FINAL: Bradley 84 St. Joseph's 65

[lefty]

I'm anxious to go....I haven't been to anything but a big man workout....

[Da Coach]

We'll know a little more about St. Joseph's College tonight when they play their first exhibition game at Butler.
If anyone is interested, there appears to be audio and video available to follow the St. Joseph's-Butler game-

http://athletics.saintjoe.edu/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

[tornado]

would love to see an even bigger crowd this Monday....then bigger yet for Ball State...
not sure why some people skip the exhibitions - they're fun and fans need to get to know all the new players...

btw St. Joe's is hanging right with Butler and are 4-5 from 3-pt range
Score is 18-14 with 7 minutes gone

Butler has grabbed 10 of the 12 rebounds so far

[tornado]

Butler ran away with the game 106-66
but one thing of note - they shot a ton of 3's - more than they shot 2-pt attempts, and made nearly half of them (13-27)

[tornado]

Here's the BUBraves.com pregame release...a very good job by BP
The "expected starters" are not named - so I guess we really still don't know...

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=210477516

and a more expanded media release

http://www.bradleybraves.com//pdf9/4065208.pdf

[Da Coach]

Here is the box score from the St. Joseph's-Butler game-

http://athletics.saintjoe.edu/documents/2015/11/7/sjc1107.htm

The starters for St. Joseph's were:
#24 Nathan Tidwell- 6'6" Senior forward who averaged 10.1 ppg last season- he had 12 points, 3 rebounds against Butler in 25 minutes
#45 Torrance Johnson- 6'6' Junior forward who transferred in from Illinois Valley CC- he had 1 point, 1 rebounds against Butler in 14 minutes
#2 Davone Daniels- 6'2" Sophomore guard who averaged 5.6 ppg last season- had 10 points, 4 rebounds against Butler in 22 minutes
#22 C.J. Hardaway- 6'2" Freshman guard- had 0 points, 1 rebound against Butler in 12 minutes
#23 Dawson Gore- 6'0 Senior guard who averaged 8.4 ppg last season- had 5 points and 1 rebound against Butler in 19 minutes

Two other players contributed significantly in scoring-
#13 Brandon Smith- 6'1" grad guard- 12 points in 16 minutes
#34 Davious Webster- 6'3" freshman guard- 14 points in 21 minutes

One other note- St. Joseph's high scorer was 6'3" freshman Davious Webster off the bench for 14 points. He was 4-8 from three.
He is a freshman from Richmond High School in Richmond, Indiana.-

http://athletics.saintjoe.edu/roster.aspx?rp_id=2643&path=mbball

He was a teammate there at Richmond HS with Bradley's freshman Joel Okafor-

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19333&SPID=1498&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=210151788&Q_SEASON=2015

[Da Coach]

Dave Reynolds reports that Donte Thomas will be in the starting lineup Monday against St. Joseph's.
He will replace Ronnie Suggs, who played very well in the Edgewood game.

So the starting lineup for Monday's game against St. Joseph's is:
Joel Okafor
Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye
Donte Thomas
Luuk van Bree
Callum Barker

The bench:
Ronnie Suggs
Ka'Darryl Bell
Antoine Pittman
Scottie James
Davante Cooper
Peter Hanley
D'Angelo McBride

[tornado]

PJ Star article on Monday's game

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151108/SPORTS/151109417

Despite a few DI teams getting beat by exhibition opponents, none of the MVC teams has yet lost an exhibition game this fall.

[Da Coach]

Bradley's gameday promo ad for tonight's game featuring Luuk van Bree-

[tornado]

Davante Cooper was 4-4 & did not miss a shot attempt in the first exhibition...
wonder if there's ever been a freshman at Bradley who started his very first game/exhibition as a freshman and
then made 4 or more baskets but did not miss a shot...
we'll see if his accuracy streak continues tonight...

Has any player gotten a double-double in his first contest/exhibition as a freshman? (Callum Barker 15 pt/10 reb)

Even the year (2007) TCS got 36 in front of an exhibition crowd of 4,150 at the Fieldhouse- he didn't have a double-double and he wasn't a freshman.

[Da Coach]

Bradley leafs 45-31 at halftime. A lot of fouls and turnovers.
Stats

http://stats.statbroadcast.com/mobile/?id=109302

[ihatetea]

This is a much better opponent than the first exhibition. Van Bree, barker, and Okafor look good. These refs seem to breath through their whistles. There are SO MANY FOULS!!!

[Da Coach]

Final score
Bradley 84 SJC 65

[brocks]

Meh.

Not sure what KDB gives this team. All the rest at least have an upside.

[tornado]

They play well as a team - we faced some adversity - the SJC team threw some unexpected offense at us, and got all our big guys in foul trouble..
and we were forced to move guys to different positions - with Donte Thomas, Scottie and Luuk playing the "5"..
and we still hung in there and played well.
Callum Barker had 13 points in about 10 minutes of play - as he sat with fouls..

van Bree 18 pts, 10 rebs
Cooper 2 pts, 8 rebs
Donte Thomas 12 pts, 4 rebs
Okafor 8 pts, 3 asst
DLO 8 pts, 4 reb
Bell 4
Pittman 6
Suggs 8 pts, 3 rebs
James 5 pts

Absolutely pleased....
I realize we had them by about 30 points before we put our walk-ons in


somewhere in the middle of the game the stat crew went wild and started posting the score wrong - it caused a lot of really erroneous numbers to get tweeted out..
they looked a bit lost over there - musta been their nite to have amateur hour...