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BU 89@ DU 86 for a road win in the Valley!

Braves win!!! :D It feels great to get that first Valley road win, and against Drake to boot, a place that has been a house of horrors for us the last few years. If we can take care of business at home, we will be in great shape for an NIT bid at the very minimum, and still be in the hunt for an NCAA bid.
 
Good coaching by Jim Les.

Shotclock guy at the Drake table needs to go back to HS games.

AW had a great offensive game.

Happy for Zach and Salley looking pretty good at times.

My "Play of the Game" goes to K Vogt blocking out the camera crew in a time-out under 17 minutes to go in the game. :lol:
 
Great win for Bradley! Oh, man. I was on the edge of my seat that entire game. The Braves fought through some tough calls by the refs and pulled this one out. Should help our confidence as we play SIU home next week and future road games.

Everyone on the team contributed for tonight's win. Zach turned it on to get those rebounds. Salley was great for us. I'm liking the Zach Salley combo, and it's much needed to help us inside.

Andrew Warren's two huge 3pters were the difference maker I think to help us over the hump at the end. Way to go for a freshman to make those tough shots in critical situations for us.
 
looks like we have zack back, he looked like he was just having fun out there and thats whats needed, this is a huge win for boosting our confidence heading into the southern game, be nice to string some W's together now.
 
Tonight was a prime example of what the Braves can do when they play....TEAM BALL.......it is very satisfying to get this Roadie.......and stop the bleeding from the 2 game losing streak! :wink:
 
This win was a real team effort; big shots made at crucial times; good rebounding, a a great defensive play by Zack; thought the refs tried to keep Drake in the game late with some questionable calls but we were able to overcome them, A. Warren played great , very impressive for a freshman to play on the road like he did.
 
Big Mike said:
836-78 with a lay-up by DU! 28.3 left! 8)
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Mike -- at this point when a team is ahead by over 700 points, you'd have thought it was in the bag!!! :wink:


But--- I loved watching BU score and shoot so well.
But I really do have worries about the defense giving up 86, a lot of which were given up way too easily.

I understand we are not deep and the guys don't like to play too aggressive on the road, especially Zach, for worries about picking up lousy foul calls.
But there were way too many times that Drake passed to the wing or the corner then fed it right into the basket to a guy coming off a screen from the other side, especially way down at the baseline, then the guy turned around and made easy baskets.

Really, Drake seemed to score way too easily and we needed one of our best offensive games, shooting over 60% in the 2nd half and still the tying shot was in the air at the end and just missed.
We have got to do a little work on defense. We just don't have POB to help with mistakes inside.
I am not worried if a kid drains a 28 footer, it's the multitude of little shots in the lane and layups.

One of the things I noticed is how seemingly ineffective Klayton Korver is.
He can't shoot a lick and he's a step slow.
He was a few seconds late everywhere he went and just didn't seem to help them one bit.
Wonder why they play the guy so much when they have such great shooters like Josh Young?
Last night Korver was 1-6 from 3-pt, had NO rebounds and picked up 4 fouls.
All of his season shooting pcts. are well below his career numbers, and he is even shooting in the 60's on FTs, (36% on 3-pt) and yet he starts every game.
 
In case anyone was wondering why the kids in the first few pictures are holding stuffed bulldogs, they were given away at the game free as a promotion. That and a discount ticket promotion (I think kids could get in for $1) game them a huge crowd last night.
 
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