BU 60 SIU 71 Postgame

[lefty]

By the way, did anyone see why the fan was escorted out of the arena? It was a certain poster here. I never saw him do anything wrong, but he must have annoyed the wrong people too much!

I didn't see anything either but there some people hollering at Falker from our section that got Falker's attention when he was scorer's table.
Was the guy escort from behind SIU bench..maybe too close shouting whatever?

[BU_EMT128]

By the way, did anyone see why the fan was escorted out of the arena? It was a certain poster here. I never saw him do anything wrong, but he must have annoyed the wrong people too much!

I was right there and I believe he may have dropped the wrong word too close to the officer....

Good effort tonight, but we could not throw the ball in the ocean. We had a couple good looks and bricked them. As for the officiating, someone said it was officiated well and I am going to disagree. Maybe good officiating by "Valley" standards... But still not a real good game officiating wise. Two of the officials were ok, but there was one (He had the dark hair) that called a terrible game. And don't get me started on the one-sided hand check calls....

[lefty]

Game stats--

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle....ATCLID=1398653

wow...15 ft's for TW and he missed what at least 3 front end of one and ones?......

[Beninator]

Just going to add a couple of things.

It was a nice effort but I think that we simply ran out of gas in the second half. The team looked about a step slow.

I liked the way that JC created some of his shots tonight.

Being down 2 players, DC needs to step up be able to play. (wishful thinking I know)

[mike radigan]

I thought we let SIU push us out too far on offense. We should have run some back door cuts to try to neutralize this. I thought our seven man rotation would catch up to us in a physical game and it certainly did against Southern. Salley backed off on one play as he couldn??™t afford to pick up his fourth foul at that juncture in the game. And JC??™s legs clearly were gone in the latter stages. One last disappointment and that was David Collins not throwing the ball down when he got in late in the game. He needs to make a statement to the coach; or not.

[Beninator]

I thought we let SIU push us out too far on offense..

Good point Mike.

[Bravesfan]

Yes this was a great effort by the team tonight. I'm still wondering if this game would have been a bit tough even with Ruffin in. This is far and away the best defense that SIU has played on the road this year. Of course us being shorthanded helped them out, but a great effort by SIU as well. They are starting to look like the Salukis of old!

On a side note, the crowd sounded great on tv! They did themselves proud on ESPN2 tonight. I hope ESPN televises a couple of more games from Carver Arena next season, and definately at our new facility in the future. I can't wait for that!

[mike radigan]

I hope ESPN televises a couple of more games from Carver Arena next season, and definately at our new facility in the future. I can't wait for that!

I don't think they will televise any of Bradley's practices.

[ER3]

One last disappointment and that was David Collins not throwing the ball down when he got in late in the game. He needs to make a statement to the coach; or not.

He continues to choose the "not" portion of that statement.

[BradleyBrave]

Considering who was available to play, and on short rest, I thought we played pretty good tonight. We played a good opponent, and I thought we fought valiantly but were clearly out of gas about midway through the 2nd half. JC did his best, but he isn't a guy that can do it alone. He deserved a better senior night, he really, really did. My heart goes out to him for such a poor ending to his home career. Again, I thought this team fought hard against a good SIU team who's playing it's best ball of the year. SIU just had the horses tonight, and BU didn't.

I don't know what's gonna happen with Danny, but I will stand by my statement that BU should have either let him play or told him to stay home. They didn't do anyone a favor by half-@ssing it, and in fact created more doubt as to what really happened and what the future holds.

[jasonpeoria911]

Any reason why ESPN SportsCenter failed to show highlights of the game tonight? They cared more about showing the best classic highlights ever for about 10 minutes of the show but couldn't show a minute of highlights from a game on one of there main channels. Maybe they were afraid they would get Peoria's location wrong again LOL.

Jason

[jasonpeoria911]

Not sure what the username is of the poster that was escorted from the game but it was that one guy that always wears the hawaiian shirt in the front row of the student section. The refs or someone probably had enough of him lol. Game was well in hand so he didn't miss much other than Ruff and gang addressing the crowd afterwards.

Jason

I didn't see anything either but there some people hollering at Falker from our section that got Falker's attention when he was scorer's table.
Was the guy escort from behind SIU bench..maybe too close shouting whatever?

[BUconnorD]

SIU's defense was REALLY solid. Not to mention we didn't have anybody who could do a darn thing about Falker. And when he went out they had another big man who could walk up and down the court on Salley and Singh. Mullins is an extremely talented PG. One of the better ones in the Valley (not as good as Ruff or Sammy though )

TCS really did not impress me at all. With Ruff out he needed to step up big time and he did the opposite. He really did not play well and took a lot of bad shots. 1-6, and his one was 1 of his 3 3's that he took. he was in for 26 minutes and really didn't produce to well. Sammy Man did real well all things considered, while his points don't show it, he played well. This just speaks to the SIU defense and how solid it is. They are a very good defensive team and you GOTTA give 'em props for that. Whether they should have gotten all the calls they did or not gotten called on as little as they did is a different story for a different thread!

Things that were needed that weren't there:
1) ASSISTS!!! 9 total!?!?! leading the way was MATT SALLEY!?!?! come on! this is definately the Ruffin factor we were missing, but SOMEONE needed to step up here. It seemed like TCS, SM, and JC were all trying to step up by putting up points...not assists.

2) FREE THROWS!!! we missed 8...we lossed by 11. Simple. Again the Ruffin/Warren factor. having those two woulda helped. But Theron missed 5!!! that's rough...really rough

3) GLUE!!! the team seemed like it was missing the glue between all of them. Everyone was doing their own thing and not cohesive. THis is definately the Ruffin factor that was missing. JC did the best but its hard to run an offense from a shooting guard spot. a PG needs to step up and SM did the best he could, but Mullins and the SIU guards are a really experienced set of guys.

4) MORE MONEY TO PAY OFF THE REFFS!!! obviously the SIU coaching staff's pockets are much deeper than BU's

and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what really grinds my gears

[shaunguth]

One last disappointment and that was David Collins not throwing the ball down when he got in late in the game. He needs to make a statement to the coach; or not.

He's played exactly 30 minutes out of a possible 680 in conference games. I'd say it's just a little late to "make a statement to the coach".

[shaunguth]

TCS really did not impress me at all.

Yet again!