Bradley MVC Champions! Final score Bradley 55 UNI 52

[tornado]

Cellus just tweeted this picture of him taken with Peter Hanley - hmmm..maybe a couple years ago...

Here's Cellus' tweet - read what he has to say to Peter!

https://twitter.com/bubraves15/status/1104858391053303808

[ghunt]

I literally almost passed completely out at the game. That was an incredible show of heart and Luqman showed awesome guts and leadership. A huge thanks to Coach Wardle, Dr. Reynolds, and the team for bringing the program out of the wilderness and onto the promised land of the NCAA Tourney. Go BU!

[Da Coach]

"We Are the Champions"-
https://twitter.com/bradleyumbb/stat...62293807038471

https://twitter.com/jenjones_BU/status/1104842339548315649

[tornado]

I literally almost passed completely out at the game. That was an incredible show of heart and Luqman showed awesome guts and leadership. A huge thanks to Coach Wardle, Dr. Reynolds, and the team for bringing the program out of the wilderness and onto the promised land of the NCAA Tourney. Go BU!

something clicked with the team & with the fan base right about the beginning of February..
Coach lit a fire under them - we were sitting with a record of 11-12 and we were 3-7 in the MVC
Then our guys went 9-2 (and one of those was the game at Drake that we were robbed - and the other was the teaching moment-game at Loyola)
...now we are 20-14- ready to take on some Top Ten team!

I think the key was expanding Ja'Shon Henry's role...
just as soon as he started playing 10 minutes or more we started winning

We are 14-3 when Ja'Shon Henry plays 10 minutes or more
and we are 6-11 when he does not play at least 10 minutes!

[algotrader]

something clicked with the team & with the fan base right about the beginning of February..
Coach lit a fire under them - we were sitting with a record of 11-12 and we were 3-7 in the MVC
Then our guys went 9-2 (and one of those was the game at Drake that we were robbed - and the other was the teaching moment-game at Loyola)
...now we are 20-14- ready to take on some Top Ten team!

Anyone have any idea as to what might have caused the slump in the middle? PM or otherwise

[Go_Braves]

Greg & Dan show 5:30am - 9am - but do not know what time

Thank you Tornado - I'll have to set my clock - I'm in the Denver area and that is 4:30 to 8 am my time - LOL - I'll likely call WMBD when their telephone circuits are free-er (again LOL) and see if I can get a more precise time... GO BRAVES !!!

[tornado]

when he has been on Greg & Dan before that I have heard- it was between 7:30-8:30 am
..time enough to hype his appearance from 5:30am to 7:30am then have him on when their audience is the largest

[tornado]

Luqman gets some nice press back home
New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/201...a-bradley.html

[Bradley3342]

What an amazing comeback in that second half! Gonna start calling them the cardiac kids. Be nice to play in Des Moines where it would be close enough for all to drive there and hoping we don’t get stuck playing in the first four play in games. The Valley is way tougher than a lot of other conferences...What does anyone else think

[wily coyote]

Greg & Dan show 5:30am - 9am - but do not know what time

I listen to Greg and Dan every morning and he usually calls about 8:05 but don't know about tomorrow.

[Da Coach]

Official box score-
https://bradleybraves.com/boxscore.a...82&path=mbball

MVC article-

http://mvc-sports.com/news/2019/3/10/Arch_Madness_Final.aspx

[tornado]

Northern Iowa is becoming the team known to blow almost insurmountable leads....
Today they blew an 18 point lead over a 13 minute span....but....
Does anyone remember 2016 when they blew a 12-point lead over Texas A&M IN the NCAA Tournament with just 35 seconds to play?

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article67277137.html

[InMnBob1]

This is the press conference. https://youtu.be/sP-SG1gYXlg
i liked DLOs comment about thinking they could get the team back to this level when he was a freshman but they only won 5 games that year.

[Go_Braves]

Elijah Childs

So on March 2nd Coach Wardle virtually benches Childs during the second half of the Loyola game - and all of us experts (which we are not) questioned this move by Wardle. And then in the first round of the MVC Tournament game against Missouri State - almost immediately into the game - Childs is called for a Technical Foul and Wardle calmly pulled Childs from the game. And once Childs re-entered the first MVC game in the second half he played a great game, second MVC game / Loyola - another great game, and today's third MVC final game - a great second half and as a result - Childs won the tournaments MVP award. Bottom line - Wardle understands Childs and knows how to bring the best out of him. Just one example of how Wardle is able to bring the best out of his team. That's my off the cuff 2 cents for now. Go Braves....

[Fyrebyrd]

If anyone knows if or when there might be a replay available of the game, let us know.

I don't know how long this will last on youtube for copyright reasons, but here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdVz7GZRNcE