BRADLEY BRAVES MEN’S BASKETBALL January 7, 2006 2006-07 Record: 11-6 Overall; 2-3 MVC Contact: Bobby Parker (309-677-2624) 2006-07 BRADLEY SCHEDULE BACK TO A TRADITIONAL SCHEDULE BRADLEY-SIU SERIES PRESEASON EXHIBITIONS • After playing its first five Missouri Valley Conference • Wednesday’s game will be the 69th meeting in the Date Opponent W/L Score games in a span of just 11 days, Bradley’s schedule will all-time series between Bradley and Southern Illinois, O 27 Red-White (RFH) Red 41-40 take on a more traditional feel with two games this week, which began with an Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic N 1 Winona State (RFH) W 90-77 Wednesday night at home versus Southern Illinois and Conference game Dec. 21, 1927, a game the Braves N 4 Northwest Missouri St. W 87-59 Saturday evening at Indiana State. won 31-23 at the old Peoria Armory. • Bradley had not played five Valley games in an 11- • The teams did not meet again until Southern Illinois REGULAR-SEASON day period since January 11-21, 1995. joined the Missouri Valley Conference for the 1975-76 Date Opponent W/L Score season. N 11 DePaul (WEEK) W 78-58 TOUGH SCHEDULE • Bradley owns a 22-9 home record against the • Through Saturday’s action, Bradley ranked eighth N 15 SIU-Edwardsville W 74-68 Salukis, including a 17-7 advantage at Carver Arena. nationally in strength of schedule, according to numbers Chicago Invitational Challenge1 • Fifth-year Bradley head coach Jim Les owns a 2-7 posted at www.collegerpi.com. N 19 Illinois-Chicago W 81-72 record against Southern Illinois, including a 1-4 mark • Bradley’s strength of schedule is the best in The Valley, N 21 Florida A&M W 107-75 against third-year Salukis head coach Chris Lowery. followed closely by Wednesday’s opponent Southern Illinois N 24 vs. Rutgers W 101-72 (13). BRADLEY-INDIANA STATE SERIES N 25 vs. Illinois (WCIA) L 71-75 • Bradley’s strength of schedule should continue to climb • Saturday’s game at Indiana State will be the 66th in N 29 at Tennessee Tech (WCTE) L 84-86 as the Braves’ next four games are at home against the all-time series between the two Missouri Valley D 3 at Michigan State (ESPN+) L 53-82 Southern Illinois (12-3), followed by road games at Indiana Conference rivals, which dates back to am 86-63 D 5 Wright State W 88-49 State (10-4) and Creighton (9-5) and a home game against Bradley win Dec. 28, 1968 at Robertson Fieldhouse. Mediacom Cyclone Capital Classic (Des Moines) Wichita State (10-4). D 16 vs. Iowa State (ESPN2) W 76-66 • Bradley has dropped two straight versus the D 19 Loyola-Chicago W 82-73 FIRST WIN WITHOUT CROUCH Sycamores at the Hulman Center, but the Braves are 15- 15 all-time on the road versus Indiana State. D 23 Southern Miss W 83-73 • Bradley earned its first win in three tries without injured D 27 *at UNI (ESPN2) L 65-76 scoring leader Jeremy Crouch by outscoring Drake, 89-86, • Fifth-year Bradley head coach Jim Les owns a 6-3 D 30 *Evansville W 85-78 Saturday night in Des Moines. record against Indiana State and Sycamores head coach J 2 *Missouri St. (Mediacom) L 78-86 • Bradley picked up its first true road win of the season Royce Waltman. J 4 *at Wichita State (KS22) L 63-84 by hitting for the most points on an opponent’s home floor J 6 *at Drake (WTVP) W 89-86 since a 107-92 loss Nov. 18, 2000 at #23 Southern DISADVANTAGE ON THE BOARDS California. • The most glaring disadvantage of Bradley’s four-guard Date Opponent Time • Bradley had not scored as many as 89 points in a attack has been the team’s inability to consistently keep the J 10 *S. Illinois (WSIU/WTVP) 7:05 pm road win since a 113-102 victory Feb. 29, 1988 at opposition off the boards. Southern Illinois. J 13 *at Indiana State (WEEK) 6:05 pm • Bradley is being outrebounded by 6.5 boards per game and has been outrebounded in eight straight. J 18 *at Creighton (NETV) 7:05 pm 3-POINT ASSAULT CONTINUES J 20 *Wichita State (WTVP) 7:05 pm • Even without Crouch in the lineup, Bradley has J 24 *Illinois State (WEEK) 7:35 pm MANAGING THE DEFICIT continued its assault on the Bradley and Valley records J 27 *at Missouri State 7:05 pm • Bradley has shown this season that it does not have to for 3-point field goals in a season. J 31 *Creighton (FSN/Comcast) 7:35 pm win the battle of the boards to succeed, however, but the • Still well ahead of the pace to break Creighton’s F 3 *at Illinois State (WMBD) 7:05 pm Braves must remain in the fight. 