Back in September, EA Sports announced that it would shutter its NCAA Football series after losing support from the college sports governing body and due to ongoing legal spats. As part of that news, the video game studio said that it had settled its...Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/28/ea-sports-ncaa-football-real-players/?ncid=rss_truncated
Almost ten years after hurricane Ivan destroyed Gulf State Park's hotel and convention center, the state senate will vote on a measure that could be the first step in rebuilding a facility.
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The Smart Rearview Mirror blends everything we know about traditional reflective glass mirrors with a video feed from the rear of the car into a form factor that's immediately recognizable to the average motorist. With a flick of a switch, drivers can jump back and forth between what they'd normally see through the rearview mirror and the camera's feed from the back of the car. The mirror itself features an integrated LCD display with a four-to-one aspect ratio.With a flick of a switch, drivers can jump back and forth between what they'd normally see through the rearview mirror and the camera's feed from the back of the car.
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Fact: Michael Jordan was never part of a three-game losing streak from November 1990 until he retired from the Bulls (for the second time) in 1998.
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Liverpool's summer recruitment drive is likely to centre around the restructuring of their defence, having added impressively and consistently to their attacking qualities since manager Brendan Rodgers arrived close to two years ago.
It is possible that Rodgers will look to bring in a number of players to feature across the back line over the summer, though the right-sided centre-back position appears to be the role that needs attention both for the coming season and those beyond, in finding the ideal partner for Mamadou Sakho over the longer term.
Matt Law of the Telegraph reports that Cardiff City centre-back Steven Caulker is high on Rodgers' wanted list, and a look at the former Tottenham defender indicates he could be an ideal signing.
Available Options?
Caulker joined Cardiff last summer for around £8 million after finding his first-team chances at Spurs limited. He has been a regular for the Welsh side this season, playing all 27 matches so far, but with his team struggling near the foot of the table there is a good chance this could be their only season back in the top flight.
Should Cardiff go down, as an England international hopeful and a player who has proved his ability at the highest level, the 22-year-old is not likely to want to spend time in the Championship.
English players, of course, command a higher transfer fee in the market—whether this is because of paucity of options or over-stated ability is up for debate—but the truth is, he's pretty much the best of the available targets if any clubs are looking to sign home-grown players.
He might cost the same or more as Cardiff invested in him a year ago, but Caulker arguably has the potential to prove more than worth the price.
Defensive Comparison
So how does he compare this season to other centre-backs, statistically speaking?
To viably compare Caulker's talents, a range of key defensive metrics can be measured against other centre-backs from the Premier League: Liverpool's two options in Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure, an English defender in Gary Cahill playing for honours at the top of the Premier League and a lower-end of the table defender who is regularly lauded as "good enough" for better clubs, Ryan Shawcross.
Steven Caulker: Has blocked more shots (38) than any other outfield player in the PL this season #CardiffCity #ENG
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) February 27, 2014 Pass completion statistics show an obvious trend: Those at the better clubs have a higher completion rate, doubtless as a result of making more recycling passes with their teams having more of the ball. Caulker and Shawcross complete 74 and 75 percent respectively, Toure 86, Cahill 87 and Skrtel 91 percent.
Tackles and clearances are measured on a per-90-minutes basis to normalise across different numbers of appearances, while aerial duels won are as a percentage.
The figures show that although Caulker does not reign supreme in any one area, he does score well throughout the preferred areas rather than being reliant on one area of his game.
One potential area of concern may be his headed duels win percentage; though he would fit in well at Anfield if he maintained his close-to-4.00 headers won per game, his actual win percentage is only 60 percent, lower than Skrtel's 67 percent and perhaps a good 10 percent lower than Liverpool need a new, dominant centre-back to be.
The only Premier League defender to win more aerial duels than Steven Caulker this season (104) is Hull's Curtis Davies (106).
