Final: Bradley 65 Virginia Tech 66

[abesimpson]

Loyola on the road is great for BU, even though Loyola isn't a great opponent, playing a game in chicago more often will do wonders for BU's marketing and keeping in touch with Alumni in Chicagoland. I remember going up to Dekalb for a game at NIU a few years ago and there were more Bradley fans than NIU fans at the game. I think we could do the same at Loyola

Agreed, always nice to have a Chicagoland game so alumni like myself can see a game without driving to Peoria.

Also, if you thought there were a lot of BU fans at that NIU game, it won't compare to the BU turnout for the Loyola game. I was there the last time BU played at Loyola in 2007 and besides a small student section, you would have thought BU was the home team.

And their gym in tiny. It looks like a high school gym. Which is weird when you see the banners inside from their national championship in the 60's.

[Da Coach]

Bradley looking good so far-
BU 26
VT 18 with 6:30 left in 1st half

[Da Coach]

halftime
BU 35
VT 25

Great defensive effort by everyone

[tornado]

Jalen hit 3 big jumpers from the arc, Dyricus playing good defense - has 2 steals but forcing a couple shots

They're playing a lot of one-on-one - they have only ONE ASSIST on 21 shot attempts!
Bradley has 7 assists on 30 attempts and 12 makes

They have only three players who have even made a FG - and one of them, Jarell, is just 1-5 with Green & Raines are a total of 8-12 from the floor & 21 pts.

[RedSeaElite1]

did will just foul out? the live stats say that was his 4th foul but DS just said he fouled out...

nevermind they just corrected it

[jasonpeoria911]

BENCH LEMONNNNNNNNNN. Pretty much 10 turnovers and cost us the game. Loved watching Bell the other night.

Jason

[Da Coach]

Final
BU 65
VT 66

[Gary the Gargoyle]

I appreciate the effort that this team expends on defense, but man, they can't throw the ball in the ocean. It's going to be tough winning games shooting less than 40% from the field.

[Tulsa Brave]

We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in that final minute...

[Gary the Gargoyle]

We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in that final minute...

They certainly did.

These kind of games can really suck the life out of a team.

[lightsout]

That one hurts. Thought we had a pretty good chance to pull out the W in OT and we just couldn't make the plays when we really needed them.

[Bravesfan]

A very disappointing loss, but we will learn from it, and hopefully we win tomorrow. 9-3 going into the Valley season would still be great. And the fact that we are all so disappointed in this loss is a good thing in that it shows how far this team has come in just one year. So hopefully this game leads us into a successful Valley season where we still need to prove we can be competitive against Valley competition each and every night.

[braveatheart]

That one hurt.

On the bright side though, this team is way better than I expected coming into the year.

15 points better than last year? For sure.

[Da Coach]

From bradleybraves.com

http://www.bradleybraves.com//ViewArticle.dbml?SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=205850360

[tornado]

another game where we shoot only 36%....shot selection is a problem when we have guys who hit under 30% on 3-pointers taking so many every game...
.....but at least we aren't getting blown out -
Let's hope for Christmas we get the rest of the season without ever seeing 10 TO from our pg