CBI Finals Game 1: Wrap City
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Tulsa holds homecourt to take a 1-0 series lead in front of 7300 home fans!
All back to Bradley for game 2! “Yes, I’d like to book 24 tickets from Tulsa to Peoria. No, Illinois. Yeah. And I need them tomorrow.”
Tulsa 73 - Bradley 68
Jerome Jordan and Ben Uzoh scored 18 apiece to lead the Golden Hurricane over the Braves. Entering the second half tied, Tulsa showed they could indeed match Bradley’s scoring in a fast paced interval that featured almost 90 points between the two teams. Tulsa built up a double digit lead with under five minutes to go, but Bradley was able to cut it to 2 within the last 90 seconds. The Hurricane made their free throws down the stretch, and Bradley missed a handful of three point attempts for the final margin.
But can you get there from here?
I got to thinking about the logistics of taking a basketball team from Tulsa, OK to Peoria, IL. Maybe this is coastal arrogance, but these two cities don’t seem like they would foster a lot inter-municipality back and forth. A quick search on kayak.com shows that you can fly from Tulsa to Peoria on Northwest Airlines. They’ll get you there in just under five hours with a stopover in Minneapolis. Or you could take American Airlines through Chicago, but the flight from Chicago to Peoria is operated by a regional carrier called “American Eagle”, which I thought was a clothing company.
According to google maps, the teams could cover the 562 miles between the cities in 8.5 hours. I suppose they’ll probably take the bus then? I honestly don’t know enough about how mid major teams get from a to b.
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April 1st, 2008 at 8:01 am
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April 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am
To redirect back to UW hoops, the linked website could spell some trouble ahead on the recruiting road for us. Cameron Dollar is undoubtedly a huge part of our ability to garner top players, and if he leaves, our numbers could dwindle.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
If Dollar is that good, chances are he would have had a head coaching gig by now. The Huskies’ miserable free throw shooting percenrtage (second to last in Division 1) is indicative of a serious deficiency on our coaching staff, not unlike what we saw with the football team last fall. Look for more of the same next year (including a return trip to the CBI) unless Romar upgrades his coaching staff.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I believe we actually finished dead last.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Free throw shooting is on the players, not the coaches. Everyone of these players shot FT’s at a higher percentage in High School. They let themselves get mentally defeated by the FT bug and psyched themselves out. Coaching had nothing to do with it. I think the coaches did the right thing by downplaying it’s importance publicly (while still practicing it a lot).
Ultimately, either you’re going to make a shot to win a game, or you’re not. This year’s brand of UW bball featured players who were not going to make that shot. Either in the course of the game, or at the charity stripe.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
When the free throw shooting technique is bad, it’s on the coaches, and practicing shooting with bad technique is worse than not practicing at all. It may be that they all shot better in high school because they were getting better coaching on this aspect of their game.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 am
Free-throw shooting, like basic rifle marksmanship, or clutch time one-cup beer pongery, can be coached. Maybe it was something Bone handled as an assistant. Obviously Romar has chosen to emphasize other areas; I think that in his carefree attitude toward this problem he has publicly admitted as much. What does everyone think of Downtown Freddy Brown’s April Fools joke? I think it’s hilarious. A giant fossilzed trilobite on pier 46, complete with retractable roof? Where would the chinese overseas shipping company unload their cheap factory goods? Clearly Seattle needs an NHL franchise to go along with the MLS expansion team. This is like a seattletimes sponsored submit your best crayon-on-napkin sketched pipedream gone silly. Preposterous.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Aaron
On guard, you rascal!
May 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Could not agee with you more..