— Squawka Football (@Squawka) February 27, 2014 However, Caulker has been extremely reliable in his all-round game for Cardiff and can count pace and upper-body strengths as facets of his game, both of which would benefit Liverpool's defence as a whole.
One final impressive statistic that favours Caulker: He has not made a single defensive error in league play this season.
Of the others, only title-chasing Gary Cahill can match that. Liverpool's pairing of Skrtel and Toure have made three each, while Shawcross has made an eye-watering five—leading to two goals against Stoke.
Do Liverpool go English?
It shouldn't matter, but it ultimately does; European squad quotas and the Premier League demand that clubs register a number of home-grown players. The likes of Andre Wisdom and Martin Kelly may boost Liverpool's tally next season, though it is possible that a departure for Glen Johnson could reduce it.
This will be far from the primary concern of Rodgers and the transfer committee, but if they think Caulker to have the ceiling to be a partner for Sakho for half a dozen or more years, it's a good bonus to have in place.
The final months of this season might tell watchers an awful lot more about Caulker's mentality, reliability under pressure and ability to stand firm against ceaseless attacks when it matters most, as he tries to help Cardiff beat the drop over the final 10 or 11 games.
.@Caulker4: "There's no excuses for us now. It's now or never. We've got some good chances at home to pick up points." #CARAVL
— Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) February 10, 2014 If he doesn't achieve that, it could be open season on Cardiff's best players, of which Caulker is certainly one.
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SYRACUSE, NY — The shot itself was great. Tyler Ennis letting go from 35 feet out with an undefeated season on the line without a hint of desperation and then cooly jogging back down the floor at Pittsburgh with his teammates giving chase.
It was, from a distance, one of those chaotic moments where the basketball gods decide to be kind. So significant that the next day Ennis got a phone call from vice president Joe Biden to tell the point guard that his shot was the topic of the VP's morning meeting.
"It was cool," Ennis says of the phone call, talking about the vice president's call just like it was from one of his buddies back home congratulating him.
No change in inflection. His eyes don't light up.
It was cool.
When you truly start to understand Ennis, the point guard, and Ennis, the kid, it wasn't by chance that he knocked down the shot of the college basketball season.
In a season that everyone predicted would be defined by the freshman, the focus has often turned from celebrating the young guys to picking apart their games. But Ennis has emerged as the one that everyone seems to appreciate because he looks nothing like a freshman.
He's done it without putting up gaudy stats. His 12.0 points, 5.6 assists and 2.1 steals per game are nice, but he's known more for making winning plays and making everyone around him better.
Neither is by accident.
***
The scene following preseason workouts at Syracuse was a familiar one around college basketball. Players would stay afterward to get in extra work. For most guys, this involves getting up as many shots as possible.
But off sitting to the side at Syracuse was the new starting point guard, tasked with taking over for Michael Carter-Williams, a lottery pick who led the Orange to the Final Four last year.
Ennis watched each of his teammates closely, studying their every move and taking mental notes that have helped him lead an offense that has been more efficient than the one led by Carter-Williams.
"You can really tell where guys hit shots from and how they catch the ball and what hand they like going to," Ennis says of his preseason routine.
This was a habit born out of necessity and a vision that he shared with his father.
Growing up in Canada where you had to search for great competition, Ennis would always play up in age group. He was always the youngest guy on his team and looking to fit in.
"It's not like they had a lot in common," says Ennis' father, Tony McIntrye, who also served as his coach. "I think he really went in to make guys better as a form of acceptance. I know I could go in here and score, but I really get enjoyment out of seeing you guys score, you guys excel and everybody putting up numbers."
Even though he was often the youngest (and smallest) guy on the court, his dad would get on him for almost every turnover.
"That was a lazy pass," McIntrye would tell his son.
"No, it wouldn't have been a 'lazy pass' if he just would have stepped toward the ball," Ennis would bark back.
Ennis figured out two things really quickly. First, if you know your teammates better than they know themselves, you can avoid a lot of turnovers.
