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Bradley MVC Champions! Final score Bradley 55 UNI 52

InMnBob1 said:
This is the press conference. https://youtu.be/sP-SG1gYXlg
i liked DLOs comment about thinking they could get the team back to this level when he was a freshman but they only won 5 games that year.
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elmerb said:
In a previous post, I mention that I told my wife during Wardle's first season that we'll be in the NCAA tournament in 4 years. I believed that because I knew Wardle can coach and recruite, and these kids would be down by 20 with 2 minutes to go and they played hard to the end, and Wardle never stopped coaching. Todays comeback was one of the greatest games in the history of Bradley basketball. They have a heart the size of Texas. Not Texas but Alaska. No matter how far we go in the tournament, Bradley basketball is back and It's only going to get better. GO BRADLEY
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Dub said:
4-5 years ago Bradley was at a low point and ISU was winning 20+ but falling short of The Dance. I had a goal we’d make it back to the tournament before they did. It didn’t look promising at the time, but look at the difference in results in the long run when you use discipline and hard work to drive yourself and your team.
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InMnBob1 and Dub and elmerb (you prophet :D) - when it all began November 13, 2015. DLO and Luuk both started as freshmen that first 2015 season game. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7H4DNGdOvk


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I didn't get to chime in yesterday after the wonderful W...trying to post to FB and text many others about what happened!

But I did tear up when I left StarBucks yesterday right after the game...not sure why so emotional, but it's been that kind of a year.
So so satisfying to win that...I'm sure most BU fans shared that sentiment.

GO BRAVES!!!!
Very proud to be a Brave fan lately.
 
It was really hard trying to process everything that happened in St. Louis on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 3 gut wrenching, emotionally charged games that weren't decided until the final buzzer took all of us on an up an down roller coaster ride that for me was almost to hard to comprehend. This was as improbable as my Cubbies winning the World Series in 2016 though no less emotional than when that moment happened. Having gone through and thankfully kicking cancer ass in 2012 and 2013 it has made me more emotional about things that I really care about and tears were shed on November 2, 2016 and on March 10, 2019. It was 31 years ago when the Braves last won the conference tournament championship and as great as that was this feels so totally different because of the emotional investment I have for BU as a season ticket holder since 1992 and going to each and every tournament game in St. Louis since then except for the 2 semi final games in 1996 (Don't ask why as it still pisses me off to this day). After all that time of coming up, frankly, way short most of the time to finally win it, and especially the way we won it, was FREEKIN AWESOME! I'm just glad that I've had the chatzy chat room to talk to other Bradley fans during the games. It keeps me focused during the game and it allows me to harken back to my days as a sports reporter and director in the mid 80's to early 90's and report on the action. I apologize to anyone when I've reported the action before it's seen on TV but I get so focused and excited about it I have to write it down and I'm a pretty quick typer so I'm sorry if I've spoiled anything. I've tried to stay positive on this board though occasional negative thoughts have made its way on but as fans that's what we do. This team has showed us it's worst and showed us it's best and we saw both in this game. I thank Coach Brian Wardle, his staff and this gritty, gutty bunch of players for not giving up on this season after starting the Valley 0-5 and taking us on this journey to the Big Dance. ALL HAIL! HAIL! HAIL!
 
Bigjimmy, I am glad you beat cancer and are still around to see the Braves return to the NCAA and enjoy this!
 
Da Coach said:
Bigjimmy, I am glad you beat cancer and are still around to see the Braves return to the NCAA and enjoy this!
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Yes congrats bigjimmy on beating cancer from me too. Don't need to apologize for putting your comments on the chat room before we see them i just enjoy your comments.
 
I have been a die-hard Cubs fan for 37 years now.
Die-hard BU Braves fan for 25 years....

That said, I was twice as thrilled after Bradley won the MVC tournament as when the Cubs won the WS in 2016.
Maybe it's that basketball is more exciting and emotional than baseball...but I think it's more that I've invested more time and energy in following Bradley hoops over the past 2 decades, and it's been a roller coaster ride as a Braves fan during that span.

Has it been worth all the time and energy?
Now, I can say, HECK YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
 
Bradley is 12-4 since Jan. 16
and 9-2 since the loss to SIU on Feb. 2

Of those only two losses in the past roughly 6 weeks -
one was that Drake game which ended up being such a valuable teaching experience and helped our guys limit foul trouble ever since...
..and the other loss was the game at Loyola that was also a TREMENDOUS teaching experience when Coach Wardle benched some guys who were not giving full effort..

so KUDOS to the coaching staff for making the best of the losses and turning this team around and preparing for the run thru the MVC Tourney
 
This was so much fun for me also as last year I was in the hospital in St Louis after having a heart attack on Friday morning. Went from the Savis Center to St Mary's Hospital where I spent the weekend instead of watching BU. This year I had a cardio version on Tuesday before the tournament and Dr. Sarmiento told my wife that I would be fine as long as I didn't get to excited. What a joke with 3 buzzer beaters but stayed as calm as I possibly could.
It was great to see some you there and Big Jimmy it's always great to see you there every year also.
 
Still enjoying the moment
https://twitter.com/ArmonB_for3/stat...31546100355072


and this one --
https://twitter.com/dbcinco5/status/1113510110142316545

but seriously - note how much great coverage Bradley & Armon get form the media in Decatur
https://twitter.com/GordonVoit/statu...16646433406976

Bradley is well outside their scope of sports coverage and yet we get get great coverage there
https://www.wandtv.com/sports/march-...9cf39d6e2.html
https://www.wandtv.com/sports/what-s...220cefc03.html
https://www.wandtv.com/sports/decatu...26e3acc2d.html
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national...c15f76185.html
https://herald-review.com/sports/co...cle_36598bc8-1887-510e-924a-e5a858224fa0.html
https://herald-review.com/sports/hi...cle_6915a703-2b91-5dcb-900c-5b0c5c4b98be.html
https://herald-review.com/sports/co...cle_cb136593-29dd-57e5-9ee0-eb74896d21ad.html
 
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