vs. BYU 11/28/18

[Phantom]

We haven't had too many big non-con, regular season home wins mainly because we can't get many name opponents to play us here.

A few wins off the top of my head:

Dayton (they were a T25 team at the time)
St. John's
Cincinnati
PITT - Didnt we beat them at home in '96 or '97?
DePaul (used to be a pretty regular series)

We had some other good opponents at RA over the years but lost:

Wisconsin
Purdue (twice)
UNLV
VCU

 

[Brick]

I don’t remember Wisconsin ever coming to Redbird. Know we played them a couple times in Madison and won once. But then I am old!

 

[ricohill]

I don’t remember Wisconsin ever coming to Redbird. Know we played them a couple times in Madison and won once. But then I am old!

Played at Wisconsin the second game on 98 and at ISU during the 99 season.

 

[Brick]

I don’t remember Wisconsin ever coming to Redbird. Know we played them a couple times in Madison and won once. But then I am old!

Played at Wisconsin the second game on 98 and at ISU during the 99 season.

Ok. Just remember going to Madison and beating them up there. Thx

 

[SgtHulka]

I don’t remember Wisconsin ever coming to Redbird. Know we played them a couple times in Madison and won once. But then I am old!

Played at Wisconsin the second game on 98 and at ISU during the 99 season.

Ok. Just remember going to Madison and beating them up there. Thx

Beat them in the NIT in the old barn in 97/8 and then started a home and home up there the following year. Lost both of those games

 

[Phantom]

Played at Wisconsin the second game on 98 and at ISU during the 99 season.

Ok. Just remember going to Madison and beating them up there. Thx

Beat them in the NIT in the old barn in 97/8 and then started a home and home up there the following year. Lost both of those games

And then Purdue was about the opposite if I recall correctly. Had a H&H with them in '99/'00 and then played them in the NIT in '01. We also hosted Purdue in 1990. They won all 4.

 

[Baltimore Bird]

Do you think BYU was saying "it sure was good we played ISU without Bruninga. He killed us last year."

That is what is see on many posts about Boise, BYU and their loss of players. We have the same problems.

Cherish the W!

 

[Bird Friend]

BYU gave up 92 points, need to fire their coach. Horrible!!!

Actually, their coach is on the hot seat. He had a successful first five seasons but by BYU standards the last five season haven't been great (even though they've made at least the NIT every season). He's gone after this season unless they turn this season around.

I wish our LOW standard was the NIT every season with an NCAA every five seasons like BYU. At BYU that gets you fired.

Actually their coach just got an extension and is one of the best coaches if not the best BYU has ever had. Don’t just make crap up

The Twitterverse was not happy with last nite's coaching by BYU . . . FWIW

 

[Bird Friend]

In all fairness to both sides . . . there's hot seat from the admin's perspective and hot seat from the fans' perspective. Based on what I saw on Twitter, fans are not happy with their performance thus far this season. Their fans thought the Houston game and ISU game were both gimmes. Losing both was not on their radar.

 

[cubird]

Hard to believe a visiting team shoots 36 free throws and loses the game.

 

[Hamdonger]

Hard to believe a visiting team shoots 36 free throws and loses the game.

Pretty good indicator that we did some good things offensively.

 

[MadBird]

Played at Wisconsin the second game on 98 and at ISU during the 99 season.

Ok. Just remember going to Madison and beating them up there. Thx

Beat them in the NIT in the old barn in 97/8 and then started a home and home up there the following year. Lost both of those games

This is what I remember, was at both. Dick Bennett was the coach at UW then, I believe that's why they went on the road to play us, he had been at UW-Green Bay and "respected" the ISU's of the world.

 

[CB2K]

Hard to believe a visiting team shoots 36 free throws and loses the game.

It also doesn't help that they missed 22 three pointers. They can pass the ball very well and their screen dribble-drive penetration is effective especially when they involve their big men. The ISU zone shut it down and like others have commented I would have thought that would have been the game plan from the beginning especially after seeing it first hand last year.

I am not sure why BYU continued to chuck up the long ball because their season 3FG% is around 28% while ISUs is 38%.

 

[Redbird Alum 2004]

Fwiw Belmont and Samford was a very exciting game tonight. Belmont wins in ot 99-93

 

[Tpguy]

Hard to believe a visiting team shoots 36 free throws and loses the game.

