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Iowa State at Bradley October 31 for closed scrimmage

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Hmmm....I wonder if it'll be held in the arena or more likely on the Mitchell JJ Anderson court...
....This is a great opportunity for the team to match up against a team with some size...they have 6-8, 6-8, 6-9, 6-9, 6-11, 6-11!!
(including ex-Saluki Anthony Booker who is listed as 6-9!, and former Big ten player Royce White)

BTW -- here's a video about Iowa State's intra-squad scrimmage...
http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46661&SPID=4252&ATCLID=205015861&DB_OEM_ID=10700
 
Pretty cool that my alma mater team ISU will scrimmage my adopted team BU....

As a junior at Ia State in 1975, I had a chance, along with my fraternity team mates, to play a basketball game vs ISU Junior Varsity team (back when they still had junior varsity teams). The ISU Jr Varsity opponent, Nebraska JV, was snowed out, and the Atheltic Dept needed a team to play ISU JV as the lead in game to the evening Varsity match. On the day of the game, our fraternity was asked if we could play that evening and we said YES!

Our fraternity put a team together and we played the ISU JV in the new ISU Hilton Coliseum. We had Big 8 officials, road ISU varsity jerseys, PA Announcers and by the end of our game, almost 14,000 people watching who were waiting for the Varsity game! A George Plimpton moment.

Needless to say we got crushed, by over 50 pts. I didn't play HS Basketball, being a football and baseball player in HS, but did contribute one field goal, one rebound, and one blocked shot in my limited court time. I had the time of my life!

What was funny was most in the arena audience didn't realize ISU JV weren't playing NU JV. Iowa State road jerseys look similar to Nebraska jerseys. The talk on campus the following day was how bad the NU JV Team was!

Interesting tie in to BU...Guess who the ISU JV Center was we played against? Big Alex Mazeika 6'11", who later transferred to BU.
 
Yes, Tom Prusator of Kewanee, Illinois was actually Bradley's first 7-footer.

He played at Bradley for 2 seasons from 1977-1979.

Here is the online version of Bradley's All-Time roster-
http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=604651&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204964480

And the recently updated BU History page, with a lot of information that was previously hard to find like all-time roster, alll-time numerical roster, retired numbers, and past awards -
http://www.bradleybraves.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&KEY=&SPID=1498&SPSID=604651
 
AZ BU Fan said:
Pretty cool that my alma mater team ISU will scrimmage my adopted team BU....

As a junior at Ia State in 1975, I had a chance, along with my fraternity team mates, to play a basketball game vs ISU Junior Varsity team (back when they still had junior varsity teams). The ISU Jr Varsity opponent, Nebraska JV, was snowed out, and the Atheltic Dept needed a team to play ISU JV as the lead in game to the evening Varsity match. On the day of the game, our fraternity was asked if we could play that evening and we said YES!

Our fraternity put a team together and we played the ISU JV in the new ISU Hilton Coliseum. We had Big 8 officials, road ISU varsity jerseys, PA Announcers and by the end of our game, almost 14,000 people watching who were waiting for the Varsity game! A George Plimpton moment.

Needless to say we got crushed, by over 50 pts. I didn't play HS Basketball, being a football and baseball player in HS, but did contribute one field goal, one rebound, and one blocked shot in my limited court time. I had the time of my life!

What was funny was most in the arena audience didn't realize ISU JV weren't playing NU JV. Iowa State road jerseys look similar to Nebraska jerseys. The talk on campus the following day was how bad the NU JV Team was!

Interesting tie in to BU...Guess who the ISU JV Center was we played against? Big Alex Mazeika 6'11", who later transferred to BU.
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Good to know others have adopted BU as their team too, like me. It's amazing how you just cling to a college team without going there.
I had a choice early in life to root for the ISU 'Birds or Bradley - living somewhere between both schools. I went to many rivalry games in the mid-late '80's. My parents both graduated from ISU (red), but it didn't hold onto me. I started really following BU hoops in the early '90's and there was something about those team that got me hooked for good. I was a big Coach Mo supporter, having gone to IWU. Even my years living in Florida couldn't keep me from avidly following the Braves. Glad I'm a little closer now in Chi-town. Just a special, classy program through the years. Just want this year to be a breakthrough season - we've only had a couple truly special seasons in the past 2 decades.
 
As most fans here know, the NCAA does not allow spectators at these closed scrimmages, and they do not allow schools to divulge to the public any details about the scrimmage or the results. Bradley takes this NCAA rule very seriously, and cannot afford to have the NCAA think they are breaking this rule. So unless some information leaks out from the Iowa State board, unfortunately we will not expect to get any information about this scrimmage here.
 
Wonder how long the NCAA ban on schools/players/others talking about closed scrimmage results lasts?

Once a season starts?

Until the end of the season?

Forever?
 
