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Next game: Loyola at Bradley, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 7:05 pm

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Bradley (5-3) plays next at home against Loyola (6-2, 2-2 on the road and 4-0 at home), on Wednesday, December 16, at 7:05 pm at the Carver Arena.

There is no local TV broadcast, but the game can be viewed online at BUBraves.tv-
http://www.bradleybraves.com/liveEvents/liveEvents.dbml

The game is also online at the Horizon League Network.-
http://www.horizonleaguenetwork.tv/loyola.html

Loyola played their last game Saturday, 12/12/09, at home against the University of San Francisco.
Loyola won 66-63--
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/121209aaa.html
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2009-2010/mbb08.html

Game notes for Bradley game-
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/loyc/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/BradleyNotes121609.pdf

Loyola's main basketball website--
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/loyc-m-baskbl-body.html

Loyola has 4 players who average between 9.5 and 10.8 points per game. Note that they have started the same 5 players in all 8 games, so far.
Junior Geoff McCammon leads them in scoring with 10.8 ppg and 5th year senior Andy Polka leads with 9.5 rebounds per game.
Stats-
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Roster with player bios--
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/loyc-m-baskbl-mtt.html

Stats--
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2009-2010/teamcume.html

Loyola averages 70.5 ppg which is up quite a bit over last year's team that averaged just 63.3 ppg. They give up an average of 68.9 ppg, compared to 67.3 ppg last year. They are shooting 40.4% from three so far this season, compared with 31.2% last season.

Bradley averages 65.0 ppg and gives up 63.9 ppg.

Bradley's stats--
http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19334&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204833585

Loyola message board--
http://ramblermania.yuku.com/forums/1/t/Rambler-Rants.html

There is a pregame party sponsored by the Bradley Braves Club from 5-7 pm in the Civic Center Theater Lobby.
Also note that there is a Game-Day Luncheon at 11:15 am in the Michel Student Center Ballroom.
Here is information-
http://bubraves.nmnathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=130236
 
I hate to bring this up again, but there were some very knowlegeable posters here and on other boards who thought Jim Whitesell was a great up-and-coming coach who was on track for tremendous success at Loyola. Some even said Bradley should dump Jim Les after his first 3 seasons and hire Whitesell.
Whitesell did have some limited success his first 3 years with all the players he inherited from the previous coach Larry Farmer, especially 3-time 1st team All-Horizon player Blake Schilb. Still, they never came close to playing in postseason.
But these past 2 seasons, with his own players, Loyola has been bad. Last year, they did not even have a winning record at home. They have yet to play in a postseason tournament under Whitesell, though he seems to still have good support among the administration and fans. Their home attendance this season is only 1,771, which is down from last season's average of 2,270.

Loyola record under Coach Jim Whitesell-
2004-2005 13-17, 8-8 (6th seed in Horizon League)- RPI 219
2005-2006 19-11, 8-8 (4th seed in the Horizon)- RPI 138
2006-2007 21-11, 10-6 (4th seed in Horizon)- RPI 101
2007-2008 12-19, 6-12 (8th seed in Horizon)- RPI 222
2008-2009 14-18, 6-12 (8th seed in Horizon)- RPI 214
 
the Loyola message board is kinda funky...first - there's not a mention of the upcoming game in Peoria
and it's only 2 days away...then some of the posters appear to have embedded advertisements
in their posts, like having an avatar.....is someone making $$ on this?
Is this a way to stimulate people into posting more if they make $$ on each post?
How's that for an idea?
 
What is BU's practice schedule during finals week? Is there going to be any problems with game preparation since hopefully the team was studying for the school work and not Loyola?
 
From Les on the radio this AM, I know they had practice on Sat and a film session today. I'm sure they've done more, but he talked abou that specifically... Anyone else?
 
jeffsu said:
From Les on the radio this AM, I know they had practice on Sat and a film session today. I'm sure they've done more, but he talked abou that specifically... Anyone else?
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I believe after the WCU game they were to take a few days off 3? to study. I would suspect that Loyola is on practically the same schedule.
 
Les also said that they were going to work in some more plays to get Will the ball more.It actually was the best Mon. show of the season because it was just Jim and Dan.
 
jeffsu said:
From Les on the radio this AM, I know they had practice on Sat and a film session today. I'm sure they've done more, but he talked abou that specifically... Anyone else?
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NO...I haven't had anytime to review film OR practice, to busy with Xmas parties and shopp....oh...you mean the team....sorry, I don't have anything to report.
 
real fan said:
Les also said that they were going to work in some more plays to get Will the ball more.It actually was the best Mon. show of the season because it was just Jim and Dan, no dumb questions from Greg.
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Hmmmm...more plays for the Bigs....the "Merf" hangover. :)
 
Pregame article from Loyola website-
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121409aaa.htmlhttp://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121409aaa.html

Game notes-
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/loyc/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/BradleyNotes121609.pdf

Sophomore Jordan Hicks, a 6'6" wing player who Bradley recruited out of Mayo High School in Rochester Minnesota, missed Loyola's first 7 games while rehabbing an Achilles injury. He played in his first game for Loyola last Saturday against San Francisco, and scored 3 points and had 1 rebound in 9 minutes. He will likely play against Bradley, but will probably come off the bench for limited minutes tonight. I would expect the same starting lineup that Loyola has started in all 8 games so far.

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Jordan Hicks came on strong through the season last year, and had some great performances down the stretch...
including averaging 13 ppg/5 rpg/ and 55% from 3-pt over the final 1/3 of the season, and had a 23 pt game at Butler and a 20pt/7 reb game in their Horizon Tourney game!

So everyone thought he'd be a starter and big contributor this year...too bad he had an injury...
 
Da Coach said:
I hate to bring this up again, but there were some very knowlegeable posters here and on other boards who thought Jim Whitesell was a great up-and-coming coach who was on track for tremendous success at Loyola. Some even said Bradley should dump Jim Les after his first 3 seasons and hire Whitesell.
Whitesell did have some limited success his first 3 years with all the players he inherited from the previous coach Larry Farmer, especially 3-time 1st team All-Horizon player Blake Schilb. Still, they never came close to playing in postseason.
But these past 2 seasons, with his own players, Loyola has been bad. Last year, they did not even have a winning record at home. They have yet to play in a postseason tournament under Whitesell, though he seems to still have good support among the administration and fans. Their home attendance this season is only 1,771, which is down from last season's average of 2,270.

Loyola record under Coach Jim Whitesell-
2004-2005 13-17, 8-8 (6th seed in Horizon League)- RPI 219
2005-2006 19-11, 8-8 (4th seed in the Horizon)- RPI 138
2006-2007 21-11, 10-6 (4th seed in Horizon)- RPI 101
2007-2008 12-19, 6-12 (8th seed in Horizon)- RPI 222
2008-2009 14-18, 6-12 (8th seed in Horizon)- RPI 214
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Despite his record, this is a team we should not take lightly. I think we win pretty easily tonight, but they will play hard and we can't come out with half an effort, which we usually don't.

Also, Whitesell would have been in the postseason in 2007 had the CIT been around that year. Maybe the previous year as well. I think he will do better this year, but again I think Bradley is the better team by far right now.
 
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