Have a safe Memorial Day!! ...And Trivia Answers...

Currently all the players are on break and most are off campus...
I have heard that most went home, Taylor to Georgia, Will to Alaska, Sammy to Chicago, Dodie to Bloomington, etc...
Most will return to campus to begin either summer classes or summer workouts and open gyms, and many will be helping with the basketball camps this summer that all start within the next few weeks.

Just to give you an idea of the commitment the players have, here's a short tweet that one of the players sent to show that even in the midst of a holiday weekend, far from Peoria, he still found a gym to get to and work out on his own! I admire the guys' determination!!
http://twitpic.com/1slcjs



The Illinois Wolves AAU U16 team is at the Best Buy Memorial Day Classic (Elgin, IL & Schaumburg, IL), (AAU Tournament), and yesterday won the top class title, fighting back from 22 pts down to win by 6 pts...
Bobo Drummond was the MVP of the entire tourney...
Jacoby Roddy (Manual), Jeff Stokes (Manual), Markus Fair had great games.



Well, we have several people try guesses but nobody got all four parts of the trivia quiz correct. I guess I really picked some stumpers.........but here are the answers to yesterday's trivia questions...

The last player to achieve a TRIPLE DOUBLE against Bradley was...
Benoit Benjamin, 2/2/85, 29 pts, 12 rebs, 12 blk


The last player I can find who wore a jersey number in a game that was higher than #55 was Gene Herberger, pictured in the fine book, "Victory, Honor, and Glory", pg. 95. Gene Herberger is wearing a jersey #64 in the photo from BU vs. LaSalle game that ended the 1954-1955 season.


Chuck Orsborn was one of Bradley's great coaches, but what number did he wear as a player? - He wore #27, as apparently there was no rule back then limiting what numbers a player could wear.


It has been widely stated that the shortest scholarship player ever at Bradley was:
Frank Sylvester, Chicago Heights Bloom, and he wore the un-guard-like number, #54.



Well...a few more comments about all the scandals in college basketball.......
they are all scandals of deceit, cheating, and full & clear intent to sidestep the laws and the rules for their own personal gain...
Remember - the way the NCAA came down on BU for "inadvertent overpay" - a case where BU did NOTHING with intent to do wrong and were fully cooperative - yet still got slammed with a major violation!

Well the cheating at USC, Oklahoma, Kansas, UConn are all so clearly different in so many ways. These cases are all overtly dishonest, cheating at the highest level - just for personal gain and greed, with subsequent lies and attempts to cover up their cheating.

Other than the findings of NCAA in the Indiana cheating scandal - where virtually NO penalties were handed down, and where even the NCAA Enforcement Committee came to tears talking about how bad IU had already suffered and how it would serve no purpose to penalize them more since they have screwed themselves so badly with their own choice of flunkie, druggie, and self-centered recruits -- up 'til now, the NCAA hadn't gone hard after a single BCS school in many years!!

But, therein lies the precedent - I think they won't go hard after all these big boys...they will act like they are but in reality the penalties will all be things like vacating a few wins, or turning in a few $$ - and maybe even hitting the football program with the loss of a scholarship or two out of about 90 they use each year.

And where some say it signals a change where the NCAA is now willing to go after the big boys - I disagree STRONGLY!!!! These are all classic examples of where the NCAA did everything in its power NOT to go after these schools -- there were years of ignoring those blatant violations, years of waiting, years or stalling...and only when a few reporters from Yahoo or ESPN dug up the facts and a couple lawsuits and FBI investigations started, then the NCAA was literally embarrassed into having to check this all out...

Even so it's been 4-5 years on the USC-Reggie Bush case, 2-3 on the OJ Mayo case, the UConn cheating goes back four years and all the facts have been known for 2 years, and the Kansas scandal goes back to 2002 with some of the facts made known as far back as 2006 but totally ignored by everyone!!
BTW the UConn case includes a couple of assistant coaches who intentionally lied and falsified info to the NCAA during the investigation -- so they should get the death penalty!!
http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2010/05/30/sports/doc4c0334e887c73628845170.txt

Nope, the NCAA is still flat out biased, they would let these big boys slide had it not been for the pressure from a few media folks and the bloggers.


PS - new allegations that in the Kentucky-Eric Bledsoe case, Bledsoe's high school coach, Maurice Ford, was shopping Bledsoe around "demanding money from college coaches in exchange for signing Bledsoe"...