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Postgame thread- Bradley 64 Loyola 47

My thoughts from the game:

-Loyola simply out-muscled us to lead the first half. They got a lot of points in the paint and rebounds. Polka and Young are thick guys and having Theron on Polka was a mismatch, Sally should have taken him. Loyola could have got a lot more points from their bigs. Collins did a great job defending and he should have played more. I thought it was a great opportunity for Sam S. to match them size-wise, but he got 2 quick fouls and that was it.

-Ruffin and Crouch tried drive too much in the first half, going into traffic and taking bad shots or trying to make passes that got tipped.

-Sam M. played great. The play that stands out was his pas to Crouch for the 3 in the spurt that gave us the lead. He could have taken the 3 himself (and I??™m sure he wanted to in front of his family and friends) but he faked to draw the defender coming out and passed. Great awareness.

-The basket on the side by their band can??™t be regulation size. We shot 33% at it, then 63% on the other side. Loyola went from 53% to 35% after halftime.

-Getting to the game early enough to get seats close to the BU bench was AWESOME! I can??™t imagine what you have to pay for those in Peoria. I pray we play at Gentile again in 2009.

-The intentional foul they called on Singh was garbage. In the second half, we had a break away( I think it was Warren) and a Loyola player literally grabbed him with both hands and pulled him out of bounds-where was that intentional?

Overall, good comeback win. We can??™t wait 5 minutes to score our first points against Michigan St. though??¦.
 
I am very happy we were able to come back and get this road win, obviously I was very worried about this road game.

But, we better start bringing it for an entire 40 minutes. I understand that there was a lot of travel issues JL addressed in his post game but excuses are just those, excuses. I really believe if Loyola were deeper and would not have run out of energy, about the same time we took over the game, this game might not have ended in the blow out it ended up being.

I do not think Sallys minutes are going to fall off, he brings things that JL obviously wants. DC's minutes will increase but Sally will continue to play and likely heavy minutes.

Overall a road win is very important. On to SEMO and lets get 2 in a row.
 
Mike Radigan said:
Will's brother moved to Peoria about 3 weeks ago.
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That's great to hear...I hope to be able to meet him some day...
But I can tell the BU faithful that many of the people looking in on BradleyFans.com through the day are logging on from sites from Alaska (something the mods have the ability to discern).
So it is great that Will Egolf has brought some fine Braves fans in from our 49th state!
 
Forgot to mention I didn't see Lavin on the bench last night. It looked like everyone else was there. Is he in trouble for anything?
 
Regarding attendance- the band had more "loyolaity" than the rest of their fans (and horrible student section- it was laughable). but it was an extremely nice jesture to announce the soccer score.

I am a little worried about the big men- we got handled pretty easily down below. I was very impressed with TW's presence downlow. He isnt the biggest guy, but he sure did muscle up down in the post.

Is DC a man or mammuth? :)
 
abesimpson said:
Forgot to mention I didn't see Lavin on the bench last night. It looked like everyone else was there. Is he in trouble for anything?
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I notice this at Loyola and last week, too. Both Brian Lavin and Cameron Sweatman were missing from the team that made the trip to South Padre, and to Loyola. I do not have an explanation for this.


And as Dave Reynolds noted in his article today--
http://pjstar.com/stories/112907/BRA_BF2GFVLC.077.php

Former BU players Joey Paul, Chris Mroz, Brandyn Heemskerk, Kevin Clancy (who also played 2 seasons at Loyola), and Lee Frederick were at the game.
 
abesimpson said:
Forgot to mention I didn't see Lavin on the bench last night. It looked like everyone else was there. Is he in trouble for anything?
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I noticed at the UIC game, that Lavin was not at that game either. I was not at the Loyola game last night.
 
Mike Radigan said:
Will's brother moved to Peoria about 3 weeks ago.
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tornado said:
That's great to hear...I hope to be able to meet him some day...
But I can tell the BU faithful that many of the people looking in on BradleyFans.com through the day are logging on from sites from Alaska (something the mods have the ability to discern).
So it is great that Will Egolf has brought some fine Braves fans in from our 49th state!
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I had talked to Will at the tailgate. We talked about Alaska as we went there last year. Even my current avatar is of the northern lights over Juneau. Anyway Will said his parents conducted tourist tours in Haines. Then at one of our home games I see this big guy with a Haines emblem on the front. So I turned aroung and he had Egolf written on the back. I saw him later and stopped him and we talked briefly. He said he and his girl friend had just moved to Peoria and he was looking for a job.
 
Da Coach said:
I notice this at Loyola and last week, too. Both Brian Lavin and Cameron Sweatman were missing from the team that made the trip to South Padre, and to Loyola. I do not have an explanation for this.


And as Dave Reynolds noted in his article today--
http://pjstar.com/stories/112907/BRA_BF2GFVLC.077.php

Former BU players Joey Paul, Chris Mroz, Brandyn Heemskerk, Kevin Clancy (who also played 2 seasons at Loyola), and Lee Frederick were at the game.
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DC, you forgot to mention or maybe didn't see Dave Kloubcher(SP)??. He also was there and is at many road games. What a fine guard he was in his day.
 
I remember Dave well. He was from Manual HS, and was great athlete in high school in both basketball and baseball. He played at Bradley from 1971-74, and was a teammate of Tommy Les. I probably would not recognize him now, but it's nice to know he follows Bradley.

By the way, Tom Les was also at the Loyola game, as he is at many games when his coaching schedule allows. Tom is now the head coach at Niles Notre Dame which Tom and Jim both attended.
 
Da Coach said:
I notice this at Loyola and last week, too. Both Brian Lavin and Cameron Sweatman were missing from the team that made the trip to South Padre, and to Loyola. I do not have an explanation for this.


And as Dave Reynolds noted in his article today--
http://pjstar.com/stories/112907/BRA_BF2GFVLC.077.php

Former BU players Joey Paul, Chris Mroz, Brandyn Heemskerk, Kevin Clancy (who also played 2 seasons at Loyola), and Lee Frederick were at the game.
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Cameron is a Redshirt walk-on and would have to pay his own way to go the away games so he primarily attends home games. As for Lavin I'm not really sure...
 
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