GO Braves, Bradley's final home game of 2010-2011 - and MORE..

Saturday night, 7PM ...Bradley faces Drake -- Braves fans should turn out and cheer Dodie and Andrew for their special contributions.....

In some sense, the game is meaningless -- it won't change the seeding for the MVC Tournament -- thus Bradley could rest some players if needed and could try some different options out...
and they could just give Andrew and Dodie free reign to do what they want and fill it up....and I hope they do somewhat...
We will then have plenty of time off to be ready for Drake again next Thursday.
Drake is used to Thursdays, Bradley has NOT been as of late...

Anyway -- I'd love to see Andrew go for 40 and Dodie for 20...


Last night vs. UCLA, Arizona State's Corey Hawkins got one of his longest stints of playing time and logged 15 minutes, going 2-4 and scoring 5 pts, 1 reb, 1 asst, 2 steals.
Brandon Dunson barely played and was scoreless in 3 minutes.
Arizona State falls to 2-13 in the Pac-10 -- how long before the Arizona State fans start calling for Herb Sendek's head??
Remember -- he had a nationally ranked recruiting class two years in a row...and was picked by many to be good this year -- Top 40 -- and the preseason CHN rankings had them as better than every team in the Missouri Valley -- even better than Wichita State that some thought was Top 25!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=195949#post195949


TB tries sushi and does not like it...
http://plixi.com/p/79768487



Northwestern -- picked by many to be an NCAA team this year -- has basically even seen their NIT bubble burst with several recent losses...
last night was an embarrassing 66-52 loss to Penn State...
John Shurna, who has been struggling with ankle injuries, was only 2-10 with 10 points...
his scoring average which was once 23 ppg has fallen to 17 ppg (only 12.7 ppg in Big Ten play), and his 3-pt shooting which was at 65% has dropped to 48% (under 40% in Big Ten play).


Osiris Eldridge's Turkish just team went to Slovenia for international competition in their Eurocup Challenge and lost...


In an obscure game last nite between Tennessee State and Southeast Missouri State...a couple interesting notes...

SEMO has some good players, one guy having a great year is Leon Powell -- who was heavily recruited by BU but went the juco route...
Powell had 14 last night but has pretty consistently been putting up 16 pts, 8 rebs...
SEMO also has a couple other D-I transfers Marcus Brister, Zach House...so you 'd think they'd be better than a 9-20 team..

Anyway -- Tennessee State beat SEMO 57-52, and the other guy BU was looking at a couple years ago -- Robert Covington had 10 pts/6 rebs...


In league dominated by Butler the past several years, a guy named Norris Cole is on track to be Player of the Year -- winning his 5th Player of the week award..


Does anyone recall Ray Penn -- he zoomed from out of nowhere a couple summers ago, the same year Prosser was a senior -- and he did so well, scoring 40 points per game at big time AAU events, that he lands a ton of big time scholarship offers and got more press over such a short time than just about any recruit I have ever seen.
He ended up choosing Oklahoma State expecting to be their starting PG from day one...
http://oklahomastate.scout.com/2/794836.html

Well, just how did Ray Penn turn out at Oklahoma State...?
As a freshman -- he started and played a ton -- so much so it lead to a stress fracture that cost him the final 14 games of the season.
but he did pretty good, 8ppg, 3 apg...
but teams have learned his weaknesses and how to guard him and his production is steadily dropping...

Now he's kinda dropped off the charts lately -- averaging only 6 ppg, 2 apg, and now SUSPENDED, AND on the verge of being booted off the team
http://tahlequahdailypress.com/sports/x1709532364/OSU-suspends-Penn-indefinitely


He is basically the Oklahoma State equivalent of Eddren McCain...and just maybe he aimed too high!