Final score: Missouri State 55 Bradley 37

[tornado]

more of the same is right...
I have been bummed about those silly, unforced turnovers and missed point blank shots for couple years - but it is absolutely killing us now...

[Vent]

Bradley’s big goal for the season now has to be...get out of the MVC Tournament play-in round. Next to impossible though. If they do it will because of a tie breaker. Pathetic.

[basketball nut]

And what the heck happened with Hodgson???

He is one of our best 5 players. Is he sick???
What's the deal?

Lundy has upped his game a bit over last 3 games, but he should have been taken out halfway through the 1st half and only play maybe 2 minutes more...he was bad.

When did he become one of our best players??? He doesn't shoot and has way to many weak passes, the very thing that was just complained about. We had a 14 point lead the 1st time we played MSU when he cam into the game and everything slowed down and he turned the ball over 3 straight trips down the floor and the Bears took off after that. I for one am very happy to see him on the bench until he can handle the ball and starts to shoot. LL has given some life to the offense until, apparently, Saturday as I didn't see any of that game.

[TomRodgBU76]

basketball nut I would enjoy seeing you on the floor, maybe even being defended by Hodgson. Instead of tearing down these young men, why don't we build them up?

Its tough to see this bad of a drop of but it's what happens when 1 game is made such a huge deal and then there is a fall off like this.

[tornado]

when they guys really focused on ISU as the opponent, they played well - but I think the bad stretch has them now seeing the crowd & the coverage as the opponent -
We are not out of this yet - we are two games out of 5th place and 3 games out of 2nd place!

[Bradleyfan1]

I suspect we won’t be seeing much of Jayden or Pittman. Maybe I’m wrong . We have waited long enough. I can only go off games because I can’t get into practice . Which I understand. Invest in Henry and Brummet. I want Henry starting over DLO. DLO Bar Nate Brum off the bench. Other than foul trouble or gassed Childs Brown Henry Luk shouldn’t come out. Play Boya unless he is hurt. Give him 2 5 min stretchs. One a half. 1300 min timeframe enter.His head has to be right tho. He’s going to look terrible certain times but will be a decent MVC big. Super high ceiling. Think about Bars freshman yr. The patience we show and dumb plays we deal with now will pay off year 3 and most year 4. Keep him positive. It’s not about where we are. It’s about where we are going.

[tornado]

NOT SAYING we can draw certain conclusions but.....
the last couple years we saw that the players who were not playing much at all down the stretch run...
were also the players who were no longer here at the end of the season (Joel Okafor, Davante Cooper, Scottie James, Ronnie Suggs, Alex Foster, Stipo, Jojo, Callum Barker)

[Vent]

when they guys really focused on ISU as the opponent, they played well - but I think the bad stretch has them now seeing the crowd & the coverage as the opponent -
We are not out of this yet - we are two games out of 5th place and 3 games out of 2nd place!

If these guys see the crowd and coverage as the opponent, they have real problems. The Valley does not have a “really” good team. ISU is not that good of a team. Bradley played well against them. It is also not out of the realm of possibility for us to go to ISU and get pasted. For us to get out of the play-in game,we are going to have to win a heck of a lot more than we lose and the teams ahead of us are going to have to lose a lot more than they win. I look for the bottom five teams in the league to maybe go .500 the rest of the season have a tie breaker determine the play-in.

[bigjimmy]

For BU to avoid the play in game we'll probably need to go at worst 6-4 to finish at 8-10. Since the 2010-11 season 5 of the 8 seasons the 6th place team had at least 10 loses in the MO Valley. The other 3 years it was 9-9. So can we do it? It's possible but not if we don't play with any sense of urgency. We have 5 home games, (SIU, ISU Blue, Loyola, Evansville and Valpo), and 5 road games (Evansville, UNI, ISU Red, Drake and Loyola). If we play like we're capable of playing we can go 8-2. If not we can go 2-8. But with the topsy turvy way that the Valley has been this season who the heck knows what will happen. All we can control is how we play and Evansville is up next. Get er done boys!

[Vent]

For BU to avoid the play in game we'll probably need to go at worst 6-4 to finish at 8-10. Since the 2010-11 season 5 of the 8 seasons the 6th place team had at least 10 loses in the MO Valley. The other 3 years it was 9-9. So can we do it? It's possible but not if we don't play with any sense of urgency. We have 5 home games, (SIU, ISU Blue, Loyola, Evansville and Valpo), and 5 road games (Evansville, UNI, ISU Red, Drake and Loyola). If we play like we're capable of playing we can go 8-2. If not we can go 2-8. But with the topsy turvy way that the Valley has been this season who the heck knows what will happen. All we can control is how we play and Evansville is up next. Get er done boys!

For us to get out of the play-in game going 6-4 the rest of the way, at least four of the teams immediately ahead of us in the standings would have to go 3-6 the rest of the season. I don’t see how that can happen since those teams still have games against each other. When those teams play each other all it does for us is to make us win one more game. Essentially we can’t lose any more games against Evansville, SIU, ISU-B, UNI and probably even MO ST.. We’’ve dug ourselves a really deep hole to get out of, this early in the season. The numbers and inconsistencies of this team don’t bode well for us.

[KMart]

It really looks like Wardle is playing/relying on his seniors more right now to right the ship. Whether or not that's the right move, I don't know.

[LittleBrave]

I suspect we won’t be seeing much of Jayden or Pittman. Maybe I’m wrong . We have waited long enough. I can only go off games because I can’t get into practice . Which I understand. Invest in Henry and Brummet. I want Henry starting over DLO. DLO Bar Nate Brum off the bench. Other than foul trouble or gassed Childs Brown Henry Luk shouldn’t come out. Play Boya unless he is hurt. Give him 2 5 min stretchs. One a half. 1300 min timeframe enter.His head has to be right tho. He’s going to look terrible certain times but will be a decent MVC big. Super high ceiling. Think about Bars freshman yr. The patience we show and dumb plays we deal with now will pay off year 3 and most year 4. Keep him positive. It’s not about where we are. It’s about where we are going.

Hodgson has been solid his first 2 seasons Bf - nobody can deny that. He's not a star, but he's better shooter and ball-handler than Lundy.
Give him more PT and he'll get back to what we've seen of him in Seasons 1 and 2.
Pittman is good - Coach just takes him out if he makes a mistake, and is slow to let him correct it.
I had high hopes for A-Pitt, could have been an All-Valley guy by next season. Now may not return for BU...kinda sad.