BU v. Iowa Postgame

[tornado]

Braves now up to 108!
http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html

Look at this example of scheduling POORLY

New Mexico is 6-0, but every single team they have beaten is wayyyy bad, with most having RPI's of 200+

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_307_Men.html

Despite being 6-0 their own RPI is 102, their SOS is 249, and their conference's RPI is 14th

[Beninator]

By the way.........does anyone else thinks this just helps out the Braves in recruiting the state of Texas? I DO! Now let's go out in style and win the tourney!

Dont know how much this will help with recruiting in the state of Texas, but I would think that this win could help with the recruitment of a couple of highly ranked forwards who scout has listed BU, Iowa and Iowa State as schools of choice!

[Big Mike]

Pomlee?

http://bradley.scout.com/a.z?s=455&p=9&cfg=bb&c=4&yr=2008

[Beninator]

Bradley had a small but loud continent at the game. There were several hundred more Iowa fans, but they couldn't compare to the noise that the Bradley fans made.

What a nice win. After falling behind 15-8, Bradley ran off 19 of the next 21 points and never trailed again. Fantastic game by Ruffin, and a great game by Theron Wilson. Crouch's shot was off a little, but he and all the guards played great defense!

I am headed back to watch the Vanderbilt-Utah State game.

DC we could hear the BU chant loud and clear on the radio towards the end of the game!!!

[Lakeview Brave]

Of course! When the Valley beats the Big Ten AND the SEC in the same day, I would expect nothing less!

Onto another matter, at the end of the SIU/Miss St game today, the ESPN College Gameday crew was discussing this game. Tom Brennan said that SIU should not be called mid-major anymore after complementing SIU on all aspects of their game. Unfortunately, the same could not be said from fellow analyst Doug Gottlieb. While he agreed with Brennan on everything else, he said that SIU would always be considered a mid-major! Huh?!

I would expect that after five consecutive NCAA appearances, a Sweet 16 and near Elite 8 appearance last year and an undefeated record this year, SIU has more than earned the right to shed the mid-major label. What are you going to do? Gottlieb, who does praise the mid-majors from time to time, still though falls into that trap that the non-BCS teams don't seem to play on the same level as their BCS counterparts do, which of course is bogus. Maybe a Final Four showdown between SIU and Bradley will change his mind!

Oh, breaking news: South Dakota St beats Northern Iowa 61-55, thereby offsetting the gains we made earlier tonight! The Valley now falls back to fifth in the latest realtimerpi rankings. Oh well, that was fun while it lasted!

I actually think Tornado has the best explanation for this. BCS is based on money and big time football two things SIU does not have in comparision to the "high majors". I really dont care what we are called as long as we keep winning.

[Big Mike]

the BU story.......

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1325756

The full box score.......

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1325737

[Beninator]

Pomlee?
http://bradley.scout.com/a.z?s=455&p...bb&c=4&yr=2008

How about that 2009 class prospects as well???

http://bradley.scout.com/a.z?s=455&p=9&cfg=bb&c=4&yr=2009

[AE Braves Fan]

By the way, I handed out a lot of BradleyFans.com cards to people who were cheering for BU
so maybe there'll be a few new guys signing up tonight ....

You handed one of those to my brother, T. I was there with a few family members (including 4 Bradley grads out of the 5 of us) You were gone before I could introduce myself.

Great win. What a game by Ruff. Iowa kept themselves in the game a few times by throwing up junk 3s after 30+ seconds of suffocating Bradley defense. Wilson had a couple monster putback dunks. Fun to watch.

[VromanFan]

Well BU Nation was 5 strong at the BW3 in Bolingbrook. No wives agreed to attend since there's an unfortunate trend of them disappearing around those parts...

But all kidding aside fun game to watch and my first impression is how 10 or 15 years ago it would be a super big deal to defeat Iowa...no matter how strong they happened to be that particular year...

But now we were the favorites...and were obviously the more talented and all around BETTER team on the court....and that's with JC (follow him!) having a rough night from the floor. We easily could have won that game by 20. Don't mean to sound arrogant but I think that's the truth...

[FarmerClone]

Can you believe how much quicker the Braves are than the teams from iowa st. and iowa? This sets up a chance to sweep the state of iowa now with the 2 big boys already in the L' column!

Not to rain on anyone's parade and definitely not trying to take anything away from the Braves because they earned the wins flat out, but it is worth noting that both Iowa and Iowa State played Bradley without their best players. Freeman would have made a big difference for Iowa tonight as would Wes Johnson for ISU. Freeman may be the best athlete in Iowa's backcourt and Wes is a freak of an athlete. But as I said, Bradley earned the wins, I just thought it was worth noting that you did not see the full compliment of athletes on either squad.

[Big Mike]

NO offense FC.........but I wouldn't trade Danny Ruffin for either one of those 2 player's!

[shaunguth]

We'll get a good look tomorrow night at a team that is much better at full-strength than any team in Iowa!

[dogsrus]

Hi guys from SP.....500 Iowa fans to 100 BU. Guess who was the loudest. Of course the one with DRU .......what a mouth. All of the BU fans were in to it. Really a good place to watch...we were right on top of the action. DR and Wilson...huge. Good key reserve minutes in the first half keeping the key guys fresh for crunch time.

Will have more to add tommorrow.........need rest.

[BI_Brave_alum]

CSTV's broadcast

Was anyone else kind of embarassed? regarding the overall bad production look, camera work and feel to the broadcast. it seriously looked like a hs game w/ lack of stands, not to mention people in the seats... saw some good red though!! the person running the scoreboard on the screen wasn't even in tune w/ the action.

glad for the win though...

[Guinness]

Was anyone else kind of embarassed? regarding the overall bad production look, camera work and feel to the broadcast. it seriously looked like a hs game w/ lack of stands, not to mention people in the seats... saw some good red though!! the person running the scoreboard on the screen wasn't even in tune w/ the action.

glad for the win though...

This is all CSTV's fault though. Not ours. Nothing you can really do. You should see Loyola's venue we'll be playing on on Wednesday. Maybe I should bring my camera just to show what a joke it is.