NCAA Tournament results

[bradleyfan124]

Never say never. I heard he's appealing for another one.

Lol!!

[braves16]

Lol!!

Brody is actually only 1 month older than Leons. 8-25-99 to 9/23/99.

[Tommy]

Brody is actually only 1 month older than Leons. 8-25-99 to 9/23/99.

Nah, Brodie is 45.

[egib52]

I didn't want Drake to lose. They represented the MVC

I didn't want them to lose because Bradley benefitted financially for each win.

[Bigred1976]

I’m sitting here watching the teams play that we beat this year- Utah State, UAB, Vermont.
These are good teams. We should be proud of our Braves! We did ourselves proud.

[bigjimmy]

It was a very uncharacteristic performance by Drake from the FT line. For the season they had averaged 76% from the FT line. They were just 6-14 for the game. They were also just 5-15 from 3. Tucker DeVries started the game 3-4 but missed 11 of his last 14 shots as Washington St rotated about 3 6' 8" guys on Tucker and really made it tough on him to get any clean looks. They certainly got a taste of the own physical medicine as Drake had 21 fouls to the Cougars 13. Is this the last game for Tucker and his Dad at Drake? Frankly I hope so but we'll see if a Power 5 school will give him enough NIL money to make the move.

[Da Coach]

Despite the NCAA selection committed being criticized for the at-large bids, they pretty well with the seeding.
Here are the remaining seeds left in the Sweet 16-
East Region- seeds 1, 2, 3, 5
Midwest Region- seeds 1, 2, 3, 5
South Region- seeds 1, 2, 4, 11
West Region- seeds 1, 2, 4, 6

It's the first time since 2019 that all four #1 seeds have advanced to the Sweet 16.
11-seed North Carolina State, is the only team seeded lower than a 6-seed.

[BUSongwriter]

Jim Mattson is a workhorse in the local sports scene, and does a remarkable job shining the spotlight especially on area high school athletes and teams. He's now devoting almost all of his sportscasts to the Illini's NCAA run. He led with the Illini when BU was playing in the NIT, and yesterday there was a 3-minute feature on the Illini and then one quick sentence at the end about Connor Hickman entering the portal. This evening it was all Illini. Maybe I'm just envious, and I hesitate to criticize someone who goes above and beyond professionally, but I'm not sure the team 90 miles down the road should dominate quite this much.

[braves16]

It was a very uncharacteristic performance by Drake from the FT line. For the season they had averaged 76% from the FT line. They were just 6-14 for the game. They were also just 5-15 from 3. Tucker DeVries started the game 3-4 but missed 11 of his last 14 shots as Washington St rotated about 3 6' 8" guys on Tucker and really made it tough on him to get any clean looks. They certainly got a taste of the own physical medicine as Drake had 21 fouls to the Cougars 13. Is this the last game for Tucker and his Dad at Drake? Frankly I hope so but we'll see if a Power 5 school will give him enough NIL money to make the move.

https://twitter.com/mahonsports/status/1773040377471160369

[bradleyfan124]

Jim Mattson is a workhorse in the local sports scene, and does a remarkable job shining the spotlight especially on area high school athletes and teams. He's now devoting almost all of his sportscasts to the Illini's NCAA run. He led with the Illini when BU was playing in the NIT, and yesterday there was a 3-minute feature on the Illini and then one quick sentence at the end about Connor Hickman entering the portal. This evening it was all Illini. Maybe I'm just envious, and I hesitate to criticize someone who goes above and beyond professionally, but I'm not sure the team 90 miles down the road should dominate quite this much.

He has done that before. Last year Bradley was ina game and all he talked about was Illinois. Did not even bring up the Bradley game. DaCoach said he was an Illinois grad. I said I did not care. He needs to do his job which is here in Central Illinois which the hometown University is Bradley

[ManMythLegend]

He has done that before. Last year Bradley was ina game and all he talked about was Illinois. Did not even bring up the Bradley game. DaCoach said he was an Illinois grad. I said I did not care. He needs to do his job which is here in Central Illinois which the hometown University is Bradley

Mattson ruins his underwear anytime he gets to talk about his Illini. He has very little respect for Bradley.

[bradleyfan124]

Mattson ruins his underwear anytime he gets to talk about his Illini. He has very little respect for Bradley.

Lol!...Poor guy..

[Stryker]

Mattson ruins his underwear anytime he gets to talk about his Illini. He has very little respect for Bradley.

I respect Jim, he does a wonderful job of covering local sports, works his tail off, does an amazing job on the radio, and is good guy all around. However, you aren't wrong. Jim is an Illinois alum and a MASSIVE Illinois homer and just can't help himself. Sometimes you just have to understand it and live with it. I think his contribution to the sports world in Peoria far outweighs his homerism for IL. Can't blame a guy for spending time on his team when its one of their most successful seasons in over 15 years and there are also a huge number of that teams fans in Peoria.

I like Jim and sometimes you just have to take the good and swallow the bad a bit. At least he isn't an ISU homer like Kurt Pegler.