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Bradley 74 Evansville 64 - Final

Da Coach said:
I saw former Bradley players at today's game-
Reggie Hall, Gus Mason, Phil Gilbert, Marcello Robinson, Danny Adams, and, of course, Carl Maniscalco.
Jake Eastman's mom and dad (Boston Celtics' assistant coach Kevin Eastman) were also at the game, as were Andrew Warren's mom and Dad, and Sam Singh's dad.
I hope I didn't miss to many other VIP visitors!:D
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Danny Ruffin was there too DC, he sat in basically your old seats
 
BU RICK said:
It wasn't a very inspiring game. But it's still a win. Maybe it was because Evansville didn't expect to win and we feed off that for our play. It seemed to me that both teams came out looking tired, just kind of walking around with slouched shoulders, maybe it's the weather, maybe it's what some call the' trap game' mindset, maybe looking forward to CU Wednesday. We'll definitely need to play better to beat CU Wednesday.
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"We'll defintely need to play better to beat CU Wednesday night"

Well Rick if we shoot 52.1% from the field, 58.3% from 3, make our free throws at a 77.3% clip and out rebound the Jays by 14, ALL of which we did tonight against the ACES, I GURANTEE we will beat the Jays !!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet there are a lot of teams that would like to have a "not very inspiring game" like that.
 
Grassman said:
"We'll defintely need to play better to beat CU Wednesday night"

Well Rick if we shoot 52.1% from the field, 58.3% from 3, make our free throws at a 77.3% and out rebound the Jays by 14, ALLl of which we did tonight against the ACES, I GURANTEE we will beat the Jays !!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet there are a lot of teams that would like to have a "not very inspiring game" like that.
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Yeah, you're right and I agree with you. I guess I was just a little down this afternoon with the fog and clouds hanging at tree level and other more significant things going on in the world and our country. I should have been more positive/happy with our win, they did play a good game and won. If we put those percentages up against CU we will definitely win! CU is going to be a different team though. Go Braves!
 
They played a little ragged today and TB could not for the 2nd game get on track due to fouls. I expect him to rebound next Wednesday where CU is bigmen challenged. AW had a decent game and is making the right adjustments. CU will have to double up WE or else they will get killed in the paint. JL should be able to get their attention this week to sharpen up their game. :D
 
Da Coach said:
Box score-
http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19332&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204873609http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201001230062

Bradley with 5 players in double figures.
Evansville's leading scorer, Colt Ryan, took 15 shots (5-15 and 2-8 on threes) to get 12 points.
BU outrebounded UE 35-25.
Great shooting- 25-48 overall (52.1%), and 7-12 from three (58.3%).
Another nice day at the FT line for BU (17-22 for 77.3%)
Excellent defense- UE was just 22-56 overall (39.3%) and only 6-20 from three (30%).
Will Egolf with another tremendous game- 11 points, 8 rebounds, 4 blocks, and a bunch of tipped passes in just 23 minutes.

Attendance 9,765.
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how can you list all that and NOT give some props to Sammy who played really hard and really well today...
Sam Maniscalco was again my Player of the Game!!
 
Way to keep the streak going Braves. Won a game they should have won, and needed to win, to keep movnig up in the Valley.

Kudos to Will ' The Avalanche' Egoff. He continues to improve his game and definitely has kept the BU crowds cheering the whole game!! :D:D

Hopefully BU players won't forget what they have done to turn things around: DEEEEEFENCE, REBOUNDING, BALANCED INSIDE/OUTSIDE OFFENSE and FREE THROW SHOOTING!

GO BU!
 
Da Coach said:
Another solid game by each starter, and good games off the bench by Sam singh, DSE, and Jake Eastman.

With ISU's loss, Bradley is now tied for 3rd place, and with Wichita State's loss, anything is possible.

I heard fans talking about winning out being a possibility! Bradley has 5 more home MVC games (ISU, WSU, CU, DU, and UNI) and road games at Indiana State, Evansville, ISU, and CU. I think winning 7 of the 9 is quite realistic, and the way BU is playing, all are winnable.

