Next game at Northern Iowa, Wed. 12/27, 8:05pm

[sam hannam]

lightsout - I believe the game is being done by Dave Revsine and Doug Gottlieb.

[tornado]

Doug Gottlieb was pretty annoying.

He spent about half the game talking about how the Missouri Valley is not as good as they are built up to be,
and how their RPI is artificially inflated, and how they just don't deserve the hype they are getting.
Just when he would say something good about a player, he'd have to throw in something annoying or negative.

The classic was when they were talking about how good of a player Jim Les was in his days at Bradley.
It was a nice piece with a few old film clips that I am sure a lot of the viewers had never seen, then he gives Jim Les' alltime assist numbers which still rank Les as 15th best in NCAA history in career assists....BUT...then he had to show his own college assist records that rank Gottlieb at 8th best.
What as a$$. Why did he have to do that and glorify himself in a game with a bunch of 19-22 year olds going on right in front of him.
You just have to wonder what these broadcasters think is the real purpose of this telecast.

Most would think it is to show the game.
These guys think it is to show their own expertise and accomplishment.

[chitownBUB]

Gottlieb was agonizing to listen to.
He ranted about how the Valley is not that good, doesn't deserve the high RPI they have and how the Valley players, UNI players in particular, could not start at any other school in Iowa, and by implication any BCS school.
That's ridiculous. He seemed to foget that both UNI and BU beat Iowa State easily.
He also made it sound like several of the players on the floor were "mid-major" players, in a tone that really meant that they are "minor leaguers" compared to the kids at all the other schools he does broadcasts for.

And BTW, the Zach Andrews travelling call was a terrible call. It took 2 points away right in BU's 2nd half run, and both announcers agreed it was not travelling.

[MDCowboy]

I was stunned by listening to Gottlieb. He was likely assigned to the MVC games (also doing CU-MSU this weekend) because he stood up for the MVC last year around selection time amidst the face of the critics (Phelps, Bilas, etc.).

Why he started defining "mid major" players and saying guys like Stout and McKowen couldn't start for a crappy Iowa team is beyond me. Did someone give them a corporate memo to start talking down about the Valley?

[Da Coach]

The official attendance for the game was 6,511.
That must be close to the full capacity. Every seat was filled, and they sell standing room tickets to stand around the concourse.
There were a couple hundred people standing, but maybe they could pack a few more standing room people in there. And maybe a few more students could pack in their section of bleacher seats at the south end. I don't see how they could get to 7,000, though.
The place is small and loud.

[Chico]

They won't get too many "majors" coming to play there with only a 7000 seat arena. Bradley found that out. This day and age you need at least 10,000. I thought we had at least 3 baskets taken away last night on foul calls while going to the basket. We need a big man bad.