Taylor Brown, the Drexel Game, and more...

There's some good news....everyone is healthy and Dodie is way ahead of schedule in getting stronger and will be a force when he returns. Also Dyricus is progressing well and will help a ton today as BU will be shorthanded.
but, there's still work to be done this season!

Andrew Warren is 54 points away from hitting the 1000-point mark! He should get there by the first game of the MVC Tourney!
Sam Maniscalco just passed the 1000-point mark and is now sitting at 1069.
The next highest active career scorer on the roster is...
Chris Roberts at 555
Taylor Brown is at 439...
Dodie Dunson is at 549 (but 161 of those points were with Iowa State)
In his 6 years, Sam Singh has totalled 355.

It is being reported that due to internal discipline issues, Taylor Brown is being given some penalties of the coach's discretion....Bradley's RPI and the possibility of an at-large bid aren't really in the equation...but BU still needs to win this game for a confidence builder...
But the whole thing does stand out in stark contrast....as a simple tweeting issue gets more discipline at BU than a DUI gets at ISU or underage drinking and fighting get at SIU.



BTW - still a few comments on the McLean Co. site about three different, well known basketball players and their failures to show up for their court dates, and the requests for warrants sworn out for their arrest...
Interesting story, had it been in Peoria, the local paper would have assuredly assigned four or five reporters to cover it!!



Update of BU recruiting target Just Gant..
Here's from a recruiting blog...
"Gant’s situation is intriguing. At 6-8, 200 pounds, he’s a skinny power forward at the moment with the lean but muscular body of a really tall cross country runner. However, he certainly has inside outside skills. He scored 21 of the Partiots’ 36 points in the loss. made a nice post-up turn in to score on Hammons and he hits some shots from 15 feet and out.
“I think he’s progressing nicely,” Terre Haute North coach Todd Wolfie said. “He’s added some strength, he’s added a lot to his game. He’s getting to the point now where he can take the ball to the basket and put the ball on the floor. He shoots it really, really well.”
Gant admits he needs to improve his 3-point shot to be even more of an inside-out power forward. At the moment, he said he’s holding offers from mid-major schools like Indiana State, Evansville and Bradley, but a big summer on the AAU circuit (he’s playing with Spiece) could earn him more high-major attention."

also in the interview, he seems to still value the offer from Bradley!



Update on Ken Kavanagh - he's having to make some tough decisions...but it is clear what's going on --
the additional money raised will help them in the Athletic budget and in recruiting, possibly getting them to the next level...
http://www.news-press.com/article/20100219/FGCU/2190405/1075/AD-says-FGCU-must-raise-ticket-prices



Here's a funny story about how the University of Illinois team committed NCAA violations just to put on a good show for a national TV audience on ESPN's Game Day...
ESPN claims they had nothing to do with it, but some talk on message boards says they encouraged it!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/02/illinois-to-report-violation-to-big-ten-over-t-shirts-during-espn-gameday-visit/1
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/02/illinois-acknowledges-possible-violation-during-appearance-on-espns-college-gameday/1


At least they spelled "Game Day" correctly, unlike this silly preseason promotional picture that reportedly show Kentucky star John Wall posing with John Calipari, wearing a jersey with the name of the school misspelled..
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14834



Ice dancing - perhaps one of my least favorite "sports" is making a little news, since several of the competing pairs are brother-sister acts, and they have to skate and dance with a little romance and sex thrown into their routines...
boy this sounds like fun....dancing with and kissing your sister!!
http://deadspin.com/5475245/siblings-get-romantic-in-vancouver




BTW - How can the law system in Iowa be so slow, when it is obvious that some lawyers are pretty busy and pretty active...in fact how do these people stay so busy and accomplish so much when the Iowa courts can't get anything done?
If you have been reading the news, Alabama law professor Amy Bishop is now known to have shot and killed her brother (years ago, and gotten away with it!), been involved in a pipe bombing (all charges dropped) and now has killed three more innocent people while on a shooting rampage...all the while leading a busy life as a college law professor.
Wonder if this lady had been a Tea Party goer??
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20100219the_buck_stops_where_in_amy_bishop_case_not_with_former_da_bill_delahunt/srvc=home&position=recent
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/alambama-shooting-obama-university/2010/02/17/id/350112


Anyone who still doesn't believe how incompetent the government really is, or who wants to hand to the federal government the job of running the nation's health care industry...PLEASE READ THIS....
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/homeland-sec-loses-hundreds-guns
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/obama-tried-buy-specter-s-opponent