When will we see the column saying, "Ooops, we were wrong, the best was yet to come".
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Can I nitpik a little? I didn't think AW had much of a game really. he made his ft's but other than that didn't seem to do much against a much smaller team. I thought we played just ok other than WE and SM...I love JE and DSE'e energy off the bench.

I see why Evansville has lost 9 in a row
 
BU RICK said:
It wasn't a very inspiring game. But it's still a win. Maybe it was because Evansville didn't expect to win and we feed off that for our play. It seemed to me that both teams came out looking tired, just kind of walking around with slouched shoulders, maybe it's the weather, maybe it's what some call the' trap game' mindset, maybe looking forward to CU Wednesday. We'll definitely need to play better to beat CU Wednesday.
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I think we will be more up for the CU game on Wednesday. Even though CU is having a rough year, they have been playing better of late and will start to win on the road sooner or later. Now is the perfect time to take a game from these guys before they do.
 
Da Coach said:
Another solid game by each starter, and good games off the bench by Sam singh, DSE, and Jake Eastman.

With ISU's loss, Bradley is now tied for 3rd place, and with Wichita State's loss, anything is possible.

I heard fans talking about winning out being a possibility! Bradley has 5 more home MVC games (ISU, WSU, CU, DU, and UNI) and road games at Indiana State, Evansville, ISU, and CU. I think winning 7 of the 9 is quite realistic, and the way BU is playing, all are winnable.

When will we see the column saying, "Ooops, we were wrong, the best was yet to come".
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Wow! That would be something if we could win out. But even winning 7 out of 9 gets us at least a 3 seed in the NIT. 6 out of 9 plus a Bracketbuster win at least gets us in the NIT with either a home or road game. And of course running the table will at the very least get us in the at-large discussion, though I think we still would have work to do to get into the NCAA Tournament. At the very least we make a solid step up from last season with all the momentum going into what should be a memorable season next year.

And yes, I'm still waiting for KW's "mea culpa" as well! :D
 
A win is a win is a win......

About what I expected.

Nothing has been accomplished yet...so I don't expect any apology or I was wrong column by KW.
 
Grassman said:
"We'll defintely need to play better to beat CU Wednesday night"

Well Rick if we shoot 52.1% from the field, 58.3% from 3, make our free throws at a 77.3% clip and out rebound the Jays by 14, ALL of which we did tonight against the ACES, I GURANTEE we will beat the Jays !!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet there are a lot of teams that would like to have a "not very inspiring game" like that.
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Don't get a swelled hear beating DII aces. If we do we will pay dearly later.
 
SFP said:
They played a little ragged today and TB could not for the 2nd game get on track due to fouls.


And TWO of those fouls were as bogus as they come IMO.......the 2 that happened in a 30 second span that is.

The one on defense should have been a double foul or no call at all. Neither player had the ball and both simply collided. How did the ref determine who "initiated" the contact?
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One thing I noticed about today's game.....

Who is the guy in the yellow baseball hat that stands around on the gym floor like he owns the place for about 45 minutes during the pregame? Is he a coach, BU employee, booster, superfan, what? I've always wondered that.
 
I think the guy you are referring to is the team chaplain. He is a part of the BU team, and he's present at every home game, and some away games. He meets with the players before the games. He also donates a lot of his time to helping the players, and the other BU athletes in other sports.
 
Bravesfan said:
Maybe not yet, but I don't expect a supposed "unbiased" writer to write off a season prematurely either.
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Do you REALLY think he was writing the season off ? I sure didn't take it that way. He was telling it like it was. NOTHING you saw from the Braves gave us any indication it was going to turn around.....and like Big Daddy stated, these last few games have really only told us we are playing about where we SHOULD have been all along.

If someone asked told you are playing MSU, UE at home and SIU on the road what do you expect ? I think MOST would expect 2-1 MAYBE 3-0 due to SIU's recent struggles...so.....really what have we done other then due what we SHOULD be doing? Don't get me wrong...thats great and winning at SIU was huge.

