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Final score: Bradley 118 Indiana State 65
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Wisconsin-Brave
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66 points in the first 20 minutes ?!?!?
Up by 33 ?!?!?
Meta having a solid game ?!?!?
Let us rejoice and be thankful !!!!
BengalFan14
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83 with 11 minutes remaining.
Obviously our best game of the season by far. That was good offense and really solid defense, and we didn't turn the ball over much, at least in the non-garbage time of the game. Passing was outstanding and crisp. Now, Indiana State had pathetic defensive effort and barely fought through or for anything on that end, and didn't seem to rotate much at all or box out. No one down low did anything for them on defense. I don't know if I've seen a worse defensive effort in a Valley team. Now, Bradley was great, don't get me wrong, but their effort was still embarrassing.
The subtle things I liked:
I'm not sure I'm on board yet with starting Meta over Thomas all of the time, but I'll say this in it's favor, Meta is a big body and sets high quality screens for our shooters, which helped us start offensively well tonight. Also, that was the best I've ever seen Meta play. He passed crisply and found open guys, didn't look overly slow, and had a really nice offensive post game outside of a silly miss or two. If that's the Meta we can get more consistently, I've fine with him getting more minutes.
I loved that we went to the post early. When Thomas took an early three I was concerned, but then we pounded it down low to Meta and him. Thomas has too good of a post game now to play down there more. He is strong and athletic down there.
I wish we would have put Atlason and the bench in just a bit earlier, as it would have been a great time to get Almar some shots and maybe get him going, and I was a little worried about injury for a bit leaving the starters in. I wonder if he is just getting a Meta-like few game reset or if he will have to earn his way back into the rotation? It does make sense to drop to 8-9 rather than 9-10 rotation players at some point and he hasn't provided much lately. I also would have loved to seen more Rugaard tonight, as he looks like a future rotation player to me when I've seen him.
That was the Connor Dillon I was wanting to see all year. Maybe he is finally fully recovered and in game shape, but he looked quick on both ends. He has been a nice driver and solid shooter all year, but his defensive hands and rotations were great tonight. For a player who is not considered a defensive guy, he sure looked it tonight.
Johnson's shot seems to be getting better. That will make him very dangerous if he can do that.
Everyone was great tonight, and despite not being able to do THIS every night, I want to see us play like with this intensity and style more the rest of the way. Other teams will have better defensive post games than ISU did tonight, but we need to pound it inside like this more often and then pass it out from there.
The subtle things I liked:
I'm not sure I'm on board yet with starting Meta over Thomas all of the time, but I'll say this in it's favor, Meta is a big body and sets high quality screens for our shooters, which helped us start offensively well tonight. Also, that was the best I've ever seen Meta play. He passed crisply and found open guys, didn't look overly slow, and had a really nice offensive post game outside of a silly miss or two. If that's the Meta we can get more consistently, I've fine with him getting more minutes.
I loved that we went to the post early. When Thomas took an early three I was concerned, but then we pounded it down low to Meta and him. Thomas has too good of a post game now to play down there more. He is strong and athletic down there.
I wish we would have put Atlason and the bench in just a bit earlier, as it would have been a great time to get Almar some shots and maybe get him going, and I was a little worried about injury for a bit leaving the starters in. I wonder if he is just getting a Meta-like few game reset or if he will have to earn his way back into the rotation? It does make sense to drop to 8-9 rather than 9-10 rotation players at some point and he hasn't provided much lately. I also would have loved to seen more Rugaard tonight, as he looks like a future rotation player to me when I've seen him.
That was the Connor Dillon I was wanting to see all year. Maybe he is finally fully recovered and in game shape, but he looked quick on both ends. He has been a nice driver and solid shooter all year, but his defensive hands and rotations were great tonight. For a player who is not considered a defensive guy, he sure looked it tonight.
Johnson's shot seems to be getting better. That will make him very dangerous if he can do that.
Everyone was great tonight, and despite not being able to do THIS every night, I want to see us play like with this intensity and style more the rest of the way. Other teams will have better defensive post games than ISU did tonight, but we need to pound it inside like this more often and then pass it out from there.
TV broadcast said third all time for Bradley.
I believe it's 139 points, but can't remember the opponent off the top of my head (want to say it was either Long Beach State or Detroit, but might be wrong on both). Hersey Hawkins threw down nearly half of the points.
Final score- Bradley 118 Indiana State 65
Stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media
This was a blowout from early in the game. Bradley played awesome.
Defense- Bradley held Indiana State to 31.5% shooting overall (17-54) and 29.0% from three (9-31). They crrated 17 turnovers and were credited with 10 steals. And BU outrebounded InSU 43-29.
Offense was as good as it's been all year. The Braves 118 points is the most they have scored this season. They shot 40-72 (55.6%), 16-38 from three (42.1%), and they were 22-25 on free throws (88.0%). They had a season-high 27 assists, and only 8 turnovers.
Connor Dillon was Bradley's leading scorer with 20 points in 20 minutes of playing time, but Ahmet Jonovic, Zek Montgomery, and Jaquan Johnson all had terrific games.
The 53 point win is not the largest margin of victory this year. Bradley beat Judson earlier 107-41 (a 66 point win), but it had been a while since there has been an MVC win by this margin.
Stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media
This was a blowout from early in the game. Bradley played awesome.
Defense- Bradley held Indiana State to 31.5% shooting overall (17-54) and 29.0% from three (9-31). They crrated 17 turnovers and were credited with 10 steals. And BU outrebounded InSU 43-29.
Offense was as good as it's been all year. The Braves 118 points is the most they have scored this season. They shot 40-72 (55.6%), 16-38 from three (42.1%), and they were 22-25 on free throws (88.0%). They had a season-high 27 assists, and only 8 turnovers.
Connor Dillon was Bradley's leading scorer with 20 points in 20 minutes of playing time, but Ahmet Jonovic, Zek Montgomery, and Jaquan Johnson all had terrific games.
The 53 point win is not the largest margin of victory this year. Bradley beat Judson earlier 107-41 (a 66 point win), but it had been a while since there has been an MVC win by this margin.
Bradley8792
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Against UC Irvine.
BUBraves2006
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Official box score - https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2024-25/indiana-state/boxscore/22353
Attendance: 5,330
Attendance: 5,330
Landof10thcoaches
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I think Burch scored from his room. Hopefully he gets well before the weekend. He is a big part of this team.