Final score: Bradley 63 Evansville 61

[Da Coach]

Bradley's next game is Saturday, Feb. 23 at Carver Arena against Evansville. The game starts at 1:00 PM.
Bradley is 15-13, and 7-8 in the MVC. Evansville is 10-17, and 4-10 in the MVC, pending their game tonight (Wed. 2/20) at Loyola.
Coming off their tough loss at Drake, Bradley has won 4 of their last 5 and 7 of their last 10. Evansville has lost 8 of their last 9 prior to their Wednesday, 2/20 game at Loyola.

Evansville schedule and results-

https://gopurpleaces.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

Main https://gopurpleaces.com/index.aspx?path=mbball

TV: The game is only viewable on ESPN3-http://www.espn.com/watch/_/id/34843...lle-vs-bradley
Radio: WMBD 1470 AM and 100.3 FM, and online at www.1470wmbd.com
Chat Room: http://www.chatzy.com/bradleyfans
Live stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary

Evansville stats- https://s3.amazonaws.com/gopurpleace...stats_full.pdf

Bradley stats- https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...dley_stats.pdf

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

MVC Standings-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...ngs/_/group/18

[Da Coach]

Pregame story-
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2019/...-saturday.aspx

[bigjimmy]

This is a TCB kind of a game. GET ER DONE BOYS!

[algotrader]

This game should not have gone to the last second like that. No way should Evansville nearly beat us at home.

[Da Coach]

Final stats-

https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media

Evansville has enough good shooters to stay close, especially when your not shooting the ball well. Bradley only shot 32.7% for the game, and that will lose a lot of games. Darrell Brown's 19 points were huge, especially in helping propel those several runs that Bradley went on, and Eli had another double-double (13 & 13) despite some foul problems. Bar did not seem to impress much, but the stats show 8 rebounds, and those were big. DLO had another steady game, 10 points and no turnovers. I think Bradley would have put the game away if DLO had not been forced to sit for a 8 minute stretch in the 2nd half with fouls.
Nice crowd of 6,571, the 2nd best home crowd of the season and the only game over 6,000 other than the ISU game (7,122)

Let's win Wednesday on Senior Night and we'll take our chances at Loyola in a week!

[wizard1]

A WIN IS A WIN IS A WIN.....HOWEVER UGLY!
We played awful. Didn't look like we were prepared for the game. Way too many dumb, mindless turnovers and we still havn't learned to defend the perimeter by playing the other guy up close and giving him no room to manuever. Our coaches must correct this ASAP or we are going to get killed in the next couple of games and in St. Louis. Also, we looked like we had little energy although we did bring the ball up the court much faster and this helped us. We had better be ready for Valpo on Wed. .
Wizard

[Bradley3342]

Proud of the guys today. Wasn’t real pretty with shots not falling but they just gutted it out..Henry continues to impress! His minutes continue to go up...

[wily coyote]

I think Evansville had a lot to do with our problems on the offensive end. They flat played great D against us. We couldn't get shots early in our possessions because of their defense and had to throw up some pretty ugly shots. I give them a lot of credit and after this coach gets a couple recruiting classes into Evansville, it's not going to be fum playing them like it used to be. Just my opinion in what I saw.

[Da Coach]

Game story from BradleyBraves.com

https://bradleybraves.com/news/2019/2/23/mens-basketball-braves-outlast-evansville-63-61.aspx

From Evansville

https://gopurpleaces.com/news/2019/2/23/mens-basketball-battles-but-falls-late-at-bradley.aspx

[bigjimmy]

We played OK enough in spurts to win but if the guys think that OK enough will be good enough to win from this point on then our post season will last just 1 game. For the last 7:00 of the 1st half to the first 7:00 of the 2nd half we outscored them 29-12 and we looked like the team of the past month. We were aggressive on offense and defense like we've been during the last month. The rest of the game we looked like the team that started 0-5 in the Valley. We only scored 2 points, on FT's, for the last 5:00 minutes of the game. Our last FG was a 3 by Luuk with 6:51 left. That won't be good enough to beat Valpo on Wednesday. I'm hoping the guys realize how fortunate they were to win this game and hope they realize that if they beat Valpo that they avoid the play in game. Win this game and we finish no worse than 6th. Could finish as high as 4th. Considering how we started the Valley it's feels good to be in this position. Let's TCB on Wednesday. GET ER DONE BOYS!

[AZ BU Fan]

Absolutely stinks this team isn't 9-7.

Good job BU bouncing back from disappointing game at DU.

Get your intensity back and win final 2 conference games!

The fans are coming back. More home W's mean more fans getting back on the BU bandwagon.

[LittleBrave]

Pretty ugly game and we probably brought our C- game.
Glad we won, but we gotta play much better on Wed.
Hoping the seniors have a memorable night!