In the movies, the final game of the regular season always pits two teams that are deadlocked in the standings against one another, as if the schedule makers knew before the season how it would end up. This season has been everything but a movie…
Posts published in March 2010
After a loss to the Missouri Valley Conference leader, Illinois State, the Braves traveled to Indiana State to take on the team they beat in the previous month, but got off to a slow start. The Braves started 1-10 shooting in the game which…
The Bradley softball team gained valuable experience and played against one of the best teams in the country at the Troy Cox Classic in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Braves began the tournament with a dominating 8-0 win over Cleveland State. In the third…
Bradley women’s head basketball coach Paula Buscher has high ambitions for the basketball program. “Our goal is for this program to be on top,” Buscher said. “We want to be the best.” For the first time in school history, the women’s basketball team made the…
The baseball team traveled to Florida to play in the Russmat Baseball 2010 Central Florida Invitational last week. The Braves dropped three of their five games in the event by a total of just four runs. In the first game of the invitational, Bradley faced…
In the first round of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, Bradley fell to the No. 5 seeded University of Northern Iowa by a final score of 70-50. The teams met twice in the regular season with the home team winning each matchup, making this one…
The Braves ended up on both ends of the Missouri Valley Conference’s mercy rule when facing off against Evansville at Laura Bradley Park this past weekend. The mercy rule for NCAA softball is put into effect if one team is ahead by at least eight…
Amazing is a word I hate using to describe anything on a professional level. The word has lost its luster over time due to excessive use, myself included in that transgression. But in the case of the magnificent sporting events that define a sports fan’s…
No Northern Iowa, Cornell, Washington and St. Mary’s have captivated the basketball masses for one thrilling ride so far in this NCAA tournament, but there is a reason they came into this tournament as underdogs from day one. The other 12 teams at the…
One of the most used-lecture halls on campus may see a face lift. Student Senate unanimously passed two resolutions, both calling for renovations to be made to Neumiller Lecture Hall. “There are definitely some things within Neumiller Hall that need to be updated,” said Student…