"The guys definitely have to do their part of catching it, but you've really got to get the guys the ball at the right time," Ennis said. "And if guys aren't comfortable in their spots, the turnovers are going to come. They know where they like the ball and I just have to get it to them there."
The other lesson was to surround yourself with talent. Talent, Ennis learned, can make a point guard look good.
Ennis wanted to play at Syracuse from the time he was 10. He played in an AAU tournament that year at the Carrier Dome and on the way home, he told his dad he wanted to play for the Orange.
"OK, let's make that happen," his dad told him.
McIntrye had already started setting his sons up for the chance to play in the States by starting an AAU program in Canada, CIA Bounce.
Ennis was surrounded with other Division I talent. The last few years he played with Kansas star Andrew Wiggins and Florida State's Xavier Rathan-Mayes, who was also a top-30 recruit.
Not only did he dream of playing for Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, he knew the coach would surround him with great players.
All those things combined—his knowledge of his teammates and trusting their abilities—has helped Ennis avoid what is typically an inevitable blemish on every point guard's stat line: turnovers.
The freshman's assist-to-turnover ratio (3.58) ranks ninth in the country. Over 28 games this season, Ennis has had more than two turnovers only three times. To understand the significance of such a feat, check out how that compares with some of the elite point guards in college basketball.
"He's a very smart point guard," Boeheim says. "He's always been a point guard and I think that's helped him. He sees the game and makes good decisions."
And he plays at his speed.
***
Ennis has always been so calm and so close to emotionless that his dad wondered if he even liked basketball when he was a kid.
Ennis says that not once this season has he ever felt nervous.
Undefeated season on the line and you have the ball against Pitt on the road, your heart had to be racing, right?
"Nah," he says.
Instead of concentrating on the enormity of the moment, Ennis was calculating his options.
As Ennis got the ball in the backcourt with 4.4 seconds left and started dribbling up the court, he said his first look was to Fair, but the senior was closely guarded. Straight ahead he had Trevor Cooney, but Pitt's Cameron Wright was in the way.
"He has an innate ability to play the game at a speed that is unusual for such a young kid," says Roy Rana, who coached Ennis on the Canadian junior teams the last two summers. "He plays the game like a 27-year-old veteran. Guys have a tendency when they get older for the game to slow down and for them to be able to see things they wouldn't have seen when they were younger because of the pace they played at.
"Maybe they weren't able to have that vision. He has that now. He just sees things develop and he makes great choices. You can't speed him up. You can't slow him down. He's going to play at his pace for 40 minutes. I think that's an incredible and special gift he has."
It has been incredibly valuable to Syracuse. In the biggest moments of the season, Ennis has cooly quarterbacked them to victory.
When the game is chaotic for others, it slows down for Ennis.
In overtime in the first meeting against Duke, Ennis noticed a major mismatch for Jerami Grant. Grant, 6'8", had three inches on his defender Andre Dawkins, who is used to playing on the perimeter, and Ennis fed Grant for three straight buckets in the paint.
On Saturday at Duke in a game in which he had struggled, Ennis had the confidence to throw a left-handed, wrap-around bounce pass to Rakeem Christmas for a dunk that pulled Syracuse within one point. He also delivered the pass to Fair that in an alternate universe—one where Tony Greene calls a block and Boeheim reacts gleefully on the sideline—could have been the game-winning play.
The Orange offense is built around Ennis' ability to decide what is the best shot on every possession, and he's always unpredictable.
In ball-screen situations, for instance, it's almost impossible for the defense to predict what he's going to do. Sometimes he attacks. Sometimes he lets the defense rotate and picks it apart with his passing.
In the win over Pitt, Christmas set a screen out high for Ennis, and Grant's defender switched on to Christmas. When Christmas wisely sealed that defender on his back, Ennis looked to his right at Grant on the wing, which froze the defense, and he threw a no-look pass 25 feet to Christmas. The pass was on the money and led the big man right into a dunk.
