.gousfbulls.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7700&ATCLID=205750160

https://www.nmnathletics.com//pdf8/990493.pdf?ATCLID=205750160&SPSID=36686&SPID=2923&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=7700

Attendance at the Sun Dome was 3,612

[Gary the Gargoyle]

WMU out-rebounded the Bulls by 13, and held them to a low shooting percentage. I wonder if they play more zone than man.

[tornado]

Western Michigan has a freshman kid that Bradley pursued - Darius Paul -- he is doing very well thus far and had 14 pts in this game & 8 rebs and is averaging 12 ppg, 5 rpg

[Da Coach]

BradleyBraves.com has the pre-game notes posted early for Tuesday's game-

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=205749239

PDF file of full media pre-game notes package-

https://www.nmnathletics.com//pdf8/990792.pdf?ATCLID=205749239&SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=3400

[Bobby Parker]

Thanks for posting the links, DC. Was just getting ready to do that myself and once again, you beat me to the punch.

[Da Coach]

Thanks for posting the links, DC. Was just getting ready to do that myself and once again, you beat me to the punch.

Your email hit me while I was online. I should have known you were getting ready to do it!

[Da Coach]

Story on USF loss at home to Western Michigan- poor shooting and poor rebounding blamed for loss-

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/basketball/college/basketball-usf-bulls-lose-to-western-michigan/1262242

[Da Coach]

The BU women's team also plays at USF Tuesday at 4:00 PM (CST), just before the men's teams play at 6:30 PM (CST). So in an unusual occurrence, both teams are travelling together to Tampa via commercial airline.
Here is a picture just posted of the teams going through the check-in process at the Bloomington airport-

http://instagram.com/p/SNvy6YJlSr/

[Canton BU fan]

Why Bloomington?

[Da Coach]

Don't know. My guess would be availability of a commercial or charter flight with room for the large travelling party, or a cheaper airline rate to Tampa. Fiscal responsibility.

[Da Coach]

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Attendance at the Sun Dome was 3,612

USF is the 8th largest university in the country with a total enrollment of over 47,000! Yet rarely can they get their 10,411 capacity arena even close to half full. They drew 3,612 for yesterday's game. They have averaged 4,818 through 4 games this season, but that was boosted considerably by the 7,717 they drew for their game against rival UCF. I'd expect well under 4,000 to be at tomorrow's game.
Last year, perhaps their best year in the history of the USF program, they averaged an embarrassing 3,849 home attendance, despite the huge number of students, large fan base (and a lot of them affluent), the nice newly renovated arena, at a cost of $36 million (which in the end will mostly be taxpayer's money), playing a lot of quality Big East opponents, and going 14-2 at home. They barely had 2,000 for several home games last year.

[Dub]

Is the media coverage locked in at this point? no video coverage?

[Da Coach]

Is the media coverage locked in at this point? no video coverage?

That is correct. No TV, and no streaming video available.