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Final: UNI 80 Bradley 44

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Bradley's next game is Wednesday, December 30, at 7:00 PM at Northern Iowa, in the first MVC game of the 2015-16 season.
The game will be available on ESPN3.com.

Northern Iowa is 8-4, and will play one more non-conference game tonight (Friday, Dec. 25) in the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu, against BYU, who is also 8-4.
http://unipanthers.com/news/2015/12/24/MBB_1224152057.aspx

UNI has started the same 5 players for every game this season-
Wes Washpun 15.9 ppg, 6.2 assists per game
Paul Jesperson 13.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 43% from three
Matt Bohannon 11.7 ppg, 41% from three
Jeremy Morgan 11.1 ppg 4.8 rpg, 45% from three
Bennett Koch 6.3 ppg

As a team, UNI shoots 40.5% from three point range, which is 19th best among Division I schools, and 49.4% overall, which is 20th best in D1.
They have only played 5 games so far, and none since Nov. 30, on their home court, the McLeod Center, and they are 4-1, having lost their opening game to Colorado State, then wins against Stephen F. Austin, #1 ranked North Carolina, Dubuque, and North Texas. They also have a win over #4 ranked Iowa State on a neutral court (the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines).

UNI website-
http://unipanthers.com/index.aspx?path=mbball

UNI schedule & results-
http://unipanthers.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

UNI stats-
http://unipanthers.com/custompages/Stats/MBB/1516MBB/HTML/teamcume.htm#TEAM.CMB
 
turnovers, poor shooting...

Scottie James & Okafor need to play more, Bell less and Thomas needs to limit his shots to inside the paint.
 
so many unforced turnovers - just dribbling the ball off their feet or out of bounds..
and airballs...
Gotta hope these are just freshman issues...
 
Buesch N Chips said:
Embarrassing. We don't do much right at all. A complete inability to NOT foul, no offensive threat, low instincts, low confidence.
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You are right. This is brutal. There is no way to put a good spin on this. The players are trying, they just aren't very good. It is what it is.
 
I know this will upset some people, but this is what we have to expect from the continuing fallout of all the destructive moves by Joanne Glasser and Mike Cross these last 5-6 years. They virtually destroyed the athletic programs at Bradley, and focused most of their inept and destructive meddling on men's basketball. It is not going to get much better this season, and we can only hope that Brian Wardle knows how to rebuild the basketball program, and hope that he is a heck of a lot better recruiter than Geno was.


Final score-
BU 44
UNI 80
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400843779
 
 
sorry - but you're not going to convince me that the UNI stat keepers knew what they were doing...

at one point we had dribbled the ball off our feet or threw it out of bounds 6 or 7 times and also had two shot clock violations and an offensive foul- yet they were claiming we had only 6 turnovers!
Plus shots that we throw up behind our head while we are falling down really shouldn't be missed shots- those are turnovers too

People used to get on Walt Lemon for turnovers, but I'd take five Walt Lemons right now


Didn't expect it but it would have been pretty danged appropriate for Kirk Wessler to hand out a couple of his "Jerks" awards to the folks who left our basketball program in historically huge shambles.
 
tornado said:
so many unforced turnovers - just dribbling the ball off their feet or out of bounds..
and airballs...
Gotta hope these are just freshman issues...
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If these were just freshman mistakes, they would not be happening every game.
 
Well I'm not going to blindly give Wardle a pass by blaming everyone but him. He had a hand in this mess too. Some of the players could have stayed.
 
Buesch N Chips said:
Well I'm not going to blindly give Wardle a pass by blaming everyone but him. He had a hand in this mess too. Some of the players could have stayed.
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LOL - Wardle had a hand in this mess too. Some of the (horrible and misfit) players (who didn't perform good in the past agaisnt UNI) could have stayed.

I love it.

Has to be the funniest thing I have read in a while.

Thanks B-n-C.

:lol:
 
tornado said:
who could have stayed that would have made any difference?
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Wardle might have kept some of the leftover players, but most of the decisions were out of his control. Plus, he would have had to severely alter his coaching philosophy (which was a big reason he was hired here).
He tried to keep a couple of the guys like Xzavier Taylor and Josh Cunningham, but they were being "counselled" by Chicago AAU coaches who were determined to see them move elsewhere to punish Bradley for firing Chin Coleman.
Tramique Sutherland and Kendahl Amerson had no choice, because they would not have been academically eligible to stay and play at Bradley (that is why they transferred to Division II schools).
Omari Grier wanted to play somewhere for a winning team and chose not to be a part of a rebuilding project his final year (Rutgers is now 6-8, and will get pounded in the Big Ten).
And Jermaine Morgan was not a Division I caliber player, and transferred to a Division II school for his final season (Kentucky Wesleyan) where he is a reserve averaging under 5 points per game.
Warren Jones was invited to stay and was kept on the team, along with Shaw and Bell, until late August, then was dismissed for repeated violations of team rules. Recall that he was one of those arrested last January for obstruction of identification and criminal trespass.
That is every one of the "leftover" players.

So who among those players could have been coaxed to stay? And what concessions would Wardle have had to make to keep them, and would any of them have made a significant difference (recall that when the entire team was intact, they won just 3 MVC games, and 9 total wins while playing a much easier schedule). Also, recall that Geno Ford did not have a single recruit either verbally committed or signed for 2015-16.
 
there's more than a few UNI fans thinking that the last few games have cemented Ben Jacobson's status as the frontrunner to get the Wisconsin head coaching spot permanently.
Maybe he'd turn it down but.... the chance to coach in the Big Ten plus the additional $2 million per year that he'd earn has to be a little bit of a lure.
 
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