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Final score: Bradley 69 Miami 68

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Bradley is now 5-2 after their 83-60 win Thursday night against Jackson State.
Their next game is: Miami (Ohio) at Bradley, Saturday, Dec. 19, 7:00 pm

The game is televised on the Marquee Sports Network (the Cubs network- channel 672 on Xfinity), and will also be streamed on ESPN3.com
Link to ESPN3.com video stream- https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_...bbacd4?om-navmethod=espn:globalsearch:results

Live stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary

Chat room- http://www.chatzy.com/bradleyfans

Miami, a member of the Mid-American Conference, is 3-2 on the season-
https://miamiredhawks.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule

Last season they were 13-19 overall, and 5-13 in the MAC. They were picked 9th out of 12 teams in the 2020-21 preseason MAC poll-
https://getsomemaction.com/news/202...son-coaches-poll-all-mac-teams-announced.aspx

The only previous meeting between the two schools was last season on Dec. 21, 2019 in Oxford, OH. Bradley lost 71-55-
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2019...l-bradley-basketball-takes-loss-at-miami.aspx

Miami roster- https://miamiredhawks.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster

They are coached by former SIU and Purdue assistant Jack Owens. And, assistant coach Jeff Rutter was an Interim Head Coach at Drake for part of a season after Ray Giacoletti resigned. Another assistant coach J.R. Reynolds is a former Eastern Illinois player and assistant, who was an assistant coach at EIU when they played Bradley in 2016.
Coaches- https://miamiredhawks.com/sports/mens-basketball/coaches

Miami stats- https://s3.amazonaws.com/miamiredhawks.com/documents/2020/12/15/Miami_Men_s_Basketball_Season_1_.pdf

Bradley stats- https://bradleybraves.com/sports/womens-basketball/stats#individual
 
Pregame story from BUBraves.com
https://bradleybraves.com/news/2020/...day-night.aspx


Note that the Bradley Basketball Show is listed to be shown again at 12:00 pm on Monday (12/21) on the Marquee Network, according the the Xfinity guide, and the Marquee online schedule-
https://www.marqueesportsnetwork.com...ember-21-2020/

Also, tonight's Miami-Bradley game is being replayed at 4:00 pm Sunday, and the online Xfinity schedule shows it replaying again at 2:30 pm Monday, though the Marquee website schedule differs and does not show it on Monday.
 
Hoping for a bit more competitive game than some of the past few. Don't think you are really preparing for conference play when you play some of the lower tier teams on our preseason. Of course, I want competitive and a solid win...
 
I agree completely. I would definitely like to see a better non-conference schedule. I would like to see Childs, Henry, Ville, Nolan, and East on the floor together for extended minutes as well as I think this 5 can compete with most teams in the country. Hey Da Coach- what is current NCAA policy regarding red-shirting for this season? Have they changed rules because of Covid? Do we expect Kent or Linke to be redshirted? Thanks
 
Wow....good win for the Braves. Did not feel good going into that last Miami possession only up one. That's a very good win for this team!
 
Whoa doggies!!! We were lucky to pull out a win!!! Great playing at the end when it really counted.

I like listening to those announcers, especially the Hawk guy.
 
What an exciting game! Bradley scored the final 9 points of the game over the last 4 minutes to win 69-68 and overcome the incredible shooting display by Miami.
Box score- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media

Miami came into the game shooting only 38.9% overall and 31.0% from three in their first 5 games, 4 of which were on their home floor.
Tonight, Miami shot an incredible 50.0% overall (25-50) and 54.2% from three (13-24) on the road.
Bradley overcame their great shooting by outrebounding Miami 34-27, only turning the ball over 9 times, making their FTs (9-10), and clamping down with terrific defense in the second half (yielded just 31 points in 2nd half), especially the last 4 minutes of the game.
 
Here is the final scoring play that put Bradley ahead with 18.7 seconds left in the game. It was a well designed play where Bradley spread the floor with most of the players outside the 3-point line, and everyone but Terry Nolan on the left side. Then Rienk Mast broke out and took a pass at the top of the 3-point line, while Nolan faked a break toward him, then reversed course and broke to the basket. With all but one defender bunched on the left side of the floor, there was nobody to give defensive help as Nolan took the nice pass from Mast and got the dunk.
https://twitter.com/bradleyumbb/stat...89288383934464

I am not sure the coaches or Terry Nolan expected to have such a wide open path to the basket, but they hoped he'd get a high percentage shot or go to the FT line.

 
A few thoughts-yes thank heavens a win but we will have to play so much better on Tuesday. After a poor game against Jackson State we got a much better game from Ari (except for that shot from about the free throw line). I’m worried about our defending the 3 point line-it is becoming a trend. I know Eli is getting doubled a lot but we have to make teams pay for that a whole lot more. We did better with 9 turnovers-better than the 13 we have been averaging.
 
battlebasset said:
Hoping for a bit more competitive game than some of the past few. Don't think you are really preparing for conference play when you play some of the lower tier teams on our preseason. Of course, I want competitive and a solid win...
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battlebasset - your wish came true!

Nolan comes up big in the end AGAIN! Is anyone else concerned that maybe our 3 point defense isn't very good? I think that's why Kingsby got a lot more minutes in this game to help remedy that.
 
Tommy said:
Nolan comes up big in the end AGAIN! Is anyone else concerned that maybe our 3 point defense isn't very good? I think that's why Kingsby got a lot more minutes in this game to help remedy that.
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Tommy, yes I have that concern. Just by chance teams have been shooting lights out against us? Or are we just not defending the 3 like we need to be?
 
