Southern Illinois University
Bradley
Game Notes: Men's Basketball at Bradley
02/05/2021 | 6:00:00 | Men's Basketball
The SIU men's basketball team travels to Bradley on Saturday and Sunday for back-to-back games against the two-time defending Arch Madness champion Braves. Both games tip off at 3 p.m. Saturday's game will be televised on the MVC TV Network, and Sunday's game will stream nationally on ESPN3.Â
SIU (8-6, 2-6 MVC) at Bradley (9-10, 3-7 MVC)
Game 1 Date & Time » 3 p.m. CT on Saturday, February 6Â
Game 2 Date & Time » 3 p.m. CT on Sunday, February 7
Game 1 TV » MVC TV Network* with Dan McLaughlin and David Kaplan
Game 2 TV » ESPN3 with Tom Ackerman and Rich Zvosec
Listen » Saluki Sports Network with Mike Reis and Rodney Watson
Live Stats » Sidearm Stats
Social Media » @SIU_Basketball
Game Notes » SIU (PDF)
MVC TV Network* =Â Fox Sports Midwest, NBC Sports Chicago, Fox Sports Kansas City, Fox Sports Indiana, Fox Sports Go, and ESPN3 (subject to blackout in MVC's four-state footprint of MO, IL, IA, and IN)
* Due to St. Louis Blues hockey, Saturday's game will clear FOX Sports Midwest Plus and FOX Sports Kansas City Plus in the Blues footprint. That footprint includes Missouri (St. Louis, Columbia-Jefferson City and Springfield), Illinois (Peoria, Bloomington-Normal and Carbondale), Iowa (Des Moines-Waterloo-Cedar Falls) and the Kansas City market. The production can also be seen on AT&T U-verse 1747, DirecTV 671-1, AT&T TV, AT&T TV Now and various cable outlets in Illinois (Cass 197, New Wave 2 or 208 and Xfinity 520). The game will also be available through the FOX Sports app and FOXSportsGo.com.
OPENING TIP
- In the SIU-Bradley series, four of the last five games have been decided by five points or fewer.
- Starting with the Bradley series, SIU plays five games in the next nine days, eight games in the next 17 days, and the final 10 games of the regular season in 22 days.
- SIU had a 21-day COVID layoff in January, during which the Salukis only had one full-team practice (the day before they returned to the court at Indiana State on Jan. 25). The Salukis have also been without star sophomore forward Marcus Domask (2020 MVC Newcomer of the Year), who missed the last four games with a left foot injury. Domask is being reevaluated this week.
- SIU hit 15 3-pointers in Sunday's win over Northern Iowa, tied for third-most in program history and most since 1998. Lance Jones (27 points) hit seven of those triples, which was the most for any SIU player since Kent Williams in the 2000-01 season.
- Among MVC freshmen, Dalton Banks ranks second in assists (2.1 per game), third in steals (1.0), and fourth in scoring (6.8). Kyler Filewich ranks seventh in scoring (6.1) and second in rebounding (4.7).Â
- Filewich is one of only four MVC freshmen to rank in the top-10 among MVC freshmen in all five major statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks): Filewich (SIU), Nate Heise (UNI), Howard Fleming (Illinois State), and Sheldon Edwards (Valpo).
- Eighty-nine percent of SIU's scoring this season is coming from freshmen and sophomores, which is the second-highest percentage of underclassmen scoring in the nation. (Alabama A&M, 96%)
- Lance Jones leads the MVC in steals per game (1.6/g). The last SIU player to lead the MVC in steals per game was now-head coach Bryan Mullins in 2008.
- The team's radio broadcasters: Mike Reis for SIU and Dave Snell for Bradley, are each in their 42nd year calling games for their schools. They are tied for the eighth-longest tenured radio play-by-play men in the nation.
- New patch: SIU will wear RH patches on its jerseys for the remainder of the season, in memory of SIU and MVC Hall-of-Fame coach Rich Herrin, who died on Christmas night at the age of 87.
TRENDING
- Lance Jones (486) and Ben Harvey (471) are approaching 500 career points. (Harvey scored 326 of his career points as a freshman at EIU in 2018-19.)
- Steven Verplancken:
- First 10G: 3.5 ppg, 1.7 reb., 39% FG, 38% 3FG, team's 8th leading scorer
- Last 4G: 9.3 ppg, 3.5 reb., 42% FG, 43% 3FG, team's 3rd leading scorer
- Kyler Filewich:
- First 10G: 4.4 ppg, 4.0 reb., 56% FG, team's 7th-leading scorer
- Last 4G: 10.5 ppg, 6.5 reb., 69% FG, team's 2nd-leading scorer (MVC Newcomer of the Week, Jan. 26)
- Indiana State head coach Greg Lansing on Filewich: "He isn't the biggest, but he's a physical presence. He's smart. He's unselfish. You can't guard him one-on-one because he gets right to the front of the rim. He works his tail off defensively. He's perfect for what Bryan and that staff want him to do. I'm very impressed with him. Going into the game, you're worried about a (Marcus) Domask, who didn't end up playing, and a (Lance) Jones, but that guy (Filewich) is going to be right there on everybody's scouting report."
