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Postgame- BU 56 ISU 52

lefty said:
I thought they called it ISU ball before the timeout and it was clearly off an ISU player. It seemed pretty pobvious to me.

They were good refs but they missed a few calls
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That WAS a very good crew. But even good refs make mistakes. They key is to move on and overcome them. Coach Les' beef was how he was unclear who had possession. I think in this case, I can see how Higgins created confusion and in the future he is the one to change and make it clearer for all. But what's still funny... Higgins made the call right in front of the ISU bench in front of Jank and even ISU (and Jank) came out ready to play D cause they thought it was Bradley's possesion. :lol:
 
MacabreMob said:
Hey - what was up with the out of bounds possession coming out of a media time out like at the under 12 mark? ISU and Bradley both thought it was Bradley's ball... but they gave it to ISU. I heard Higgens say that he called "it off of White (while pointing at White and their possession/bucket) and it is Red ball (so then switching and pointing to Red's possession/bucket)". But that was AFTER the time-out was over. Coach Les didn't know it... and I don't think Jank did either.
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That was really bad. There is absolutly no question that the ball was off ISU, I just watched the replay a bit ago and the ball was clearly off ISU. There were some questionable judgements by the refs tonight (the phantom timeout by Jank w/ 2+ mins left anyone???) but loved that the let the boys play.

SIDE NOTE: While I'm typing this, the BU-ISU highlights were just on ESPN2 again. Its great to see us on ESPN for a WIN (unlike MSU last year and this, plus Florida this year).
 
Not that I needed to really have help getting pumped for the Creighton game, but will be taking my oldest son to his first game on Saturday!

GO BU!!!
 
PTownHawkeye said:
That was really bad. There is absolutly no question that the ball was off ISU, I just watched the replay a bit ago and the ball was clearly off ISU. There were some questionable judgements by the refs tonight (the phantom timeout by Jank w/ 2+ mins left anyone???) but loved that the let the boys play.

SIDE NOTE: While I'm typing this, the BU-ISU highlights were just on ESPN2 again. Its great to see us on ESPN for a WIN (unlike MSU last year and this, plus Florida this year).
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Yeah that one was questionable, but then TB kinda tackled an ISU player (Holloway I think) and the ball went off his leg and out of bounds and they awarded it to BU. The refereeing was good for the mere fact that they never took the spotlight away from the ballplayer and the game. On VT a few redbird fans are complaining about the 7-1 foul ratio in the first half, but that's not alot of fouls called & ISU was not attacking the basket like BU to draw the fouls, they were chucking up 3's.
 
Thanks R21....it was more fun this year with both teams fighting for 1st as to a battle for less! isu and Bradley have to have the 2 most atheletic teams in the Valley IMO! :D
 
PTownHawkeye said:
That was really bad. There is absolutly no question that the ball was off ISU, I just watched the replay a bit ago and the ball was clearly off ISU. There were some questionable judgements by the refs tonight (the phantom timeout by Jank w/ 2+ mins left anyone???) but loved that the let the boys play.

SIDE NOTE: While I'm typing this, the BU-ISU highlights were just on ESPN2 again. Its great to see us on ESPN for a WIN (unlike MSU last year and this, plus Florida this year).
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Yeah, I saw the highlights too. It helped that we played an undefeated team, otherwise we don't get the highlights on ESPN. :)

Speaking of, why does ESPN not show a BU-ISU game once in awhile? It would work well for their Rivalry week, or any other time of the year for that matter. I'm surprised that a network like that would miss one of the best rivalries in the country.

Come to think of it, why is this game not on the MVC network more often?
 
We were talking about that in the stands before the game....how can you not have both isu/Bradley games on as the games of the week for the MVC....nothing else in this state can match that....!
 
romar said:
Yeah that one was questionable, but then TB kinda tackled an ISU player (Holloway I think) and the ball went off his leg and out of bounds and they awarded it to BU. The refereeing was good for the mere fact that they never took the spotlight away from the ballplayer and the game. On VT a few redbird fans are complaining about the 7-1 foul ratio in the first half, but that's not alot of fouls called & ISU was not attacking the basket like BU to draw the fouls, they were chucking up 3's.
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Absolutely right. And Bradley's scheme was to dribble/drive and draw contact/fouls. It worked in the 1st 1/2. But I figured calls might even up in the 2nd 1/2. WHICH THEY DID. And then ISU got themselves in trouble when they had only committed like 2 fouls at one point and racked up 3 or 4 in one possession for Bradley late in the game (maybe around the 5-6 minute mark) which kept resetting the shot-clock/possession for Bradley. Instead of shooting ft's and possible misses... we got to burn time and get fouled... and burn time... and get fouled and burn time.
 
Great game for BU. The points allowed has been steadily declining over the last 4 games while our points scored has remained fairly constant. ISU is still a good team though despite there schedule. I think they just looked a little worn out in the 2nd half. Lot of hands on the hips, bending over, flat shots, etc. I think our D really made them work.

Jason
 
bigdaddystuck said:
He had 5stls as well:eek::-o which were huge and didn't he have the huge block when ISU had stolen the ball and had what looked like an easy layup?!? HUGE!
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Actually I think that was TB's one block.


And everyone is right DC did have a great game and I actually saw him jump one time for the rebound that was really high....realllly high.

I got a little frustrated though in the 2nd half with him when ISU was kind of coming back and he could've had two blocks if he would have just jumped a little. His hands were there...in great position...and if he would've jumped it would've been two swats, but they turned into 4 points instead. Get that man to JUMP! Watch video film with him and tell him when to jump and eventually he'll start making conscious efforts to.

Great defense by BU. I still think ISU will only lose 2 or 3 more games in the conference and it'll be hard to capture 1st place but it's nice to AT LEAST have a split with them.


One game at a time for this team. It's time to concentrate on Creighton now and really get this snowball rolling and picking up momentum.
 
Great win! Huge crowd, a Braves victory, 1st place in the MVC, defeating the hated redbirds and crushing their undefeated dreams. Sam Singh had some huge blocks and played amazing down the stretch. How sweet it is!
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Still wired from that game. Great effort from everyone involved. WAY TO GO BRAVES!!!

What a crowd! Sometimes I forget how loud Carver can get.

AMAZING WIN! Bring on CU.
 
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