Always a Brave team in FINAL FOUR of The Basketball Tournament

[Da Coach]

Always a Brave back to a 55-55 tie. They still look fatigued. Hope they can hold on and get the win!

[Da Coach]

These...referees...have let the teams play, called the calls that needed to be called, and have not tried to overdo it or take over the game. Despite most of these games being just as physical or more so than college games, they are a lot more enjoyable to watch because there are not quite so many whistles...

Just as I complimented the referees for not blowing so many whistles in the tournament games, this Braves-Golden Eagles game has seen a lot of ticky-tack fouls and other strange whistles like the call for Sommerville rebounding his own missed free throw.

The Braves alumni have now taken a 72-66 lead with about 5 minutes left.
Go Braves!

[bigjimmy]

Finally made it back home to hopefully see Always A Brave take it home!

[bigjimmy]

Dan Dakich - I love it...
a brutally honest assessment of the Bradley President ignorantly firing Jim Les and "ruining the program ever since"... LOL!!!!!

Really, somebody made a mistake?

[tornado]

This is incredibly exciting - up 13 with a minute 30 to go!

[Da Coach]

A couple shots of the crowd- I saw Zach Andrews cheering on the Braves, and I also got a glimpse of Dubl R 1!

[tornado]

Marquette has been insane nailing 3's in the final couple minutes - they had a chance to get within 4 or 5 but it's now 88-81 with 20.2 remaining

btw - a win here also gets Always a Brave an automatic spot in next year's tournament and likely a very high seed

[tornado]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
89-81 win and into the semi's

[Da Coach]

Congratulations to the players, coaches, and to Bobby Parker who did a fantastic job of putting this team together and getting all the work done to get them approved.
Always a Brave is the Midwest Region Champion!

On to the Final Four next Saturday- 7:00 pm against Team Colorado

[Da Coach]

BU Coach Wardle tweeted-

https://twitter.com/BUBrianWardle/status/757032810385465352

And Taylor Brown must have been watching-

https://twitter.com/taylor3brown/status/757029843917758465

Would really have been nice to have Taylor Brown on this team.

[Da Coach]

Always a Brave Twitter page just tweeted-

https://twitter.com/OnceABrave/status/757032980900618240

AlwaysABrave
@OnceABrave
Somebody is going to NYC! Always A Brave is #TBT2016 Midwest Region champs! Sat at 5p ET on ESPN vs Team Colorado.

[tornado]

Congratulations to the players, coaches, and to Bobby Parker who did a fantastic job of putting this team together and getting all the work done to get them approved.
Always a Brave is the Midwest Region Champion!

On to the Final Four next Saturday- 7:00 pm against Team Colorado

they just posted that the start time for next Saturday's game is 5pm Eastern
or 4pm Central

http://bracket.thetournament.com/#/

[Da Coach]

The Basketball Tournament had listed the game between the West Region winner and the Midwest Region winner at 7:00 PM Eastern, and the Northeast-South Region matchup at 5:00 PM Eastern.
However, they must feel the other matchup is better suited for the 7:00 PM Eastern game, so the times have been flipped.

So note that the Always a Brave-Team Colorado game will be at 5:00 PM Eastern (4:00 PM central) next Saturday, July 30.
It was just changed on The Basketball Tournament website-

http://bracket.thetournament.com/#/

http://thetournament.com/news/tbt-2016-semifinals-championship-espn

[BRADLEY FAN 49]

2006 Continued !!!

What a great win!
A lot of people really stepped up,Patrick in the first half, Marcellus in the second.
Matt Sally was really good late.
WHAT A GREAT TEAM EFFORT.
GO BRAVES !!!!

[tornado]

Here's the box score

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138620512@N04/28398009392/

Sommerville 25 pts, 6 reb
Ruffin 14 pts, 7 asst
POB 13 pts and perfect from the arc
Will Franklin 11 pts
Salley 8 pts/6 reb, Sammy 7 pts, JC 2 pts

anyone else surprised & pleased with how well Salley has played....they all have played very well





We play a week from today, on July 30 at 4pm vs. Team Colorado

http://thetournament.com/node/40201