Watch Ennis and Fair operate together and it's like watching Peyton Manning and Wes Welker making reads from the slot based on the defense.
Fair likes the ball in the mid-range, and many of his shots are determined by where and how Ennis passes him the ball.
"It's tough for them to read the defense when they've got their back to it, so I've got to show them where the defense is at," Ennis says. "And (Fair) reads as well. If he curls, I've got to see that and if he fades, I've got to see that."
Much like a quarterback in the pocket, Ennis also has to feel out where he needs to have the ball when it's time to deliver or time for him to attack.
As he moves around, ball security is important, and his ability to protect the rock is a coach's dream.
Only twice all season has Ennis lost the ball off the dribble.
"Which games?" Ennis asks immediately when he's told this stat.
In the first meeting with Duke, Jabari Parker snuck up from behind and knocked the ball away.
"Yeah, I remember that one," he says.
Against Wake Forest, a behind-the-back dribble caught his back heel.
"Yep. I remember," he says, as the play replays in his head. "Yeah. Yeah."
After his first game with more than two turnovers—he had four against North Carolina on Jan. 11—McIntrye called to give his son a hard time.
"Yo Tyler, what's up with the four turnovers?”
"You expect me to go my whole life without one turnover?" Ennis responded. "I know. I'm not happy about it. I'm going to fix it."
"And that was the end of that conversation," McIntrye says.
***
When McIntrye called his son after the Pitt game, they talked about the shot, and then Ennis told his dad: "I'm glad we won. I couldn't stand losing."
A loss in the ACC is almost as inevitable as a point guard at some point turning the ball over, so Ennis should take great satisfaction in the fact that he had already made history before the BC and Duke losses. Syracuse, led by a freshman point guard, was 25-0.
Yes, the Orange have been in a funk since, but let's put the 25-0 start in perspective.
How many times has a team in a major conference won that many games to start a season when led by a freshman starting at point guard?
Not once. Ever.
Derrick Rose is the only other starting freshman point guard to go 25-0—Memphis won its first 26 games in 2007-08—but he did it in Conference USA.
No one deserves more credit for Syracuse dodging a loss in those first 25 games than Ennis.
In the final five minutes of regulation and overtime in one-possession games (before the BC loss), Ennis had made eight of his 10 field goals, 14 of 14 free throws and had seven assists and one turnover. (H/T to ESPN Stats & Info)
That made his performance in the final five minutes and in OT against BC—1-of-5, two turnovers and 1-of-2 at the line—an anomaly.
"Within a game, when you struggle to score, he finds ways to score," Rana says. "He can be a facilitator when he needs to. He can make his teammates feel good about their involvement in the game, and when the time comes for him to take it up another level from a scoring perspective, he seems to be able to do that."
Rowan Barrett, who is the assistant general manager with the Canadian National team, says Ennis reminds of a young Tim Duncan.
"He's unassuming and not very demonstrative, but when the game was on the line, that's when we saw who he was," Barrett says of Duncan. "You saw the character of the guy come to the forefront. That's what we see with Tyler."
Ennis' chances at someday becoming the starting point guard for the National Team improved this summer when he led the Canadians to a sixth-place finish in the Under-19 World Championships, which was the best finish ever for the country in that age group.
This was without Wiggins, who would have been the go-to scorer on that team. Rana told Ennis he needed him to be that guy, and Ennis was the tournament's leading scorer at 20.9 points per game.
"If you're constantly doing historic things, if your team is constantly in the hunt to win the championship and you're the one usually stirring the drink, that's not going to happen without a high level of competitiveness," Barrett says.
Two weeks ago against NC State (win No. 25), Ennis was somewhat shaky down the stretch for the first time. He fouled Ralston Turner on a three with 1:02 left that gave the Wolfpack the lead, missed a layup 17 seconds later and was called for a charge with his team trailing by one on the second-to-last possession of the game.
