Final score: ISU 69 Bradley 49

[Da Coach]

Next game: Illinois State at Bradley Wednesday, Jan. 18. 8:00 PM
Note the later start time of 8:00 PM

The game is televised on CBSSports Network. There is no video stream available.

Live stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/bradley/mbball/
Chat room: http://us21.chatzy.com/bradleyfans

Bradley is now 8-11 overall and 3-3 in the MVC after their loss at Indiana State last Saturday. Illinois State is 14-4, and 6-0 in the MVC after their win over Wichita State last Saturday.

ISU Website-

http://www.goredbirds.com/index.aspx?path=mbball

Schedule/results:

http://www.goredbirds.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

Roster:

http://www.goredbirds.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball

Stats:

http://goredbirds.com/documents/2017/1/14/Illinois_State_Combined_Stats.pdf

ISU is the #1 defensive team in the MVC. They average yielding 62.9 ppg overall, and 58.8 ppg in the MVC. On offense, they average 72.4 ppg (6th in the MVC) and 71.7 ppg in the MVC (tied for 4th).
Bradley averages 67.3 ppg overall (10th), and 67.5 ppg in the MVC (8th) on offense. On defense, BU averages 71.5 ppg (8th) and 72.3 ppg (7th) in MVC games.

MVC stats:

http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/confstat.htm

[tornado]

bradley is now 10-8 overall ...

8-11

[Da Coach]

Corrected.

[lefty]

Can we pull off the upset?...Can we play absolutely out of our minds on Wednesday?

[Da Coach]

Can we pull off the upset?...Can we play absolutely out of our minds on Wednesday?

It would be a major upset. We'd have to play better than we've played all year, even better than against UNI. I don't see it happening, but I'll be there Wednesday.

[lefty]

Yeah........it's a huge long shot for sure

[Vent]

Only hope to staying close is if ISU comes out flat after their emotional win against Wichita. I don't think their coach will let that happen. If we don't get off to a good start their quickness on defense will have us turning the ball over at a record pace and it will get ugly quick.

[Future Walk-On]

I am envisioning some short lived moments where the crowd is loud and on their feet...before we lose by like 15 and get no shows from all the "veterans" and turn it over 23 times.

or we win by 4

[tornado]

I think this is the game our guys kinda circle on the calendar in August...so hopefully we will be ready and play smart - and the ISU guys will still be high & gloating on their win last weekend..
..but we simply cannot allow a 15-0 start for the opponent!!

[tornado]

Dave Snell promo video for this week's I-74 rivalry..

https://www.facebook.com/BradleyAthletics/videos/1174534839262687/

[BUfan39]

Does anybody had any extra tickets for the game? I'm looking for 2 and I'm willing to pay for them. Send me a private message if you do. Thanks!

[Da Coach]

ISU is an 11 point favorite

[Future Walk-On]

Blessed to have a friend who always has an extra season ticket for me if I want it....

Extra large group of friends ... alumn of both schools wanting to go so I called ticket office....

only single seats available in sec 24 lower bowl

$60 a TICKET.......does anyone else think this is an outrageous price for 1 single seat ticket?

[tornado]

depends entirely on where...
the lowest 3 rows of Section 24 are considered "Premium Seating" (the dark blue in the image* - labelled "Floor Seating")
(rows AA thru DD)
*image is a seating diagram for basketball in the Peoria Civic Center

and those are the seats that go for as much as $60-80 per seat plus require "Maintenance" each year if you want to keep them as your season tickets




The ISU fans usually get Sec 19 or 20 upper bowl, but this year there are more of them and some might be buying up the available lower bowl tickets for tonight

[Da Coach]

Blessed to have a friend who always has an extra season ticket for me if I want it....

Extra large group of friends ... alumn of both schools wanting to go so I called ticket office....

only single seats available in sec 24 lower bowl

$60 a TICKET.......does anyone else think this is an outrageous price for 1 single seat ticket?

For many years, Bradley did not have many available tickets in the lower bowl sections 24, 1, 2, 12, 13, and 14 (the side court sections) since they were all sold to season-ticket buyers. Those were the good old days.
They refused to sell the few that were available for individual games, and used them as comps for special guests, and to attract new season-ticket buyers.
Then starting a couple years ago, after lots of season ticket holders dropped their tickets and a lot more seats in those lower sideline sections became available, But, they were concerned that if a lot of really good tickets were available on a game-by-game basis, then it would encourage more season-ticket buyers to drop out avoid the maintenance fee, and just buy tickets for each game individually. So AD Mike Cross decided to put the available tickets for individual games on Ticketmaster for sale to the public, but priced them high enough that it would not be an advantage to drop season-tickets and buy them individually.
Also, as a courtesy to the season-ticket buyers, who have to pay the big maintenance fee along with the jacked up ticket price, they decided to price the tickets roughly equivalent to what the season-ticket buyers pay per game.
So that $60 per ticket price is based on the total ticket price that season-ticket buyers pay for section 24 lower bowl seats- the "Silver" level ($390 per seat), plus their maintenance fee (minimum $700 donation), divided by the number of home games in the season-ticket package (16 games). That's why those are expensive.
Tickets in most other sections besides 24, 1, 2, 12, 13, and 14 are quite reasonable.
Seats in the "Courtside", "Premium", and "Gold" sections are not available individually.