Arch Madness bracket and schedule

[Dub]

Good deal. So with all of that solved….

What does Bradley need to do to beat Loyola on Friday?

I fully expect high effort, good defense, and great rebounding.

I think for Bradley, it’s about shots falling, free throw margin, free throw percentage, and perimeter D.

[Mikovio]

Thanks for the thoughtful debate, Mikovio. Appreciate your thoughts and comments.

Not a problem. I wish someone from MVC offices could get the requirements removed a few days earlier. Guess they don’t have much pull with the City.

[Da Coach]

MVC Arch Madness TV special to air today and tomorrow on Bally Sports and NBCSports Chicago

https://mvc-sports.com/news/2022/3/1/mvc-to-air-arch-madness-special.aspx

[Da Coach]

Good deal. So with all of that solved….

What does Bradley need to do to beat Loyola on Friday?

I fully expect high effort, good defense, and great rebounding.

I think for Bradley, it’s about shots falling, free throw margin, free throw percentage, and perimeter D.

Loyola is a different team this year without Cameron Krutwig. They started the season trying to play the same style, only with sophomore Jacob Hutson starting and playing the center position that Krutwig played. But they got very little production from Hutson, so he's been taken out of the starting lineup and rotation. They have been going with Chris Knight playing inside, and relying a bit more on perimeter scoring. They have several guys shooting better than 40% from three- Lucas Williamson (40.2%), Braden Norris (42.5%), Tate Hall (45.0%), Keith Clemons (40.0%), and Ryan Schwieger is at 37.9% and Aher Uguak at 36.5%, so it makes Loyola tough to guard.
Bradley needs to do what they do best- defense (Bradley is #1 in FG% defense), defend the 3-pointers (Bradley is also #1 in 3pt FG% defense), and rebounding (Bradley is #1 in every rebounding category). In addition, they need good shot selection and hope the shots fall, since Bradley trails Loyola by a little in most offensive stat categories. And as always, they need to limit turnovers and make their free throws- the 2 areas that have hurt this team the most in losses this season (Bradley ranks 9th in turnovers/game and 10th in FT%).

[Tommy]

You can't overestimate the effect of upper classmen during the post-season. That being said, we're bigger and quicker, so if we bring our A game we should be able to take them down, especially considering we beat them at home and would have beat them at their place if the refs didn't hand the game over to them.

[Da Coach]

The MVC just sent an email to ticket buyers that includes the following info-
Upon entry to Enterprise Center, one of the following will be required:

• An official, government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
• A photo or digital version of an official government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
• A printed or digital negative COVID-19 rapid or PCR test administered by a healthcare professional with 72 hours to a guest’s given event that includes the guest’s name and date the last test was administered. Tests administered after 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 3 will be accepted for entry for ALL sessions for the weekend with no additional testing required.

So it looks like if an unvaccinated person gets their Covid test after 12 noon Thursday, it will be good for all sessions through Sunday.

[Tommy]

The MVC just sent an email to ticket buyers that includes the following info-
Upon entry to Enterprise Center, one of the following will be required:

• An official, government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
• A photo or digital version of an official government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
• A printed or digital negative COVID-19 rapid or PCR test administered by a healthcare professional with 72 hours to a guest’s given event that includes the guest’s name and date the last test was administered. Tests administered after 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 3 will be accepted for entry for ALL sessions for the weekend with no additional testing required.

So it looks like if an unvaccinated person gets their Covid test after 12 noon Thursday, it will be good for all sessions through Sunday.

Thanks Coach!

[bigjimmy]

Arch Madness is here. About 10:00 before the two ISU’s battle it out. They split their series with Blue winning by 3 and Red winning this past Saturday by 20. Expecting Red to win as I think they’re the better team and a playing with a purpose.

[bigjimmy]

Maybe 400-500 people at the game tonight.

[bigjimmy]

First tv timeout Red leads Blue 8-4. Howard Fleming made 2 3’s right off the bat.

[bigjimmy]

9:40 left Red leads Blue 12-10. Both teams not lighting it up as they are both 5-16.

[patrick_o'brian]

Anybody else lagging bad on Bally’s? Almost slow motion. Might just be my connection down here.

[Da Coach]

I'm watching the InSU vs. ILSU game, but I am noticing how crappy the ArchMadness.com website is this year. In every prior year, their Arch Madness Tourney Central schedule (LINK) had several link, including to the Live Stats for the game. But this year, there are no links. Just a plain schedule, which is rather worthless.

[bigjimmy]

Red went almost 6:00 without scoring and Blue made enough shots to lead at the half 28-23. Blue shot 11-28, 4-15 from 3 and Red shot 10-33, 3-14 from 3.

[braves16]

Illinois State has a press conference set for Monday at 11am on ESPN+.