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Final score: Bradley 73 Drake 61 - Bradley is MVC Champions
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Bradley 73 Drake 61
stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media
Celebration, Trophy awarding, and net cutting ceremony just finished on the court
stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media
Celebration, Trophy awarding, and net cutting ceremony just finished on the court
Great game, it felt like Bradley controlled it the whole time even when close. Finally (mostly) made some clutch free throws too! I know an at large likely won’t happen, but this is one of the 68 best teams in the country even if they don’t win Arch Madness. I really hope they do, because I really think we could give big boys fits now, as we are so much better than we were the first half of the year. I was scared for a second when Mast went out, but he came back. Maybe the one more year chants will convince him to do this again next year.
Storybook ending to a rollercoaster regular season. Now let’s write the next chapter in St. Louis. Congrats to the players, coaches, and staff! Today was really fun!
Mast and Leons were incredible. Leons had 12 points on 3 shots! 4 points per shot attempt. And his defense on Devries was amazing! I said at the beginning of the year Hickman is the player I thought would have a huge year. He looked a little off at times this year, but what a huge night for him. Very happy for him. His hustle for some of those loose balls was outstanding, on top of his scoring and defense. Everyone else played a nice role today!
Storybook ending to a rollercoaster regular season. Now let’s write the next chapter in St. Louis. Congrats to the players, coaches, and staff! Today was really fun!
Mast and Leons were incredible. Leons had 12 points on 3 shots! 4 points per shot attempt. And his defense on Devries was amazing! I said at the beginning of the year Hickman is the player I thought would have a huge year. He looked a little off at times this year, but what a huge night for him. Very happy for him. His hustle for some of those loose balls was outstanding, on top of his scoring and defense. Everyone else played a nice role today!
bubraves82
New member
The Champions of the Missouri Valley Conference, your Bradley Braves! How sweet it is.
Official box score-
https://godrakebulldogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2022-23/bradley/boxscore/12723
Attendance was 10,458, which apparently is 100% capacity now that both "end zones" have had all the seating removed.
Bradley holds Drake to 24-63 shooting (38.1%), and 5-21 from three (23.8%).
Bradley shot 28-50 (56.0%) for the game, and 7-14 from three (50.0%). They were 10-15 on FTs, though there were multiple missed front-ends of 1 and 1 opportunities.
Connor Hickman lead Bradley with 19 points, and he also had 3 rebounds and 3 assists. He also played terrific defense against the Drake guard.
Zek Montgomery had just 6 points and 3 rebounds, but was impressive on his defense against Roman Penn. Penn had 12 points, but it took 14 shots.
Malevy Leons had 12 points, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals. He also played incredible defense, holding Tucker DeVries to just 11 points on 3-13 shooting, and just 1-8 from three.
Rienk Mast- 12 points & 13 rebounds, to go along with 3 assists, and terrific inside defense. He held Darnell Brodie to 12 points on 11 shots.
Duke Deen, Darius Hannah, and Ville Tahvanainen all had a solid games, and Ja'Shon Henry had 6 points and 8 rebounds in 19 minutes.
A great offensive and defensive game against the team picked to win the conference.
The only downside, IMO, was 16 turnovers, many of them caused by Drake's aggressive defense, including poking, bumping, hacking, and grabbing the Bradley players, and officials who were oblivious to many fouls and flops.
https://godrakebulldogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2022-23/bradley/boxscore/12723
Attendance was 10,458, which apparently is 100% capacity now that both "end zones" have had all the seating removed.
Bradley holds Drake to 24-63 shooting (38.1%), and 5-21 from three (23.8%).
Bradley shot 28-50 (56.0%) for the game, and 7-14 from three (50.0%). They were 10-15 on FTs, though there were multiple missed front-ends of 1 and 1 opportunities.
Connor Hickman lead Bradley with 19 points, and he also had 3 rebounds and 3 assists. He also played terrific defense against the Drake guard.
Zek Montgomery had just 6 points and 3 rebounds, but was impressive on his defense against Roman Penn. Penn had 12 points, but it took 14 shots.
Malevy Leons had 12 points, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals. He also played incredible defense, holding Tucker DeVries to just 11 points on 3-13 shooting, and just 1-8 from three.
Rienk Mast- 12 points & 13 rebounds, to go along with 3 assists, and terrific inside defense. He held Darnell Brodie to 12 points on 11 shots.
Duke Deen, Darius Hannah, and Ville Tahvanainen all had a solid games, and Ja'Shon Henry had 6 points and 8 rebounds in 19 minutes.
A great offensive and defensive game against the team picked to win the conference.
The only downside, IMO, was 16 turnovers, many of them caused by Drake's aggressive defense, including poking, bumping, hacking, and grabbing the Bradley players, and officials who were oblivious to many fouls and flops.
Fan since 88
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Great game Braves! While there were some sketchy calls, I thought the refs let them play most of the time, as the number of fouls called seemed fairly low until late in the second half, when Drake had to foul. I think coach must have told Hick to be aggressive and shoot the ball, as he had a great game at both ends of the court, and he made 3 or 4 three’s in the first half alone. Drake is a good ball club, I would not be surprised if we see them again in the Lou. Go Braves!
bigjimmy
Active member
A wonderful time had by all!!! That was the best game of Conner Hickman’s career. He’s such a tough hard nosed player and he took the bit by the mouth and ran with it. And Leons was in beast mode today against DeVries and even though he only had 3 baskets they were all key ones. For the most part we controlled Penn and didn’t let him dictate to us on offense like he normally does. When we got up by 14 about halfway through the second half I thought we let up a little bit and to Drake’s credit they got it down to 7 with 7:00 left. But we wevmaintained our poise and got the game er back under control. Can’t say enough about the crowd and the atmosphere it created. You only hope that in the extra 5,000 plus fans that came today will return next season. I always look forward to going to Arch Madness every year but I think this year will be the most competitive one yet. BU is at least guaranteed an NIT bid by winning the conference but this team has a different post season tournament in mind I’m sure. Need to take care of business in the quarter finals first however so it’s pretty simple. GET ER DONE BOYS!!!!
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bubraves82
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DC, love those pics, West Coaster here didn't get to see any of this on ESPN2, love them all, especially cutting down the nets!!
LittleBrave
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Best word for me to describe it too Tommy!
LittleBrave
Active member
Great photos DC - thanks for sharing!
When did you flee the Midwest and land on the West Coast, bubraves82? Hope you are well and staying dry.
