Nortern IA. @ SIU

[Grassman]

This game is on ESPNU tonite at 8:00PM.
Unless you would rather watch the State of the Union address?
I cannot figure out, in Bradleys best interest, who do we want to win?
After we win tomorrow, we would be tied with SIU if they lose at 6-4. However, we have a road game against them, in a tough venue.
However if Northern loses, we are only one game behind the league leader and we have a HOME game left against The Panthers.
Interesting.

[BradleyBrave]

Re: Nortern IA. @ SIU

This game is on ESPNU tonite at 8:00PM.
Unless you would rather watch the State of the Union address?
I cannot figure out, in Bradleys best interest, who do we want to win?
After we win tomorrow, we would be tied with SIU if they lose at 6-4. However, we have a road game against them, in a tough venue.
However if Northern loses, we are only one game behind the league leader and we have a HOME game left against The Panthers.
Interesting.

If you want to start weighing tie-breaker points right now, we have a win over SIU. So, if they get the win and are in a tie for 1st place, that's more tiebreaker points for BU. While we lose tiebreakers with UNI and CU right now due to our losses to them, home wins will cancel that, and it will then come down to tiebreaker points (assuming we tie with either CU or UNI).

[tornado]

I think this is the beauty of the teams ahead of us in the standings all still have lots of games against each other.
It benefits BU no matter who wins, by keeping the pack tight so BU doesn't fall to 6th, 7th, or 8th best, and doesn't fall several games out of the top spot.

In other words, I guess I don't really care too much, but I kinda want SIU to win.
If SIU wins, then UNI does NOT pick up another road win, since I believe we can also win in Peoria vs. them. That would kinda only leave SIU substantially ahead of us if we keep winning.
If we finish right behind SIU who'd have an RPI of 10 or so, then that's still a pretty good claim to an NCAA bid.

But if SIU loses, then we are going to have a harder time catching UNI, but they still only have at present a 46 RPI!
PLUS SIU already has 3 road wins, and likely could beat us in Carbondale as well, so it is still likely could get 2 teams enough ahead of BU to be a problem.

[MacabreMob]

Road Warriors UNI are up early (8 right now over a contested 3, 19-11, 5-something left in the 1st half).

Here is the audio link:

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/multimedia/silu-mbask07.html

[MacabreMob]

I have never heard SIU score so fast ... 20-19 SIU

[MacabreMob]

40-39, UNI

8:54, McKowen gets his 4th

and then SIU regains the lead 41-40

[MacabreMob]

WOW!!!

A shot at the buzzer.....

[MacabreMob]

SIU holds on!

UNI made a basket after time expired which would have forced OT.

[AE Braves Fan]

good game. 2 great teams. they should represent the valley well this spring. MSU is the 3rd team IMO. Not sure if any others make it. CU and BU close

[Da Coach]

SIU 56 UNI 54

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200701230528

[Da Coach]

SIU shot only 35.9% and 3-20 from three and still won. UNI shot 11 of 15 from three (73.3% for the game), but had 24 turnovers to just 6 for SIU.
Another strange stat- SIU point guard Bryan Mullins scored a career high 16 points, but had zero assists in 32 minutes.
SIU got only 2 points from their bench, UNI got 5 from theirs. Whatever happened to Jordan Eglseder, and Tony Boyle?

http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2006-2007/siu21.html

[cpacmel]

Whatever happened to Jordan Eglseder, and Tony Boyle?

Eglseder is out with a knee injury.

Freshman center Jordan Eglseder suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee in practice on Sunday, Jan. 14. He is scheduled to have the knee scoped on Thursday, Jan. 18 and should be sidelined approximately three weeks.

[tornado]

Tough break, as Eglseder, along with Eldridge, was seen as the best incoming freshman in the MVC.
Personally I think it was a lot of pressure on the young 7-footer to have all those things said about him, as he had played his entire high school career in the smallest of the Iowa high school classes. And in Iowa, if you are in the small class, your opponents are pretty small...some as small as enrollment of 70.
I personally thought he'd have some adapting to do. But then, I said that about OE.