How surprised?

[Bravesfan]

I didn't count on us winning at anybody's place. Tonight is proof that it's really hard to win on the road in this league.

Well, if we still intend on getting to 7 or 8 Valley wins, we better find a way to get at least one more road win somewhere, be it at Drake, Missouri St. or Illinois St. I highly doubt it will happen in Normal, so we better split the Drake, Missouri St. games.

[Gary the Gargoyle]

Well, if we still intend on getting to 7 or 8 Valley wins, we better find a way to get at least one more road win somewhere, be it at Drake, Missouri St. or Illinois St. I highly doubt it will happen in Normal, so we better split the Drake, Missouri St. games.

We certainly need to win on the road. I just don't count on where it's going to happen.

[Bravesfan]

We certainly need to win on the road. I just don't count on where it's going to happen.

True, but considering we won a conference road game so early this year, there is no reason why we can't win at least one more. We have three more "winnable" road games to try and steal one.

[shaunguth]

I'm glad you rethought the second part of your post.

Was busy doing something else at the time and couldn't figure out a good way to word it. Anyways.....there is one good TEAM and one good player on another team keeping this conference even respectable at the moment.

[Gary the Gargoyle]

Was busy doing something else at the time and couldn't figure out a good way to word it. Anyways.....there is one good TEAM and one good player on another team keeping this conference even respectable at the moment.

That's an interesting debate. I'd argue that there are 2 good teams and plenty of good players. There's probably only one great player in the league, but then again, there are only so many first team all-Americans in the country.

[tornado]

one thing - as bad as we played - we were still in position to win this game in the final 6-8 minutes...
..we all know we have the capability to play a bit better - clearly we have the potential to finish in the upper half of the Valley.
..every team beyond the #3 spot has an RPI of a 100 or more - we have to beat those teams...

[Da Coach]

I have heard a number of Bradley fans say they were disappointed that we decided to use both of the 2 open scholarships last spring on transfers instead of players who could help us this season. Many fans felt this team needed a juco shooting guard badly. Now we are seeing the effects of the lack of a reliable shooting guard. Bradley is 4-4, and might be 5-3 or even 6-2 if we had better outside shooting. We saw what juco shooting guard Richard Carter did last night in almost single-handedly beating Creighton, and juco transfers like Cleanthony Early, Tyler Brown, Anthony Downing, and Jeff Early are all key players helping their teams, and in the top 20 in scoring in the MVC.
Especially this year, when it seems that other than CU and WSU the rest of the league is mediocre, maybe we would have had a chance at 20 wins, and 3rd or 4th place, and a possible NIT bid. Geno would be a shoe-in for COY.

[braveatheart]

I am sure Geno thought long and hard before he signed them. He had to know it was going to be rough this year.

[SFP]

OK how many guys here thought we would be doing as well with what we have? I sure as heck did not. I have always been about year 3 and 4 with GF. I expect to see market improvement next year so I'm hardly going to ride him or the team for this year's performance. We'll most probably have our PG for next season and hopefully a shooter with one of the other 2 recruits. We still have two other scholarships open which we'll need someone to step up and play the 5. Until I hear that we have exhausted that avenue I'm staying quite positive. If one thing is for sure as in taxes and death, recruits are never a sure thing.

[Braves4Life]

Preach it SFP! You and I are on the same team on this one brotha man!

[shaunguth]

That's an interesting debate. I'd argue that there are 2 good teams and plenty of good players. There's probably only one great player in the league, but then again, there are only so many first team all-Americans in the country.

Ok....two good teams and one great player. Out of ten teams and MANY players.....to me that's a crappy conference, or at least a VERY average conference.

[shaunguth]

I have heard a number of Bradley fans say they were disappointed that we decided to use both of the 2 open scholarships last spring on transfers instead of players who could help us this season.

On paper, I'm fine with the two transfers we have coming in along with the other two recruits at this point. This season was not going to be easy anyways, so I'm ok with the way things are heading right now. Hopefully, the new players will be as good as advertised.

[shaunguth]

Preach it SFP! You and I are on the same team on this one brotha man!

Count me in as well. This year is about improvement and I think we're seeing that. Next year, I'm expecting to see even more improvement on the court and in the win/loss column. I don't think I'll be disappointed.

[TheAsianSensation]

Geno is definitely going all in for years 3 and 4 and not this year. That's fine. Whatever happens this year, OK. But if he's building up for next year and the next, I expect results then.

[Gary the Gargoyle]

Geno is definitely going all in for years 3 and 4 and not this year. That's fine. Whatever happens this year, OK. But if he's building up for next year and the next, I expect results then.

I think your expectations are completely reasonable in this instance.