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A couple Other Teams Taking Foreign Tours, Butler, IUPUI

tornado

tornado

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Butler has already played its first game on a tour of Italy and lost, 76-72.
They play again tomorrow.
http://www.indystar.com/article/200...04/SPORTS/Butler+falls+to+Swiss+team+in+Italy
http://www.butlersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/2009-10/releases/080609aaa

I don't see a loss to a tough team that contains some pro players as being anything to apologize for.


IUPUI has left for Costa Rica - they will play four games.
Bethune Cookman is also touring in Costa Rica but they don't leave until Aug. 15 and play three games.
http://www.iupuijags.com/news/2009/8/3/MBB_0803092227.aspx
http://bccathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/062409aaa.html
 
Do we play Butler this year? I thought we were supposed to, but I seem to remember hearing it wasn't going to happen.
 
The Swiss National team hasn't even competed much at all this entire year, as the few top players
they have were with their professional teams.
This is the first competition the Swiss team has had and since they have no games, they are yet to be ranked
by FIBA, anywhere among the Top 75 nations.
Butler should beat them in the rematch.
 
I registered and got accepted on Butler's premium board and am viewing the threads....
and several reports are from Butler fans who have travelled with the team to Italy...
here are a few of their comments.........

"Playing against a country's national team the first real game action this team has had since March,
and losing by 4...no big deal....one more thing-NO INJURIES. Good luck today boys."

"(the opponent) Very good team with a player from the NBA OK City Thunder. Everyone played and rotated.
Play the same team tomorrow. "Ran into every hard pick." More tomorrow"

"in this part of Italy, for an exhibition game that doesn't involve a single Italian,
I can't imagine there were 1,000 people watching. If I
were to guess, I'd say 400-500 people at most."
Game #2 is this afternoon. Playing Switzerland again. After the game, we're bussing to Venice -- about 4 hours southeast of Como."

"No more sight seeing, time to practice D. Swiss team's RPI would probably be around 180!"
 
picture of the Butler team in Italy near the alps


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Butler loses for a second time to the Swiss team, 100-90.
Butler's Matt Howard was hurt and left the game, and Gordon Hayward had 27 pts.
 
Vanderbilt's trip to Australia created a really odd situation for one of their players!

Junior Elliott Cole, whose birthday was Saturday, August 8, for all intents got robbed of his birthday!!

The team left on a 24-hour trip and nearly 16 hour flight from Nashville to Melbourne...
Just about as midnight Friday was reached and Cole's birthday was imminent, the plane crossed the International Date Line, so it jumped instantly ahead 24 hours and was Sunday August 9. The plane then landed in Australia early Sunday morning, with Cole's birthday already behind him!
http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/080909aab.html


also - Troy University is over in Belgium playing four games, and in their first 3 games they have gone 3-0.
Their bloggers do admit the opponents are very young, high schoolers, and NOT very talented!
The scores on their first 3 games are 138-72, 106-72, and 94-77. You gotta wonder how little benefit the team actually
gets playing a team of kids 3-5 years younger that essentially puts up no opposition at all.
One of the Troy players, Richard Delk, played against Bradley a couple years ago in the NIT when he was with Mississippi State.
 
FSU whallops a second hapless local club team that can't be found anywhere on the internet, 118-55. Wonder if 63-point drillings halp your team?
http://www.seminoles.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/081509aab.html

Troy University finished their tour of Belgium going 4-0 and winning all their games by about 20 or more, including a couple by 50, playing low level club teams of teenagers.

I am glad our guys played some really tough competition.
 
In addition to Bradley, Butler, and Troy....the teams who still have games left to play on exhibition tours......

Vanderbilt just completed game 5 of their tour in Australia, but they just lost one Friday in Sydney, and they lost again early Sunday and finish 3-2. Their 3 wins are all over amateur club teams and the only pro team they played was the one that beat them Friday, and they were worn down enough that they lost to another partly amateur club team today, although today's team also included ex-SIU Saluki Roland Roberts.

Florida State has another game in Spain

IUPUI left Thursday for Costa Rica, won their 1st game Friday (98-50 over a local make-shift team), played again last night (no result avail.) and have two more to play

Bethune Cookman is also in Costa Rica for 3 games but yesterday's game has not been reported yet

Appalachian State is going for two games to the Bahamas

Ohio State goes at the end of Aug. to Canada for 3 games

Detroit goes to Spain, leaving the 19th
 
btw-- one of the teams Vandy played in Australia was the Australian Institute of Sport, which is actually a HIGH SCHOOL...kinda like a prep school or like IMG Academy or Boys to Men...it is the school where Vandy's AJ Ogilvy played his high school ball and where Saint Louis recruit Cody Ellis is now playing his senior year of high school.

