Final score: Indiana State 61 Bradley 53

[houstonbrave]

5 of 12 FT’s is not good

[Tommy]

Tough loss with a short handed team.
On the bright side:
Boya looked like a 7 footer out there today and played like a guy that would be recruited by the big boys. If he can build on this game and provide the kind of rebounding (and scoring!) that he did today, we'll be that much stronger come tournament time.

Still think the playing time everyone is getting because of the injuries we've had to deal with can only help us come tourney time assuming we're all healthy by then.

Still would have been nice to get a win here with such a short handed squad, but even just playing as competitively as we did is a real testament to Wardle.

[Da Coach]

Indiana State 61 Bradley 53

It was too much to overcome for the Braves. And the officiating didn't help.

https://gosycamores.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media;team=away

[houstonbrave]

These kids have a lot of fight in them-unbelievable effort

[houstonbrave]

Brian was not happy in the postgame

[bigjimmy]

I’m not too sure what I’m more amazed by. The fact that we went on the road without our 2 best players, Ville can’t play because he’s sick and we play a walk on for 14 minutes and we get down
10-0 and actually have a chance to win or that Dr Jeckyl showed up again from the FT line and probably helped us in losing this game. So very proud of the efforts from everyone today. Guys get plenty of rest, drink plenty of fluids and recharge you batteries and take care of Valpo on Wednesday.

[Time Out]

Love the effort every available player gave this afternoon. Ari was what we thought he would be when he came here. I think we just ran out of gas with only 7 guys playing. Can hardly wait til everyone is healthy again.

[Da Coach]

Brian was not happy in the postgame

Even if he never said it, I think he was more upset about the officiating than anything. He will usually get on a ref once or twice a game, but there were probably 7 or 8 calls today that really upset him. He was especially upset every time an INSU player appeared to drive or jump into a Bradley defender who was stationary with arms up straight. Not once was INSU called for an offensive foul though a few of those calls could easily have been offensive.

[Tommy]

He was especially upset every time an INSU player appeared to drive or jump into a Bradley defender who was stationary with arms up straight. Not once was INSU called for an offensive foul though a few of those calls could easily have been offensive.

That happened a handful of times with Laravia for certain. Not sure what a player is supposed to do when someone jumps into them, but whatever.

All that being said, you can't control the refs, but you can control free throw shooting. That aspect of our game has got to get more consistent.