They can't blame the loss on the refs :lol:

 

[bb fan]

That's for sure, TP. I re watched the second half. It seems there were some consistancy issues on the part of the stripes. Sure looked like they let #30 blue get away with a lot. He would just drive right into our defender and duck and push his head into the defender and feign a foul and get to the line nearly every time. He got this call 3 teams, right after MY and Phil were pushed heavily on a shot with no call. And maybe, some crews won't call that contact, but in the next possesion to favor #30 was very curious.

But the one call that was most curious to me was a moving Screen Evans. The contact happened right in front of the center official, who was literally standing 3 feet from the contact. But the call was made by the trail, at least 40 feet away, with 4 or 5 players blocking his view of the contact. He made the clearly, way out of his area, with plenty of action right around him. He was clearly watching the wrong area. And it was not even an illegal screen. Evans was not screenng and both players ran into each other. Incidental contact.

 

[SgtHulka]

Beat them in the NIT in the old barn in 97/8 and then started a home and home up there the following year. Lost both of those games

This is what I remember, was at both. Dick Bennett was the coach at UW then, I believe that's why they went on the road to play us, he had been at UW-Green Bay and "respected" the ISU's of the world.

Was at them too. Rode one of several busses for the NIt game and stood.in the death trap end zone rafters. Wife and I went to the regular season game the next year. Might have been the barns last year. You're right about Dick

 

[RedbirdSoxFan]

Beat them in the NIT in the old barn in 97/8 and then started a home and home up there the following year. Lost both of those games

This is what I remember, was at both. Dick Bennett was the coach at UW then, I believe that's why they went on the road to play us, he had been at UW-Green Bay and "respected" the ISU's of the world.

Was at them too. Rode one of several busses for the NIt game and stood.in the death trap end zone rafters. Wife and I went to the regular season game the next year. Might have been the barns last year. You're right about Dick

If my old brain remembers correctly we took 9 busses including band and cheerleaders. What a fun & exciting game.

 

[birdlife]

That's for sure, TP. I re watched the second half. It seems there were some consistancy issues on the part of the stripes. Sure looked like they let #30 blue get away with a lot. He would just drive right into our defender and duck and push his head into the defender and feign a foul and get to the line nearly every time. He got this call 3 teams, right after MY and Phil were pushed heavily on a shot with no call. And maybe, some crews won't call that contact, but in the next possesion to favor #30 was very curious.

But the one call that was most curious to me was a moving Screen Evans. The contact happened right in front of the center official, who was literally standing 3 feet from the contact. But the call was made by the trail, at least 40 feet away, with 4 or 5 players blocking his view of the contact. He made the clearly, way out of his area, with plenty of action right around him. He was clearly watching the wrong area. And it was not even an illegal screen. Evans was not screenng and both players ran into each other. Incidental contact.

i noticed the same things.
i counted a few occasions where the ref with the action right in front of him made no call, and a trail ref blew his whistle from 40 ft away.
i dont like to complain about the stripes either, but i think anyone who watched that game would have the same take away's. very very happy that we came away with the W.
an L would have been much more difficult to stomach.

 

[ricohill]

This is what I remember, was at both. Dick Bennett was the coach at UW then, I believe that's why they went on the road to play us, he had been at UW-Green Bay and "respected" the ISU's of the world.

Was at them too. Rode one of several busses for the NIt game and stood.in the death trap end zone rafters. Wife and I went to the regular season game the next year. Might have been the barns last year. You're right about Dick

If my old brain remembers correctly we took 9 busses including band and cheerleaders. What a fun & exciting game.

No question that will go down as my of my favorite ISU memories.

I still get chills thinking about how loud it was when ISU came out of the tunnel before the game. Also, remember spending most of the game fighting off running water that was leaking out of the bleachers.

All the young kids will not appreciate how different the times were. We watched a VHS tape of the ISU-Bradley game on our bus going to the game (everyone was liquored and fired up by the time we reached Madison). I used a payphone to call back to Bloomington to let everyone know I made it and had someone record the WJBC broadcast on a cassette tape (listened to that until about 4 in the morning when I got back. Bob Morris complaining about some cheesehead kicking him is classic audio).

Good times. Need to get back to that level of excitement!!