The day before that game, Ennis said this season had been easier than he had anticipated it would be because his teammates trusted him so much.
After the Orange escaped on Fair's last-second layup on a pass delivered by Ennis, the freshman walked off the floor with assistant coach Gerry McNamara's arm around him. Ennis was shaking his head.
He couldn't believe he had messed up. He couldn't believe he had four turnovers.
"Tyler's made nothing but good plays and he made a couple bad ones tonight," Boeheim said afterward, "which is really what you expect a freshman to do."
That's the brilliance of Tyler Ennis. It took 25 games for him to play like a freshman.
And this past week as the Orange dealt with a losing streak for the first time, as Ennis and his teammates struggled to score, he only knew one way to respond.
I know. I'm not happy about it. I'm going to fix it.
In Monday night's win at Maryland with his teammates still in a scoring funk, Ennis had his most points (20) since the new year began.
True to his word, he saw the problem and he fixed it.
C.J. Moore covers college basketball for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter @CJMooreBR.
@BKrenc Many reasons. A big one is so that the playerbase is centralized; easier for guild recruiting, playing with friends, etc.
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Spring practice is coming up, and it's a great time for early enrollee freshmen to get in some reps. Miami got nine freshmen to enroll in time for spring practice this year, so let's take a look at which ones will make an impact in the fall.
Head coach Al Golden was able to address many positions of need for the Hurricanes. One recruit who should make an instant impact is Calvin Heurtelou, a defensive lineman who will create nightmares for ACC offenses.
Watch Michael Felder, Adam Kramer and Barrett Sallee break down the Miami Hurricanes' biggest-impact early enrollees.
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Most of us assumed it was only a matter of time before Google released the Now launcher that debuted on the Nexus 5 to the Play store. Now that day has come... provided you're the owner of a Nexus or Play Edition handset that runs KitKat. The new...Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/26/google-brings-now-launcher-to-play-store/?ncid=rss_truncated
Federal prosecutors say a Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to using the social networking site Twitter to threaten the life of President Barack Obama.
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The Underwear Olympics, better-known in layman's terms as the NFL combine, is over. With the exception of individual pro days, all anyone can do is wait until the NFL draft in May.
So how did the Big 12's brightest stars perform in front of NFL scouts?
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the best players in the conference posted some of the best numbers at their respective positions during workouts. Fringe first-round talents like TCU cornerback Jason Verrett and Texas Tech wide receiver Jace Amaro definitely helped their stock.
For other players like Oklahoma State cornerback Justin Gilbert, the combine corroborated what many already knew: The guy is a freak.
Here are the highlights from Big 12 standouts in the combine.
Justin Gilbert, Cornerback, Oklahoma State
As NFL offenses put greater emphasis on large red-zone targets in the passing game, the need for bigger defensive backs has grown along with it.
At 6'0" and 202 pounds, Justin Gilbert fits that mold.
Gilbert flashed more than just size at the combine, though. His 4.37 40-yard dash was the best among defensive backs. He also displayed excellent burst with a 35.5" vertical and 10'6" broad jump.
His combine numbers impressed NFL.com writer Bucky Brooks and Bleacher Report's Matt Miller has long been a huge fan of Gilbert. Miller has Gilbert coming off the board at No. 14 to the Chicago Bears in his latest mock draft.
Bleacher Report AFC East Lead Writer Erik Frenz wrote a full breakdown of Gilbert's game on Tuesday. There are obviously aspects of Gilbert's game that need improvement, like his overall coverage skills, but there's no denying that his athleticism is worthy of a first-round pick.
Jason Verrett, Cornerback, TCU
Gilbert was the Thorpe Award finalist, but there wasn't a better shutdown corner in the Big 12 than Jason Verrett in 2013.
The knock on Verrett is his size: He measured in at 5'9" and 189 pounds. In the combine drills, though, Verrett performed bigger than his frame would indicate. He recorded a 39" vertical and a 10'6" broad jump. Verrett also ran a 4.38 in the 40-yard dash.