With that said....

CU and roadies at ISU will tell us SOOOO much more.

You win those two and we REALLY have something.....split will be about whats expected. I think the TEAM expects to win both though. :)

And read his recent articles....calling it dead on and giving credit for the recent inspired play especially on defense.
 
dogsrus said:
Do you REALLY think he was writing the season off ? I sure didn't take it that way. He was telling it like it was. NOTHING you saw from the Braves gave us any indication it was going to turn around.....and like Big Daddy stated, these last few games have really only told us we are playing about where we SHOULD have been all along.

If someone asked told you are playing MSU, UE at home and SIU on the road what do you expect ? I think MOST would expect 2-1 MAYBE 3-0 due to SIU's recent struggles...so.....really what have we done other then due what we SHOULD be doing? Don't get me wrong...thats great and winning at SIU was huge.

With that said....

CU and roadies at ISU will tell us SOOOO much more.

You win those two and we REALLY have something.....split will be about whats expected. I think the TEAM expects to win both though. :)

And read his recent articles....calling it dead on and giving credit for the recent inspired play especially on defense.
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Okay, maybe he didn't actually write the season off and say it in so many words, but to go and say that the "best days are not ahead" without giving a chance for the season to play out is not great journalism in my opinion. And I say that because we all know that many team's seasons can turn on a dime in an instant. So for him to go and say that Bradley's best days are not ahead was way premature and it certainly did give me impression that he did write off the season, even if he didn't mean it that way. And this is coming from a person that actually did agree with a lot of the points of his article. It was the conclusion that I had issues with.

If I had written that column, I would have said something to the effect that while there were no signs of improvement, we were about to enter a stretch of games where the team had a chance to win some games and gain confidence. And if that occurred then there would be a chance for at least a modest if not major turnaround before the end of the season.

But to even give the impression, wrongly or not that the season was over before over half the games were played was way too premature in my opinion.

Now I agree, let's wait an see how we do against a tougher ISU team and a so-so Creighton team that has been terrible on the road. And just for the record, I think Creighton is beginning to turn things around too after being left for dead as recently as two weeks ago. So this will be a good measuring stick game on Wednesday night.
 
Bravesfan said:
Okay, maybe he didn't actually write the season off and say it in so many words, but to go and say that the "best days are not ahead" without giving a chance for the season to play out is not great journalism in my opinion. And I say that because we all know that many team's seasons can turn on a dime in an instant. So for him to go and say that Bradley's best days are not ahead was way premature and it certainly did give me impression that he did write off the season, even if he didn't mean it that way. And this is coming from a person that actually did agree with a lot of the points of his article. It was the conclusion that I had issues with.

If I had written that column, I would have said something to the effect that while there were no signs of improvement, we were about to enter a stretch of games where the team had a chance to win some games and gain confidence. And if that occurred then there would be a chance for at least a modest if not major turnaround before the end of the season.

But to even give the impression, wrongly or not that the season was over before over half the games were played was way too premature in my opinion.

Now I agree, let's wait an see how we do against a tougher ISU team and a so-so Creighton team that has been terrible on the road. And just for the record, I think Creighton is beginning to turn things around too after being left for dead as recently as two weeks ago. So this will be a good measuring stick game on Wednesday night.
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I agree with you completely.

KW, for all intents and purposes said we would not be successful in the coming days. You can say he had now evidence to suggest we would be, many here thought otherwise, and those who said we would start winning are right, KW was wrong. Plain and simple. No matter how you slice it, KW said we wouldn't be winning, and we are. You can say he had no evidence to say we would, I say there was evidence. We had played the hardest valley schedule to date, were missing our lightening rod DSE, and Sam was starting to get healthy. Thats evidence, KW chose to ignore that and look at how we had been playing, which is a fair POV. But once again, he was wrong, it's gonna happen. But KW sure seems to predict doom and gloom for JL's teams far more often than he predicts success...
 
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