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2017 NIT

Crowd was awesome last night. Not a huge crowd but really into it. There were no gaps in the lower bowl except for the student section. Even with no students on campus it was nice to see a good crowd. Amazing what happens when all the faculty don't use their tickets in the lower bowl. Also with the late start a lot of the blue hairs stayed away.
 
The lower bowl between the end lines was packed, but the end zones & upper bowl were sparse...
To me it looked like maybe there were more than 5100 but hard to see the entire arena on the broadcast..
Too bad the next opponent is similarly an unfamiliar one - but they do get a fairly familiar one in the next game after that but it's almost certainly be a road game..

I agree tho, the community needs to come out & give strong support...and I hope ours does, too when Bradley gets back to post-season play!
 
tornado said:
The lower bowl between the end lines was packed, but the end zones & upper bowl were sparse...
To me it looked like maybe there were more than 5100 but hard to see the entire arena on the broadcast..
Too bad the next opponent is similarly an unfamiliar one - but they do get a fairly familiar one in the next game after that but it's almost certainly be a road game..

I agree tho, the community needs to come out & give strong support...and I hope ours does, too when Bradley gets back to post-season play!
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Picture in pjs this morning showed how empty the place was. I remember when BU got snubbed, the Fieldhouse was packed. Give us a winner again and guarantee there will be more than 5000 in attendance.
 
Chico said:
Picture in pjs this morning showed how empty the place was. I remember when BU got snubbed, the Fieldhouse was packed. Give us a winner again and guarantee there will be more than 5000 in attendance.
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Here is the picture-

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well, I won't knock their attendance when Glasser & Cross engineered this debacle...
a HOME post-season game that claimed an attendance of 1800 but really had no more than 400-500.
It was the game even Kirk Wessler ripped as "PUTRID" - "the smallest official BU home crowd in my 57-year-old memory"
(and he wasn't inclined to criticize much in the Glasser/Cross era - in fact he regularly called our worst play, worst coaching and worst players - "light years better" than what we had)
 
tornado said:
well, I won't knock their attendance when Glasser & Cross engineered this debacle...
a HOME post-season game that claimed an attendance of 1800 but really had no more than 400-500.
It was the game even Kirk Wessler ripped as "PUTRID" - "the smallest official BU home crowd in my 57-year-old memory"
(and he wasn't inclined to criticize much in the Glasser/Cross era - in fact he regularly called our worst play, worst coaching and worst players - "light years better" than what we had)
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BU didn't have a season record back then even close to what isu had this season.
 
Illinois State raced out to an 18 point first half lead vs. University of Central Florida, and seemed in control, but UCF slowly chipped away at the lead and made it a close game the last few minutes. Then with about 1 1/2 minutes left, UCF took a 61-60 lead lead with 14 second left and UCF leading 61-60.

There was a crucial call with 14 seconds left and UCF leading 61-60. UCF inbounded the ball, and the UCF player tried to call a timeout. However, the official, instead of granting a timeout, called a jump ball as the ISU player reached around the UCF player with both hands from behind and tried to grab the ball. It lead to a change in possession, and allowed ISU to retake the lead 62-61.
But then as UCF player B.J. Taylor (leading scorer with 22 points) drove up the court in the final seconds, ISU guarded him closely, and a foul was called on ISU. He then sank 2 FTs to win the game for UCF 62-61.

I though both calls were questionable calls. What do others think? But ISU is eliminated and their season is over, and UCF moves on to host the winner of the Illinois-Boise State game.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400946811
 
Illinois State played well. I was rooting for them. It would have been interesting to see Illinois travel to Normal for the 1st time in 97 years, the results were different! Congrats to the Red Birds for a great season.
 
2017 NIT

In the time out, Did DM strongly tell his guys to not foul and to stay away from any kind of contact at all with 1.5 sec. remaining. What do you think?
Wiz
 
Da Coach said:
Illinois State raced out to an 18 point first half lead vs. University of Central Florida, and seemed in control, but UCF slowly chipped away at the lead and made it a close game the last few minutes. Then with about 1 1/2 minutes left, UCF took a 61-60 lead lead with 14 second left and UCF leading 61-60.

There was a crucial call with 14 seconds left and UCF leading 61-60. UCF inbounded the ball, and the UCF player tried to call a timeout. However, the official, instead of granting a timeout, called a jump ball as the ISU player reached around the UCF player with both hands from behind and tried to grab the ball. It lead to a change in possession, and allowed ISU to retake the lead 62-61.
But then as UCF player B.J. Taylor (leading scorer with 22 points) drove up the court in the final seconds, ISU guarded him closely, and a foul was called on ISU. He then sank 2 FTs to win the game for UCF 62-61.

I though both calls were questionable calls. What do others think? But ISU is eliminated and their season is over, and UCF moves on to host the winner of the Illinois-Boise State game.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400946811
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I agree it was a bad foul call on UCF. I didn't see the foul clearly on ISU red.
 
It was against the far sideline and the UCF player was surrounded by ISU players, so I didn't really see it well either. And they did not run a replay on ESPN, since they were in a hurry to move on to their next game. But obviously, every ISU fan in the arena thought it was a bad call.

The foul occurred a long way from the basket with barely more than 1 second left in the game, so I would think ISU would have been better off taking their chances with the UCF player trying a shot from there.
 
It was a foul in my opinion. No reason to be riding Taylor in that situation. Beyond that, The Birds really blew a big lead at home and should of never been in that position to begin with.
 
it was not a smart play - it was asking for foul..
if you have the lead at the end of a game you do NOT foul....

with all the talented big men ISU has (McIntosh, Hawkins, Fayne) they take way too many 3-pointers, got outrebounded and went to the foul line infrequently



in retrospect the seeding in the NIT was also bad, almost all of thr 1, 2, and 3 seeds are gone - only Illinois remains
 
Illinois lost to UCF 68-58, and they have been eliminated from the NIT.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400947458

UCF will be joined in the NIT Final Four by the winner of tonight's CSU Bakersfield-UT Arlington game-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400947458

Along with the other 2 quarterfinal winners last night- TCU and Georgia Tech
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/50/date/20170321


The Final Four of the NIT will be played in Madison Square Garden March 28 & 30-
Bracket (not yet updated to show the final four)-
http://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/gametool/brackets/nit_mens_2017.pdf
 
What an amazing job at TCU by head coach Jamie Dixon
They haven't come close to 20 wins in 12 years...and are coming off 12-21
and he leads them to an NIT Championship and 24 wins!

He went from 12 to 24 wins in his 1st year with basically just the players he inherited
 
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