That means one of Fred Hoiberg's eligible players won't be able to play, and he might have to play some of his transfers, who are not eligible to play this season.
If Iowa State utilizes all their redshirting transfers, they could be a pretty good team to scrimmage against. Only Darion "Jake" Anderson, a post-graduate transfer from Northern Illinois, will be eligible to play this season for Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg. The other transfers, Royce White (from Minnesota and pending an appeal to be ruled eligible this season), Chris Babb (from Penn State), Chris Allen (from Michigan), Anthony Booker (from SIU), and John Lamb (from Morehead State) all would be allowed to participate in the scrimmage I believe, but will have to sit out the regular season before they are eligible to play next season.

I would think he would want to prepare his team for the season, and thus I doubt the transfers would play much.

Here is Iowa State's roster- quite a few freshman along with new juco transfer Phillips who is now injured.-
http://www.cyclones.com/SportSelect.dbml?spid=4252&spsid=46664&db_oem_id=10700
 
real fan said:
I didn"t think transfer players were allowed to participate in off campus events.
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These closed scrimmages are not defined by the NCAA as an "event", but as a practice. I am not familiar with all the NCAA rules, so I don't know whether the transfers are eligible. I would think Iowa State would rather not use them since it serves no purpose for this season.
 
they might be inclined to use them as they would a walk on in order to assure they have enough manpower, not to mention that they do want the transfers practicing..
 
Here's a list of other closed scrimmages...

http://community.foxsports.com/good...immage_list;_more_than_60_on_tap_this_weekend


Fri., Oct. 29

Nevada at Oregon
Monmouth at Iona
Long Island at Marist
Samford at Kennesaw State

Sat., Oct. 30

Baylor at Ohio State
Texas vs. Gonzaga in Denver
Clemson at Georgia
Virginia Tech vs. Georgetown
Virginia at Marquette
Utah at Arizona
Georgia Tech at UAB
Arizona State at Saint Mary??™s
N.C. State at George Washington
Fordham at Villanova
Creighton at Colorado
LSU at Tulane
Air Force at USC
Rider at Seton Hall
Providence at Stony Brook
Boston College at Boston University
Wake Forest at College of Charleston
Loyola (Ill.) at Northwestern
George Mason at Richmond
Kent State at St. Bonaventure
VCU at La Salle
Florida Gulf Coast at Central Florida
High Point at East Carolina
Colgate at Cornell
Lipscomb at Murray State
Bowling Green at Youngstown State
Towson at Loyola (Md.)
Miami (Ohio) at Marshall
UMBC at Delaware
Mercer at Liberty
Albany at Columbia
Pepperdine at Cal State Fullerton
UMKC at Drake
Cal Poly at San Francisco
Northern Illinois vs. Green Bay in Milwaukee
St. Francis (NY) at St. Peter??™s
Eastern Illinois at UIC
Cal State Northridge at Fresno
Bucknell at Hofstra
Santa Clara at Portland State
Lehigh at Drexel
Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State
Norfolk State at William & Mary
Arkansas Little Rock vs. Stephen F. Austin
Central Michigan at IPFW
Houston Baptist at Houston

Sun., Oct. 31

UNC at UNC Greensboro
Stanford at San Diego State
Texas Tech at New Mexico State
UMass at Harvard
Iowa State at Bradley
Temple at Penn State
UT Chattanooga at Ole Miss
Washington State vs. Montana in Idaho
Wofford vs. Belmont at Maryville College
Florida A&M vs. Coastal Carolina in Savannah
Wagner at Penn
Hartford at Holy Cross
Central Connecticut at Yale
Campbell at Georgia Southern
UT Arlington vs. UTPA at East Texas Baptist
Penn at Lehigh

Mon., Nov. 1

Eastern Michigan at Michigan

Fri., Nov. 5

St. Peter??™s at Fordham
Radford at UNC Greensboro

Sat., Nov. 6

Texas Tech at Arizona State
James Madison at Georgetown
Charlotte at Virginia Tech
Drexel at Temple
Cal at Saint Mary??™s
Rutgers at Siena
Colorado at Northern Colorado
Towson at Mount St. Mary??™s
Rice at Texas State
Cleveland State vs. Buffalo in Erie, Pa.
Columbia at Hartford
Jacksonville at South Florida
UC Riverside at San Diego
UNH at Bryant
Army at Marist
Stony Brook at Central Connecticut State
Liberty at Appalachian State
Youngstown State at American
Bucknell at Albany
UT Arlington vs. Arkansas Little Rock
NJIT at Yale
Binghamton at St. Francis (NY)
SMU at Stephen F. Austin

Sun., Nov. 7

Texas A&M vs. TCU in Fort Worth
Wright State at Ball State
Morgan State at Delaware
Harvard at Northeastern
 
Anyone that hears any comments on tomorrows scrimmage post it, the thing I am most curious about is whether Will,Sammy and Taylor play as we need these guys to be able to practice in order for everyone on the team to be able to play together.
 
real fan said:
Anyone that hears any comments on tomorrows scrimmage post it, the thing I am most curious about is whether Will,Sammy and Taylor play as we need these guys to be able to practice in order for everyone on the team to be able to play together.
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It is unlikely we will hear anything. There will be a minimum of people present at the scrimmage, and all of them will be sworn to secrecy about it.
 
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