Final: Evansville 66 Bradley 60

[Big Mike]

TP makes 1FT.....8:21 42-49 Aces

[Big Mike]

Down 5 with 7 mins to go.....this game is there for the taking

[Big Mike]

Nice drive by Walt and dish to Barnes for back to back threes....50-51 6:14

[Big Mike]

4pt run by the Aces.....50-55. 3:44

[Big Mike]

Braves now 2-31 on the road in Valley last 33 games....

Final 60-66 Aces

[Da Coach]

Final score 66-60- Bradley pulled within 1 point and had the opportunity to take the lead, but it seems from the 6 minute mark we took bad shots and Evansville made their shots and free throws.

[Da Coach]

Braves now 2-31 on the road in Valley last 33 games....

Final 60-66 Aces

In the Geno Ford era, we are 1-24 against MVC opponents away from Carver-
In 2011-12 we were 0-9 in league road games, plus a loss in the first round at St. Louis= 0-10 away from home
In 2012-12 we were 1-8 in league road games, plus 0-1 in the tournament, and 0-1 in the CIT= 1-10 away from home
In 2012-13 we are 0-4 in league road games
That equals 1-24 in MVC games away from Carver these last 3 seasons.

[Skut Farcus]

In the Geno Ford era, we are 1-24 against MVC opponents away from Carver-
In 2011-12 we were 0-9 in league road games, plus a loss in the first round at St. Louis= 0-10 away from home
In 2012-12 we were 1-8 in league road games, plus 0-1 in the tournament, and 0-1 in the CIT= 1-10 away from home
In 2012-13 we are 0-4 in league road games
That equals 1-24 in MVC games away from Carver these last 3 seasons.

If only Bradley was as good as UC Davis.

[Big Mike]

If only Bradley was as good as UC Davis.

Glad your happy with our team....new coach makes double the money with zero improvement? At some point this staff has to accept the blame....that time is now!

[tornado]

In the Geno Ford era, we are 1-24 against MVC opponents away from Carver-

inexcusable - this should be addressed - had this happened in foregone eras - Dr. Cross would have dropped the hatchet.
BTW - UC Davis has lost five different starters for long stretches - three of them for the whole season - what's Bradley's excuse?

[Da Coach]

MVC standings after 8 games

Team.................MVC....Overall
Wichita State......8-0....21-0
Indiana State......7-1....16-4
Missouri State..ll..4-4....14-6
Illinois State...l....4-4....11-9
Northern Iowa..l...4-4...10-10
Bradley...............3-5....8-13
Loyola................3-5....8-12
Evansville......l.....3-5...10-11
Drake.................2-6....11-9
Southern Illinois..l.2-6....6-15

[Da Coach]

Did anyone else notice that when Walt Lemon made a driving layup with 3:19 left to cut Evansville's lead to 55-52, Geno called a timeout right after after the basket? Why stop the action there when we have a little momentum going?
I never liked the idea of calling timeout when your team has the momentum, unless it is for a necessary substitution. And Geno did not make any substitutions there, just seemed to want to stop the clock.
It was only a 30-second timeout, so there wasn't even any significant coaching during the stop.

[tornado]

This was a winnable game - they got almost half their points from the FT line and 40% from just one guy ..
We're still getting very little off our "deep bench" - and we have the worst passing post players I have ever seen - our trio of XT, Blake, & Pross who play the 5-position had zero assists & throw in TP who also had zero -
but this is not new...we ought to have the ability to kick it out to an open shooter but that simply never happens...
JP, CB, and XT combine for 13 assists on the year about one every other game!

Tuttle has 44 assists all by himself - he knows how and when to kick it to a shooter instead of being one-dimensional and forcing up bad shots.

Remember - after this season we lose:
- our best player
- top scorer
- our top rebounder
- the scholarship player with the best FG shooting pct
- the guy with the most FT's
- the guy who gets to the line the most
- our primary ballhandler
- our best assist guy
- our top guy in steals
- our top guy in offensive rebounds
- and the two most durable guys who have played the most minutes

Anyone think we're gonna be light years better next year besides KW?

[Da Coach]

Final box score-

http://www.gopurpleaces.com/boxscore.aspx?path=mbball&id=5718

[bradleyfan124]

Bradley should never,ever lose to a team of Freshman and Sophmores. The Freshmen are a few months out of high school. And we cant beat them. The 4th youngest team in the nation and we lose to them. TERRIBLE!!!!! No excuse...