{"id":2519,"date":"2016-03-10T19:39:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:39:53","slug":"mens-basketball-team-defeats-drake-falls-to-evansville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/2016\/03\/10\/mens-basketball-team-defeats-drake-falls-to-evansville\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Team Defeats Drake, Falls to Evansville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Men&#8217;s Basketball game against Drake on Saturday, February 20 was quite the team effort and came down to free throws in the final seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves played their 1,000th conference game at Carver Arena on Saturday. Bradley trailed Drake early in the first half by 11 points. The Bulldogs had a couple 20-point contributors and stayed neck-and-neck with the Braves all night. Bradley would close the deficit to pull within 2 after a 7-0 run in a span of less than 2 minutes. Freshman Antoine Pittman contributed a season high of 20 points, scoring 18 of them in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley rallied in the final seconds to round out their 1,000th game with a win, 73-70.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ka&#8217;Darryl Bell was active last night for his final career home game against Evansville.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having three contributors in the double digits, Bradley could not hold off the Purple Aces. The Braves only trailed by 4 going into the half, but the Purple Aces would force turnovers and go 3-for-3 at the start of the second half, extending their lead to 35-25. Bradley freshman Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye came close to a triple-double with 11 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves would lose their senior game to Evansville, 67-55.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Men&#039;s Basketball Team Defeats Drake, Falls to Evansville\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8j1dVwKdFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Men&#8217;s Basketball game against Drake on Saturday, February 20 was quite the team effort and came down to free throws in the final seconds.<br \/>\nThe Braves played their 1,000th conference game at Carver Arena on Saturday. Bradley trailed Drake early in the first half by 11 points. The Bulldogs had a couple 20-point contributors and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/butvnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}