Bradley MVC Champions! Final score Bradley 55 UNI 52

[Dub]

In a previous post, I mention that I told my wife during Wardle's first season that we'll be in the NCAA tournament in 4 years....

4-5 years ago Bradley was at a low point and ISU was winning 20+ but falling short of The Dance. I had a goal we’d make it back to the tournament before they did. It didn’t look promising at the time, but look at the difference in results in the long run when you use discipline and hard work to drive yourself and your team.

[Tommy]

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/sp...e67277137.html

UNI is a very young team. I think they are going to be very good over the next couple of years, but then, so are we!

[Tommy]

Be honest folks. At the beginning of the year, how many of you thought Lundy would even be getting any minutes, not to mention making a huge difference in the tourney? What a pleasant surprise, and interesting to note that during the losing streak, Wardle named him the team leader. I thought he was nuts. Boy was I wrong!
GO BRAVES! Best tournament ever! What a ball!

[bigjimmy]

Just finished watching the replay on you tube and I then watched the last 15:00 minutes again and I do declare that I'm at a loss to describe this impossible, improbable, illogical, illuminous W! This team has defied explanation all year and in this game we saw the worst of us and the best of us. Thankfully we saved the best for last. How do you go over 12:00 with 1 made FG and then make 9 straight shots. How do you explain DLO, who looked so slow and lethargic in the 1st half that he should have been on the bench to scoring 11 of his 13 points in the 2nd half, including 9 of our last 11, and playing such great defense that UNI resorted to hitting him like his was a pinball in a pinball machine. How do you explain Luqman turning into Steph Curry in the 2nd half. How do you explain Luuk turning into the terminator on defense. The 1 thing I do know? WE'RE GOING DANCIN BABY! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Da Coach]

Video of the celebration at the Renaissance Coliseum last night-
https://www.1470wmbd.com/video-welco...ey-mvc-champs/

Also, Chris Reynolds said he will fly out to New York Tuesday and be sequestered along with the 9 other members of the selection committee. They will remain there through Sunday evaluating teams and formulating their plans for the final bracket on Sunday.

[Go_Braves]

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

Most Excellent Fyrebyrd... Thank you - I know several that missed the game and will appreciate watching the game. As for me - when I am not busy this evening I intend to re-watch that unbelievable second half.

[Go_Braves]

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.

In a previous post, I mention that I told my wife during Wardle's first season that we'll be in the NCAA tournament in 4 years. I believed that because I knew Wardle can coach and recruite, and these kids would be down by 20 with 2 minutes to go and they played hard to the end, and Wardle never stopped coaching. Todays comeback was one of the greatest games in the history of Bradley basketball. They have a heart the size of Texas. Not Texas but Alaska. No matter how far we go in the tournament, Bradley basketball is back and It's only going to get better. GO BRADLEY

4-5 years ago Bradley was at a low point and ISU was winning 20+ but falling short of The Dance. I had a goal we’d make it back to the tournament before they did. It didn’t look promising at the time, but look at the difference in results in the long run when you use discipline and hard work to drive yourself and your team.

InMnBob1 and Dub and elmerb (you prophet ) - when it all began November 13, 2015. DLO and Luuk both started as freshmen that first 2015 season game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7H4DNGdOvk

Bradley Nov 13 2015 -it all started.JPG

https://www.google.com/search?ei=BHC...4fz;tb2;fp;1;;

[tornado]

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

did anyone catch Brian Wardle this morning?
If so - fill us in...

[tornado]

[Tommy]

BU 2 for 2 for winning tournaments this year. Can we make it 3 for 3?

[LittleBrave]

Wow - this is incredibly cool Tornado!
Thanks for sharing. Did you take this pic?

[LittleBrave]

I didn't get to chime in yesterday after the wonderful W...trying to post to FB and text many others about what happened!

But I did tear up when I left StarBucks yesterday right after the game...not sure why so emotional, but it's been that kind of a year.
So so satisfying to win that...I'm sure most BU fans shared that sentiment.

GO BRAVES!!!!
Very proud to be a Brave fan lately.

[Dub]

...But I did tear up when I left StarBucks yesterday right after the game...not sure why so emotional...

My wife and I hugged it out in the arena... we’ve been going to Stl for 27 years... even before we were married.

[Da Coach]

did anyone catch Brian Wardle this morning?
If so - fill us in...

Here is an audio file of Jim Mattson's interview with coach Wardle this morning-

https://soundcloud.com/ampillinois/brian-wardle-03-11-19

[Chico]

Dan does a great job interviewing.