What a game! When we were down 8, I was about to pack up the laptop, but Coach Wardle and the boys fought hard to the end.
GREAT coaching the last couple minutes, including the final possession topped off by BU's 2020-21 hero-boy Terry Nolan Jr.!

That was a key victory - not that Mia (OH) was a quality win, thought they impressed me, but it was a win we needed to get.
Kinda shows that we have a ways to go - the cupcake tests probably didn't help us much for games like this.
6-2 now with Mizzou tomorrow.

How about our newcomers this year! Without East and Nolan Jr, this team would have some deficiencies having lost Brown and Kennell.

Way 2 go BRAVES!
 
Heemeskerk said:
Tommy, yes I have that concern. Just by chance teams have been shooting lights out against us? Or are we just not defending the 3 like we need to be?
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To me, it just seems that Miami OH and S Dak St just shot lights out. Most made 3's were contested and some a bit lucky.
But I hate to lose another game this season - beaten by the 3-ball disparity.

Ville has NOT shot the 3 well in 2 of last 3 games, and that is a BIG deal for this team. You look at last year's Arch Madness and Ville's clutch 3's might have made the difference for us to hoist the trophy again.

Not sure the 3-pt discrepancy in this game, but it seemed that was how BU didn't win by 10+.
 
Da Coach said:
What an exciting game! Bradley scored the final 9 points of the game over the last 4 minutes to win 69-68 and overcome the incredible shooting display by Miami.
Box score- https://bradleybraves.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media

Miami came into the game shooting only 38.9% overall and 31.0% from three in their first 5 games, 4 of which were on their home floor.
Tonight, Miami shot an incredible 50.0% overall (25-50) and 54.2% from three (13-24) on the road.
Bradley overcame their great shooting by outrebounding Miami 34-27, only turning the ball over 9 times, making their FTs (9-10), and clamping down with terrific defense in the second half (yielded just 31 points in 2nd half), especially the last 4 minutes of the game.
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Exciting yes, DC! But I don't think that any of us would have used that adjective had we come up short! LOL
 
Heemeskerk said:
...Just by chance teams have been shooting lights out against us? Or are we just not defending the 3 like we need to be?
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For the record, Bradley is running the same defense that they ran in 2018-19 and 2019-20, and with most of the same players as last year, plus new players who are bigger, longer, quicker, more athletic, and said to be better defensive players than the guards we lost (Darrell Brown & Nate Kennell). Yet, Bradley's 3-point defense over the previous 2 seasons ranks as the best three point percentage defense in the MVC.

So I am not saying that there haven't been some defensive lapses, but I am going to make the case that we've seen two outlier games with some incredibly good 3-point luck by a couple teams (South Dakota State and Miami).

Through 8 games this season, opponents are 71-196 (36.2%) from three against Bradley (36.2%- ranks 6th among MVC teams).
Bradley held opponents to 31.6% in 2019-20, and Bradley held opponents to 32.7% in 2018-29.
In 2018-19 and 2019-20 combined, Bradley's 3pt% defense ranks #1 among MVC teams.
So Bradley's history of 3pt defense over the past 2 seasons has been terrific.

Here are the 3-point stats for each of Bradley's 8 games so far in 2020-21-
Toledo 11-29 (37.9%)
Xavier 5-20 (25.0%)
Oakland 12-34 (35.3%)
Judson 3-27 (11.1%)
SDSU 17-26 (65.4%)
Lewis 7-18 (38.9%)
JSU 3-18 (16.7%)
Miami 13-24 (54.2%)

So, there have been two extreme outlier games, SDSU (65.4%) and Miami (54.2%). Every other game their 3-point defense has been extremely good. Bradley's overall opponent's 3-pt% is 71-196 (36.2%), but only 41-146 (28.1%) in the other 6 games if the 2 outlier games are removed.

If this was truly a defensive problem, why was Bradley's 3pt defense so awesome in 2018-19 and 2019-20, as well as in the other 6 games this year?
Note that the 28.1% 3pt defense this year (excluding SDSU and MU) would have ranked 5th best in all of D1 last year, and 2nd best in D1 in 2018-29!

Now, if readers aren't already bored, here are some 3-point stats for South Dakota State and Miami in all their games this year-
South Dakota State has shot 74-187 39.6% on threes so far (35.4% without the BU game).
Here are their 3-point stats for each game-
West Virginia 7-19
Utah State 15-27
St. Mary's U. 2-12
Iowa State 9-25
Bradley U. 17-26
North Dakota St. 7-24
North Dakota 7-24
South Dakota 10-30

Miami University has shot 49-139 35.3% on threes so far (31.3% without BU game).
3-point stats for each game
North Dakota 5-14
Wright State 6-20
Western ILL. 7-27
Mt St Joseph 12-30
Univ. of Buffalo 6-24
Bradley U. 13-24

Note that the Bradley game was the one and only game Miami has played where they shot anywhere near the 54.2% from three that they did against Bradley. Their next best shooting game was just 40% against a winless D3 Mt. St. Joseph University.

South Dakota State did have one other great game, shooting 55.6% in their game against Utah State, but their next best game was only 36.8% against West Virginia. But they have never come close to the 65.4% they shot against Bradley. So Bradley's defense was either really horrendous in those 2 games, or maybe the two opponents just had a great night draining threes.

We can either consider that Bradley has played uncharacteristically terrible defense on the perimeter in just those 2 games or that the two teams had an unbelievable night shooting threes, which they will probably never match again, even against far worse defensive teams than Bradley. I choose the latter.
 
Thanks for keeping it in perspective, Coach. Glad you're here to dig out the numbers for us so we can all relax a bit!
 
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