2005 Valley record for 3-pointers in a season (293), F 7 *at S. Illinois (FSN/Comcast) 7:35 pm • Including Saturday’s 89-86 win at Drake when the Bradley’s current total of 189 3-pointers through just 17 F 10 *Drake (WEEK) 2:05 pm Braves were outrebounded by just two caroms, Bradley is games already is the fourth-most in school history. F 14 *at Evansville 7:05 pm 10-1 when the final rebound totals are within six, but 1-5 • The Braves, who are fourth nationally by averaging F 17 at ESPN BracketBusters TBA when the Braves are outrebounded by more than six 11.1 treys per game, need just seven more to move into F 20 *UNI 7:05 pm boards. second place on the school single-season list. F 24 *Indiana St. (MVC Wildcard) 7:05 pm BRADLEY 3-POINTERS IN A S EASON State Farm MVC Tournament3 Rk. 3FGM Season M 1 Session I -- First Round 6:05 pm 1. 224 1987-88 M 2 Session II -- Quarters (FSN/Comcast) 12:05 pm 2. 195 2002-03 Session III -- Quarters (FSN/Comcast) 6:05 pm 3. 192 2003-04 M 3 Session IV -- Semis (FSN/Comcast) 1:35 pm 4. 189 2006-07 M 4 Session V -- Championship (CBS) 1:05 pm 2006-07 MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE STANDINGS All times CST and subject to change Thru Jan. 6 MVC Overall Home games in Bold and played at the Peoria Civic School (RPI) W L Pct. W L Pct. Home Away Neutral Center Carver Arena unless otherwise noted UNI (24) 4 0 1.000 13 2 .867 8-0 3-2 2-0 Indiana State (45) 3 1 .750 10 4 .714 8-0 2-4 0-0 RFH Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse Creighton (41) 3 1 .750 9 5 .643 6-0 1-5 2-0 1 Final two games played at the Sears Centre in Southern Illinois (8) 3 1 .750 12 3 .800 5-0 5-2 2-1 Hoffman Estates, Ill. Missouri State (22) 2 1 .667 11 3 .786 7-0 3-2 1-1 2 Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa Bradley (36) 2 3 .400 11 6 .647 8-1 1-4 2-1 * Missouri Valley Conference games Evansville (110) 2 3 .400 9 7 .563 7-2 2-5 0-0 3 Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. Wichita State (43) 1 2 .333 10 4 .714 6-1 4-1 0-2 Drake (108) 0 4 .000 9 6 .600 5-2 1-2 3-2 Illinois State (129) 0 4 .000 8 7 .533 5-2 2-4 1-1 Cumulative Non-Conference Record 82 27 .752 65-8 24-31 13-8 BRADLEY BRAVES MEN’S BASKETBALL January 7, 2006 2006-07 Record: 11-6 Overall; 2-3 MVC Contact: Bobby Parker (309-677-2624) 2006-07 BRADLEY STATISTICS Bradley Braves Season Box Score (as of Jan 07, 2007) All games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES........... (11-6) (8-1) (1-4) (2-1) CONFERENCE.......... (2-3) (1-1) (1-2) (0-0) NON-CONFERENCE...... (9-3) (7-0) (0-2) (2-1) |---TOTAL---| |---3-PTS---| |----REBOUNDS----| ## Player GP-GS Min--Avg FG-FGA Pct 3FG-FGA Pct FT-FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO A TO Blk Stl Pts Avg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 Crouch, Jeremy..... 14-14 434 31.0 70-154 .455 47-95 .495 42-45 .933 4 32 36 2.6 26 0 38 23 1 26 229 16.4 04 Franklin, Will..... 17-16 566 33.3 89-193 .461 48-101 .475 34-45 .756 19 35 54 3.2 27 1 74 35 0 31 260 15.3 20 Ruffin, Daniel..... 14-14 436 31.1 66-157 .420 31-73 .425 33-42 .786 6 16 22 1.6 35 0 74 35 3 28 196 14.0 21 Andrews, Zach...... 17-17 390 22.9 73-121 .603 0-0 .000 34-66 .515 39 89 128 7.5 67 6 11 39 17 11 180 10.6 22 Salley, Matt....... 17-3 360 21.2 55-108 .509 4-9 .444 29-51 .569 28 53 81 4.8 45 2 11 18 6 13 143 8.4 10 Tauai, J.J......... 17-17 471 27.7 43-93 .462 12-31 .387 23-31 .742 19 40 59 3.5 46 1 38 25 8 17 121 7.1 32 Adams, Danny....... 17-4 323 19.0 34-81 .420 31-71 .437 6-15 .400 10 19 29 1.7 35 1 10 8 2 12 105 6.2 24 Warren, Andrew....