and yesterday, Bethune Cookman beat a team of players, "Costa Rica University" (69-41), although the university doesn't officially have a basketball team (or any sports teams). As is true in most foreign nations, colleges don't play sports as college teams, but the players form club teams.
The university does have a club team, but these guys are not students at the university nor are they all pros...more like a team at the "Y".
It's hard to tell how good they might be, but they did play in a 10-member Costa Rican club league and finished 6th at 8-10.
http://bccathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/081709aac.html
http://www.ucr.ac.cr/


also Towson plays SIX games in Canada starting tonight!
http://www.towsontigers.com/ViewArt...5&SPID=12510&DB_OEM_ID=21300&ATCLID=204773041
 
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tornado said:
btw-- one of the teams Vandy played in Australia was the Australian Institute of Sport, which is actually a HIGH SCHOOL...kinda like a prep school or like IMG Academy or Boys to Men...it is the school where Vandy's AJ Ogilvy played his high school ball and where Saint Louis recruit Cody Ellis is now playing his senior year of high school.
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Sounds like a nice little recruiting opportunity...
 
some results from foreign tours:

Towson lost its first game in Canada to Carleton 69-59.
The Carleton team had to use a couple of alumni as they were shorthanded.
Towson appears to have NO media outlets that cover them...as there isn't a mention anywhere in a the US press...
but the press in Ottawa, Canada at least cover it...
http://www.ottawasun.com/sports/othersports/2009/08/17/10492246.html

Carleton without their alumni play again against Towson tonight.

Bethune Cookman plays again in Costa Rica tonight

Florida State has another game in Valencia then travel to Barcelona for one more.

IUPUI was scheduled to play games on "August 14, 15, 16 and 18" according to the only story thus far about their Costa Rica tour on their web site.
Their effort to keep their fans informed really makes you love Bobby Parker, as their final game of four is today, and NOT one single entry on their web site says squat about the games or results..although one of the player blogs notes the score of game-1 (win 98-50).
But, even the blog entry of 8/17 doesn't even mention the fact that in the interval they had played TWO MORE games, yet no reports whatsoever!
http://www.iupuijags.com/news/2009/8/3/MBB_0803092227.aspx
http://www.iupuijags.com/news/2009/8/13/MBB_0813091556.aspx?path=mbball

and you sure can't count on the fans on their message board!! Check this out...the only IUPUI message board is a decade-and-a-half-old "voy" format and only a handful of posts since 2003!!! (wow)


Bad news for Appalachian State, in their 10th of 10 preseason practices before they head to the Bahamas for just two games,
one of their returning starters, their top returning rebounder and one of their top returning scorers, injured his knee and will miss the entire Bahamas tour, and may be injured sufficiently for even more concern.
The two teams they face are the "Cybots" (Wed.) - a "club team with no affiliation, and the The College of the Bahamas (Fri.).
 
tornado said:
some results from foreign tours:

Towson lost its first game in Canada to Carleton 69-59.
The Carleton team had to use a couple of alumni as they were shorthanded.
Towson appears to have NO media outlets that cover them...as there isn't a mention anywhere in a the US press...
but the press in Ottawa, Canada at least cover it...
http://www.ottawasun.com/sports/othersports/2009/08/17/10492246.html

Carleton without their alumni play again against Towson tonight.
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Carleton University has been one of the best college teams in Canada over the past decade. They have won the CIS (the Canadian version of the NCAA) championship 6 of the past 7 seasons. They are probably as good or better than any of the teams Bradley played in their 5-game Canadian tour in 2004.
http://www.universitysport.ca/e/final8/2009/story_detail.cfm?id=14094

By the way, Carleton tries to schedule NCAA teams every year to scrimmage against, and they have beaten many NCAA D1 teams in the past. The play St. Johns on Sept. 6.
http://www.universitysport.ca/e/m_basketball/story_detail.cfm?id=14422


Last year, Carleton beat 3 NCAA D1 teams, Buffalo, South Alabama, and Northeastern, and lost to a 4th, Kansas, by 1 point..
http://www2.carleton.ca/goravens/m-...ls-84-74-finish-ncaa-weekend-with-3-1-record/
 
Towson loses again to Carleton, and the story on the Towson athletic web site sounds a little like sour grapes as they more than hint at a little home cooking from the refs...
http://www.towsontigers.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=21300&ATCLID=204777399

Towson had just nine players dressed and four fouled out, and the coach Pat Kennedy (ex-DePaul coach) got "T"-ed up.


Florida State goes to 3-0 against some pretty soft teams.
Their 3 wins so far have been 101-53, 118-55, and now 127-60.



IUPUI still hasn't got a thing on their games, only one of their four games played so far has anything reported on it.



Bethune Cookman completes their tour of Costa Rica at 2-1 as they win their final game 61-49.
 
Towson beats University of Quebec 73-69

Florida State ends its Spain tour pretty unchallenged, winning it's fourth and final game 121-61...meaning they won their four games by a total of 237 pts (almost 60 ppg margin).

IUPUI won all four of their games in Costa Rica but not one thing mentioned other than that on their team's site.
 
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