Verrett's workout also caught the eye of Brooks, who had this to say about the TCU corner:
He followed up the strong showing in athletic drills with a terrific performance in the position-specific portion of the workout. Verrett dazzled scouts with his swivel hips and explosive breaks while also displaying strong hands and ball skills.
Miller has Verrett being drafted by the San Diego Chargers with the No. 25 overall pick.
Jace Amaro, Tight End, Texas Tech
Jace Amaro was already considered one of the best tight ends in the 2014 draft. At the combine, Amaro showed he was more than just a receiving threat.
His 28 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press surprised Mike Huguenin of NFL.com in a good way. "That's an impressive number for a guy whose arm length is 34 inches," Huguenin wrote. "Generally, the shorter your arms, the easier it is to lift."
Amaro spent the majority of his time at Texas Tech split out as a receiver. With a 4.74 40-yard dash, he should translate well to a pro passing game. However, a strong showing in the bench press indicates he may have what it takes to be an inline blocker at the next level too.
Miller has Amaro going No. 29 overall to the New England Patriots, a pick that almost doesn't seem fair to the rest of the league.
Other Notables
Texas defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat ran a 4.63 40-yard dash, fourth-best among defensive linemen, and was clocked at 6.97 seconds in the three-cone drill, second among D-linemen.
Baylor running back Lache Seastrunk recorded a 11'2" broad jump, the best of any running back. Then again, no one ever doubted Seastrunk's explosiveness.
Additionally, Oklahoma center Gabe Ikard had the best 20-yard shuttle (4.37 seconds) and three-cone drill (7.3 seconds) among offensive linemen.
Ben Kercheval is the lead writer for Big 12 football. All scouting combine information courtesy of NFL.com.
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When pressed on the price, he responded as follows:We realised as soon as we came out with Warlords of Draenor boost to 90, we knew that there was going to be demand for more than 1. It's tremendously awkward to tell someone that you should buy two copies of the expansion just to get a second 90. That's odd. So we knew at that point we were going to have to offer it as a separate service.
In terms of the pricing, honestly a big part of that is not wanting to devalue the accomplishment of levelling. If our goal here was to sell as many boosts as possible, we could halve the price or more than that - make it $10 or something. And then hardly anyone would ever level a character again.Ion's explanations make sense, but it does not alter the fact that $60 is a huge amount of money, more than almost anyone ever thought the service would cost. Ion's interview with Eurogamer certainly implies although doesn't confirm that the $60 price point is correct, or at least was intentional at the time.
But levelling is something that takes dozens if not over 100 hours in many cases and people have put serious time and effort into that, and we don't want to diminish that.I am not an economist, I'm not the one setting the dollar value myself, but it's not the profit maximising price. That was not our aim here.
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Hi Scott,
I'm a member of a small 10-man heroic raiding guild. We have been worried about the changes to raiding that are coming in Warlords of Draenor, since we are a very close-knit guild of friends. Most of us have been raiding together since early Wrath. We haven't been looking forward to recruiting 10+ more people, so we were thinking of resigning ourselves to running the new Heroic (current Normal) content and hoping not to get bored or lose too many members to other guilds.
We recently received the offer of a guild alliance from another 10-man heroic guild on our server.
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Officers' Quarters: Forging alliances for Mythic raiding originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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No, 2013 isn't a typo. With CES 2014 already behind us, it may seem silly to take a look back at the previous year in tech. But let's not get too ahead of ourselves -- 2013 brought plenty of innovative products, and we want to hear which were your...Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/25/nominate-2013-engadget-awards/?ncid=rss_truncated
Perfection is still intact.
Wichita State's historic season continued on Tuesday night, as the Shockers improved to 30-0 with a comprehensive 69-49 victory over Bradley at Carver Arena.
