BU 72 - Drake 71 - Post Game Thread

[mportsch]

Great win for the Braves!

Gotta give it to our guys - they really hung in there at a couple points where it looked like Drake might pull away. Outstanding game for Crouch, 23 points on just 12 shots!

I think Bradley has a legitimate chance to win all 3 remaining games. If that happens, a loss in the MVC title game would give Bradley an RPI around 64th, according to RPIforecast.com, which would actually put the Braves into the bubble discussion! With a hot finish, some help from other bubble teams, and injuries taken into consideration, Bradley might be able to sneak in the tourney in that scenario.

Of course, it would be nice to just win the MVC tourney and remove all doubt!

[Braveman]

Out-rebounded them, shot better % on the road and hustled... Great win...

[jasonpeoria911]

Someone carry JC & Wilson off the court, Wilson looks like he is about ready to faint and JC had a very tired look on his face the last couple minutes of the game lol. Just an excellent game for March Madness although I still don't think BU can be fresh enough for 3 games in 3 days at this intensity. TCS and especially Singh is going to have to control the foul troubles. Singh is averaging about a foul every 2-3 minutes hes played the last few games.

Jason

ESPNU has lots of great pictures from the game!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/photos?gameId=280502181

Here are just a few:

[bu fan 9]

JC and Wilsons picture is priceless.

[bugregshu]

I don't know if it's been mentioned anywhere else, but the win over Drake moves our RPI up from 103 to 86. That's a huge jump this late in the season.

[Guinness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZsEgJnjkQ

[Big Mike]

nice effort by everyone who got on the court tonight....I think they had DR close to 40 mins in the game.....most of the guards logged too many minutes and TW was just gassed! Great Win.....I'm now 2-0 this year on road games with UNI being the 1st! Makes the 2 hours sleep last night easier to handle heading off to work!

[BU ICEMAN]

Oh how I love YouTube.....didn't realize the last shot came from that far out, when I heard Snell's call, I thought it was a lot closer to the basket.

And if Jeremy was one step faster, he'd've swatted Korver's shot into the seats and we would have had another excruciating 2-3 seconds to get thru.....

[dogsrus]

nice effort by everyone who got on the court tonight....I think they had DR close to 40 mins in the game.....most of the guards logged too many minutes and TW was just gassed! Great Win.....I'm now 2-0 this year on road games with UNI being the 1st! Makes the 2 hours sleep last night easier to handle heading off to work!

Way to bring it home Mike...that HAD to be incredible. The last thing DC said to me at work yesterday was "do you wanna go".....I just couldn't pull the trigger that late allthough I appreciated the offer.

I "charged" him to bring a better "effort" than he did for the InSU game ....nice job DC and gang, way to come through.

[Guinness]

Oh how I love YouTube.....didn't realize the last shot came from that far out, when I heard Snell's call, I thought it was a lot closer to the basket.

And if Jeremy was one step faster, he'd've swatted Korver's shot into the seats and we would have had another excruciating 2-3 seconds to get thru.....

Thats what I was thinking when I saw that shot go off screen. "Oh great, its gonna go out of bounds and they'll have another shot"

[BU_EMT128]

The out of bounds play before they took timeout almost killed me. I say they had an open layup opportunity and missed it....

[it's boogie time]

Any clips of the ESPN highlights of the game? I lost control of the remote after the game. I got the reason of "Why do you need to watch the highlights when you just watched the game?"

[Dallas Brave]

Congrats to the Braves and to JL on his 100th win. I am out of the country and did nt get a chance to log on until now to check out the game result. Way to go Braves!!!