Bradley reporter impressed with UNI

[Purple Reign]

For those of you who have not seen Dannen's tweet.

Dave Reynolds has probably reported on every UNI vs Bradley game ever played. Great Column in todays Peoria Journal Star

http://blogs.pjstar.com/pressrow/2013/03/27/a-tip-of-the-hat-to-northern-iowa/

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[Chitown Panther]

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BC will not like bball being third fiddle....

Good article

[jnutt]

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so back to the NCAA's next year?

[Mudrafan]

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someone needs to remind him of the 90-91 ncaa team that took down Mizzou & was a breath away from the Sweet 16 w/ a close loss to a loaded Minnesota team.

[UNIGrainer]

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But seriously.....why DID they invite us?

[9YRPLAN]

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I really dont know. i wasnt old enough to appreciate such a move at the time.

[UNIGrainer]

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Neither was I. I was 4........no wait I was 32. Yup, definitely 32. I keep forgetting that. Sometimes I get this crazy idea that I graduated from UNI in 09 when it was definitely 81. Silly me.

[9YRPLAN]

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I have the same problem. Sometimes I still instinctively order 10 beers and then hand the bartender a dollar to pay for them.

[Khan4Cats]

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But seriously.....why DID they invite us?

We had strong ties with Missouri State (then Southwest Missouri State) from our days in the AMCU and SMS had just moved to the Valley the year or two years prior. We also had connections with the other Valley schools through the Gateway Conference which, at the time, was where Women's sports were housed as well as football.

And we had just made the NCAA tournament run and were looking like a program on the upswing at the time.

[06panther10]

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Pet peeve--valley reporters talking junk about the supposed extra cold climate of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Meanwhile they sit back in their winter-less tropical paradises like Omaha, Peoria, and Bloomington-Normal. Give me a break.

[SteinPizza]

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We had strong ties with Missouri State (then Southwest Missouri State) from our days in the AMCU and SMS had just moved to the Valley the year or two years prior. We also had connections with the other Valley schools through the Gateway Conference which, at the time, was where Women's sports were housed as well as football.

And we had just made the NCAA tournament run and were looking like a program on the upswing at the time.

The MVC was also in a big time negative phase. I read somewhere where the conference's RPI at the time was in the 20s. Not good. The conference had just lost Tulsa a few years earlier, and they were very solid when they left. We caught the MVC when they were vulnerable, so to speak. Different timing, and UNI probably never joins. Give the AD and Eldon credit for jumping at the chance and executing a major upgrade.

[jnutt]

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Pet peeve--valley reporters talking junk about the supposed extra cold climate of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Meanwhile they sit back in their winter-less tropical paradises like Omaha, Peoria, and Bloomington-Normal. Give me a break.

name another Valley school with the parking lot called Siberia. Cedar Falls seems especially cold, even compared to other towns in this state.

[SteinPizza]

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name another Valley school with the parking lot called Siberia. Cedar Falls seems especially cold, even compared to other towns in this state.

Cedar Falls is especially cold, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just trying to pull some BS / PR related spin. Cedar Falls is noticeably colder and snowier (word?) than Des Moines, and Des Moines is noticeably colder than places farther south like Peoria, Springfield, Evansville, Carbondale, etc. Since this discussion is relevant to basketball, it thankfully leaves out the Dakotas. Be thankful that CF gets the brunt of the cold "slams" in this context, since the Valley would be a much weaker product if we were making fun of the Dakotas right now.

[Barnstormer]

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I thought I called it Siberia because it was in the middle of nowhere? But yeah did it suck to park there.

[Newsbreaker]

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Thanks for sharing that.

UNI is a model, but a difficult to replicate model. The confluence of the right coach(es) and the right building at the right time in history is hard to pull off twice or elsewhere.

It's easy to take 20+ wins for granted. The entire state is in a major upswing right now, unless you wear blue.