BU WINS 82-73

[Braveman]

BU 82
Loyola 73


JC 21
Ruff 19
Salley 18
Will 17

I think ZA loses his starting spot to Salley....

[BUBraves2006]

Re: BU WINS

I think ZA loses his starting spot to Salley....

I think he earned that right, by his performance more than ZA's poor play. I think ZA should get benched just from the starting lineup for one game after getting T'ed up like that. I would expect Les would make a move like that.

Great team performance...don't you all feel more confident nearing conference play than last year? It's a great sign.

[Guinness]

Interesting to see what Southern Miss will bring. Also wanna see that RPI boost

[IlliBraves]

USM will be no match for us. They played yet another non-divison team tonight.....my bet is Bradley wins by 30.

[BTID]

USM has a nice record but a bad RPI, so I don't think a win will boost us that much. A loss however, would really knock us down. I too feel better about Bradley heading into MVC play this year compared to last year--hope we don't end up with the reverse effect though .

[Da Coach]

The final score was just 9 points differential tonight, but Bradley just dominated at both ends of the floor tonight.
BU lead 80-60 with 3 minutes left, and Loyola outscored BU 13-2 in the last 2 minutes. It looked like Bradley let up a little.

Bradley looks like a Top 20 team when they play the kind of swarming defense like tonight.

The guards all looked great, and Matt Salley looks like he has had his body transposed with Danny Granger's.

[Da Coach]

Box score--

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200612190062

Attendance was 9,009

[mike radigan]

Another big win for the Braves over a very good Loyola team. So very many weapons and now Matt Salley is added to the mix. The only downside is Zach Andrews. He can???‚¬?„?t take silly fouls and then a silly T.

The refs (one in particular) were bad tonight. I much rather point out when they are bad after a BU victory. When our player gets seriously poked in the eye and falls back and the only call is he stepped out of bounds. Then another case where a Loyola player gets a wide open look as the result of another poke in the eye.

Boogie was autographing photos before the game and I got one for my granddaughter. Thanks Boogie.

Doc paid up an adult beverage. Thanks Doc.

Maybe I should start another thread for this, but IMHO Will Franklin is the team MVP so far. Geez, he does so many things so well. Then again this team is so well balance you could make an argument for almost any starter. Maybe you could also give a team MVP for the team defense. Anyway, great victory.

[Big Mike]

Great all around performance tonight! Matt Salley gets his 3rd straight double digit scoring night.......and I cannot say enough about Will Franklin......what a warrior! Nice game by all.......downside would be 2 bad games in a row by Zach....he is not playing at all......to me only 1 of his foul should have been a legit foul......he is rushing his shot.......need to get him back on track before Sat! Not to harp.......but that was some bad officiating...........I know we won but at one point half of Loyola's pts were from FT's............come-on? Nice to see SS get some minutes and get into better game shape.......Fun game!

[Big Mike]

Coach's have some work with Zach........only 8 minutes......2pts....4 boards............5 fouls?

WF........5-6 on 3's!

PS...........did they say anything on the radio on why Ray Brown was not at the game?

[Da Coach]

Box score and stats from BU Braves.com

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19332&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=727781

[Da Coach]

Postgame report from BUBraves.com

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=727801

[mike radigan]

Two things I forgot to mention. One, Loyola got a team T for calling a TO with none left. Shades of Chris Webber. The other is JJ was 0 - 2 from 3 point land. In both attempts he hesitated for an instance. Don't think JJ, just react.

[MacabreMob]

Re: BU WINS

I think ZA loses his starting spot to Salley....

I think he earned that right, by his performance more than ZA's poor play. I think ZA should get benched just from the starting lineup for one game after getting T'ed up like that. I would expect Les would make a move like that.

Great team performance...don't you all feel more confident nearing conference play than last year? It's a great sign.

IMO - Zach does NOT lose his starting spot.

I like everything MS is doing.

I am not happy with ZA.

Most importantly... last 2 home games, ZA got into foul trouble. The last game, it looked like Coach Les didn't know it right away, and after the ball was in play he sent MS... sorry, 4th foul on ZA - cheeze-n-rice.

Tonight, ZA gets #3 early in 2nd half... Coach? What are you waiting for? Why are waiting? Ooooppss... #4, then frustration, technical and #5.

COACH! Why put ZA in those positions to get those fouls?!?!

So, IMO, ZA still starts... but Coach Les needs to yank his arse when he gets into foul trouble and give him a good 'ole arse-chewing. He needs to teach Zach to adapt to the officiating.

[MacabreMob]

The other is JJ was 0 - 2 from 3 point land. In both attempts he hesitated for an instance. Don't think JJ, just react.

Yes, but I also agree with what was said in the post-game - JJ was given the assignment of Schlib and he expended himself on the defensive end.

Thankfully we have a defensive team with a great defensive player like JJ.

Thankfully we have a deadly offensive shooting team that doesn't rely on JJ.