Greg Marshall's squad became the 11th school in college basketball history to win its first 30 games of the season. The 1990-91 UNLV squad was the last to accomplish the feat, while no one else has ever done it during the regular season as the Shockers now have.
But their business isn't finished.
"It means a lot, it really does," point guard Fred VanVleet said, via STATS LLC (h/t CBS Sports). "It's something we didn't do last year. It's special, and we appreciate it. But, at the same time, we have more goals ahead of us."
En route to cementing itself in the record books, Wichita State turned in a complete performance to quiet the home crowd.
ESPN's Jimmy Dykes put it simply:
The Shockers were efficient on offense, shooting 48.9 percent from the field and 47.6 percent from beyond the arc against the Missouri Valley Conference's fourth-best defensive team, per Ken Pomeroy's efficiency rankings.
Ron Baker led the way with 15 points, as four players scored in double-figures for the Shockers, who finished with 15 assists on 23 baskets.
On the other side of the ball, hard-nosed, physical, suffocating defense has been Wichita State's calling card during this historic streak, and that was no different on Tuesday.
Tekele Cotton held Bradley leading scorer Walt Lemon Jr. to 18 points on 20 shots, Cleanthony Early and Chadrack Lufile controlled the interior and Bradley shot just 27.1 percent from the field. The Braves turned the ball over just six times and created several second chances with 16 offensive rebounds, but breaking down WSU in the halfcourt simply wasn't an option.
Bradley fought hard and stayed close for much of the first half, but much like has happened 29 other times this season, Wichita State proved to be too clinical, too deep, too balanced and too good.
Player Grades
Cleanthony Early, Wichita State: B
Offensively, it wasn't Early's best game of the season. He shot just 3-of-11 from the field and 2-of-7 from beyond the arc on his way to 12 points.
But he protected the rim (two blocks) and played tremendous defense for much of the game, playing the role that was necessary as his teammates stepped up in other facets.
Walt Lemon, Jr., Bradley: B-
It's during games like these where I'm sure Walt Lemon is happy he's a senior because he won't have to face Tekele Cotton anymore.
Bradley's leading scorer is an explosive athlete who is often able to get inside the lane at will. But with Cotton—one of America's best perimeter defenders—locking him up and Early, Lufile and Kadeem Coleby meeting him at the cup, Lemon struggled to get into any kind of a rhythm.
He remained one of Bradley's only sources of offense against WSU's ultra-stingy defense, but he finished with 18 points on 20 shots.
Fred VanVleet, Wichita State: A
If you look at the box score, you probably won't be overwhelmed with VanVleet's performance. He finished with 11 points and four assists.
But he is just so steady.
Those 11 points came on an efficient six shots (he knocked down all three of his three-point attempts), the four assists came with just one turnover even though he handled the ball for most of the game and he consistently made the right decisions.
Wichita State is a balanced squad with several talented pieces, but you would be hard-pressed to find a player more important than VanVleet, who celebrated his 20th birthday in style on Tuesday night.
Tyshon Pickett, Bradley: B
Pickett is a grown man.
At times, he looked a little bit erratic or out of control on the offensive end, and he finished just 5-of-20 from the field on his way to 13 points. Still, he used his size, athleticism and physical nature to battle underneath, finishing with 15 rebounds (eight offensive).
You can say what you want about his offensive efficiency, but Pickett was not lacking in effort.
What's Next
One more. Following this victory, the Shockers are one win away from becoming the first team since St. Joseph's (2003-04) to complete a perfect regular season.
Saturday, they'll get Missouri State. The Bears took WSU to overtime in early January, but with this one at Charles Koch Arena, the Shockers will be strong favorites.
Bradley finishes off its season at Drake before both teams prepare for the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. Wichita State will have to remain undefeated through Arch Madness to have a shot at a No. 1 seed, while Bradley must run the table to go to the Big Dance.
Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1973724-wichita-state-vs-bradley-score-grades-and-analysis