A few BU news items and more...

Some new items .. now that the regular season is over...


Taylor Brown's injury - to a ligament in his foot - is reportedly severe enough that to risk playing again this season would be unwise, so Taylor Brown is not going to play any more for Bradley and his season is over.

He completes his Bradley career with 903 points in 91 games...
He averaged 14.8 ppg this year and 6.4 rebounds.
It is really unfortunate that we never got to see how well Taylor could have done with a full four years HEALTHY at Bradley....he may have been one of Bradley's best players ever.
Hopefully he will have a fine professional career....watch for TB to attend a few professional events and workouts and shoot for a chance at the NBA.



Jim Molinari has his WIU Leathernecks doing well - and locked in as the #4 seed in their tourney - sitting in 4th place in the Summit. They were picked by everyone to be last or next to last - so Mo has done a great job with his team even though he's been shorthanded with injuries and player departures every year since he's been at WIU.
It'll be fun to see how next year goes, they will get previous Bradley recruit Michael Ochereobia, and Billy Molinari will be back.



UC-Davis WON again last night - they are, right now, the hottest team in the Big West!! (4 of the last 6!)
They knocked off one of the Big West leaders - CS-Fullerton 78-75!!
Once again Tyler Les played well - 14 points - hitting four more 3 pointers - making it 76 made 3-pt FG this season, Tyler's sophomore campaign, and they drew 2404 - one of their largest attendances at home in memory!!
NOBODY in the MVC - not even Colt Ryan (68) has made anywhere near as many as Tyler has made this year.
UC-D also moves past CS-Northridge in the standings - and nobody - not even a week ago would have expected UC-Davis to finish anywhere but last place - they are now hoping to finish strong & make some noise in the tourney!
Their RPI should move up quite a bit as well and they are now well above the bottom of the RPI standings...



Northern Iowa has had serious budget issues the last few years...they've cut programs, dropped baseball, and now they have even more issues.
$500,000 will be cut from the athletics budget - surely this'll make Ben Jacobson a bit perturbed...
http://www.indystar.com/article/D2/20120224/NEWS02/302240020/UNI-cut-athletics-budget-close-museum-plan-save-1-million?odyssey=nav%7Chead



Interesting happenings at University of Illinois...
lots of people want the University President out!!
Seems a whole lot of faculty think the Prez is doing a pretty crappy job...
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/education/2012-02-24/faculty-trustees-ask-hogan-resign.html



Any more remarks by anyone that Bradley's talent gap is wider than the Grand Canyon?
I think BU proved they DO have the talent and they did it against UNI, against Indiana State, even against Creighton and a few other opponents.
Yesterday, it was not the talent that was the difference - but there were a few factors...like a single missed free throw, then the LACK of a time out that forced Bradley to get less than desirable shots on the final couple possessions, and forced Bradley to make a play after Ekey's missed free throw - without a timeout to set it up. It sure is tough when the game comes right down to the end and you don't have a time out because they were all used up earlier.

Then one has to wonder what is going on that we have such clock issues at the end of games....
Keep in mind that when that clock started early it forced our guys to make a play in LESS time than SHOULD have been on the clock,
The proper call would have been to replay the entire final 4.2 seconds....not just add 0.4.
In fact, even Jank compared the restart to the Olympic game - but that comparison is invalid because in that game the entire final segment was replayed not just adding a useless 0.4 seconds.
All the fans and even the coaches ask is that the guys paid to do their job at the scorers table get the job done. Please...



Ex-BU recruit Paris Gulley had a great game yesterday - 19 pts, 6 rebs in a win over Loyola.



Anyone think this site must be a little outdated???
Look who they list as President of Eastern Kentucky University...
http://www.onveon.com/college/profile/eastern-kentucky-university-40475.htm



PS _ Chicago State gets beat by a D-II - http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201202250112



If Chris Lowery is gone at SIU - could BU land Bobo Drummond???



Finally - Go Bradley win Thursday and keep going - we're behind you, Braves!!!!