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Final score: Bradley 63 Drake 61- Bradley advances to MVC Tournament semifinals

battlebasset said:
When was the last time we played on Saturday?
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The last time Bradley advanced to the semifinals and played on Saturday was in the 2010 MVC Tournament! -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Missouri_Valley_Conference_Men's_Basketball_Tournament

That year, Bradley was the #5 seed, and defeated the #4 seed Creighton. However, they lost in their semifinal game to #1 seed Northern Iowa.
The last time Bradley advanced to the final Championship game was in the 2006 MVC Tournament. That year, Bradley beat Creighton, then Wichita State to advance to the final against SIU, which they lost.
 
Fantastic game!

Official box score-
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/mvc.sidearmsports.com/documents/2018/3/2/mvc4.pdf

ESPN Box score-
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401020135


Live stats-
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=209931

Darrell Brown was incredible with 24 points!
Donte Thomas was great, and had 13 points, 14 rebounds, and 2 blocks!
DLO was his usual self, filling the stat sheet- 10 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 4-4 from the FT line at key times, great defense, and a team-high 34 minutes!
Koch Bar did not do much on offense, but played good defense.
Nate Kennell did not have a good shooting night, but he also worked hard on defense, and had 6 big rebounds!
Elijah Childs had 6 points and 8 big rebounds, and played exceptional defense!
Ryan Stipanovich with a huge three pointer, and 10 solid minutes of play!
Jayden Hodgson with steady play and good defense on the perimeter.

Bradley shot 44.6% from the field, and 33.3% from three.
Bradley outrebounded Drake 39-28, which was huge!
Only 9 turnovers, 11 assists, 4 steals, and 4 big blocks!
defense held Drake to 39.6% from the field, and held Timmer to just 6-16 from the floor.

Bradley will play #1 seed Loyola Saturday at 2:30 PM.
Go Braves!
 
Feels good to just sit here and not worry about the Braves winning today. Sitting first row behind the basket and ready to heckle the Jailbirds!
 
Proud to be part of the best fanbase of Friday in Stl. It??™s remarkable how much more fun it is to win.
 
Man, DLo was fouled on his drive but good that Donte was there for the putback
I like that the refs didn't try to control the entire game - they kinda let 'em play!!!
 
Da Coach said:
2006 was the first year of the Thursday-Sunday format.
Prior to that the format was Friday to Monday.

It was changed to accommodate CBS broadcasting the 2006 championship game on March 5, 2006-
http://mvc-sports.com/news/2005/10/11/IMPORTED_STORY_244_131414141194083743.aspx?path=mbball
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Thanks for the info. I remember going to the games and the semifinals would have huge crowds, and then the title game was on Monday at 8:30 and they usually had about 8-9000.

Did they post the attendance for the afternoon session?
 
I think the Redbirds may have us beat on crowd size, but their trivia player didn??™t know what country is north of the USA. So that knocks them back a bit.:D
 
And one more different look at the final Bradley possession. I still thin DLO was fouled. :)
On this angle you can see how a couple of the Drake players were so focused on denying Darrell Brown the ball, that it made it easy for DLO and Donte to get to the basket.

 
You could definitely call a foul there, and also traveling on the ensuing Hail Mary. Luckily neither of the no-calls matter!
 
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