Evansville @ Bradley Post Game 77-76 BU!

[ser_solace]

Wow. Another tight one. I was hoping it wasn't going to be a so close.

However, Sam Maniscalco is such an amazing player for a freshman. Way to take the game on your shoulders Sam. Draw the foul. Sink two free-throws for the win!

[mrcoachdude]

Heard they had the ball with 10 or so seconds....Who was in at the end? Did we pick them up at 3/4 court this time?

[Big Mike]

Let me tell ya.......10.7 on the clock with UE taking out the ball.........there were things running thru my head! But tonight we handled it better and isu lost.........YES! Everyone played tonight and SM and TW ahd big nights....SS hit a couple key give and goes from MS or TW! DC, RA and WE all played tonight!

My hat goes off to 22 on UE....I think he hit 6 3's?:

[lefty]

Heard they had the ball with 10 or so seconds....Who was in at the end? Did we pick them up at 3/4 court this time?

not much difference really..they just mishandled the ball at the end

[Da Coach]

Evansville shot 100% on their 3's in the second half (5-5) and an incredible 15-21 (65%) for the game. I still can't figure out why teams shoot the 3 against Bradley so well. Some is defense or lack thereof, but some just can't be explained.

Stats--

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19332&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1371770

Great crowd- 10,129 on such a cold night!

VISITORS: Evansville 5-12 (0-7)[/code][code]
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
04 Garner, Nate........ f 1-3 0-0 3-4 1 4 5 4 5 3 3 0 1 34
41 van Tongeren, Peter. f 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 3 3 3 4 0 1 0 0 22
05 Ely, Shy............ g 8-15 1-1 3-5 0 4 4 3 20 2 1 1 2 36
21 Granger, Darin...... g 4-15 4-9 2-2 0 5 5 0 14 3 1 0 0 37
22 Holsinger, Jason.... g 6-7 6-7 5-7 0 5 5 3 23 8 5 0 0 38
02 Lacey, Kavon........ 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4
11 Gomez, Victor....... 4-4 0-0 0-0 1 3 4 2 8 0 3 0 2 11
15 Couisnard, Jay...... 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 12
52 Hopf, Clint......... 0-0 0-0 2-2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 6
TEAM................ 2 2 1
Totals.............. 25-49 11-17 15-21 2 29 31 18 76 18 16 1 6 200

TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 12-25 48.0% 2nd Half: 13-24 54.2% Game: 51.0% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 6-12 50.0% 2nd Half: 5-5 100 % Game: 64.7% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 13-17 76.5% 2nd Half: 2-4 50.0% Game: 71.4% 2--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOME TEAM: Bradley Braves 9-10 (2-5)
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
12 Wilson, Theron...... f 10-17 4-5 4-5 3 3 6 1 28 4 0 0 0 34
22 Salley, Matt........ c 1-3 0-0 4-6 1 6 7 3 6 3 2 2 3 26
05 Maniscalco, Sam..... g 4-10 3-8 2-2 0 1 1 4 13 6 1 0 3 31
14 Crouch, Jeremy...... g 6-15 4-10 2-2 0 7 7 3 18 4 3 0 3 38
24 Warren, Andrew...... g 0-7 0-4 3-4 2 3 5 3 3 4 0 2 0 34
00 Cole-Scott, Tyrone.. 2-5 1-3 0-0 1 3 4 4 5 2 2 0 0 17
04 Collins, David...... 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
21 Egolf, Will......... 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 4
32 Austin, Rashad...... 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 6
54 Singh, Sam.......... 2-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 5
TEAM................ 1
Totals.............. 25-60 12-31 15-20 8 26 34 21 77 23 11 4 10 200

TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 11-33 33.3% 2nd Half: 14-27 51.9% Game: 41.7% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 7-22 31.8% 2nd Half: 5-9 55.6% Game: 38.7% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 9-12 75.0% 2nd Half: 6-8 75.0% Game: 75.0% 3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Officials: Mike Sanzere, Darron George, David Warfel
Technical fouls: Evansville-None. Bradley Braves-None.
Attendance: 10129Score by Periods 1st 2nd Total
Evansville.................... 43 33 - 76
Bradley Braves................ 38 39 - 77Points in the paint-UE 24,BRAD-M 16. Points off turnovers-UE 7,BRAD-M 8.
2nd chance points-UE 3,BRAD-M 5. Fast break points-UE 3,BRAD-M 2.
Bench points-UE 10,BRAD-M 9. Score tied-4 times. Lead changed-10 times.
Last FG-UE 2nd-01:16, BRAD-M 2nd-00:21.
Largest lead-UE by 8 1st-02:58, BRAD-M by 10 1st-11:12.

[Big Mike]

I wouldn't say that....JC stole the ball with about 6 secs left...in fact he had another steal before that one and they called it a foul....it was clean!

[Dallas Brave]

Congrats Braves players and coaches on winning a close one! SM is special. Game ball to TW.

[lefty]

I'm glad for the win...and the fact that UE only took 5 3's in the second half..but my gosh a winless team at home and it's all we can do to win.
I thought UE played pretty poor defense most of the game and luckily TW had the game of his life so far anyway.

I don't know...we win but it's hard to be excited about it.

I thought Simmons was class going to Holsinger at the end of the game

[mike radigan]

First of all I want to congratulate Evansville on the game. In particular Jason Holsinger just played a fantastic game and Marty Simmons let him know at the end how he felt in spite of the turnover. Very classy move by Coach Simmons. It was also touching to watch Coach Merfeld interact with the Purple Aces.

Theron Wilson redefined Jim’s 24 hour rule. What Drake loss and bad performance? Amazing comeback by Theron. And Sam Maniscalco, what can you say? The kid, and he is still just a kid, is as cool as they come. He obviously wants the ball and relishes crunch time. It is going to be fun to watch this kid play for another 3 ?? seasons.

BU! BU! BU!

[Da Coach]

Theron had zero turnovers, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists to go along with his 28 points. Nice game TW!

[lefty]

Theron had zero turnovers, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists to go along with his 28 points. Nice game TW!

TW was the only reason we were even close at halftime...what a huge half

[Buesch N Chips]

Great game. Great crowd. Sam is going to be something special. That #22 for them was unconscious.

[lefty]

Another interesting thing tonite...everybody played really. WE. RA,DC...SS didn't play until the second half.....but more players got into the game...I still would like to se JC get a little more rest but that's the way it goes

[Big Mike]

Bradley story and box score!

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1371831

[MacabreMob]

WOW!

So many things!

-No Merfeld on the floor before the game.... (?, but comment later)
-Tight calls the 1st half, we fought thru it and overcame (but I don't like the whining after a call... JL, tell the players not to complain or whine about a call they disagree about, that's Merf's job )
-I missed Shouse at the half - that ticks me off, was a friend of mine while I was on the Hilltop
-DC did ok
-RA was ok
-We had 2 bigs in at same time (MS with DC and MS with SS I believe) and it was ok
-As much "hate" MS has gotten, that guy has fire in his belly and tries to get the other bigs to work harder (saw it up close 1st hand in his interaction with the other players)
-TW with a great game! (btw, TW you are my FAVE!)
-SM.... Coach Beuscher said it best. When he went out in the 1st 1/2 with foul trouble, the team hurt and it showed. SM has a very positive effect on this team. As much as I will miss DR after this year, I will equally love (if not more) SM's career over the next 3 1/2 seasons!

.... maybe more later .....